It would have made a lot more sense in universe for it to show up in Picard but I suppose only the Enterprise D was fitted with a nostalgium drive.
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I thought it was called the Enterprise, not the Lollipop.
thry built the bridge set from scratch and already had a Sovereign model (not sure how detailed), so it wouldn’t have changed there. I concur with TimeIsAPredator: I like the E but there is little emotional attachment to it.
The D is a more beautiful and elegant ship. The E was a clunky looking thing.
Calling the relativistic energy a "mass" is meaningless. It isn't the gravitational (ADM) mass because there is no gravitation in special relativity. It isn't even the inertial mass from Newtonian physics. Just because energy and mass are equivalent doesn't mean we can get away with calling every energy a mass. A thermal system has energy, but there's no sense in defining an equivalent mass.
Also, note that E=mc^2 holds ONLY in the rest frame. The full expression in an arbitrary frame of reference is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4
You can't just drop the momentum term. Again, this leads to the definition of the Lorentz invariant rest mass m, which is the only mass in the system. The correct interpretation is that an infinite amount of ENERGY would be required to boost a massive particle (or starship) to the speed of light, not that the particle is becoming more massive. Because nothing about the internal structure of the particle (or starship) is changing.
They basically blew what set budget they had rebuidling the Enterprise-D bridge from scratch
Come on. Lights don’t cost that much
I dunno man, have you seen how many lights Gul Madred was able to afford? He kept losing one and had to pretend there were 5
The Queen is basically Zuckerberg. So lonely she embraced a technological solution, that took over a civilisation at a time with no opt out, relying in part on increased addictiveness…
prwtty much.
The curved wooden arch alone must have costed a fortune (and they even managed to match the veins pattern!!!), not to mention all the research work and finding/rebuilding stuff that used to be common but hasn’t been in production for decades, such as the carpet and the chairs.
Except for the fact that Endgame confirmed that Sphere 634 was the vessel that could still hear the Queen's thoughts (shortly before the Queen herself died and the Unicomplex was destroyed), implying she lost contact with other Borg ships.
Its also fascinating that the Unicomplex was blown up as a result of the pathogen... implying the same thing would have happened to a HUGE number of Borg ships.
If you recall, Sphere 634 was on its way to the AQ following (and attacking) VOY... so it may have been far enough away to escape the worst of what the pathogen could do... but it would still weaken it (and its possible the Queen tried to quickly insulate it from most of the brunt giving it one final directive 'attack and destroy Voyager'... and of course VOY dealt with that sphere by firing the Transphasic torpedo from the inside out when it emerged in the AQ.
Most other ships in the collective probably suffered the same results as the Unicomplex.
The only vessels we know that 'survived' was the Artifact, Sphere 634 and the cubes the Queen used to make a supercube. And we also know that the cube the Prodigies encountered is supposed to be the Artifact.
So, my sequence of events is the following:
Queen assimilates the pathogen and gets infected, along with the entire Collective. Unicomplex is destroyed along with the Queen because they were the point of origin, some scant few vessels did survive, and the entire TW network was obliterated - most Borg ships in relative close proximity to the Unicomplex also get destroyed.
Sphere 634 ends up escaping the brunt along with the Cube and perhaps several more Borg cubes that were out of the immediate range of being destroyed.
The Queen's physical body is destroyed, but her consciousness manages to escape to the closest surviving cube, and over time tries to find and merge the other cubes into one supercube we saw (given the cube was only at 36% operational capacity, its possible the vessel in question had this low level of operationability because the cubes which were merged were also damaged (remember the pathogen behaves like an infection... so that Borg hw into which the Queen's consciousness escaped to beared the brunt of the infection and was damaged - plus the Borg had no means to initiate self-repair without cohesive unity - they were too damaged for that).
The remaining drones on the supercube are used over time trying to sustain the queen and they lay low, because otherwise they would become easy pickings.
The Artifact cube escaped destruction as it was far enough away from the Unicomplex (basically in the Alpha Quadrant) along with Sphere 634 (at least for a brief amount of time before VOY destroyed it).
Before it was cut off from the Hive, the pathogen managed to incur moderate damage (but not enough to destroy it) along with disabling their nanoprobes (like it happened with the rest of the borg). Once the link was cut, the drones onboard established a micro collective, and went into sleep mode in an attempt to repair the cube, but they got stuck in sleep mode.
