I was trying to see your point of view but ok...
The fleet was holograms?
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Picard literally dies right after they leave. Would've been nice to have a working sickbay around.
I was trying to see your point of view but ok...
I've been wondering why SF didn't leave a ship or two behind as protection, and I wasn't even considering Riker's fleet were holo-ships. Mainly because, Romulans, especially Tal-Shiar.
The scene was a bit TNG, all wrapped up in a nice bow. Romulans go home, Starfleet goes home, nobody bothers the synths again.
Exactly......there was no support needed, no need to write a whole new chapter. I am fairly sure the Federation scanned to make sure the Rommies weren't hiding behind a moon right around the corner.
There was no cure so I don't know what a full sickbay could have done.
Hmmm...I wonder about that though. The La Sirena is kept at "Starfleet standards" according to dialog, and Juranti is an MD in addition to her cybernetics training. So, what could be done in a sickbay vs. what they had available to them at the moment?
I kind of found it funny that it so TNG an ending. Rather enjoyable bit on that one.
Do they still have cloaks?
Yes, because the Federation could always detect cloaked Romulan vessels.
Besides, I was referring to offering support to those on the planet.
They had a working sickbay on the La Sirena, along with an EMH and a medical doctor (Agnes). Sending Picard over to a larger sickbay with a few more doctors and nurses wouldn't have changed anything.
I certainly hope that crappy ship is just a hologram. Ive seen better designs on the Trek Art forum here. Maybe Riker was actually in Captain Crandalls ship, and Crandall also has a Magic HandWavi-o-meter like Jurati.
Most likely they were all identical for the same reason they were buying stock footage on Shutterstock. To save money.
Security, not Intelligence. The chief of Police might not know that much about military craft.
Cause Oh might have listened in.
So far no confirmation either way.
And also.... the dimension breaching MonstroMechTentacle was a hologram created and projected by the synths, to trick everyone into lifting the ban.
And also #1Dogo and #2 Spot are holograms, ... and you're all holograms too!
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coukd have put Picard in a status tube,but that would only delay his death.
But Picard didn't tell Riker he was dying. So Riker had no reason to stay.
Here's the thing: The entire group of synths seemed to be located in that one building. So unless there were tons more all around the planet that weren't mentioned, then why did Oh even need a fleet of 218 ships? All she had to do was destroy the building from orbit using her own ship.
Oh was gone by then.
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I'll do you one better. What if everything that happened is part of an elaborate digital simulation meant for an audience of millions, and this Picard fellow is not even a real person?
La Sirena's holo-duplicate trick was always a temporary solution that would be discovered as soon as the Romulans opened fire and the duplicate ships didn't react, or they were subjected to a detailed sensor scan. If the Federation fleet tried the same thing while escorting the Romulans out of the area they would have been discovered in moments and the Romulans could just turn around and attack the Synths again.
Perhaps the Federation underwent a crash program to rebuild the fleet after the attack on the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, and made a bunch of modular, prefabricated ships with exchangeable parts for ease of repair instead of several different classes of ship. That's why they almost all looked the same or similar.
Obviously out-of-universe, it was simply a time and cost-saving measure, much like the reuse of the Disco-era ship in the shipyards.
La Sirena's holo-duplicate trick was always a temporary solution that would be discovered as soon as the Romulans opened fire and the duplicate ships didn't react, or they were subjected to a detailed sensor scan. If the Federation fleet tried the same thing while escorting the Romulans out of the area they would have been discovered in moments and the Romulans could just turn around and attack the Synths again.
Perhaps the Federation underwent a crash program to rebuild the fleet after the attack on the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, and made a bunch of modular, prefabricated ships with exchangeable parts for ease of repair instead of several different classes of ship. That's why they almost all looked the same or similar.
Obviously out-of-universe, it was simply a time and cost-saving measure, much like the reuse of the Disco-era ship in the shipyards.
That does make a lot of sense, although I'm still stymied as to how fast Riker got that huge fleet together.
Oh didn't know that before they arrived at the planet though. The amount of ships is likely due to them being prepared for a planet full of synths with greater defenses.
