That news interview scene

[ITDUDE]

Oh please - Picard co-opting Utopia Planitia to save the oldest an most mortal enemy (after himself over the run of TNG invoking the PD as a justification to let more than one world and its civilization die over the run of TNG when he commanded the 1701-D) pretty much shows it WAS Picard's own personal vanity project.

Picard did not co-opt anything. A single man could not build 10,000 ships. Maybe he led the effort, but everyone went along with it just fine. He was not going to pilot those ships himself. There were a lot of people going right along with this evacuation plan.

 

[Noname Given]

Picard did not co-opt anything. A single man could not build 10,000 ships. Maybe he led the effort, but everyone went along with it just fine. He was not going to pilot those ships himself. There were a lot of people going right along with this evacuation plan.

Picard co-opted Star Fleet itself at the time - and resigned in protest when they backed out after the attack. He could have stayed in and not remained a spectator; or used his influence as an Admiral in other ways, but that would have been HARD; so he just gave up - went home and grew grapes.

 

[ITDUDE]

Picard co-opted Star Fleet itself at the time - and resigned in protest when they backed out after the attack. He could have stayed in and not remained a spectator; or used his influence as an Admiral in other ways, but that would have been HARD; so he just gave up - went home and grew grapes.

He bluffed, they called. He didn't give up, he was forced out.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Lots of ships rescuing lots of trapped people.

Don't overthink it.

That is all it was. People trapped in a hopeless spot with no means of escaping, being rescued by a fleet of ships.

 

[The Old Mixer]

It's rather typical of Trek to look askance at youth this way.

"Youth"? The actress is 48.

 

[thribs]

Your expertise in planetary evacuations was sorely overlooked by Michael Chabon and the other writers. They need merely have opened their eyes to the beacon of positivity you radiate and would have known up-front to consult you.

I'll tell you what, I would make this supernova thing a lot clearer if I wrote it.

 

[TPezz]

My understanding of Picard saying it was like Dunkirk isn’t that it resembled that battle, but that it was the same size in scope. Dunkirk was a huge undertaking and took a long time in planning. My view is that the Romulan evacuation was fully planned and huge in scope for humanity to undertake (remember, given the technology at the time of Dunkirk, nothing of that scale had ever been undertaken by humanity).

 

[DEWLine]

Exactly. And once the ships of that evac fleet were destroyed in the midst of being built or refitted for purpose, Starfleet decided that they couldn't spare anything else for something of that scale. Especially with fourteen Federation member-species already threatening secession.

Betting that I can predict the names at least three of those species.