My 305 Notes:
- So are we saying that Raffi's mobile emitter can handle hardlight like the EMH? It's similarly-shaped but not the same as the "original". Regardless you'd think, especially for an intel op, that you'd place it on the inside of the holographic clothing so it wouldn't be so easily hit. You'd think SOMEONE would've made that recommendation by now.
- By the time the Dominion War started, DS9 had largely abandoned the notion of blood screenings, but you could argue it was more of a moral decision instead of a practical one (they ain't gonna scare us no more, etc.), plus of course the writers not wanting to have it as part of standard ops. Papa Sisko once suggested that a Changeling could store blood inside itself and let it out on cue as needed, and even Changeling Bashir tried the tactic (arguably as a fake-out tactic). Here we see that they were still effective or at least judged to be so by Starfleet, between this and some sort of imaging chamber they use when they first report aboard (not related to Quantum Leap, I expect).
- Krinn uses a DS9-era Ferengi hand phaser, the one that was originally made from molds of old Robotech toys. His gang uses Romulan rifles from S1 of this show. Elsewhere we see a Starfleet FC-era rifle (or at least Beverly's pump-action variant) being brandished openly on the streets. Maybe there are consumer-edition weapons, like the AR-15? Raffi's Starfleet-issue rifle is also from the first season, and comes with an English-language scope interface to boot.
- Someone left the holodeck on from last week? And at Guinan's? Power is clearly not an issue anymore.
- There's no shortage of examples of holodeck access points hidden inside active programs (most recently on LDS), and here we have a screen conveniently hidden behind the bar. Did Picard know this from last week, or did he know where it was from previous visits to the program elsewhere? Or did Guinan actually have a screen down there in the real version?
- Intrepid shuttle is like the Saavik model we saw earlier this year (and from 201, maybe?) However this one has different chairs, and fewer of them.
- At one point the Intrepid weapons power up, and you can even see the end tips of the upper phaser strips glow up as though she was about to fire from them in the TNG-era way, even though we've never seen any ship need to hold power at that point - maybe it was just an intimidation tactic. In any case, in the next shot the phaser strips are no longer powered and she instead fires really slow torpedoes.
Mark
