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Uhh, this may turn out to be phenomenally bad...
But it still isn't exactly canon-busting material. Starfleet is known for keeping dirty secrets even from itself. Let's just hope that the encounters will stay on the X-Files level, ambiguous enough that they could be "explained away" in an official report of the kind Scully would write. At this stage, Earth officials should still view most of the tall tales of outer space monsters with extreme sceptiscm.
Cute idea to have the "First Contact" sphere crash on Earth, if that's what the writers imply. Sure, it seemed to get blowed up real good - but some shrapnel could still have survived the fall.
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Horrendously stupid. ...as if Picard, Data, Worf and Riker are all too stupid to scan for stuff that would contaminate the timeline further....
...and after I just told everyone last night how the show's "finally coming around"....
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quote:as if Picard, Data, Worf and Riker are all too stupid to scan for stuff that would contaminate the timeline further
Especially considering how careful they where regarding masking their warp trail from the Vulcan ship.
So will this tie in to the temporal cold war, which may offer some scant justification, or is this going to be a pure stunt?
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I wonder. . . There's a lot of Earth-based action here, and they're going to try to tie in the NX-01 as well? Is this a real, definite confirmed report?
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So far, these act-by-act treatises have been pretty reliable. And the lead time is rather long this time, but not exceptionally so.
IMHO, Picard had no time for a mop-up operation in "First Contact". The Vulcans were already breathing down on their necks, and hiding in the Moon's gravitic shadow probably only works against one ship at a time.
One wonders if the "FC" era Vulcans were already familiar with transporter signatures. When the crew beamed up, they took something of a risk - why not depart significantly earlier or later? Perhaps transporters couldn't have been detected by the Vulcans, so some sort of a mop-up could have been done with them after all.
But let's give the writers the benefit of doubt here. Picard thought he had destroyed the Sphere for good, but his ship's relevant sensors might have been down at the time, like the shields were. And perhaps a few dead Drones in a piece of twisted metal amidst the fallout of the WWIII nuke that was supposed to remove Anchorage but missed isn't that easily observable from orbit?
PLEASE tell me it will not happen? I had that feeling, too, that Enterprise was indeed "finally coming around".... and they pop up with something like that?
What next? Glorious space battles with Remans? Negotiating cease fire between Bajorans and Cardassians? Discovery of wormhole and some strange black, bald, bearded guy in futuristic StarFleet uniform inside? Or maybe whole crew of the Enterprise will be put on trial by some omnipotent being? Or swept away to the Delta Quadrant by giant space station?
Oh sincerely hope that this Borg script is not true. Yes, I know, I'm judging whole episode before it is even written, but I just don't wan't them anymore. It is bad enough with FC ruining their image...
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Continuity issues aside...I'm so very tired of the Borg.
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I don't see the logic in this story. This is like the alien egg aboard the Sulaco in Aliens 3. The queen wasn't laying eggs when she attacked Ripley and her adopted daughter. How does this apply to Star Trek?
In First Contact, the sphere was destroyed outside Earth's atmosphere. If any debris survived from the explosion, it would surely have been destroyed upon reentry with the planet's atmosphere. There is no evidence for the Borg cyber-suits having extreme flame retardation. Instead, we have seen the suits have vulnerablities which accounts for the necessity of a full body shield.
This is yet another example of very poor science in Star Trek.
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Everything's already been said before me, unfortunately. But I can't believe how bad this is... less than two seasons into the show, and Berman and Braga already can't resist resorting to bringing in the Borg!
This makes me feel sick...
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