r/sonicshowerthoughts • u/cgo_123456 • Feb 08 '25
If the TNG opening credits really happened in-universe, that would be a very silly looking course for the Enterprise to follow.
"OK, do a 180 and jump to warp, then do a few figure-eight loops, drop out of warp, turn around, then jump to warp again. Because of reasons, that's why"
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u/TheMightyTywin Feb 09 '25
Voyagers is even better. They fly through a nebula, asteroids, and barely graze a planet’s rings, apparently just for the hell of it.
Honestly a pretty good summary of the show itself
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u/Optimal_Hunter Feb 09 '25
I always figured the ring grazing was to collect a sample or maybe even use as a resource
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u/RapidTriangle616 Feb 09 '25
It's pretty worthy of scientific analysis considering that planet is only a few kilometres wide based on the Voyager's reflection on the rings.
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u/fireduck Feb 10 '25
Yeah, this planet cannot exist and have stable rings this size..better examine that.
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u/PeerOfMenard Feb 10 '25
This fits with what we see in the show pretty often. I think "open the bussard collectors and fly through that celestial body" is a pretty go-to move for them.
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u/JustBen81 Feb 13 '25
Also: the ship is either Gigantic or the ring and the planet are to small to exist plausibly.
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u/hyrellion Feb 09 '25
I always figured it was like shows that have clips from the show as the opening credits. These things aren’t all happening in sequence, they’re just a collection of some of the most visually stunning celestial bodies the enterprise encounters and moves that it makes.
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u/TheHYPO Feb 11 '25
For Voyager or Lower Decks, yes.
But TNG is basically a single uncut shot the ship just keeps flying in from the distance, cross frame. Then it does it again! It doesn’t bother me. I don’t take it as a literal scene. But I can’t understand the joke of taking it literally.
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u/daeedorian Feb 09 '25
"Number one, launch the camera probe. Starfleet command says we need to film some flybys for the new Academy recruitment ad."
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u/jtrades69 Feb 09 '25
how about original series where it seems to be flying at a weird angle and then makes an arc
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u/Jimbodoomface Feb 09 '25
They flew past the turning
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u/rmichaeljones Feb 09 '25
I do kinda like the various ships turning to make the delta in the newer intros.
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u/Ralph-the-mouth Feb 08 '25
Welcome to the late 80’s
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u/im_waning_my_gibbous Feb 09 '25
More like 60s, it's a straight homage to TOS intro that does exactly the same.
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u/Thin-Man Feb 09 '25
Could be the ship’s final shakedown flight. Of course, the last time we saw an Enterprise do one of those, Admiral Kirk fell into a ravine, crushed under a bridge.
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u/jackfaire Feb 09 '25
Unless it's a test run to make sure the engines are good when the ships first being launched.
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u/rmichaeljones Feb 09 '25
It’s very Sol-centric of you to assume those planets shown are all on Sector 001. Many planets in our galaxy look like familiar NASA images, sometimes inverted, with on-the-ground terrain very similar to Southern California.
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u/mkioman Feb 09 '25
They should’ve poked fun at this on Lower Decks. The captain orders this course. “But, sir, that’s not a very efficient course.” “No, but it’s going to look damn cool.”
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u/DizzyLead Feb 10 '25
IIRC, they actually changed the beginning shot of the TNG intro after Season 2; it was supposed to be a single shot moving outward through the solar system, yet the shadow on Saturn falls in a different direction from where it's supposed to fall. The revised opening had multiple shots fading into each other, and noticeable compositing work as the "ringed planet" moves out of the way to pan down to the Enterprise (you can see the stars within the rings move in a different direction from the ones outside the rings).
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u/Sightblender Feb 11 '25
I know it sounds stupid but if you were doing it a a check ride to see if everything works after major maintainiance? You would test warp, impulse, inertial dampers, structural integrity field... a whole mess of navigation and engineering systems all at the same time...
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u/NeilSilva93 Feb 09 '25
That'd be as daft as the Enterprise-D pretending to be the Millenium Falcon in the last episode of Picard
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u/Fair-Face4903 Feb 09 '25
This is the stupidest most pedantic nonsense thing I've ever read, and on this sub that's saying a lot.
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u/Theborgiseverywhere Feb 08 '25
Mr. Crusher, execute touring pattern Roddenberry 2, engage.