When did Tellerites have pig hooves? I don’t remember that.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"
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When did Tellerites have pig hooves? I don’t remember that.
Humorous in a mean-spirited kinda way. Like, what were we supposed to feel? Ha ha, that annoying Shelby got killed right after being dumb enough to hand the fleet to the Borg on a platter! What an idiot! What a b****.
Because it's not that kind of season.
A star ship has the fire power to blow a hole through a planet.
Two star ships working together can blow up a star.
Why do they need to be flying close formations to concentrate firepower, when they can be 40 thousand kilometers apart and still thread the same quarter with precision phasers?
Two star ships working together can blow up a star.
Why do they need to be flying close formations to concentrate firepower, when they can be 40 thousand kilometers apart and still thread the same quarter with precision phasers?
Now it makes sense why the Borg implanted into the Parietal Lobe.
From google searching:
"It processes your sense of touch and assembles input from your other senses into a form you can use. Your parietal lobe also helps you understand where you are in relation to other things that your senses are picking up around you."
Yeah, if that is the first thing affected by the Borg, there's nothing the affected Starfleet officers can really do once that's taken over.
From google searching:
"It processes your sense of touch and assembles input from your other senses into a form you can use. Your parietal lobe also helps you understand where you are in relation to other things that your senses are picking up around you."
Yeah, if that is the first thing affected by the Borg, there's nothing the affected Starfleet officers can really do once that's taken over.
In TOS, the actors playing Tellarites had less-fingered gloves, but later appearances they sometimes had humanoid hands.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tellarite#Background_information
“One thing missing in the Star Trek: Enterprise makeup were the three fingers which some Tellarites have in Star Trek: The Original Series, though a slight reference to that in ENT can be seen in their cloven fingernails...”
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Given enough time (a noticeably long time), it can drill a hole through a planet with enough phaser energy, yes.
In one single shot like the "Death Star", no not happening. The StarShips weren't designed to be "Mini Death Stars".
Changeling Bashir tried to detonate the Bajoran sun with a Trilithium Explosive in a RunAbout.
So blowing up a Star with the right explosive might not be that hard of a feet.
In fact, protecting your local star might be a desirable thing given how easy it is for a "Terrorist Changeling" to attack and try to artificially detonate it ahead of it's natural life cycle.
Because the VFX Directors don't try to treat space with any sense of realism like Babylon 5's "Battle of Gorash 7"
It actually takes alot of planning to make battles look good with realistic distances instead of having them battle close to each other like Ship Battles from the "Age of Sail" where they're close to each other to give a middle finger and broad-side each other.
Babylon 5 ships were fighting at the same distance as battleships in WWII.
Sure they get a lucky shot in from 200 miles away but even the Vorlons really have to get in some ones face to deliver the final strike.
i was trhinking of this
And I have a memory of the Enterprise d digging a really deep shaft with the ships phasers but I can't narrow down the episode.
Sure they get a lucky shot in from 200 miles away but even the Vorlons really have to get in some ones face to deliver the final strike.
i was trhinking of this
And I have a memory of the Enterprise d digging a really deep shaft with the ships phasers but I can't narrow down the episode.
However you slice it, Shelby went down like a bitch. Totally out character AFAIC. She was smarter than all this.
Was she a spokes person reading a teleprompter, or was synchronization her baby?
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She may not be dead.
I was wondering about that, looking forward to
It's the Digimon friendship symbolWhy is the fleet forming different forms of the Unown Pokémon?
They talk about that in the Ready Room: Reactions slowly changed from "how dare this woman act like that towards a man, she should be nicer!" to "yeah she's great, she stood up to him as a strong woman!"
You'd think that the Borg mostly want frontal lobe motor control though, not senses. Picard hearing the collective means he probably had stuff in his dorsal temporal lobe.
I am someone who disagrees totally with people who say Icheb, Hugh or Ro were killed gratuitously as I felt they worked in the story.
But bringing Shelby back just for a stupid speech just to get shot was gratuitous nonsense.
I'm not sure about the "Mr Brooks" bit (though it does sound familiar), but Alexander Siddig is quoted in The Fifty Year Mission as saying, "I didn't even see him as my colleague. He was my boss. He had a temper and I was not going to mess with that. When he got angry, he got angry. Everyone knew about it."
The two aren't mutually exclusive. And, it's not as if everyone gets along with everyone. I know there are people who adore my personality, and people that clash with it. This is fine. Alexander's character and that of Avery might not have been compatible, while Ciroc and Avery might have had great chemistry.
It’s basically identical to Icheb to be honest, and also similar to Maddox. (except no original actor in those cases)
You get the ‘raising the stakes’ death, you get the ‘character you know, character the other characters know’ for added weight, you get ‘ties the stories together’. Icheb was a bigger character than Shelby mind you. You also get a bit of hubris, a short story-within-a-story with the anti-Borg specialist (who really isn’t, because when she got that job there was naff all to know, and now we have Picard, Seven, half of Voyagers bridge crew, all who know more) being blind to the inherent borginess of a plan.
The problem that seems to be the case here on the board is that one person *really* didn’t like Shelby (which was the case when the character was introduced — she was written as an antagonist in episode one of BOBW) and some other people have overly politicised a reading of that and the scene. The Prophets only know why each of those positions have dug in faster than a Ceti Eel.
If that was Jellico getting phasered, a similar conversation might happen, but sooner or later someone would say ‘oh, but he got Deanna in a uniform, and she was sexy in uniform, so he wasn’t that bad’ and then we would be talking about Deanna in Uniform. It’s like a constant in the universe.
For me, well, Ro was my Starfleet pin-up in the day (well… one of ‘em…) and some people really didn’t like Ro either, back in the day. Including for that episode where she and Riker performed a docking procedure at warp. No one is making as much noise about that, and I don’t think it is because she got a whole ep before being fridged. In a shuttle. (Actually she didn’t really, her actions informed the plot a lot before her end.)
It’s a strange thing to hang your hat on in either direction really. But, here we are. The twenty-first century.
The reason I think it is very different to Icheb is that his death served as motivation for many of 7s actions that season. Again Ro as much as I wish they didn't kill her (also madly in love with her back in the day) I can see what their idea was.
Shelby's death changes nothing plot or motivation wise.