A few other things:
I've seen people talk about how they think it should've been the E. Admittedly, I guess the E would've made a lot more sense since the E was designed more to be a ready-for-battle ship AND less importantly the picture ratio PIC was filmed in was the same for the TNG films using the E, but I'm still glad we got the D back because i always preferred her over the E. She is a lot more visually appealing than the E's more aggressive design.
There have been questions being asked about why the Generations bridge wasn't recreated. I believe I have an answer for this (a couple actually). 1: The Enterprise D's return was brought back with nostalgia in mind. On TNG's case although we've seen several variations of the bridge throughout the show's seven-year run, the S4-7 bridge is the version we've seen the longest so that's the bridge we're most familiar with whereas we only saw the Generations bridge in that one movie, so in my opinion, recreating the S4-7 bridge was the better option. 2: For an in-universe reason, I think Geordi didn't recreate that bridge because that bridge would've been a painful reminder of how the Enterprise-D was initially destroyed in 2371.
You know what's so ironic? It still fascinates me how when the producers initially pitched the idea for the Picard show to Patrick Stewart he originally gave them a hard no insisting he was done with Star Trek but with a little more persistence they were able to convince him Picard's post-Starfleet life was worth exploring, Stewart agreed but under the three conditions that (to paraphrase) the new Picard show not end up being Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part 2. But the cool thing is, the end of Season 3 ended up being exactly that - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part 2! Especially since most of Season 1 and some of Season 2 didn't feel much like Star Trek at all.
I would've liked if the very last scene took place in Enterprise-D's Ten Forward. I still love that scene in the very beginning of Picard and Data playing poker in Enterprise-D's Ten Forward but it was a dream sequence. I'm think how cool it would've been if that would've been repeated for the very last scene of "The Last Generation" -- another poker game in the Ten Forward lounge of the D but this time it's not a dream and with the whole TNG principle crew. I know the D had already been returned to the Fleet Museum at that point but still.
I'm not too bummed out about it but I would've liked to hear the ambient humming beeping sounds you hear on TNG. I loved that background noise on the bridge.
The only thing that stuck out to me as "silly" was how Geordi explained that the engines and nacelles were extracted from the USS Syracuse. In the GEN movie we saw the D's stardrive section be blown to a million pieces. I just find it hard to believe he spent the past two decades collecting all the bits and scraps from the wreckage of the destruction of the stardrive section of the D.
Regardless, in my head canon, Geordi just used the whole stardrive section of the Syracuse and attached the refurbished D's saucer section onto it. Especially when the word "Syracuse" at one point can be seen clear as glass on the neck of the ship.
I've seen people talk about how they think it should've been the E. Admittedly, I guess the E would've made a lot more sense since the E was designed more to be a ready-for-battle ship AND less importantly the picture ratio PIC was filmed in was the same for the TNG films using the E, but I'm still glad we got the D back because i always preferred her over the E. She is a lot more visually appealing than the E's more aggressive design.
There have been questions being asked about why the Generations bridge wasn't recreated. I believe I have an answer for this (a couple actually). 1: The Enterprise D's return was brought back with nostalgia in mind. On TNG's case although we've seen several variations of the bridge throughout the show's seven-year run, the S4-7 bridge is the version we've seen the longest so that's the bridge we're most familiar with whereas we only saw the Generations bridge in that one movie, so in my opinion, recreating the S4-7 bridge was the better option. 2: For an in-universe reason, I think Geordi didn't recreate that bridge because that bridge would've been a painful reminder of how the Enterprise-D was initially destroyed in 2371.
You know what's so ironic? It still fascinates me how when the producers initially pitched the idea for the Picard show to Patrick Stewart he originally gave them a hard no insisting he was done with Star Trek but with a little more persistence they were able to convince him Picard's post-Starfleet life was worth exploring, Stewart agreed but under the three conditions that (to paraphrase) the new Picard show not end up being Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part 2. But the cool thing is, the end of Season 3 ended up being exactly that - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part 2! Especially since most of Season 1 and some of Season 2 didn't feel much like Star Trek at all.
I would've liked if the very last scene took place in Enterprise-D's Ten Forward. I still love that scene in the very beginning of Picard and Data playing poker in Enterprise-D's Ten Forward but it was a dream sequence. I'm think how cool it would've been if that would've been repeated for the very last scene of "The Last Generation" -- another poker game in the Ten Forward lounge of the D but this time it's not a dream and with the whole TNG principle crew. I know the D had already been returned to the Fleet Museum at that point but still.
I'm not too bummed out about it but I would've liked to hear the ambient humming beeping sounds you hear on TNG. I loved that background noise on the bridge.
The only thing that stuck out to me as "silly" was how Geordi explained that the engines and nacelles were extracted from the USS Syracuse. In the GEN movie we saw the D's stardrive section be blown to a million pieces. I just find it hard to believe he spent the past two decades collecting all the bits and scraps from the wreckage of the destruction of the stardrive section of the D.
Regardless, in my head canon, Geordi just used the whole stardrive section of the Syracuse and attached the refurbished D's saucer section onto it. Especially when the word "Syracuse" at one point can be seen clear as glass on the neck of the ship.
