You forgot that in the final scene of Generations, Picard tosses it aside like garbage.
PIC S3 Ships & Tech
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Which is why I don't have as much of a problem with it. The biggest aspect of Trek is that this is a fictional universe, but it also has it's own rules within it that we are not privy to. Post-scarcity may have completely altered the point of view of taking a ship, decommissioning it, and sending out a new one. It could be due to technological developments, adding on new member worlds, losses suffered due to conflicts, or even an update to the entire fleet that makes more sense to roll out new gear. I mean, look at how quickly our phones can go out of date. Tech can move at an exponential rate at times, especially when you consider that the Federation was working to bring in more member worlds post Dominion War, and that there were several other events that resulted in damages.
In short, as you say, it's world building. There is a whole bunch going out in the world that we can only speculate at, but we don't have enough information to say "that's stupid."
I didn't even know what it was until someone pointed it out, but rewatching the archeology episodes of TNG it hurt a bit more.
Maybe the naiskos is a replica, then.
Good point about new tech. As a side note, the Titan-A has metaphasic shields. Crusher would be proud, and we know it can be hastily applied to existing ship designs, but who knows what else has cropped up in the past thirty years...
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Good point about new tech. As a side note, the Titan-A has metaphasic shields. Crusher would be proud, and we know it can be hastily applied to existing ship designs, but who knows what else has cropped up in the past thirty years...
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Back to metaphasic shielding, as happy as Crusher would be that it was not only successful but eventually deployed as a standard for some ships in 24XX, but what would the Ferengi have to say about it? Dr. Reyga wasn't particularly profit-minded, but as the inventor of the technology would he have arranged for it to be a public domain publication? Or would his more Ferengi-ish family make a play to license the tech to every ship or shuttle that used it, or for every time it would be used? This is something we haven't really thought about - the Federation engages in trade, but what would happen if they tried to use tech that was invented by another organization? Or would they develop their own version with a legally different implementation that would not be recognized by copyright? Or would they get a hologram to install it? Or..?
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Dr. Reyga was willing to grant exclusive rights to whoever could provide resources to develop the shield and since an Enterprise shuttle plus the Enterprise was allowed to be used as resources in "Suspicions" I think it could be argued that Reyga could've stipulated the Federation be given exclusive rights or granted free use of the tech. Episodes later the tech was still being actively developed for use on the Enterprise in "Descent" could support that the Federation are the developers of the technology.
"I, Mudd" does have dialogue that interstellar patents exist and there is some kind of royalty payment system...
"I, Mudd" does have dialogue that interstellar patents exist and there is some kind of royalty payment system...
Such a branch would make sense in-universe. They could be who cleaned up Wolf 359. Centuries later, the Recovery Corps was hit so hard by the Burn that nobody was around to clean up Federation debris anymore.It would be fun if Lower Decks showcased the Starfleet Recovery Corps. They're constantly late in recovering abandoned and crashed starfleet ships and equipment.
Voyager-A never lasted past its shakedown Cruise, or it was found to have a severe design defect?
We won't know until season 2 of Prodigy.
Post-Burn would definitely ba a "who recovers the recoverers" scenario.
They could have fun adventures like locating and recovering the communicator left behind on Sigma Iotia 2 to grim stuff like recovering starfleet bodies from L-374 or Wolf-359.
By the way, was District 7, the place with the Rachel Garrett statue, that got portaled a location on Earth? The architecture and the environment looked a lot like that might be the case.
Another thing about the attack: Is it possible that instead of using the cutting beam in combination with the tractor beam, like it was implied before, the Borg use a similar technology like the portal weapon for planet scooping?
Another thing about the attack: Is it possible that instead of using the cutting beam in combination with the tractor beam, like it was implied before, the Borg use a similar technology like the portal weapon for planet scooping?
District 7 was still on M'talas, I presume, where Commander Musiker was investigating the impending attack.
The CGI was a modification of a Brazilian city.
The weapon was quantum tunnelling, which allows an atom to move instantaneously to another position. Writ large.
Rio di Janeiro. Someone on Twitter recognized some of the landmarks around a major stadium.
Looked like a "portable hole" effect. A more horrific application of something from one of the Looney Tunes short cartoons...
As much as a cold fusion device freezes a volcano, yes
What bugged me about the weapon was that it didn’t create as much of a hole as it did a tube - the building was completely gone by the time the other side opened up and the contents fell through. Or perhaps there was a slight time displacement too?
And I do wonder why Rachel Garrett was the big red centrepiece for this facility? A recruitment centre is mentioned, I wonder if there was some BTS reason for choosing her other than as the heroine commander of the Enterprise-C? Or perhaps she has some personal connection to M’Talas Prime?
And why red? Or are we subtly doing some red shirt on-joke here?
And I do wonder why Rachel Garrett was the big red centrepiece for this facility? A recruitment centre is mentioned, I wonder if there was some BTS reason for choosing her other than as the heroine commander of the Enterprise-C? Or perhaps she has some personal connection to M’Talas Prime?
And why red? Or are we subtly doing some red shirt on-joke here?
She's simply an important historical figure, IMO. Garrett's decision to aid a former enemy at Narendra III not only turned the Khitomer Accords from a cease-fire to an actual alliance with the Klingons, it's probably looked at as in keeping with the highest ideals of Starfleet.
Green was already taken by the Statue of Liberty...
This would make complete sense. Picard knows how valuable a complete Kurlan naiskos is, and given how often we see starships being buffeted by weaponsfire or losing inertial dampers or otherwise shaking about it's hard to imagine a worse environment in which to keep priceless millennia-old ceramics. Presumably the original was either in safe storage somewhere or possibly on loan to a museum, and Picard could have very easily replicated a duplicate. We later see Picard's naiskos complete in his vault in the Starfleet Archive in PIC season one anyway, so it clearly wasn't casually destroyed or discarded in Generations.
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