Should I or Shouldn't I?

[dogscoff]

Also, in that crappy film about the whales, I seem to remember the ship in question coming down into the atmosphere. Wings might be handy there, although I think in the real (ie not stat trek) future the idea of capital ships coming down for atmospheric travel is pretty ridiculous, at least until the technology gets so ridiculously advanced that things like air resistance and gravity could be almost completely nullified. Until then, stuff will be dragged up into orbit by space lifts or by specialised shuttles.