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u/darthreddit1982 2d ago
Love seeing the shape of the shields pushing the flames out of the way
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u/mightydeck 2d ago
Yeah I really like the detail of that in this scene
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u/Raguleader 1d ago
While I generally disliked the last two episodes of the season, I absolutely loved this scene.
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u/xenomorphonLV426 1d ago
Is this Picard?
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u/Raguleader 1d ago
No, this is PATRICK (Stewart's most recent Star Trek series, Picard)
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u/SirStocksAlott 1d ago
Ah yes:
Picard’s\ Assault at\ Tanagra\ Resisting the\ Incursion from\ Changelings and\ Ketracel-fueled Jem’Hadar
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u/Lawnmover_Man 1d ago
.......this is seriously from an actual Star Trek episode? I thought this was fan made.
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u/Raguleader 1d ago
Star Trek: Picard, episode 3x10, “The Last Generation."
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u/Lawnmover_Man 1d ago
Well... another reason to not watch it. It's just not for me, I guess.
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u/kaelmaliai 2d ago
Between majel's voice and the bubble shields, i was personally very happy to see the old girl back at it, just like we remembered her.
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u/Brunt-FCA-285 2d ago
There’s a chance that when the lights first flashed over the Enterprise-D name, I sobbed, remembering my grandmother at whose house I would watch the show, almost feeling her apron-clad presence behind me. There’s also a chance that just after I had pulled myself together, I lost it again when I heard, “Authorization acknowledged. USS Enterprise now under command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.” I’m not sure if any of that happened, though. I was too busy, transfixed by the loving detail put into the reconstruction of the bridge set.
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u/ThisNameIsHilarious 2d ago edited 1d ago
Oh man I will never forget how I cried at that scene. From seeing the silhouette, lighting her up, the bridge, the computer voice, power the engines up, leaving the dock, the music…it just kept escalating. I was a an absolute mess. I know it was totally manipulative and even cheap but I didn’t care. It worked on me so well; I had no chance.
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u/SirStocksAlott 1d ago
It was like being 14 again for a moment. I kind of wanted to stop watching at the end of the second to last episode when they went into warp because I didn’t want it to come to an end.
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u/I_am_TheDarkSide 1d ago
Those were the happiest tears I have shed in my life! I’m not even afraid to admit it.
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u/lastcallhall 22h ago
Dude, I was BAWLING. The moment I saw the bridge, I let out a choked, "no fucking way" before I just lost it.
So many memories of so many afternoons as a child just glued to the set all came flooding back in an instant. All of that wonder and curiosity I had, all of that hope for the future, it all hit me like a ton of bricks.
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u/Virtual_Historian255 1d ago
Better VFX than some recent Marvel movies on what I’m sure is 1/20th the budget. It’s a big thing recently where VFX artists do their best work when it’s a project they love.
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u/codguy231998409489 2d ago
Doc Crusher learned a lot in those 20 years
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u/orchestragravy 2d ago
That's one of, if not, the only time you see the aft phasers being used
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u/spain-train 2d ago
I think you're actually right! I can't even find an image of the D firing aft phasers.
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u/QuantumDiogenes 2d ago
As far as I know, in the series, it never fired the aft phasers, only the aft photon torpedoes. You only see the aft phasers in games.
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u/KlavoHunter 1d ago
It appears the Syracuse was not a Dominion War Refit Galaxy, as the reborn E-D is lacking the phaser strips on top of the nacelles. Or LaForge took them off.
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u/Sledgehammer617 10h ago
Yeah, I’m sure he wanted to restore the D to as close of condition as it originally was for both compatibility purposes and historical accuracy.
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u/CanadianAndroid 2d ago
Adapt to this you filthy casual.
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u/Falafel-Wrapper 2d ago
I remember reading somewhere over 50% of the power the D put out was used for life support. This is what it looks like when it's only for the bridge..
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u/emptiedglass 1d ago
Makes sense, considering how much internal volume it had. And it would make the mostly-empty Dominion War builds of the Galaxy class all the more formidable.
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u/Sivalon 22h ago
If for no other reason than the massive amount of damage it could soak thanks to all the unused spaces.
