For some reason I hadn't noticed it until recently, and I assumed all the hand phasers on the show were the same design. Makes sense as a nice Easter egg.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Yeah we can see a dissembled TOS phaser on a workbench as well.
We've even seen it long before the season came out on a prop department patch someone tweeted
I still don't like the Titan's narrative placement to the audience being usurped by the Titan-A. I would be more fine with the Constitution-III-class if they named it something different like Garrett-class, especially considering it's supposed to be 561 metres (roughly equal in length to the Ambassador-class) compared to the TOS Constitution-class design at 290 metres.
If PIC season 3 had included many of STO's Excalibur-class (or perhaps Vesper-class or Exeter-class) as background ships, then I would be very happy with that choice because it's a logical post-TNG design evolution with a natural new name at comparable physical dimensions.
If PIC season 3 had included many of STO's Excalibur-class (or perhaps Vesper-class or Exeter-class) as background ships, then I would be very happy with that choice because it's a logical post-TNG design evolution with a natural new name at comparable physical dimensions.
*cough* Shangri-La II-class *cough*
I still find it hilarious that they had to pull the E-Ds saucer section off Veridian III due to the Prime Directive. I would imagine that a ~450m wide meteor hitting the planet would have been detected or at least seen crashing in the first place! Luckily they managed to steer the saucer section away from any population centres and into a wooded region. I presume that the civilisation present there is not advanced enough to detect objects in its planet's orbit either, otherwise the evacuation of the E-D crew would have been a fiasco. To everyone who said Troi is a bad pilot, I think she is pretty damn skilled to keep the saucer intact.
But that's not a TOS Movie 'memberberry so they wouldn't support the name.
She wasn't controlling it on decent, they lost all control. It was pure luck they survived.
Veridian III was uninhabited. There was a civilisation on Veridian IV which would have been destroyed if Soren had succeeded. The saucer was presumably recovered in case the Veridians developed space travel and found it.
Or just good telescopes
Forget the canals on Mars, imagine seeing a five-mile-long plowline.
"You're crazy, that's just a natural formation formed by a natural alien spaceship crash landing."
Huh. Look at that. I wondered if this figure was accurate, so I did a back-of-an-envelope calculation to see how far the Enterprise-D saucer slid across the surface of Veridian III based on guesstimating its final speed at impact and how long it took to come to a complete stop – and it works out to be roughly 8 to 10km, or about 5 to 6 miles.
During the initial descent, yes (Troi: "helm controls are offline"). Once they were in the lower atmosphere they had some control, though notably only thrusters rather than impulse which is why the saucer couldn't achieve orbit again (Data: "I have rerouted auxiliary power to the lateral thrusters, attempting to level our descent"). It's possible to see the saucer rocking from side to side slightly on final approach, which it couldn't do if it was on a simple unpowered glide trajectory.
Even so, it would have been going at a hell of a speed when it first hit the ground (around 1000km/h). Clearly structural integrity and inertial dampers were working or else nobody would have survived that initial impact shock.
From a production point-of-view, these very high impact speeds are because these ships are so large that travelling at typical aircraft speeds would look unrealistically slow to our eyes. Voyager had this same issue during its crashlanding sequence in in "Timeless", where it moves much more like a light aircraft than something larger than an aircraft carrier. Here's how our favourite starship crash victims measure up against a Boeing 747. These things are crazy big.
and the less is said about that, the better...
Oooo... that's going to piss off those people who like their Enterprise size charts showing a bigger ship every generation.
