How do/did you feel about the return of the Enterprise-D?
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Granted, it must be good, too.
I'm pretty cynical with how bad franchises have got with the blatant fan service... but this time I was the fan who was getting thoroughly serviced, and I just went with it.
But I don't want this to be the model going forward, which is why Legacy doesn't hold much interest for me.
But I don't want this to be the model going forward, which is why Legacy doesn't hold much interest for me.
Well, I don't mind indulging in nostalgia a little, if it's nicely done.
In retrospect, I wish the writers had paid the same slavish attention to detail in the story and scripts for season 3 of Picard that the art department put into the Enterprise-D bridge. Might've made for a satisfying meal that wasn't just a load of empty fanservice calories.
I very much agree with this. I would love to have a show set straight after Picard, but with a new ship (or station. Or both.) and a new crew. Reaching back to characters and settings we know is what SNW is doing, and pretty good if you ask me.
Something I still wish I could write as a fanfiction is a show set at the edge of the UFP. The AQ is still mostly unexplored. A station orbiting a world right outside Federation, base of a fleet of ships (a dozen or so) that set out to explore the unknown. The planet itself home of a new colony. One ship would probably be the main setting. Two huge explorers (a Sovereign and a Galaxy) and the rest are more dedicated science ships. Staying at newly discovered planets or what not to really learn all there is about them. No returns to Earth two or three times a season. Just these explorers, out there.
I must respectfully disagree, partly.
Season 3 gave us a proper closure to the TNG series and crew and whats more, a more befitting retirement for the D.
The D was the first to engage the Borg and she was the one to end them. That was poetic.
Season 3 is not perfect, however. The producer opting to use an ancient looking ship design for the "hero" ship just because he liked TMP was a supreme error and made the Titan-A/ Enterprise-G look old and past it.
Renaming the Titan-A to Enterprise was a smack in the face for two reasons:
1. Titan earned her name in S3. She fought valiantly and was crucial to the survival of Earth
2. Enterprise has earned the right to be tip of the spear, a ship that is state of the art for the time. Not some 200 year old looking cruiser.
We had proper closure on the series. And we had closure on the D. The D was lost in an entire film about not being able to cheat death, moving on, and time being a painful companion but a necessary one. I don't begrudge viewers for getting a buzz out of seeing the D, but if you think this ending was more befitting then I feel you've missed the entire point of Generations. Also it's not even the D, the drive section is some other ship.
Man posting that quote I forgot about the only mortal thing, Picard the series even shits all over that.
That was called "All Good Things."
That's the most befitting end. The films stand apart. We did not require an additional closure to what was arguably one of the best series finales in Trek.
Geordi: I was tempted to add a third nacelle ever since Jean-Luc described what he saw during the Devron System Temporal Anomaly Incident, but those punks from the USS Cerritos were howling with laughter when they saw the blueprints for it so I scrapped that idea.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
*Cries in Federation class*
What Apple Stores are you going too?
Besides, I thought it was the JJPrise that looked like the Apple Store? Now it's the Enterprise in Strange New Worlds? Which is it?* How can they both look like Apple Stores when they look nothing alike?
*Spoiler alert! It's neither.
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