Nexus changes
The attack sequence
This has always bothered me, the flagship is taken down by a 20 year old BOP mere minutes after they discussed how absurd an idea that was ON SCREEN
"but but they had the shield frequency's"...the enterprise D also has, according to Memory Alpha:
It can also reach warp 9.9, the highest a BOP has gone on screen was 9.8 and that was a modern one.
So the Enterprise can outrun and outgun the BOP, even with no shields, but Riker, a guy Starfleet offered the captains chair to three times and Worf, who hated the Duras instead:
1. Waffle on and on about plasma coils while the ship is hit again and again and again the warp core or weapons systems could have been disabled or destroyed while they were rambling on about plasma coils.
2. Fire ONE phaser burst
3. Fire torpedos only after they are sure the BOPs shields are down, we've never seen that before in a battle, with 250 torpedos against a 20 year old BOP they would have easily been able to punch through the shields.
I think, since the point was to end the enterprise D, thus the ship had to be destroyed anyway, it was an insult to the ship to be destroyed by a BOP even if the BOP had some way of taking out the weapons with the data they got from the Visor spycam.
Why? Because this ship has gone up against Borg ships (capable of destroying planets) and survived with barely a scratch.
So I propose the following changes:
The Duras have acquired a Neg'Var class battleship instead, the size and imposing presence of this is a worthy enemy for the Enterprise. Thus the attack looks like this:
The second Worf says "they have found a way to penetrate our shields" and instead of waffling about plasma coils and hitting them with one phaser burst Riker says "lock all weapons and return fire" :
The two ships get into a pitched battle, an actual battle with a lot of NEW scenes of ducking and diving and shooting (we never see the enterprise really maneuver in the show), nobody is jumping up ripping the walls apart playing with the bridges insides, no stunt men are melodramatically diving across the entire bridge. No battle footage from the very last movie (that was absolutely unforgivable laziness) is reused. Eventually they destroy the battleship.
Theres no "coolant leak" the antimatter containment fields are so badly damaged their backup batteries engage but will only be able to hold it for around five minutes, barely enough time to evacuate the ship.
Just as a little touch which I thought would have been smart (in universe) Riker orders anyone from the stardrive section who can get to escape pods to get in there and launch instead of trying to make it all the way to the saucer, given the time period, and it shows people going to transporter rooms in the caos shots to be beamed to the saucer (we've seen this as an evacuation protocol on the show before)
Crusher does not leave sickbay (which is on the saucer...)
I also have one other gripe but many of you may see it as a ripoff of the end of STIV but I think it would have been more of a homage....and it may be a little fanwankish but I think it could be polished up to make it work.
I felt the E was introduced very flippantly (and shown first time at a really bad angle as well). Either at the start of FC or the end of Generations we should have seen the crew getting a look at it for the first time.
Maybe a throwaway line at the end of Generations that an existing new class of ship currently being built will be renamed the enterprise E and at the end of the movie you see the crew coming back on the rescue ship, passing it under construction in the spacedock in orbit.
- Picard never wanted a family. It should have been him being back in France for Christmas with Rene his brother and sister in law.
- Get rid of the "you can go anywhere, anytime line". It makes the captain of the flagship look like a moron he could have went back to 10 forward to lock Soren in the brig.
The attack sequence
This has always bothered me, the flagship is taken down by a 20 year old BOP mere minutes after they discussed how absurd an idea that was ON SCREEN
"but but they had the shield frequency's"...the enterprise D also has, according to Memory Alpha:
- 12 Phaser Banks
- 3 Torpedo Launchers with a stockpile of 250 photon torpedo s.
It can also reach warp 9.9, the highest a BOP has gone on screen was 9.8 and that was a modern one.
So the Enterprise can outrun and outgun the BOP, even with no shields, but Riker, a guy Starfleet offered the captains chair to three times and Worf, who hated the Duras instead:
1. Waffle on and on about plasma coils while the ship is hit again and again and again the warp core or weapons systems could have been disabled or destroyed while they were rambling on about plasma coils.
2. Fire ONE phaser burst
3. Fire torpedos only after they are sure the BOPs shields are down, we've never seen that before in a battle, with 250 torpedos against a 20 year old BOP they would have easily been able to punch through the shields.
I think, since the point was to end the enterprise D, thus the ship had to be destroyed anyway, it was an insult to the ship to be destroyed by a BOP even if the BOP had some way of taking out the weapons with the data they got from the Visor spycam.
Why? Because this ship has gone up against Borg ships (capable of destroying planets) and survived with barely a scratch.
So I propose the following changes:
The Duras have acquired a Neg'Var class battleship instead, the size and imposing presence of this is a worthy enemy for the Enterprise. Thus the attack looks like this:
The second Worf says "they have found a way to penetrate our shields" and instead of waffling about plasma coils and hitting them with one phaser burst Riker says "lock all weapons and return fire" :
The two ships get into a pitched battle, an actual battle with a lot of NEW scenes of ducking and diving and shooting (we never see the enterprise really maneuver in the show), nobody is jumping up ripping the walls apart playing with the bridges insides, no stunt men are melodramatically diving across the entire bridge. No battle footage from the very last movie (that was absolutely unforgivable laziness) is reused. Eventually they destroy the battleship.
Theres no "coolant leak"
the antimatter containment fields are so badly damaged their backup batteries engage but will only be able to hold it for around five minutes, barely enough time to evacuate the ship.Just as a little touch which I thought would have been smart (in universe) Riker orders anyone from the stardrive section who can get to escape pods to get in there and launch instead of trying to make it all the way to the saucer, given the time period, and it shows people going to transporter rooms in the caos shots to be beamed to the saucer (we've seen this as an evacuation protocol on the show before)
Crusher does not leave sickbay (which is on the saucer...)
I also have one other gripe but many of you may see it as a ripoff of the end of STIV but I think it would have been more of a homage....and it may be a little fanwankish but I think it could be polished up to make it work.
I felt the E was introduced very flippantly (and shown first time at a really bad angle as well). Either at the start of FC or the end of Generations we should have seen the crew getting a look at it for the first time.
Maybe a throwaway line at the end of Generations that an existing new class of ship currently being built will be renamed the enterprise E and at the end of the movie you see the crew coming back on the rescue ship, passing it under construction in the spacedock in orbit.
Kirk should not have been killed off, but instead returned with the 1701-B crew as we end the movie with the 1701-D being lost while defending the 1701-B departure into a temporal rift. 1701-D Picard and crew survive to get their 1701-E assignments.
