To be fair, the Enterprise was the same fit she was in over Veridian 3, and Syracuse didn’t seem much more modern.
At that point the Enterprise was fit from 35 years before
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To be fair, the Enterprise was the same fit she was in over Veridian 3, and Syracuse didn’t seem much more modern.
At that point the Enterprise was fit from 35 years before
Yeah see? Better days
Remember when we were explorers?
No, but I remember the Shakespeare.
No, but I remember the Shakespeare.
Except Enterprise was not designed with 16x9 in mind. Everything up to and including filming the pilot was designed to make sure the show would be fine in 4x3. The decision to go 16x9 came after that, so the pilot was cropped to match.
Seems every century there are crews who can't simply send landing parties or probes down to planets to collect plant samples or check for more advanced life forms. As far back as 2154 Jonathan Archer - who'd only wanted to fly his late Dad's warp engine and explore the cosmos - had THE BIRTH OF THE VERY FEDERATION ON HIS SHOULDERS AND HE WAS PRETTY DAMN COOL WITH LETTING IT NEVER HAPPEN.
Remember that time that Data got possessed by a god and turned the Enterprise into an Aztec like temple?
much better than fighting the Jem Hadar
Beyond the blinking LEDs, I was always curious as to whether with LCARS were we to believe that there was some numerical language that goes with it that the crew understands, since what we see of LCARS is usually the main information they want to convey to the audience but also surrounded by a bunch of numbers/codes.
HEN56
what does that do?
oh it recalibrates the deflector output to the lower EM band.
duh
Depends what's on the inside. Real world example, the Ticonderoga-class cruisers in the US Navy (large air defense / surface ships) are finally started to retire. 27 were built, 17 are active (5 decommissioned just in the past year so it was 22 until recently). The 22 have been in service for 28 - 37 years depending on when they were built. However the prior 5, including the lead of the class the USS Ticonderoga, only served 18-20 years and were all retired by 2005. Why? Because the 22 have "Vertical Launch Systems" to fire their weapons and a very different internal arrangement, whereas the first 5 use old Twin-arm launchers as ships did from the 1950s until VLS showed up. In the 90s, the Navy decided to go all-VLS and even young ships without it were pulled from service early. Those first five could have easily served for another 20 years, but it was decided they were more useful as spare parts for the other 22.
Enterprise D was one of the earliest Galaxy class ships. It may have even been the second or third of the first six. And the ship design, while powerful, was clearly very poorly suited for the time it served in. After the Federation got licked at Wolf 359, the next fleet they built was smaller, faster, more tightly integrated designs. No families. Fewer amenities. During the Dominion War, the Federation leaned on a lot of upgraded 23rd century designs and their post-Wolf 359 "battle fleet". And 2380 and 2390s, they visually continued the approach that began with the battle fleet of smaller, heavily armed ships, though closer to 2400, they moved away from tight integration in design and into late 23rd century style modularity (really good choice if you want to build a big fleet fast).
As a matter of hull age, the Galaxy class wasn't that old. But if it wasn't kept upgraded or modernized to "Ross Class" standards (from STO, canonized in Season 2) it was dated by the late 2380s.
In fact we can infer this in one more respect. The Odyssey-class, namely the Enterprise-F. It is having a very short life too. And at Frontier Day, there are only two of the class, so it wasn't a big run of ships, despite the Federation building a lot of every other class (even Sovereigns, which by 2402, there are so many of, it is clearly a very successful design that's lasted). The Odyssey is the biggest ship the Federation had ever built to that point, and really represents trying to merge Galaxy and Sovereign techs in a way that, while potent, was clearly not something the Federation saw value in refurbishing. That makes that class every bit the dead end that the Galaxy class was. Or the Intrepid-clas sfor that matter, of which we know there are only 3 of (Intrepid, Voyager, Bellpheron). Notably, at Frontier Day, while we saw plenty of other Battle of Sector 001 ships, we saw zero Intrepids.
In my head canon, I always figured Intrepid was the Starfleet equivalent of the real world Zumwalt-class. The Federation was going to put upgraded Galaxy tech in a smaller package as the new cruiser class that would be the fleet backbone, but the defense-centric priorities post-Wolf 359 forced a change of plans towards a more warship-style design. So Intrepid production ended at 3, as focus shifted to Sabers, Akiras, Steamrunners, Norway and of course, Sovereigns. Of course, Voyager more than proved itself capable of intense fighting. But it is much more of the Galaxy lineage than the Battle of Sector 001 lineage.
So if Starfleet figured there wasn't value in upgrading the internals of the "Galaxy line" of Galaxy-Intrepid-Odyssey, then hull life wouldn't matter much. ,
IDK what to tell you, it was from an interview. They anticipated the switch to HD even though it hadn't happened yet. They made everything 16:9 ready, figuring it was going to be the standard over a 7 year run. They built the sets too using real metal and other expensive materials rather than just painted wood, anticipating the switch to digital and higher resolution televisions able to see details.
Even the CGI scenes were build HD-ready, which is why releasing them has been simple and quick.
Moral of the Story: NEVER call a ship the Enterprise. Ever.
The ship formerly known as the Titan-A might've just been cursed with its rechristening.
That episode gets such shit, but it's actually so good. My one disappointment with Picard Season 3, is I hoped Spiner would do the multiple personality act he did there with Lore, Data, Lal, B-4 and Soong. Sadly we didn't get that. I liked what we got, but I would have liked for the course of an episode, to have seen Spiner perform 5 very different characters.
I really think Masks was done in by the Season 7 budget cuts. It looked cheap (and it was) but it should have been lavish. Alas, all the money went to DS9 and paying for year 7 of the cast by that point.
Insane to think given the profile of the TNG cast since the end of the show, that producers had to fight Paramount even at that late hour for funds for TNG. Execs had no idea what they had.
At this rate they're gonna have to start doubling, or tripling, up letters. Can't wait for the Enterprise-FU and Enterprise-LOL
The Enterprise-XXX will live up to Gene's Vision.
The list of Enterprises is getting bigger.
AND THE ENTERPRISES ARE GETTING LAAARGER!!!
AND THE ENTERPRISES ARE GETTING LAAARGER!!!
And we still got 150 years to go to get to Enterprise-J.
Now this was a weird thing I saw over on twitter, it appears that the opening shot of the 'D' was different between certain regions: https://twitter.com/JeanAvellan/status/1649459417002246156
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