Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Picard' started by pst, Jan 9, 2020.

  1. Dukhat

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    LOL. “Kirk, we’re giving you command of the Enterprise-A. But you’ll have to wait a bit so we can remove all the dead bodies of the Yorktown crew first.”
     
  2. Ar-Pharazon

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    A quick vacuuming, a little air freshener....

    @2:36
     
  3. Racefuel

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    I rather liked the idea that the E-A was Yorktown and the massive problems we see in Final Frontier is because of the lingering systems problems that the Whale Probe inflicted on it.
     
  4. Soong-type Android

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    I think the new Stargazer looks better than the Titan A and the Intrepid.
     
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  5. Magistos

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    I always assumed the ghosts of the former crew. :crazy:
     
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    Is that Shatner's mountain?
     
  7. Citiprime

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    I always wondered about the personnel strings Kirk was able to pull to keep his crew together. There are THREE captains on that crew, as well as multiple people with commander rank, the same level that Sisko had when he took control of Deep Space Nine. So you're talking about a ship full of experienced officers that could all have their own commands somehow stationed on one ship.
     
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  8. Racefuel

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    Spock was Captain of the Enterprise in TWOK and merely kept his rank post death, yet wanted to be with the crew.

    Scotty was "Captain of Engineering" but not the same as a fleet captain, etc.
     
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  9. Tuskin38

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    Don't embed wiki images.
     
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  10. DaveyNY

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    Never Contemplate Canon
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    Not Consistently Canon

    yer choice. :nyah:
     
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  11. Magistos

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    Never Canonically Consistent :D
     
  12. Soong-type Android

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    Okay
     
  13. Dukhat

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    The ending of TVH was pure nonsense, but nowhere near as nonsensical as the next film. Kirk getting a ship back is fine, but he should have had junior officers as his crew, not Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov.
     
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  14. Tuskin38

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    In real life you only really command the same ship for 3-4 years. Though Star Trek isn't real life.
     
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  15. Ray Hardgrit

    Ray Hardgrit Commodore Commodore

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    Starfleet's a utopian space exploration organisation from a more enlightened era and everyone there is doing unpaid volunteer work. If some veteran officers want to hang out on a spaceship and have adventures together, Starfleet's happy as long as they're happy.
     
  16. fireproof78

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    That sounds like a terrible way to run an organization. For starters, you have a couple of decades worth of experience in each of those officers all tied up on one ship. You have multiple other junior officers who would benefit from their tutelage.

    They can't just work to be happy. They must contribute to the betterment of humanity.
     
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  17. KirkusOveractus

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    Except for Sulu, who had to be a nonconformist and go off to command Excelsior.
     
  18. cooleddie74

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    Even GEN sort of gets a detail wrong when it says Harriman is the first Captain of an Enterprise in 30 years not named James Kirk. Will Decker and Spock also served as the first ship's official Captain during the Refit Era but I guess it makes Kirk's career sound even longer and more historic if he was the only Enterprise Captain between 2263 and 2293.
     
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  19. 137th Gebirg

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    Maybe we now finally have the secret canonical meaning behind all the "NCC" registry prefixes! Hmmm.... [​IMG]
     
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  20. 137th Gebirg

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    Nope - For decades (centuries, really), we've seen government entities change stupid shit simply for no other reason than for the sake of change - random motion being implemented under the dubious (dare I say specious) pretense of "progress", wasting billions in taxpayer (insert your favorite currency here).

    In the Federation/Starfleet, we now have a government entity that has finally learned a very long-sought lesson, "If it ain't broke, don't fuckin' fix it!!