Huh... Spock & McCoy were able to spit-ball a functional torpedo guidance system in under 5 minutes in TUC back in the 23rd century. Has the tech been lost to time?
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Good point.
Probably so. However those last 4 torpedoes at the end of the episode 3 should've known better, IMHO.
Nah it wasn't that. Right at the end, the Titan is hit with her own torpedoes. The torpedoes had 3 seconds of flight time before hitting the Titan so I was surprised they didn't veer away from the Titan. The nebula probably prevented them from re-acquiring the Shrike but you'd think they would've recognized their own ship and avoided hitting it or if Titan was guiding them in would've turned them around.
Fair enough. I just noticed that the Titan fired at an angle so her torpedoes didn't have to do the dip maneuver under the saucer so yeah she was probably firing them in a dumb mode. Even though their sensors were wonky I don't think they were firing blind as Picard was able to one-shot a torpedo in flight with phasers. But the torpedoes were probably unguided.
More to come, but Dave Blass has given us a peek at the Titan's new side consoles, which are arguably the most ergonomic for the XO chair since the Sovereign's static panels. Chakotay's neck would be proud.
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1631288307920388097?s=20
Mark
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1631288307920388097?s=20
Mark
Oh those look great! The Titan's bridge is dark, but very nice in its detailing.
Earth alphabet on his slug-o-cola, Earth deity curses that sound like life-long expressions, pale with facial stubble, somewhat unconventional head and ear size and position- was Sneed's lineage at all mixed with human? He easily looks young enough to have been born after official Federation-Ferengi First contact (which just makes ME feel hecka aged!), or a product of interaction(s) much earlier in these frontiers that aren't under close scrutiny by either government.
By the way, was anyone else seeing the similarity of some aspects of the Shrike's design ( the nacelles for example) to the bigger Dominion battlecruisers seen during the Dominion War in DS9?
I didn't register these things before in the first two episodes, but now i can't unsee them.
I didn't register these things before in the first two episodes, but now i can't unsee them.
They’re both designed by the same guy.
Yeah, but i also think it could have been an obvious clue in retrospect.
Y'know what else they look like? Breen ships. Big, curvy and pointy with special weapons nobody else had during the D.W. Also designed by the same guy.
The Shrike looks a whole lot like a Conspiracy Butt Bug, but now that we know Changelings are involved it could have Dominion and/or (probably not Andor) Breen designers. Perhaps amusingly, right at the beginning of this episode, as the "The Swarm"-looking guys flying the Shrike are talking in their "The Swarm"-sounding language, my closed captioning identifies the speaker as "Changeling 1".
And it looks like a Son’a ship. Also designed by the same guy.
Conclusion: You can’t assume whose ship it is based on its design, because the guy who designed it has a style that never changes.
That outboard "deflector pod" is VERY like the Breen ships we saw in DS9.
Like Eaves and his thrice-damned obsession with negative spaces...
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