And the ship design is horribly anachronistic as well.
Sulu as Captain
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Well, the article did say “an exploratory five-year mission TO the (…) cloud.” So I’m imagining them at launch, all fired up like, “Heck yeah, let’s do this! LET’S FLYYYYY!" or whatever Uhura's warp thing is.
And then about two years in, after realizing how long it actually takes getting from there to here, they just kind of look at each other like, “Hmm. Yeah… we’re done,” and head back home.
Totally plausible.
And then about two years in, after realizing how long it actually takes getting from there to here, they just kind of look at each other like, “Hmm. Yeah… we’re done,” and head back home.
Totally plausible.
I see the Leondegrance as a bit of a test project with the very real possibility that it was quite possibly a one-way trip.
Vonda McIntyre's movie novelizations have Starfleet sending three transwarp test ships to the Andromeda Galaxy. (At least one, the Magellan, reached Andromeda. It surveyed a supernova.) I wish McIntrye hadn't stopped writing Star Trek novels, because I really want to know what happened here. (However, she would potentially have been writing them under Richard Arnold's Reign of (T)Error, and he'd have killed them.)
Starfleet having a propulsion breakthrough, outfitting a ship with a test drive, and seeing if it works or is viable -- I can see that. Maybe the Leo got there and got back but there were issues discovered with the drive unit that rendered the discovery basically useless.
Maybe there was a subspace slipstream that Starfleet took advantage of and there was only a narrow window in which a mission to the LMC and back would be possible.
Point is, there are ways to justify and explain the Leo and her mission to the LMC.
I agree that the design is anachronistic, though.
Vonda McIntyre's movie novelizations have Starfleet sending three transwarp test ships to the Andromeda Galaxy. (At least one, the Magellan, reached Andromeda. It surveyed a supernova.) I wish McIntrye hadn't stopped writing Star Trek novels, because I really want to know what happened here. (However, she would potentially have been writing them under Richard Arnold's Reign of (T)Error, and he'd have killed them.)
Starfleet having a propulsion breakthrough, outfitting a ship with a test drive, and seeing if it works or is viable -- I can see that. Maybe the Leo got there and got back but there were issues discovered with the drive unit that rendered the discovery basically useless.
Maybe there was a subspace slipstream that Starfleet took advantage of and there was only a narrow window in which a mission to the LMC and back would be possible.
Point is, there are ways to justify and explain the Leo and her mission to the LMC.
I agree that the design is anachronistic, though.
^ Subspace slipstreams, slowly collapsing wormholes ("The wormhole will collapse in 6 years, Captain, so make sure you're back in five."), one use only power source. "Speed of plot" is a thing.
Yeah, there's lots of ways to potentially explain it. This is science fiction, after all. And while I'm not Thermian enough to actually hold future productions to the fine print of a background prop, until such time as they give us conflicting information that supersedes what we learned in Picard season 2, I consider it canon. It fits the definition.
Yeah, there's lots of ways to potentially explain it. This is science fiction, after all. And while I'm not Thermian enough to actually hold future productions to the fine print of a background prop, until such time as they give us conflicting information that supersedes what we learned in Picard season 2, I consider it canon. It fits the definition.
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