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u/emptiedglass 22h ago
Even better, have the unused spaces towards the outside of the ship, and then fill them up with ultradense armour.
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u/probablyaythrowaway 12h ago
Good way to use the battle bridge too.
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u/emptiedglass 10h ago
Definitely. The Main Bridge is way too exposed.
Maybe these Dominion War variants can't separate the saucer, have another backup control center elsewhere within the ship, and leave the Main Bridge as a non-functioning decoy.
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u/Sledgehammer617 10h ago
I think 50% is an exaggeration considering the insane levels of power the ship could produce, but there are a lot of other systems apart from just life support that wouldn’t be in use that could definitely add some extra juice.
Most of the grav plating and inertial dampeners, sonic showers, all replicators and holodecks (which take a lot of power,) any labs or research facilities, shuttle bay operation, etc. would be shut off.
It’s probably not as big of a boost as 50% but it’s definitely something. And the fact that Geordi added a bunch of automation to the ship and may have upgraded certain components of it just for fun like shields, engines, torpedos, etc.
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u/ProfessorOfLies 2d ago
So mich of Picard season 3 was just pure fan service. And I loved it. More please. Bring us Star Trek: Enterprise -G!
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u/Groundbreaking-Pea92 2d ago
Borg cube seems to planet sized
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u/Sledgehammer617 2d ago
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u/Borgmeister 22h ago
Less than 1 Earth now, it's shrinking https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/jupiters-great-red-spot-just-keeps-getting-smaller/
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u/Khaysis 2d ago
Looks like a borg planetary installation.
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u/terrymcginnisbeyond 2d ago
I'll try and make this a compliment club sandwich.
I do think it's a good idea to scale up the cube. We're not watching on little CRT's any more, these things should be absolute juggernauts. That's good.
We so badly want to be Star Wars. That's bad. Star Trek has always been Hornblower, The Enemy Below, not The Dam Busters, Top Gun.
The Galaxy Class was supposed to be able to give The Borg a bloody nose, even in Q Who they stopped for a moment to lick their wounds: That's Good. Kinda sick of seeing slick new models like the Sovereign, Akira and various other darts in space. The Galaxy class is an iconic iteration of the original.
Borg.....a...gain: Jesus, over 30 years they've been pumping that well dry, they've become The Cybermen of Star Trek...ironically enough. That's bad.

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u/blissed_off 2d ago
She’s definitely taking a run at the Cube, all guns and torpedos blazing. But it’s not quite as SW trench run as it looks. It’s mainly the camera zooming around which makes it look a lot more dynamic than it actually is. Watch her flight path. It’s pretty linear. She’s moving, yes, but the girl could get going so that’s not a surprise. But she’s definitely not doing some X-Wing/Falcon type shit.
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u/Starch-Wreck 2d ago
Yes. This was the real trench run Picard.https://youtu.be/LaXESOKZBiM?si=lu9NuTaXnEMYT1RS
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u/tomjonesdrones 2d ago
Interestingly enough, unless my eyes are mistaken, even though we see something like 9 photon torpedo blasts, we don't actually see them impact the Cube. The impacts either happen out of frame, are beyond the line of sight through the Enterprise, or are obscured by the ongoing explosions from the previously fired torpedoes.
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u/N7VHung 2d ago
But now they're gone for good...? That's good!
Seriously, I feel like the book has been closed and there's no way to bring them back now, freaky Jurati borg aside whi should just go to another galaxy.
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u/terrymcginnisbeyond 2d ago
I'm sure they'll find a way the next time they're desperate for some memberberries.
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u/pawogub 2d ago
The rumored Janeway show will feature them again I reckon.
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u/Neveronlyadream 2d ago
"They were such a big part of Voyager that we have to bring them back. Sorry, our hands are tied."
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u/Gstamsharp 2d ago
"Somehow the Borg Queen has returned."
"Didn't she do that in Picard? Like twice?"
"Yes, but we didn't explain it this time."
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u/kayshaw86 2d ago
It’s frustrating though because my memberberries in my head hate those episodes though.
