Hey Discovery is an experimental ship ain’t it?If they did they would know that you don’t launch torpedoes from the nacelles.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x11 - "Perpetual Infinity"
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Didn't the Enterprise-D fire phasers from its torpedo launchers every once in a while? Don't mistake the VFX team for the writers. I don't think it was the writers' intention to put a blue planet with very visible Great Lakes, Québec and St Lawrence River underneath a Starbase 1 that the spoken dialog in The War Without, The War Within said was 100 AUs away from Earth.If they did they would know that you don’t launch torpedoes from the nacelles.
Heck, as Rick Sternbach and Andrew Probert would remind us, it's a long (if not proud) tradition...
Sternbach: In classic STAR TREK, the ship's phaser beams didn't seem to come from anywhere in particular.
Probert: In classic STAR TREK the phasers came from the Special Effects department. They had nothing to do with any feature on the outside of the original Enterprise. The phasers came out of the photon torpedo tube and vice versa: very confusing.
Probert: In classic STAR TREK the phasers came from the Special Effects department. They had nothing to do with any feature on the outside of the original Enterprise. The phasers came out of the photon torpedo tube and vice versa: very confusing.
(Excerpted from a round table discussion in the booklet accompanying the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints, pg. 8, Pocket 1996.)
Probably not, although to be fair, terraforming does come up in the same episode...and if we add a new planet to replace the demoted Pluto, our system can still have nine in TEH FUTURE!
-MMoM
Martin-Green really showed off her acting chops here. She did a great job of selling the anguish of an abandoned child. The script itself really just felt like expositional filler. Lots of people standing around shooting technobabble at each other. Not sure why they added another episode when it feels like they don't have enough story for all the episodes that were originally planned. Even with all the balls they have in the air.
Control. It calculated that Discovery would have to be the ship to investigate, because it has the Spore Drive. It also calculated that they would be able to snag Mama Burnham.
That's all I got. The show is very disjointed, probably from the mid-season change in the writer's room.
Didn't Georgiou mention that "Discovery's defenses would prove woefully inadequate" by comparison? It was in reference to the prospect of Dr. Burnham turning out to be a Trojan Horse, but the implication seemed to be that they thought their own ship would fare better against the same threat.
I would certainly expect Section 31 ships to be armed to the teeth, not to mention having any number of slick tricks up their devious sleeves (like that camouflage, for one). I guess we'll find out next week...
"Look, I've been reinstated for all of five minutes, and I did it because I wanted to help, but..."
I enjoyed the TOS-esque decor of it, myself. Do keep in mind this particular colony was a Vulcan research outpost, and it wasn't just their home, but also their lab.
That's what I figured, too. Since they know about the existence of other universes, calling their own "prime" is no stretch at all, really. (And Mirror-Georgiou seems to have more or less accepted it as her home now, at least for the time being. When in Rome, and all that.)
-MMoM
The Prime Universe. The one owned by Amazon.com, perhaps?
Spoilers: The Universe gets bought out by Amazon. And this is something I wouldn't actually put passed them. They out-bidded Wal-Mart.
Jeff Bezos does strike me as if he's been usurped by nanites
OMG the sporedrive is the new delivery service!
Prime Universe. Product placement in Star Trek: Discovery. Which happens to be available for slipstreaming on Amazon Prime Video...
Recursive recursive recursive...
Recursive recursive recursive...
So are the Borg in the mirror universe friendly?
Don't mind me that was just a random thought.
Don't mind me that was just a random thought.
In the Mirror universe, so far only actually different species we saw are Humans, Ferengi and Bajorans (maybe) lacking their religion. Otherwise, most of the species act pretty similarly.
And if certain theory is true, Borg might not exist in MU at all!
But that would be a Technical CGI decision, not a Writers decision.If they did they would know that you don’t launch torpedoes from the nacelles.
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In the mirror novels at least, they're a lot more aggressive, and their ships are bigger.
They don't just let people beam aboard and wonder around their ships like they did in TNG/VOY, they attack them on the spot.
They also had a Borg King, but the end of the story also implied that the King/Queen could chose whatever gender or body they liked.
According to Southpark, he's a Talosian. Complete with huge head and bulging veins, like the TOS Talosians.
There is obviously a link between Control and the borg. Likely control is just t using borg tec for it own ends like lore did in TNG.
On the other hand we could be looking at a origin point.
Thing is we assume the borg have one origin point. I wonder if the borg have multiple. Becoming a hive collective is common evolution theme among cyborgs when you combine cybernetics with organics like eyes, ears and limbs is a common in biological evolution.
In effect collectives could spring up anywhere at any time and potentially merge over time. Even if you eradicate one collective, another could spring up somewhere at some time.
On the other hand we could be looking at a origin point.
Thing is we assume the borg have one origin point. I wonder if the borg have multiple. Becoming a hive collective is common evolution theme among cyborgs when you combine cybernetics with organics like eyes, ears and limbs is a common in biological evolution.
In effect collectives could spring up anywhere at any time and potentially merge over time. Even if you eradicate one collective, another could spring up somewhere at some time.
While I think they are trying to mimic Borg imagery (greenish nanoprobes), I'm not sure this is the starting place. Control seems to be working towards an organic free galaxy.
Though there is part of me that wonders (and it is thanks to these writers love of fanwank), if Mama Burnham ends up as the first Borg Queen? Thousands of years in the past.
Though there is part of me that wonders (and it is thanks to these writers love of fanwank), if Mama Burnham ends up as the first Borg Queen? Thousands of years in the past.
He might be a cyborg, but a nerdy one. He saved The Expanse, after all.
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