Do you really expect that to work when going under-cover?
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I've seen worse plans work....
Others I can think of would be a manipulation of the observer, like the Lectroid pheromones in Buckaroo Banzai, the electronic signal in They Live, or psychic control a la Charles Xavier.
Possible. They had their own ship designs, which were far more stealth-looking, compact and angular, not unlike this one. You might have something there.
Maybe they resurrected him via stored transporter patterns.
It would certainly track with S31’s propensity for actions through “ends justify the means” moral ambiguity.
It would certainly track with S31’s propensity for actions through “ends justify the means” moral ambiguity.
It's purple. 
My only real thought was that it was from a dimension where time was still back in the original run-ish of TNG (presumably somehwere between "Time's Arrow" and "Generations". I figured the reason the Purple-D didn't hang around was so as to not run into too much foreknowledge. There is of course no evidence around this, but without Purple Data's purple-tinged Ops uniform to prove anything, for all we know they were from a slightly more purple version of 2383 where the D was not destroyed in a violent, violet explosion over Veridian III and Data had similarly not tossed himself across a mauve nebula to stop Shinzon some years later.
Mark
My only real thought was that it was from a dimension where time was still back in the original run-ish of TNG (presumably somehwere between "Time's Arrow" and "Generations". I figured the reason the Purple-D didn't hang around was so as to not run into too much foreknowledge. There is of course no evidence around this, but without Purple Data's purple-tinged Ops uniform to prove anything, for all we know they were from a slightly more purple version of 2383 where the D was not destroyed in a violent, violet explosion over Veridian III and Data had similarly not tossed himself across a mauve nebula to stop Shinzon some years later.
Mark
So, a purple timeline that perhaps follows the timeline where Q didn't put them through the Anti-Time anomaly paradox of "All Good Things...". The USS Enterprise-D continues on. Perhaps no Dominion War depending on what happens with Bajor and the Wormhole. The Romulus problem should be starting, so purple Picard maybe be trying to get something going. Will Worf or Riker take the purple-Prise? Did Troi die in the purple timeline? Many purple questions.
Why assume the PurplePrise is not from the purple universe 2380's
Imagine if in the Purple-verse that Dr. Tolian Soran didn't need a contrived complicated plot to enter "The Nexus".
That StarFleet managed to help him enter it w/o destroying any planets, or detonating any stars.
Then the Enterprise-D would've never been destroyed.
Dr. Soran would've gone into the Nexus w/o causing issues.
Then the PurplePrise would continue to live on.
All Dr. Soran needed to do was enter "The Nexus" cloud portion w/o touching the energy tendrils that eminate from the phenomena.
We have Super Highly Agile Landing Pod vessels like what we saw in the season premiere of ST: DISCO S2, that was in the 23rd century.
I'm sure StarFleet has more advanced versions of those "Landing Pod" vessels that they could've made and had Tolian Soran pilot into the phenomena w/o getting zapped by the energy tendrils.
It's a "Far Better" plan then standing on some rickety brdige and hope the phenomena flies into him w/o getting zapped.
At least with the "Landing Pod" vessel, he can pilot his way in and avoid those energy tendrils.
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Well, a version of Mariner is in what looks like a Defiant-class ship's engineering, so I'd say this is a pretty sure thing.A Defiant in the next one (only the red part is off)?
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Actually, see my post in the LDS General thread. I'm thinking it's something else - new, but something we've also seen recently that might fit the MSD outline a little better than a Defiant.
Our fist flying XCV-330 type, the Beagle, commanded by Lily (Alfre Woodard!)
It lands by rotating the ring!
Prime NX era uniforms and interiors
And Will Boimlers's Defiant class...
...has blue bussards, no name or registry markings (31), a phaser strip on the nose, ans it's the first Defiant we see landed
It lands by rotating the ring!
Prime NX era uniforms and interiors
And Will Boimlers's Defiant class...
...has blue bussards, no name or registry markings (31), a phaser strip on the nose, ans it's the first Defiant we see landed
Okay, yep. A Defiant. Crow tastes good.
Looks like T’Pol is there too. Did they get Jolene Blalock to come out of retirement for this episode? So glad to finally see an XCV-type finally make a hard-canon appearance.
Looks like T’Pol is there too. Did they get Jolene Blalock to come out of retirement for this episode? So glad to finally see an XCV-type finally make a hard-canon appearance.
That phaser strip has always been there, but I think it's the first time I've seen that nose unit fire a phaser beam out of that strip.
There's always been a strip there, but I don't believe it's ever been indicated or marked as a phaser strip on any tech-sheets. (Although there are various contradictory ones floating around, so I can't say for sure.)
