That's why my favourite scene in Star Trek was always Kirk and Scotty just walking around staring at Chekhov's body for 5 minutes while emotional music plays.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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I posted earlier... I get that when I was spoiled. Then I saw the scene. And it worked in the emotional concept of the story.
Unfortunately, when you treat setting as a character that is what you get and the emphasis becomes objects not people.
I get that too. Doesn’t make it any less convoluted.
Fans made the Enterpise a character. Producers called it SFX
Sometimes it goes so far the ship actually does become a character like in Discovery.
And that's unfortunate.
I so want to get on a live talk with you about this because I feel we both agree and disagree and talking about would be really fun with a couple of beers and then just really be happy about having a good talk about Star Trek. You know?
One instance when that happens does not mean it's always so.
In my opinion, that attitude does a disservice to the people who spent their time and energy designing these ships. I don’t believe it was just a job to them.
I would be happy to do that.
This. Its not that the ship itself is a bad design....but WHY erase the name of the Titan and not give the name to a different, newly built NeoConnie, if they want to REALLY go for an illogical retro-design succession? Just make a new one, slap the Enterprise G label on it, and go from there. The Titan deserves to be called the Titan. The idea that its somehow a compliment to rename it and give it the Enterprise moniker is disrespectful. Period.
We're so doing a live talk about this because I feel we have a lot of common ground and differences that would be amazing and fun for both of us.
I think if they were going to put a ship into mothballs in the first episode that it should have been the E-E and then you still bring in the Titan as the F, you've given fans of the E-E closure on it, and there's an Enterprise that had a run of a few decades instead of the usual five minutes. And then the E-D saves the E-E in the finale or something.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was ‘disrespectful.’ But it is very odd. But that’s just par for the course starship-wise in this show.
It's almost like some of us post here for fun and not to have stupid over and back arguments about how much of a character a ship is.
There's still two other series set before Picard Season 3 that could potentially use it more.
The F seems to have just been stuck in to canonise that design. The E being used made a lot more sense to me.
Oh, some do. Others just post here because they feel Star Trek was invented for them to be right about minutia.
