I'll admit to getting a case of the warm fuzzies when Picard and crew stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise-D (I'm only human), but future Trek projects really need to look forward, not to the past. Writers have gone to the well far too many times with their Wrath of Khan and The Best of Both Worlds references (Strange New Worlds has already knelt at the altar of TWOK in its first season and now Terry Matalas managed paeans to both in season 3 of Picard).
TWOK came out 41 years ago; TNG's Borg 2-parter was 33 years ago. I dearly wish that any future writers who truly loved those bold, exciting takes on Trek would try delivering something similarly fresh and exciting for 21st century Trek viewers. I'd say it's long overdue.
Obviously, we still have one episode to go before the finale of Picard, but it seems a bit sad that the ultimate aim of season three (aside from "fixing" things Terry Matalas didn't like about the last 29 years of Star Trek) is to put Picard and crew back on the Enterprise-D—exactly where we left them at the end of "All Good Things". This isn't progress, it's nostalgia on steroids.
One thing that nags at me is how quickly SF seemingly retired the Galaxy class.
There are hardly any in the 25th century it seems... which seems very unlikely as the class was new for its time (and only 7 years younger than the Sovereign class).
Also, the turn towards more 23rd century-esque type designs and some other bits (plus those not so appealing nacelles), seems downright unnecessary.
Seeing the ENT-D back on the screen just reaffirmed what I said before: the ships SF had in service prior to the 25th century were perfectly fine design-wise (plus they seemingly looked better) and could have simply received internal/external upgrades to keep them on par with state of the art designs.
The ENT-D in particular could have been repaired just after its original demise at Veridian III and put back into active service.
I don't mind SF introducing new class of ships every once in a while, but they already have too many as is... and ships they make were originally intended to last 200 years (at least - with replicators and transporters, you can indefinitely continue to refresh the ship's internal infrastructure every decade or so if it underwent too much unexpected strain during its field missions and continue to extend the ship's lifespan into the future by giving it internal and external upgrades - hull panels can be transported out and replaced with state of the art material ones in the same shape of the hull's geometry if a better material is what SF began using)... and with new technologies, existing classes would undergo design changes eventually, possibly every 50 odd years).
What I didn't like was the implication that the 'whole of SF' gathered at Frontier Day in SOL.
Its utterly moronic. I can understand what we saw being a very tiny fraction of the entire Starfleet... but the ENTIRE SF for the WHOLE Federation?
Nope... just doesn't track.
That implies they left their borders unchecked, humanitarian missions suspended, deep space explorations stopped years in advance to allow all ships to be present there.
Writers need a better grip on what's plausible... THAT wasn't plausible... and it would still make the Borg plan work anyway because their signal permeates subspace and would have put the ENTIRE Federation in peril because (for example) by assimilating a small SF fleet of ships in SOL would give them further signal boost to do the same to fleets in other UFP solar systems and beyond?
All it seems like SF was in charge of just Earth, and the rest of the Federation doesn't exist and needs no SF at all?
Come on.
You should be ashamed.
