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First Contact: epic starship destruction question!

I'm asking about original ideas prior to the film's finished product. I am aware that Rob Moore didn't want the Defiant blown up in a TNG movie, but that doesn't negate that it almost happened. It was intended to be destroyed at one point, because it's why Ron Moore got upset to the point of, "Whatever, we'll just ignore your movie."
Rick Berman was in charge of both First Contact and Deep Space Nine. There is zero chance that something that occurred in one would be permitted to be ignored in the other. Further, Ron Moore was the co-writer for FC and was on the writing staff of DS9. Simply put, the angry disagreement you are referring to didn't happen.
 
I like that there's these questions being asked about stuff. I don't make posts much so I like when someone else does the heavy lifting.
I haven't finished the original draft but it has one of the coolest opening scenes I feel and I've wanted to see that animated. I wasn't a fan of the draft's Borg ship busting torpedoes though, it's too much like the stuff in "Endgame," reducing the threat the Borg really are.
 
Rick Berman was in charge of both First Contact and Deep Space Nine. There is zero chance that something that occurred in one would be permitted to be ignored in the other. Further, Ron Moore was the co-writer for FC and was on the writing staff of DS9. Simply put, the angry disagreement you are referring to didn't happen.
You quoted post #10, but this was already resolved in posts #13 and 14.
 
Ronald D. Moore was a co-writer on First Contact. He was there from the beginning lmao.

You're thinking of Ira Steven Behr
Yeah, it was Behr who wouldn't let them destroy the Defiant.

Not quite. In the original draft it was supposed to be a ship named the Endeavor that the Borg was supposed to blast to bits.
Ironic, given that the Endeavour was the only survivor of the last Borg/Starfleet battle (Wolf 359).

At least I'm guessing it was, since its captain (Amasov) survived long enough to give a detailed report.
 
Yeah, it was Behr who wouldn't let them destroy the Defiant.
The Defiant was never going to be destroyed in any draft of the film according to Moore. Behr didn't stop them from destroying it, the issue was it wasn't clear in the draft of the script that Behr read that the Defiant survived.

Read the rest of the thread after my post, I already went over all this.

The disagreement had been resolved, so there was no point in bringing it up again.
 
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The Defiant was never going to be destroyed in any draft of the film according to Moore. Behr didn't stop them from destroying it, the issue was it wasn't clear in the draft of the script that Behr read that the Defiant survived.

Read the rest of the thread after my post, I already went over all this.


The disagreement had been resolved, so there was no point in bringing it up again.
I disagree that it had been resolved. If the disagreement had already been resolved, why are you still trying to explain the real situation to people? Regardless, why should you care if someone else also offers an explanation?
 
They said that the Nebula class we see in FC was unnamed.
But the Endeavour was still at that battle (in the comm chatter, we hear somebody say "Flagship to Endeavour, stand by to engage..."),.

Now the specific Nebula that we actually SEE during the battle, may or may not have been the Endeavour. But the fact remains, the ship was there, and it was a Nebula. And yes, MAlpha does say so. Linky

Specifically:

Memory Alpha said:
In 2373, the Endeavour again faced the Borg at the Battle of Sector 001. (Star Trek: First Contact)
 
If the disagreement had already been resolved, why are you still trying to explain the real situation to people?
Because someone (not you) apparently skipped most the thread and missed that it had already been explained.
Regardless, why should you care if someone else also offers an explanation?
Because your post repeated what I had already said.
 
But the Endeavour was still at that battle (in the comm chatter, we hear somebody say "Flagship to Endeavour, stand by to engage..."),.

Now the specific Nebula that we actually SEE during the battle, may or may not have been the Endeavour. But the fact remains, the ship was there, and it was a Nebula. And yes, MAlpha does say so. Linky

Specifically:

Yes, a ship named the Endeavour was at the battle. But the discussion was about a scene where a ship got destroyed by the Borg, which was replaced by the Defiant being in the movie to give Worf an excuse to come aboard the Enterprise. That former ship happened to have the name ‘Endeavour’ but was not associated with the comm chatter or the Nebula class ship we saw on screen. MA just linked the two together without any actual evidence that it was the same ship.
 
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