Most of the crew is probably in various science labs, ship-wide security, childcare, healthcare... all of which isn't needed here. And the Borg seem still very crippled from Endgame and are probably not that strong.
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That is a more reasonably price than the £1500 one a few years ago.
Can't keep track of which similar pictures were posted already, but these were new to me:
His face!
And here too!
Wider shot of earlier pic
And higher res
"Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there, you can make a difference."
His face!
And here too!
Wider shot of earlier pic
And higher res
"Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there, you can make a difference."
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The whole point of the Enterprise-D was that it was so advanced that it could virtually fly itself, or with minimal crew input. The bridge was deliberately minimalist for this reason.
Indeed it practically does fly itself in a few episodes - 11001001, Brothers, Remember Me (sort of). Starfleet ships in Redemption had small crews. Voyager was operated by one medical hologram or ex-Borg on a few occasions. The Prometheus won a battle against a bunch of Romulan warbirds entirely under computer control.
They don't need hundreds of cartographers, medical staff, security officers, botanists, teachers, barbers etc, which is what most of the crew was.
They could probably do with some engineering staff, and if they take severe damage things could go south quickly, but presumably Geordi has some drones to take care of the essentials.
Obviously it's not going to be operating at peak efficiency, but it's a desperate situation and running that ship with a minimal crew is entirely consistent with TNG.
Flying the ship is one thing. But to operate the ship to fight in 100% efficiency is another thing. Specially the Engineering Staff. If those crews are basically non essential, then all the victims in Star Trek TNG scenes back then were basically something that not needed, because they could just put them in safe place when the Enterprise D fought the Borg, or another dangerous existence back then.
We should also don't have to watch the Titan Crews were massacred by the Changeling in previous episode; because if they are just non essential crews, Shaw could just drop them in some safe place.
I'm talking specifically about this scenario, as you well know.
They don't have a bunch of crew available. The museum personnel may be Borg themselves, or more likely, they are civilians.
If it gets to the point where they are boarded, it's probably over. Security guards aren't traditionally very effective against Borg anyway.
They don't have a bunch of crew available. The museum personnel may be Borg themselves, or more likely, they are civilians.
If it gets to the point where they are boarded, it's probably over. Security guards aren't traditionally very effective against Borg anyway.
I have never much enjoyed the idea that such a small bridge crew could legitimately operate a full sized starship (whether that be in Search for Spock or Star Trek Picard) but the fact is that it has been established that they can.
So like you mentioned, the way I make myself feel more comfortable with the idea is simply to imagine how woefully un-ideal the situation must be. How everything must already be in good working condition for it to even be viable to attempt, and how problems that would be small for a fully staffed crew to address could easily become showstoppers for a command crew without the manpower to address them in a timely way. They basically have to trust that luck is on their side because the whole thing is a big risk.
A break down from TY on the bridge recreation.
from a youtube channel where one of the hosts wished Kurtzman would be dead, no thanks.
So, don't watch it.
Maybe don't support his wish by posting the channel.
No thanks.
I think it's just the camera angle that makes it seem like the plaque is much higher up than it was in TNG.
Yes, SPS has shrunk a bit, it's a natural event, plus he's extremely upright in the TNG shot and in the Picard shot he's hunched slightly...again..the man is 82 years old vs 52 years old he was in the TNG shot.
Lining up the lower edge of the plaque with the alert bars, its in the same position
Yes, SPS has shrunk a bit, it's a natural event, plus he's extremely upright in the TNG shot and in the Picard shot he's hunched slightly...again..the man is 82 years old vs 52 years old he was in the TNG shot.
Lining up the lower edge of the plaque with the alert bars, its in the same position
This. The original intention was that the Enterprise-D bridge would routinely be staffed by only three people – command, conn, and ops – with other stations only being manned as required. In theory the ship can be controlled from anywhere aboard and is highly automated. While a crew of 1,000 people may sound like a lot it would be something like ten or eleven times larger if crew sizes had scaled directly with the ship's volume, going off the Constitution-class crew size of 400 people. People keep bringing up Scotty's ill-fated jury-rigged automation of the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, but that really isn't a comparable situation here. Besides, we already know Geordi has drones aboard, which are presumably autonomous and not dependent on the Enterprise-D's systems.
pretty much.
What bugs me is that automation capabilities of a starship were never really fully taken advantage of in Trek. Its there, and it can be used in a ridiculous number of ways, but its as if the crews are unaware or unwilling to use the technology like that.
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