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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"

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Yes but TOS Enterprise size isn't canon, that is what I meant.

We can see the scale of the TOS Enterprise on a display screen in "The Enterprise Incident":

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This exactly agrees with a length of 289m/947ft.
 
It is pretty ugly. I do not understand the hole in the middle of it (or the Cerritos for that matter). Imagine needing to get to engineering from the bridge in an emergency. The turbolift would have to go down, all the way to the port or starboard, back to the center, then down to engineering. I do not understand why you need a hole. It's not a submarine nor does it need to be aerodynamic.
The Cerritos was designed to be ugly.

We can see the scale of the TOS Enterprise on a display screen in "The Enterprise Incident":
Not legible in the actual episode.
 
Well, I mean... I can read it :shrug:

Either way, the production team had a very specific size in mind, confirmed this many times, and this graphic which did appear on screen agrees with it.
If you use the scale on the top right, the enterprise comes up shorter than 289 meters. So it actually doesn't match the commonly accepted lengeth.
 
I know, but does it have to be ugly AND designed to be a hazard in an emergency? Or even just dumbly inefficient? Imagine all the lost time and wasted human resource with turbolift rides three times as long as they need to be.

You should have seen some of the Cerritos concept art. What we got was positively pedestrian compared to some of them.
 
I feel like this person will get the show they want with Kurtzman's Starfleet Academy spinoff, if it ever happens.
Did you want any of her review videos? She's been very positive about the season so far.
She's been generally more positive than TrekYards.

There was a lot of 'for fucks sakes' in TrekYard's review today. Nitpicking galor. One of them hates that they're taking the Enterprise-D because it's outdated technology.
 
If you use the scale on the top right, the enterprise comes up shorter than 289 meters. So it actually doesn't match the commonly accepted lengeth.

Within an acceptable margin of error given fat lines and low resolutions it looks like pretty much 950ish feet to me:

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1ft = 0.3048m, therefore 950ish feet is somewhere around 290m :shrug:
 
Did you want any of her review videos? She's been very positive about the season so far.
She's been generally more positive than TrekYards.

Nearly everyone has been positive about this season in the review space.

However within that video, that person has some concern that Picard S3 takes a very 'Berman' approach to Trek socio-politically... which is accurate.

They'll get the opposite of that with Discovery S5 and the Academy spinoff. So I can't really take that rant too seriously.
 
Preach!!!
I was at my mother’s house this past weekend. My brother was there too and had found some of my old drawings and writing from Jr, High (and before). Had a laugh looking through them

About a month ago, I had someone I knew from high school contact me via Facebook to tell me that she was cleaning out her parents house and found a box of computer printouts that I had given her listing every Beatles recording session along with plot summaries of every 'Blake's 7' episode. She'd lost or thrown away the mixtapes I'd given her. She mailed them back to me and, seeing this was back in '89, that was a lot of legwork/research involved.
 
I can already imagine how it could've gone if Shaw survived and followed the Enterprise crew along with Raffi and Seven. As Picard & Co. are marveling at the restored D bridge:

Seven: (immediately steps behind the horseshoe and starts assessing the systems) "The tactical capabilities of this ship are woefully inadequate compared to those of the Defiant... or Voyager. Although I'll have to admit I'm perhaps a bit biased towards my own ship."
Raffi: (rolling her eyes) "Guys, we'll have time for nostalgia later, we've got a universe to save."
Shaw: (shaking his head, to no one in particular) "I hate the carpet. I really do."
I can see them saying these exact lines. That's how dead-on this is.
 
That carpet line Picard says must be a shot at Trekyards. They're always complaining about the lack of carpets the new ships have and that everything is so shiny.
 
Nearly everyone has been positive about this season in the review space.

However within that video, that person has some concern that Picard S3 takes a very 'Berman' approach to Trek socio-politically... which is accurate.

They'll get the opposite of that with Discovery S5 and the Academy spinoff. So I can't really take that rant too seriously.
It's interesting that's the takeaway, especially given that in interviews Gates McFadden has been gushing about how she'd work for Terry Matalas again in a second because of how well she feels the Crusher character is fleshed out here.

From Variety:

VARIETY: Terry’s made no secret that he would love to continue this storyline on a new show that he wants to call “Star Trek: Legacy.” Would you want to continue playing Crusher?

GATES MCFADDEN: If she was as three dimensional as she was really becoming in this one? Absolutely. And, as I said, I trust Terry. I’ll play a Klingon for Terry. I mean, he’s really a wonderful, wonderful producer and writer, storyteller. And I love good storytellers. I built a theater in L.A., and we did only new work. I think people who can tell a story, I’ll be the first one to jump on board to help out. I hope it does. I think he would do a tremendous job. And I would love to be involved in some way.​
 
I was thinking about it, and I think I enjoyed the scenes of "the old crew working together" better in All Good Things. Partly that's because the music was better, but also partly because they didn't overdo it. A nod and a wink, a knowing smile, but mostly they worked together to do the job.
And this whole stealing the D from the museum was in the draft for AGT :D

Now they better put on their old uniforms to complete the look.
They have at least 2 from S1 :biggrin:

When I logged off last night the thread was at page 16. When I logged on this morning it was at page 50. :eek: By the time I left for work I'd reached page 50 but the thread was at page 67. I've not long reached the end and it's at page 78. Really glad I don't mod this forum. :D
The only way I can read such threads is by skipping posts (like when too long, seem off topic, repeat things...) :(

Ironically, one thing I always thought was wrong with the Borg was that there was no other side to the story. Sharing a connection, understanding other people and working in unison can certainly have its plus side. So where were the "good" networked cyborgs!?
On Bynaus ;)

I think the Galaxy ships we see on later seasons of DS9 had those anyway.
3 nacelles? Nope, sadly not

I feel the equivalent would be if Data qipped back and called her "Drone."
They should have done that, it would have showcased the new Data. :angel:
Imagine that: Your DRONE is mistaken. - Toaster! - Tubehead!! - ...

I would LAUGH ENDLESSLY if they opt for neither Crusher nor Laris and have

Jean-Luc dying and then ending up gallivanting around the universe, exploring all those plains of existence with Q
The universe is not that badly designed.

Jack: "So how much of me is me? Oh, funny! I've always known the world was imperfect. Broken systems, wars, suffering, violence, poverty, bigotry. And I always thought, if people could only see each other, hear each other, speak in one voice, act in one mind together...Who knew a little cybernetic authoritarianism was the answer?"
It simply reminded me of this:
SEVEN: When your Captain first approached us, we suspected that an agreement with humans would prove impossible to maintain. You are erratic, conflicted, disorganised. Every decision is debated, every action questioned. Every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing.

I think they didn’t recreate anything: they just went to one of the standing TNG set replicas that have been around for some time.
It's a new and complete set :D
 
the replica set already existed, they didn’t build it for this show.

It’s the same CGI model they did for season one: it has the same error in the bussard collectors (three instead of two for each nacelle).

not really, it looks pretty fake to me, especially in the first couple of seasons.
Yeah I rewatched Enterprise on my phone so maybe it just looked better on the phone . Lol


Matalas actually confirmed that they did indeed rebuilt the entire bridge themselves using the original blueprints.
 
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