Where is 2381 specified in canon? Because I can only find references to the Federation/Romulan’s finding out about the impending supernova in the 2380’s… no exact year? Do you have a link please?
It's likely merely so that the scaling of the ships isn't consistent. The Defiant also grew and shrunk depending on the shot.
Starfleet never calls their ships warships though, not even the Defiant ("escort") or ships that are heavily armed like the Sovereign ("explorer"). The Protostar may be classified as a science ship, but it actually seems to be an ultra long range scout (and explorer, ironically!) and it does seem to have the usual armament (for its size, if not more so) of phasers and torpedoes. Enough to lay waste to multiple large cities, in all likelihood.
Shuttles may or may not be safe, but they can't trust it because the Protostar computers (which are presumably infected) are definitely involved in creating them.
As mentioned, the specific year of 2381 does come from the behind the scenes material which was utilized in the tie-in novels and comics. Though, canonically, we know Thad Riker was born in 2381, Deanna notes in Nepenthe (which is canonically set in 2399) that Thad would have been 18 years old were he still alive. And Picard is wearing an Admiral's uniform in the picture of him holding baby Thad. Since it is canonically established that Picard was promoted to Admiral to take control of the evacuation efforts, and he was clearly already an Admiral in 2381, I feel there is sufficient evidence to declare the 2381 date as when the Federation learned of the impending Romulan nova canon.Where is 2381 specified in canon? Because I can only find references to the Federation/Romulan’s finding out about the impending supernova in the 2380’s… no exact year? Do you have a link please?
That’s a coincidence. Regardless of what caused the Romulan supernova, it’s too much of a good opportunity not to explore the Federation/Romulan dynamics in this era. We may never get to visit the 24th century again in a dedicated series. I wonder which sun is going supernova in the 2 part season finalé? I guess it could just be a figure of speech ‘supernova’ and we probably shouldn’t take it too literally as meaning that a sun is potentially going to go boom.
True but irrelevant here: janeway acted surprised at the idea that the protostar was able to destroy the relay station.
She should, but that part of her memory might have been deleted by the diviner. We already know he tampered with her so it’s not unlikely he eliminated from her memory every safe way of communication.
Okona is an alien, he wouldn’t know human morse code. Even many 24th century humans are not familiar with it in previous series (while others are).
I forgot to mention this in my review but I felt the same way about Murph. Underwhelming reveal. Now he can walk, instead of ooze his way around, and make cute squeaky noises.
They're going for the baby Yoda character vibe, which is fine, might as well copy a proven and popular character from a successful competitor. We as adult viewers who enjoy the show do have to give it a bit of leeway as we are not the intended audience.The relay station itself seemed quite well armed and may have decent shielding. Help is a long way off, so it's not illogical to give it reasonable means to defend itself against moderately powerful starships.
They could send a probe with a recorded message.
then why mention the Protostar being a science vessel?
To prevent her to safely communicate with Starfleet? It’s been already established that parts of her memory have been erased.
If the probe is built by the Protostar it could be infected.
