We skipped the B and the C except for one-off appearances, too.
It's not important.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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We skipped the B and the C except for one-off appearances, too.
It's not important.
I wouldn't be a fan but compared to the fact that this is supposed to be the same old Titan but got a refit to look nothing like the old one and is the same Titan but also "A" is far more stupid.Got to say, I'm just not feeling the outrage over the G.
I'd have been perfectly happy if it remained the Titan, but I'm not taking any moral offense over renaming it.
Maybe I'm just growing old and apathetic.
It's also been a season of nonsense nostalgia anyway so no surprise there.
Captain of the Enterprise you say ?
That should be the subtitle. I mean, it was FUN...
After watching the episode, I felt mild annoyance that the Titan was renamed the G, but it wasn’t like the pure vitriol I felt at the end of TATV. It was…ok. Odd, but ok.
Now with that said, I’m still kind of flustered at some of the choices that were made starship-wise. Retconning aside, ‘Frontier Day’ is supposed to be the celebration of the launch of the NX-01 Enterprise. Yet not only is the NX-01 stuck at the museum and not actually part of the celebration, but the current ship to hold the name Enterprise is being decommissioned after only 15 years of service, for no reason that was ever stated in the show. It’s not like it had anything to do with the Changelings’ grand plan. And apparently there were no plans to make an Ent-G until the events of the season warranted it, from a completely different ship, no less. None of this makes a whole lot of sense to me. It strikes me as something that wasn’t completely thought through, or at
best changed around at the last minute due to retcons.
(And I’m not going to get into the whole ‘Titan-A refit-from-Luna-Titan-but-not-really’ thing, or why the Titan-A’s class is ‘Constitution III’ when it should be more like ‘Shangri-La II.’)
And the Enterprise-E? What was up with that casual brush-aside? I heard that Matalas just didn’t like it. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but if he did hate it that much, why didn’t he just have the E be the one getting decommissioned, then controlled by the Borg kids, and then get destroyed in the process?
And why feature the STO Enterprise-F at all? Despite using some video game designs as background ships, it’s not like they were beholden to use it. As someone mentioned above, they just didn’t care all that much, because the apparent goal this whole time was to make a ship that was already meant to be Riker’s old Titan from Nemesis into the new Enterprise, in the most convoluted way possible.
But it is what it is. It’s not the way I would have done things, but it’s over and done with. Here’s looking forward to the next showrunner and their take on the Enterprise-H.
Now with that said, I’m still kind of flustered at some of the choices that were made starship-wise. Retconning aside, ‘Frontier Day’ is supposed to be the celebration of the launch of the NX-01 Enterprise. Yet not only is the NX-01 stuck at the museum and not actually part of the celebration, but the current ship to hold the name Enterprise is being decommissioned after only 15 years of service, for no reason that was ever stated in the show. It’s not like it had anything to do with the Changelings’ grand plan. And apparently there were no plans to make an Ent-G until the events of the season warranted it, from a completely different ship, no less. None of this makes a whole lot of sense to me. It strikes me as something that wasn’t completely thought through, or at
best changed around at the last minute due to retcons.
(And I’m not going to get into the whole ‘Titan-A refit-from-Luna-Titan-but-not-really’ thing, or why the Titan-A’s class is ‘Constitution III’ when it should be more like ‘Shangri-La II.’)
And the Enterprise-E? What was up with that casual brush-aside? I heard that Matalas just didn’t like it. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but if he did hate it that much, why didn’t he just have the E be the one getting decommissioned, then controlled by the Borg kids, and then get destroyed in the process?
And why feature the STO Enterprise-F at all? Despite using some video game designs as background ships, it’s not like they were beholden to use it. As someone mentioned above, they just didn’t care all that much, because the apparent goal this whole time was to make a ship that was already meant to be Riker’s old Titan from Nemesis into the new Enterprise, in the most convoluted way possible.
But it is what it is. It’s not the way I would have done things, but it’s over and done with. Here’s looking forward to the next showrunner and their take on the Enterprise-H.
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Haha. I never even copped that.
Yeah, I did a bit. OTOH, intentional or not, when the D leaves the Museum the only other ship on screen is the NX-01. I thought that was an OK nod.
I DID want Riker to say "It was a long road getting from there to here." Of course I also wanted him to say "Warp factor 5 6 7 8..."
Ya I think there are a fair few jokes and references go over the heads of people like myself who didn't engage with the novels and games post Bermantrek.
I was mostly disappointed that when Shelby was talking about how Starfleet got from there to here she made no reference to the life cycle of a gazelle.
Or Riker could have really trolled people by turning to Troi and reminiscing about how they used to play NX-01 sims on the holodeck.
That is the funny thing about their opinions, yours doesn’t matter to them
They did a chef gag!
That guy was definitely a changeling. He definitely was not a chef.
I've worked with enough chefs to know they would have went head first into that fleet with nothing but a spacesuit, a phaser and a bag of coke. Half of them wouldn't even wait for the phaser or spacesuit.
"These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise." Not her captain. Not her crew. THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE.
These are the VOYAGES of the starship Enterprise. Emphasis.... Voyages... The journey, not the vehicle. Your argument is fanboy.
Meaning you missed the point.
As I mentioned, it wasn’t so much the naming itself that was problematic. It was the needlessly convoluted way in which it was done, both for the Titan and for the Enterprise.
