>Everyone else seems to have kept the "starships are for outside atmospheres only" trope. Engineering a ship that can land on a planet with gravity and an atmo

>Everyone else seems to have kept the "starships are for outside atmospheres only" trope. Engineering a ship that can land on a planet with gravity and an atmosphere is much bigger challenge than engineering a ship that never does anything besides go into orbit. It makes it much easier to create a really, really, really huge ship. You're not going to build a Death Star that can land on a planet's surface, unless you can come up with some kind of materials that we have no idea about now. So why bother? It's easy enough to make a giant ship for interplanetary travel with smaller shuttles for landing.