Few years later, Prodigies find the cube and wake it up briefly to find a solution to the Construct. This fails, Zero is assimilated (temporarily), and releases a psionic shockwave which jogs the Cube to eventually come to life.
The Prodigies do their thing and the Cube is put to sleep again (temporarily), after which it revives and goes to try and look for fresh material to repair itself.
After another few years, that Cube stumbles upon and captures a Romulan ship and assimilates them... is exposed to the Admonision signal which in their damaged state was enough to shut the cube down and it becomes the Artifact.
I would surmise the Queen's supercube was comprised of several regular cubes which survived Endgame events (albeit damaged) and were merged together... so, besides those ships, sphere 634 (which was destroyed) and the Artifact, we have no knowledge or indications of any other Borg ships that survived.
The Borg kid we saw in Lower Decks in the 'far future' was either from the Jurati Collective, the Cooperative in the Nekrit Expanse or possibly the Borg resistance?
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Toward the end of the episode at the museum I do love how we see the D in between the 1701A and the stargazer. Gives us an idea of just how big of a ship she is. Also just a little further is the 2260s connie the New Jersey. Cool to compare the sizes of those ships.
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Complain to Einstein and other physicists, then. He's the one who established the equivalence.
As to your last sentence, given the Week 1 mislabeling of things and funny timeline of thing within the show, I - and this is pure speculation on my part - think Season 3 originally took place in 2410 and towards the end of production they moved it back to 2401. They erased about 10 years.
- There was an early correction as to the date of the production from 2410 to 2401 in promo material.
- Seven being a Commander who gained shaws confidence enough for him to recommend her for promotion. They've only served together for months though?
- Picard having a 20 year old son who would have had to be conceived around 2381ish, or about 18 months after Nemesis.
- The Enterprise-F having a 12 year life with a random retirement reason.
- The Titan-A's commissioning (over the original Titan) being corrected.
- LaForge having grown daughters who would have to have been born pre-Nemesis.
- The estrangement between RIker and Troi has having been implied to be far longer than about the 18-ish months or so since we've last seen them in Season 1.
- Kestra is old enough to go to Starfleet Academy now? She was like 15.
- Picard retiring again from Starfleet (Academy) despite, being in the job under a year.
- Starfleet standing up a largely entirely new fleet of ships based around common parts, and using fewer of the 2370s heritage and Star Trek Online ships we saw in Season 2.
- Our 3rd new uniform in 3 seasons (yes, this is a different uniform in subtle ways than Season 2, especially how it's cut).
- Picard having some kind of relationship with Laris that is implied to have been more than just a few months.
- Soong having time to develop synth technology further and work with his father's left overs to develop the new synth that becomes Data 2.0 . Seems like a lot more than 18 months.
The entire thing works in the time line if you don't think about it too hard, but it works a lot better if you pretend it happened in 2410. In one particular way. Instead of Picard and Crusher having a relationship around 2381 while he is just is leaving the Enterprise to become Admiral to answer the Romulan supernova crisis - which presumably would consume his attention to the detriment of his personal life (as is Picard's way), if instead they formed a relationship during the early years of his "exile" in France, around 2388. He goes there, to lick his wounds, in 2386, then the supernova occurs in 2387, and Crusher comes to console him (which he probably feels terribly guilty about). That turns into a relationship there for a few years, that produces a Son, that she leaves with around 2390.
So now suddenly Picard's isolation in Season 1 isn't JUST about feeling like Starfleet lost its way, but also the feelings of shame and humiliation that someone who he's known most of his life and had a deep relationship with utterly rejected and abandoned him. That double helping makes him "waiting to die" in Season 1 far more understandable. He felt like he failed as an officer and as a man.
They didn't go with this, and again, it's just me theorizing in my part, but I think the evidence while, circumstantial, is strong.
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I think Einstein would pretty much agree with what I wrote.
Made it to page 110 
The premise was great, only the end was weird. But that's part of the job.
And does Riker have Tom's voice as he did in FC?
That's interesting - I wonder what will be on the DVD
I was hoping they do that, and was looking out for them, otherwise I might not have noticed either
And since those old ships were there (also a vor'cha IIRC) , the J could easily have been quite old as well
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The premise was great, only the end was weird. But that's part of the job.Did they really get the computer voice back for a new recording, or did they use the lines from TNG?
And does Riker have Tom's voice as he did in FC?
Those lifeforms were neither precious nor little
Vadic's life sign scanner also had the WoK tricorder sound
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