quote:When Starfleet recieved the distress call, the nearest Starfleet ship was three weeks away at its maximum speed, though the Pre-E could get there in a day and a half. But if the Enterprise was so close relatively, why didn't they get the distress call too?
That doesn't mean the Enterprise was actually closer. The other Starfleet ship probably recieved the distress call, and informed Starfleet. Starfleet thought, "hmm, this ship is ten lights years away. The Enterprise is 12 lights year away. But! At Warp 5, Enterprise can be there first!"
No error (in my mind, anyhoo)
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Ya gotta love a guy who brings up an inconsistency that isn't really an inconsistency, and then shows you that the inconsistency isn't really an inconsistency, in the same paragraph.
Snay, like a reciprocal fraction, cancels himself out.
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What I'm saying is that if the other ship were closer relatively speaking, shouldn't the Pre-E have recieved the distress signal anyway, instead of waiting for Starfleet Command to get off their butts and tell them about it? In all likelihood the other Starfleet ship was closer to the Fortunate, but if it recieved the distress call first, then relayed it back to Earth, then got *Earth* to call Enterprise. What was Hoshi up to that week?
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It's possible that the distress signal was a direction beam, going directly to it's base at Earth, instead of going in all directions.
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Interestingly, this ep marks John Eaves's first appearance in the credits, as the "production illustrator" for the show in question. It's also the debut of a new CGI FX house, "Strange Engine," who apparently are another successor company to Digital Muse a la Eden FX. It's head honchos did Emmy work for Voyager and were the masterminds behind cult classic 405. Learn something new every day.
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I like the idea of the letter classes - the producers have covered the arses here reguards to the NX thing... and at the same time they have yes... given us CONTINUITY PORN (I love that phrase )
The DY, the NX, the J wasn't there another shuttle type??
As for the DY-500-A, B etc. why not just upgraded versions of the essential DY-500 class... sorta like the Miranda versions... roll bar, no roll bar etc.
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