quote:Originally posted by EvilTree: And then there is stupid Archer who keeps Duras alive by only disabling his ship. Is there a captain who's more stupid than him?
Well you got to give him credit, when Archer finally got pissed off enough he DID destroy Duras' ship...
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Also, Enterprise has got the highest crew survivability rating of ANY main series starship EVER. He may be leaving lots of bad guys alive, but he gets his crew home.
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What crew? Unlike the other shows, in my opinion where we got to know someone other than the mains, we just have the mains here. On very rare occasions, there is a mention of the other crew members. I don't know why they didn't simply have a small ship with a crew of seven.
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What you mean like on TNG, where 99% of all away teams consisted of only the highest ranking bridge officers? Gee, lets see...we have over 1000 crewmwn and most of them are specialists in some scientific field or another so Riker says...."Geordi, Troi, Worf, Data: you're with me." Hell the CMO went on EVERY away team where any medical staff could have gone! Them's smart thinkin'.
At least Enterprise is avery small ship and lots of crew are presumably needed to stay put to keep her running: Luxury casinos need more regular maintence than the Enterprise D did. ...and casinos have smaller rooms!
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"Unlike the other shows, in my opinion where we got to know someone other than the mains..."
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Yes. For instance, we got sooo intimitely acquainted with VOY's Carey, it was actually REFRESHING to have him killed off! And besides, he sucked up far too much precious screentime from Photon Boy & Two of Double-D, whose characters were sooo dramatically UNDERUSED you'd almost begin to think the show revolved around him and everyone else was an extra!
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Just noticed something about the weapons upgrades. The aft launcher is in that damned pod, from which we've seen stuff launch before. However, the forward launcher is a NEW port on the ventral centerline between the existing launchers. You can barely see it in the climactic battle, being fairly obscured by cloudy stuff.
This conflicts a little with the dialogue, in which Trip asks Reed about the refitting of the tubes. I suppose they could be talking baout the aft tube, though. Still, it looks like the new photonic torps are independent from the old weapons, which they are obviously keeping around. With any luck, this could make for some nice "guns blazing" FX shots next year. OTOH, they have made lots of gaffes with the phase cannons this year, so...
Also, now that they've spent a few weeks in drydock, most of these changes can probably be explained away. I think we can also conclusively state that the armory set is not one of two, with each tube being served by a launcher and loader device. It's apparent now that the armory set is centralized with the loading device only part of the mechanism. Another note is that they may have a limitation on how many photonic torpedoes they can launch at a go; that stacking thing carried only so many, and unless there's something in the ceiling that loads it again (like a pistol magazine, maybe) they may have trouble rapid-firing a lot of 'em.
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Mabye the third launcher can only fire the Photonic Torpedos: it may need to be at the centerline for ease of antimatter injection and the old tubes are for probes and the off chance that Hoshi gets to cook for the crew again.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Mabye the third launcher can only fire the Photonic Torpedos: it may need to be at the centerline for ease of antimatter injection and the old tubes are for probes and the off chance that Hoshi gets to cook for the crew again.
From what Reese said, it sounded like he was integrating the photon torpedoes into existing launchers, not installing new launchers. Ooops.
Now taking bets on how long it'd take for a crew member to screw up and call photonic torpedoes photon torpedoes.
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And really, unlike with phase pistols--where there could conceivably be some technobabble difference with phasers--an antimatter torpedo is an antimatter torpedo, so there shouldn't be any big deal with interchanging "photon" and "photonic."
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Hmm, that sounds reasonable. We can blame it on the bad British accent.
The bad British accent from the guy born in Leicester, England? How does that work?
quote:Originally posted by Spike: When asked about continuity discrepancies in "Regeneration", Braga replied the "timeline has been altered".
Not to upset your little "I want to put Enterprise in an alternative timeline because I smell of wee" apple-cart, but Star Trek has been in an alternative timeline since at least "Yesterday's Enterprise", and possibly as far back as "Tomorrow is Yesterday". So that makes about 95% of all filmed Trek non-canon. Woo.
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: "the ones with gangsters, nazis or greek gods"
So, all the best ones, then?
Ok, maybe just "A Piece of the Action," but come on! A classic by any definition.
It is. But did you see the rest of Pheonix's selection of "bad" episodes?
"I'd probably remove all of TOS, TMP, TFF, INS, Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9), Threshold (aka The One With Bad Science) (VOY), The One With Scotty (TNG), probably most of the Q episodes, and the silliest Voyager episodes to boot (I'm not even going to bother listing the silly episodes that don't particularly stick out)."
While I agree with Threshold, you'd have to have a crayon lodged in your brain to think that "Trails and Tribble-ations", "Relics", "Q Who", "True Q", or "Tapestry" are all bad episodes.
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: �So next year, it�ll be �Voyager� on a �Crusade�?� - My parents, after watching "The Expanse"
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: While I agree with Threshold, you'd have to have a crayon lodged in your brain to think that "Trails and Tribble-ations", "Relics", "Q Who", "True Q", or "Tapestry" are all bad episodes.
Sorry, I obviously didn't make myself clear.
The reason I removed most of those episodes is for continuity reasons. If I have removed TOS, I can hardly have TAT and Relics referring directly back to it, can I?
I removed Threshold because it's nonsense, and the Q one because of the number of times people didn't ask Q for help. Riker in BOBW should at least have shouted out "Q! We get the idea! We're not ready! Now kill that ship!", and something similar for Sisko and the Dominion. And as to why Janeway never asked to be taken home...
Well I'd rather not dwell on that.
Relics and TAT are two of my favourite episodes, and I really like some of the Q ones, but I just don't see how they fit into continuity.
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People didn't ask Q for help because he wouldn't have responded.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: People didn't ask Q for help because he wouldn't have responded.
How do they know that?
He turns up enough...
If I knew an omnipotent being and my species was about to be defeated by the Dominion, I'd definitely try to ask him.
And Janeway met him several times without asking him to get her home. She even helped end a Civil War in the Q Continuum and didn't ask for his help.
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