Have the Galaxy Class got a fatal design flaw?
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Nope. They fired once and that was it. The sound you're hearing are the Klingon disruptors hitting the Big D.
Now you're just giving a movie credit for something that wasn't even in the movie.
I have to Disagree with R-Star Here. The Mistake was Picards. Riker did the best he could in a bad situation. When the Enterprise was attacked, they were taken completely by surprise that The Klingons were able to completely bypass their shields. The forward section was full of INNOCENT CIVILIANS. Riker would know this, and would have ordered the ship to keep it's Aft Section facing the Bird of Prey so as to keep Civilian death's to a minimum. Saucer sep was out of the question while The Enterprise was taking direct hits to her hull. Picard should have known they were going into a system with a Renegade Klingon Ship containing a very dangerous Individual aboard, and Stopped at a system en route, did a proper Saucer Separation, and went into the Veridian System with the Stardrive. Just my Opinion. I think Riker handled the situation well.
Furstratingly not in the movie. One or two lines of dialogue explaining that either the Enterprise had lost weapons, or that Soran had upgraded the BoPs shields, and this particular weird aspect to the battle would barely be discussed!
So very true. I was never a big fan of the Enterprise D, but she deserved better than being taken out by a little Bird of Prey ship.
Without those few lines of dialogue, I wish the sisters had been in a full size Klingon Battle Cruiser at least.
I agree that a few lines of Dialog would have helped, Even just Having Worf saying something like "Our phasers are not penetrating their sheilds" in a surprised tone would have helped, and alluded to the fact that Soran must have helped the Duras Sisters modify their BOP somehow. As it stands, we have what we see on screen, so my explination makes the most sense to me personally. But I'm with the Majority that the Enterprise-D deserved better.
Actually, it can be made to fly aerodynamically. Just not for very long.
Since it isn't meant to be flown in the atmosphere, I'd say the shape is rather irrelevant to the conversation.
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Yes.. it deserved to be in a better movie. That was the design flaw that was exploited, leading to it's death.
The motivation to destroy the ship was crass... Moore and Braga were tired of it and wanted a "cooler" ship. I've never forgiven them for that!
I always thought it was "the TV sets won't hold up on-screen". Which is why Generations had to be so dimly lit, too...
True, though that was one set seen very briefly versus... well, all of them after the prologue aboard the -B. And given that the Voyager sets were constructed after Generations was shot, they may have been built to a higher standard with future film use in mind.
Granted. My point was simply that blowing up the ship because the producers didn't like the sets were stupid. The gap between TV and film was somewhat lesser for TNG than it was for, say, TOS. GENS also proved pretty handily that the D six-footer looked amazing on the big screen. It would have been easy to wreck the bridge and build a new one, and refurbish the other sets as needed.
Personally, though, I think they looked great.
Personally, though, I think they looked great.
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