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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x10 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"

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I see no reason they would have old ships, when they can use giant replicators to create huge pieces of structure, like 3D printing on a larger scale. And they would likely reclaim/recycle the matter from old ships to build the new ones, so the old ones wouldn't be around anymore.
 
9/10 for this week's ep...

I probably need to rewatch the first 2 episodes but my top 4 eps for s1 are likely-

Broken Pieces
Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2
The Impossible Box
Stardust City Rag
 
To go meta, I wonder if Picard is a metaphor for Star Trek itself? He was terminally ill, dormant for years, and now he's been resurrected, revived, and will continue on, just not in the same place he was before.
What Picard said after he was blown up in episode 1 was the metaphor for Star Trek.
 
Well, it was larger than a squadron, which usually consists of three to ten vessels.

Actually, ToyBoxComix, there is a difference. If the ban was in place, then PIcard, as a synthetic, would be limited in his freedom. With the ban lifted, Picard can go anywhere. This was mentioned in the episode.

I, too, long for the Golden Age of starship design where we got some very beautiful ships. Sadly, those days are long past, and we are in a declining period of starship design.
 
The fleet was so homoginized.

I always assumed that the fleet was so fricking different becuase the 150 member worlds, add their own flair to the ships built at their shipyards.

A couple reasons why Star Fleet wouldn't have any older ships left.

1. Big war. Lost all the old ships.
2. The old ships were retofitted for synth crews. Then synths were outlawed. It was too costly/bothersome to reretorofit the ships back for human crews, who had been made redundant, and didn't feel like coming back.
3. a humoungous tech jump, that just made it silly to still be using Galaxy Class ships.
4. Ships are built faster now. Those ships were made last week, and they have not been assigned anywhere yet. Which means that they were not battle ready and Will was bluffing.
5. Will was also using a holographic interface to spoof the size of his fleet, which was only one ship, and he was bluffing even harder.

You forgot:

6. Will was actually a holographic projection himself. He was still on Nepenthe and baking a pizza while simultaneously threatening Oh. When he says "I'll leave this in your capable hands Admiral" and hastily leaves, it's because the pizza is starting to get burnt.
 
What if he has the potential to live another 40 years? I thought it was a troublingly timely plot point, considering the hard choices doctors are having to make in some places about treating older coronavirus patients.
You’re making too much of it. There’s no discussion or moral handwringing involved.

With imperfect technologies, yes.
“This time it will work” is literally the intention behind millions of historical and literary tragedies.
 
Well, it was larger than a squadron, which usually consists of three to ten vessels.

Actually, ToyBoxComix, there is a difference. If the ban was in place, then PIcard, as a synthetic, would be limited in his freedom. With the ban lifted, Picard can go anywhere. This was mentioned in the episode.

I, too, long for the Golden Age of starship design where we got some very beautiful ships. Sadly, those days are long past, and we are in a declining period of starship design.
The annoying thing is the designers are still around and they would gladly come back to design ships but they refuse to hire them. The only guy around still is John Eaves and his work barely makes it to the show. I think the last time we saw one of his ships was in episode 1 with that Romulan scout ship.

EDIT: Actually the 2385 shuttles were his as well.
 
Did Porsche take over Starfleet design in the late 2300’s? Could explain the lazy design choice.

The Akira class has always struck me as a floaty, light and unreliable piece of metal that you lose control of when faced with tough space conditions.
 
The Magic Handwavi-o-meter now gets put in a warehouse with the technology to fire while cloaked, the technology to phase through solid matter, slingshotting around the sun to time travel, and the Ark of the Covenant.

Interstellar beaming, time travel suits, proto matter weapons, trilithium and many other wonders. They will be looked at by top men, however. Top men.
 
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