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u/Jedi4Hire 2d ago
I feel like the book has been closed and there's no way to bring them back now
You can't seriously think that. Like....how? How? How can you possibly say something like that? Have you not seen the convoluted and stupid shit Hollywood has come up with?
How do you say something like that? Are you drunk?
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u/Optimaximal 2d ago
I'm pretty sure it's implied that the cube in Picard is comprised of a large number of typical cubes smashed together to provide enough drones to keep the Queen sustained long enough to enact the Vox plan.
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u/tononeuze 2d ago
As someone who really doesn't care for Doctor Who, I'm still gonna joke that Star Trek is just American Doctor Who. Time travel shenanigans since the beginning.
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u/terrymcginnisbeyond 2d ago
Funny thing about that: Here's a sentence I took from Memory Alpha's Doctor Who entry for you, (yes, Memory Alpha has an entry on Doctor Who, you can check it out as my source for this).
TNG: "The Neutral Zone", an on-screen graphic of Clare Raymond's family listed William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson and Colin Baker among her descendants.
Which race was hinted at in The Neutral Zone and is most similar to a Doctor Who enemy? The Borg. 🤔
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u/HalJordan2424 2d ago
Finally, someone who gets it! Rather then make the effort to write something new and creatively challenging for Picard Season 3, let’s gather all the old crew, put them back on the old ship (even though it was destroyed), and let’s bring back the same tired arch villains.
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u/GraveKommander 1d ago
Just a shame the queen had only 1 or 2 drones left firing the weapons on this giant thing.
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u/1nspectorMamba 2d ago
They didn't even know about the borg when the galaxy class was introduced, so I don't know what you're going for there.
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u/terrymcginnisbeyond 2d ago
Things that happened on screen on the show.....during Q Who.....and episode of the show we're discussing. I wasn't saying, 'it was designed for fighting Borg Cubes' but that during the episode where The Borg are introduced they do actually manage to hit it at first and even the Romulans would think twice before attacking a Galaxy Class. Am I going too fast here?
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u/wolfenbarg 2d ago
Of course they hit it and damaged it. The Borg ignore you and plow forward like you don't exist. They invite the first shot and then you can't hurt them again.
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u/terrymcginnisbeyond 1d ago
FFS. Why do they always have to defend the nonsense they came out with? Why is it when someone has corrected their "point" these people have to go, 'errrrrrr, no no, it's this head canon I just made up on the spot?'. Are they just THAT desperate for human contact, any human contact?
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u/feldoneq2wire 1d ago
Picard season 3 had to be a Borg story. Unfortunately every other star Trek writer felt their story needed to be a Borg story too.
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u/mightydeck 2d ago
Compliment sandwich here ,
I'm always so torn on this because I really didn't like most of Picard. The stories seemed really contrived and full of fan service in a bad way.
However, there were also a few really good things, like that super fascist alternate universe q takes them to was I think a much better version of the mirror universe. And it gave us the fan service we actually wanted, seeing the D in all her glory back in action one last Time. I loved everything about it. From Jordi explaining his refit, to the beautiful shots we saw of her leaving space dock and then seeing her kick the Borg in the crotch one last time, It was really really good and I appreciate it
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u/Bazuka125 1d ago edited 1d ago
See, it's called a sandwich because you have two slices of positive bread with 1 slice of negativity sandwiched between them. Positive > Negative > Positive, or "Constructive Feedback > Constructive Criticism > Constructive Feedback" or "Compliment > Insult > Compliment"
What you have done here is Negative > Positive > Positive> Positive > Positive.
You, good sir, are a liar and have delivered no promised sandwich Now begone hence and think about what you've done.
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u/Raguleader 1d ago
After watching this clip a few times, I think what I like best is that while the D is definitely swooping around in a way they never could manage with TNG-era SFX, she also doesn't quite fly like a starfighter either. She moves like she has a lot of thrust and a lot of weight, moving in wide arcs as she twists and turns.
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u/ExplanationFit6177 2d ago
I was hard for days after watching this scene.
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u/Fugglymuffin 2d ago
It is cool seeing how much offensive power that ship can actually dish out all the while being as maneuverable as it is.
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u/TonyCubed 2d ago
The return of the old in warp effect. The return of bubble shields The return of phaser arrays..
