Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x10 - "The Last Generation"

[Phily B]

How the Enterprise-D moved was completely fine, the Cube was ridiculously sized. They also made it clear that the only reason they were only to actually get through unscathed was Data. We briefly saw the speed and how it could move when it escaped the dyson sphere. Also during the Dominion War it was no slouch.

I think the whole sequence could have gone very wrong, but it really looked like the Ent-D still had its weight behind it when it was moving and that it was really straining when it did. I think the Cube was just so damn big that it was hard to fully comprehend, it was bigger than most vessels we'd seen in the past.

 

[Toril Toran]

That makes a whole lot more sense. Data actually could pilot the ship that way. It is sort of like riding your bike really fast when you were a kid and slamming on the brakes so that you spin around.

 

[SJGardner]

We should cut Troi some slack, really. Executing a crash landing on such rough terrain that safely, with minimal casualties and the saucer remaining salvageable, is no small feat.

 

[Set Harth]

IIRC, the initial outline of Star Wars was practically a reuse of a synopsis of Hidden Fortress with the character and location names switched for the space setting.

Supposedly, the one from this book.

 

[Sci]

I have no doubt that the ship can move that way, I am just not sure that Troi is that good of a pilot.

I think Troi must be a pretty good pilot actually, since she managed to both control the saucer's angle of descent and reduce its velocity enough as to avoid being vaporized in the atmosphere and land almost completely intact with minimal casualties. That's huge.

 

[Racefuel]

To be fair it wasn't all Troi, Data had an active hand in getting the saucer down in Generations

 

[fireproof78]

Nah. He just swore. That's it.

 

[Lord Garth]

Buuuuut

SNW.

yeah I know I know

Screw it. We're starting to go around in circles with PIC already.

SNW will be something different to talk about.

 

[cooleddie74]

The "Life Forms" song causes nothing but disaster. Sing it at your own peril.

 

[Toril Toran]

How the Enterprise-D moved was completely fine, the Cube was ridiculously sized. They also made it clear that the only reason they were only to actually get through unscathed was Data. We briefly saw the speed and how it could move when it escaped the dyson sphere. Also during the Dominion War it was no slouch.

I think the whole sequence could have gone very wrong, but it really looked like the Ent-D still had its weight behind it when it was moving and that it was really straining when it did. I think the Cube was just so damn big that it was hard to fully comprehend, it was bigger than most vessels we'd seen in the past.

I thought I heard on YouTube that the cube was actually four cubes combined.

 

[Voltron64]

It might be just me but I feel like the scene where Picard and Jack were "inside" the collective would've been a great way for Alice Krige appear in-person as the Borg Queen without having to put her under heavy prosthetic makeup.

 

[OdeToSpot]

Took 2 weeks but I FINALLY caught up in time to the current post in this thread, 2871 posts in. Only at this moment do I feel I have truly completed S3.
I appreciate you all for providing so much lively commentary and debate. Yes yes, I fully recognize that some of the discussion consisted of awful off-topic devolutions, obvious trolling, and personal bickering but there truly is a lot of smart, insightful, and meaningful stuff mixed in too!
This may well be the last time for me to experience such a densely concentrated gathering of TNG fans like myself all getting off the same ride together at the same time. In regard to that seemingly-likely definitive end, I choose to quote Worf:

There are two turns of phrase a Klingon never admits to knowing. Defeat. And farewell.​

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I thought I heard on YouTube that the cube was actually four cubes combined.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was one of the parts of the unicomplex that survived Endgame, rather that any number of standard cubes.

But if it were multiple cubes, I think it would have to be 8 (or 26) of them, with the beacon in the center gap.

 

[Macintosh]

I thought I heard on YouTube that the cube was actually four cubes combined.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was one of the parts of the unicomplex that survived Endgame, rather that any number of standard cubes.

But if it were multiple cubes, I think it would have to be 8 (or 26) of them, with the beacon in the center gap.

The supercube in PIC S3 is hugely larger than only four regular cubes, though the scene where it blows up does make it look like it's composed of many smaller cubes. Measuring it against the Enterprise-D it's something like 25km to 50km across – assuming it's made out of standard cubes that are 3km along each face it'd consist of something like 570ish to 4,600ish cubes.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I thought I heard on YouTube that the cube was actually four cubes combined.

Four? Not Eight?

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Four? Not Eight?

THERE . ARE . FOUR . CUBES! ...

... it was really thin, you just couldn't see it from the camera angle.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Q's Rubik's Cube?

 

[fireproof78]

Qbix cube.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

THERE . ARE . FOUR . CUBES! ...

... it was really thin, you just couldn't see it from the camera angle.

Spoiler: 33x33x33 Rubiks Cube

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[The Old Mixer]

Rubik's Qbe.