I thought the Borg were perfectly portrayed here. Best TNG movie. The only qualm I have would be in relation to the Borg Queen. Was she really necessary? Other than than, great film...
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Hull or interior? I'm guessing the model... in that case I will respectfully disagree. I love everything about the Enterprise-E exterior design. It's a beautiful ship.
Bits of both, if I remember rightly he did the bridge, corridors and a few others things.
I've got the sketch book for Generations and First Contact. One of the sketches of the bridge is one of my favourite unused designs.
Do NASA astronauts who experience Zero-G in real life feel more blood in their heads than normal?
Yes. I read about a NASA experiment recently in which a volunteer was being sought that would no nothing but lay on his or her back for six months on a table that was slightly tilted backward so that the feet were elevated and the head below - but only by a few inches. It's not like hanging by your ankles or anything.
I think one of the bigger problems encountered is the swelling of the sinuses.
I think one of the bigger problems encountered is the swelling of the sinuses.
Don't get me wrong, the Enterprise E is a fine design, and some of Eaves details, which you can see really well in the Movie Sketchbook are great. It's just that the Sovereign Class is NOT a direct design decedent of the Galaxy, Nebula or Intrepid classes. It's massing and details are much closer to the Excelsior class of 80 years before, with some 24th century detailing. There is such a thing as 'design lineage". Mr. Probert, Mr. Sternbach and Mr. Drexler, et,al, firmly established, over a decade, a 'design language' of 24th century Federation design. The Sovereign Class does NOT fit it. Until Mr. Eaves comes on here and explains otherwise, I'll assume it was his idea to go off in some left field direction with his design.
Note that, once the Sovereign Class was established as cannon, Mr. Drexler followed up with his Prometheus Class, which acknowledges 'design lineage' to the Sovereign Class. I guess some designers get this concept, some don't.
For me it would have been boring if the Enterprise-E looked just like a slightly more streamlined or bigger or pointier Enterprise-D. Not being a person who does model fan art or really obsesses about these things, the Enterprise-E looked like a perfectly reasonable successor to the D.
But what I don't understand is, is it that hard to imagine that in the Trek world the Starfleet ship designers might not have consciously wanted to create something that looked like a new concept? I mean, it's not like we got three nacelles and a cube where the saucer should be... it's still clearly part of the same basic schema.
I guess we each have our own tastes; the design makes sense to me and I sensed no rejection of design lineage.
But what I don't understand is, is it that hard to imagine that in the Trek world the Starfleet ship designers might not have consciously wanted to create something that looked like a new concept? I mean, it's not like we got three nacelles and a cube where the saucer should be... it's still clearly part of the same basic schema.
I guess we each have our own tastes; the design makes sense to me and I sensed no rejection of design lineage.
Yes: sinus congestion and puffy faces are commonly reported, and as an apparent side effect the sense of taste is worsened. So if you want to send your astronaut friend a care package, include strong spices.
This takes a few minutes to develop, though. And of course there's excellent reason to think that various approaches to handle the worst effects of microgravity --- medications, specially pressurized suits, heck even modest gravity producing plates in the suits themselves --- would mean that things would be more comfortable in 2370-era spacesuits than in 2007-era spacesuits.
Fascinating, it hadn't occurred to me, but it does make sense.
But what I said would basically still stand. For Picard and Worf walking on the hull would not make them dizzy because of blood rushing to their head in the same way hanging upside down from a tree would, rather they would start to feel congested.
Unless of course the boots aren't magnetic, but rather are creating a field of artificial gravity, in which case this problem would be eliminated.