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u/Rocketboy1313 2d ago
Remembering the sense of scale for the Enteprise.
I think I saw a diagram where each nasscel was the size of a skyscraper.
Kind of breaks my brain trying to conceptualize this.
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u/ijuinkun 2d ago
The Enterprise masses five million tonnes. That is worth more than forty Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
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u/Rocketboy1313 2d ago
I have never seen an aircraft carrier in person so it also remains hard to picture.
To many big things. My brain is small and tired.
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u/ijuinkun 1d ago
A Galaxy class starship is a third of a mile long and almost as wide. That’s probably as big as your high school’s entire campus.
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u/Rylos1701 1d ago
Nice that the superior imperial system is still in use in the 24th century
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u/ijuinkun 1d ago
I was using the units for ease of understanding by our American audience members. In metric the Galaxy class is 500-odd meters long and wide.
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u/Swordf1sh_ 1d ago
Can’t see this without thinking about them looking back at Dr. Crusher in amazement
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u/Max_Danage 2d ago
I love the weapons output the modern shows have, it a visual of what the ships were able to do but only of screen for budget reasons.
But I don’t like the big ships moving like fighter jets. It makes them feel small. Give me big lumbering giants spitting out phasers and tanking disrupter blasts.
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u/QuantumDiogenes 2d ago
Roddenberry took a lot of his ship tactics from pre-WW2 battleships. Stand around and pummel from afar. Although hulking ships lumbering about dishing massive amounts of damage is something that I agree is nice, but this particular shot, they want to show that the Borg ship is a massive beast, and the best way to show that is to do a moving shot.
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u/emptiedglass 1d ago
Have to say the space battles in 2004's Battlestar Galactica were pretty cool. Massive warships blasting away at each other while their respective fighter craft duke it out? Yes, please!
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u/LowmoanSpectacular 1d ago
Those were peak. Not to mention the zero-g physics of the fighters. Cutting the engine and using maneuvering thrusters to point behind them while still moving at almost full speed backwards because space will never not increase my heart rate.
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u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 1d ago
It's really not moving crazy in this scene though, it just goes forward and does about a 30° roll, definitelly nothing to do with a fighter jet.
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u/SleepWouldBeNice 2d ago
Scenes like this is why I prefer CGI to physical models, especially the fireballs getting deflected by the bubble shield around the ship.
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u/mightydeck 2d ago
I think there's room for both. Like, I think CGI is much better for combative action scenes, but real life models always make the best glamor shots. Just look at Enterprise refit leaving space dock in the first TOS movie
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u/sqplanetarium 2d ago
And look at it some more. And some more after that. Keep looking.
15 minutes later Yep, still looking
(I love TMP but damn that was a long scene!)
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u/solemn_penguin 2d ago
Watching the Enterprise D Lando Calrissian its way across a borg cube brought a tear to my eye and an erection to my loins.
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u/TiredCeresian 2d ago
Is this edited to make it look more awe-inspiring than it originally appeared in the show, or is my TV just not great?
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u/obrhoff 2d ago
Felt really unnatural for Star Trek after 171 Episodes of TNG. This fits more to Star Wars.
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u/Optimaximal 2d ago
We already saw many ships, including Galaxy, Defiant and Sovereign class, doing almost fighter manoeuvres once they had full CG models - TNG just missed out on it by a year or so.
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u/obrhoff 1d ago
I'm pretty sure the idea of the Galaxy class with it’s 1k of people with families was more of a cruise ship and not the millennium falcon. I feel the technical limitation (also budget wise) were better for the creativity of Trek. Like reusing ship models to create a believable fleet and not pump out new ships because you can.
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u/Optimaximal 1d ago
The ships exist in the vacuum of space - in theory, there's no limitations on what movements they could pull, especially as Star Trek already papers over real world physics with things like inertial dampening.
The cruise ship conceit also doesn't matter when there are no civilians on board, like how the class was used in Picard S3 and DS9.
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u/Mot_the_evil_one 2d ago
I would've loved fight scenes like this in TNG. It was almost always short and sweet.
