Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x01 - "The Star Gazer"
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Okay, the Excelsior II class... yes... I like. I like A LOT.
My guess is that it isn’t specifically the cloaking device that stops beaming but the power requirements. IIRC in TVH they only beamed while cloaked while landed and therefore saving power in other ways.
They memorably declaimed before beaming George and Gracie up.
Haha, so a few more than even Thomas thought.
It's also funny that they used STO's Titan-class in their mock-ups too, seen top left here:
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One thing I love about all of this, is the feeling that the people making Picard right now know more about Star Trek than I do. They understand all the details and why things are as they are, so I can get hyped when they introduce new things into the universe.
I wonder what Dave Blass is hinting at here:
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1500765463583801344
EDIT: Ah okay, he was talking about the Borg vessel.
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1500765463583801344
EDIT: Ah okay, he was talking about the Borg vessel.
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That's why I never put anybody on Ignore, I have a hard enough time keeping track of what is actually going on around here as it is.
Besides I'm (usually) Adult enough to just scroll past folks posts who I find annoying.
(also, my three minute attention span helps)
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HOLY CRAP!
The BORG may have actually managed to assimilate a Doomsday Machine!
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1500769716922564608
The BORG may have actually managed to assimilate a Doomsday Machine!
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1500769716922564608
I do have a few of the more annoying folk here on ignore (as opposed to those that I simply ignore), but that's just because I don't want to get notifications whenever they post. I generally utilize the "see ignored posts" button down at the bottom of the page and scroll through everything anyway.That's why I never put anybody on Ignore, I have a have enough time keeping track of what is actually going on around here as it is.
Besides I'm (usually) Adult enough to just scroll past folks posts who I find annoying.
(also, my three minute attention span helps)
Superb. One thing I loved about this episode was the different ship types showing up, as cool as the return of Captain Riker was in the S1 finale, having him show up with a fleet of copy and past ships was annoying.
Ah, so mystery solved -- the USS Excelsior NCC-42037 is a different class of ship that resembles the original Excelsior class from the angles we saw it from! I really liked the idea that Sulu's old ship was still training cadets, but this works too.
Also, I am tickled pink that one of the Akira-class starships in the fleet was the USS Thunderchild -- the same ship that introduced us all to the Akira class in the first place back in 1996 in Star Trek: First Contact! Glad to see that it's escaped its novelverse fate in the Prime Timeline!
I was a little sad to see that one of the Sovereign-class ships was named USS Venture. The Galaxy-class USS Venture from DS9 was a "recurring supporting character" of a ship I always had a soft spot for. Oh well!
And there's a USS Okuda!!
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The Thunderchild saved, the Venture lost! O cruel fate, how swiftly sorrow and joy alternate!
One of the Akiras is the USS Rabin, which apparently comes from First Contact production notes.
The Luna Class ships get their names and registries from the books. The STO ships that are named after their class name, come from STO. The rest of the name + Registry combinations appear to be original.
The Luna Class ships get their names and registries from the books. The STO ships that are named after their class name, come from STO. The rest of the name + Registry combinations appear to be original.
It was also in the VOY episode "Message in a Bottle" (one of the ships chasing the Prometheus).
I wonder if it was named for the late Israeli prime minister?
Memory-Beta says it was 'likely named'.
But it took place in a hitherto unexplored time period and even so it reuses the look from the movies when appropriate.
nobody is criticising the design choices of the 32th century (well, apart from “I like/I don’t like”), what put off many was seeing a TOS era that couldn’t look more different than tos.
If they don’t use the TMP/TNG theme they don’t have to pay royalties to the original composer…just saying!
Very good points.
I see, makes sense. I liked the idea it was still the bcc-2000 a lot, but this works too.Ah, so mystery solved -- the USS Excelsior NCC-42037 is a different class of ship that resembles the original Excelsior class from the angles we saw it from! I really liked the idea that Sulu's old ship was still training cadets, but this works too.
