Continuing my notes:
- Why do the Borg ship's forcefields project through empty space to complete the cube's missing corner? Are they using the existing system, which goes all phantom limb syndrome to protect a part of the ship that isn't there anymore?
- Where are Soji and Narek canoodling? Historically, the Borg aren't big on rooms - most everywhere we see on a typical cube are just hallways or junctions thereof, where specific things are done as needed. This room's walls are incongruous with what we see outside. Probably a portable habitat installed in an otherwise empty space?
- It's amazing that after all this time, this is only the THIRD Stargazer crew member besides Picard who has been named, after Jack Crusher and Vigo. Apparently everyone's human too, though there's plenty of precedent for guest starship crewers to be almost entirely human when they show up on a view screen.
- The walk-through transporter portals are cool. But at least at SFHQ, there are no apparent consoles to program it for a destination. People are seen simply walking through - do they identify where they're going via combadge or tricoder or phone?
- I'm guessing we're meant to think the SFHQ building is a replacement for the one seen on the Presidio in DS9 et al.? Was the previous one destroyed by the Breen attack? We only saw Starfleet Academy (and the bridge) wrecked in that episode. While visually similar to its predecessor, it notably lacks any signage on the outside, or tiny starship models. Also, it has very 21st century front doors, electrical plugs, and fire alarms.
- Speaking of the bridge, it's not only recovered but covered in solar panels. Retro energy display? Did they rebuild it to 2250 spec, since it looks exactly as it did during the DSC episodes it's in? In the 2270s it had covered tubes, but in an alternate 2394 they had been replaced by circular tubes, visible as assorted rubberneckers were gawking at Voyager's return.
- I can't tell you how warmed my heart was on hearing a new version of the "hey I'm here" door chime, before someone said "come".
- I wonder about the specific choices behind Admiral Clancy's uniform. The grey and black palette ceratinly calls back to the TNG movie uniforms, but the neckpiece screams civilian. The TNG era is no stranger to wierd Admiral uniforms, having seen at least three different ones in the first two TNG seasons alone, but it had generally settled down to a single design that matched the style of the general duty uniforms of the day. Or perhaps this is more like the various Captain's uniform variants we've seen over the years?
- Picard was requesting a "small, warp-capable reconnaissance ship with a minimal crew". I guess just saying "gimme a Runabout" was asking too much? There aren't THAT many ship types that fit the bill.