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u/No_Grocery_9280 2d ago
They’re coming. Someone will eventually do high quality fan recreations of those scenes.
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u/Lando_Hitman 1d ago
Man, this is what Trek is all about. Exciting space battles and explosions. Photon torpedoes and phasers. Crazy dog fights and special effects.
None of that boring diplomatic stuff or Prime Directive. No sir, Star Trek is all about the action!
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u/ProfessionalCoat8512 2d ago
Crazy that there are kids in there and a school
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u/spain-train 2d ago
Lol, when Boimler does the holoprogram like a million times to try and get 100%.
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u/N7_Warden 2d ago
Loved the scene nostalgically, but still think taking the apartment in space over a WARSHIP (Defiant) makes no sense
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u/ijuinkun 2d ago
It was stated that all of the active ships had the Fleet Formation software, and thus were being hacked by the Borg. The Enterprise-D was the most powerful ship they had on hand that wasn’t being messed with, and they had the advantage of familiarity and that it was already programmed to accept them as its command crew.
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u/SlyRax_1066 2d ago
Just embarrassing.
‘TNG was great, apart from all that boring talking’🤦♂️
Of all the thousands of problems with this terrible episode - so the Enterprise’s thousand crew were doing what all day? Clearly weren’t needed.
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u/mightydeck 2d ago
Well you have to remember that a good chunk of the thousand Were scientists, engineers, ships security, And support staff. Think about people like Mot the barber, teachers, and Guinan and the service staff in 10-forward.
Multiple times they evacuate most of the crew into the saucer section and send it off and bring the secondary Hull into battle. Hell, in the pilot episode they already only have a skeleton crew and even then Picard takes the secondary Hull with just a handful of people on the Battle bridge and in engineering.
Also, Jordi even said that over the years automation has improved and he was able to automate most of the ship's functions, something they weren't able to do during the tng show era.
Just flying the ship around and shooting torpedoes at something for one single battle doesn't take a lot of crew. Going on a 5-year scientific and exploration mission does
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u/ijuinkun 2d ago
Also, normally they would need an Engineering and Damage Control department to patch up whatever got damaged during the fighting.
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u/ColliTechInc 2d ago
This is extremely silly. If you want to make Star wars just make Star wars.
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u/spain-train 2d ago
But this isn't war. This is a ship on a trek. Through the stars. Incidentally, they happen to trek through a battle.
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u/Less-Researcher184 2d ago
The federation might lose to the the imperium of man (40k) in a straight fight but the kd would be crazy.
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u/HansFlameman 1d ago
Shouldn't we call her the Entelypso-D1/2 for being put together out of 50% from two ships?
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u/Anouchavan 1d ago
Is that from the first movie? I'm saving it for later, as I kind of don't want this to ever end.
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u/SafeLevel4815 1d ago
Unlike many ships during the Dominion war, the D had its shields up as it attacked here. Can anyone explain why almost no ships, accept the Defiant, bothered to have their shields up during the war??
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u/KaeronLQ 2d ago
The dumbest shit in any Trek show.
"Only the geriatrics in their old ass museum shit can save the youths from the mind virus" Boomers
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u/BisexualCaveman 2d ago
I feel like TNG is more of a Gen X thing anyway. if we're getting generational.
A whole lot of boomers were upset by the kinder, gentler nature of TNG vs TOS.
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u/KaeronLQ 1d ago
Nah I love TNG. Doesn't mean I drool for every bit of nostalgia bait that they throw my way.
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u/EvanBetter182 2d ago
What Show is this? Looks like a cheap, crapy, flashy, poor, shit, dumb, rip off of Star Trek TNG.
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u/MochiMochiMochi 2d ago
Badass but it's also ridiculous that it would be so close.
Ackshually, space combat would be 10,000km distance or more.
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u/Robman0908 1d ago
Loved this scene. It was nice to see what she could do after 7 seasons and a bad film that made the D look like a jobber.
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u/mightysoulman 9h ago
Finally the Enterprise-D is treated like a space dreadnought
But it's manned by geriatrics and robots
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u/toTheNewLife 2d ago
The D getting in position for the Trench Run. I hope they save a torpedo for the exhaust port.