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I can, but I can't explain why. So I'll just chuckle.
Hrm.. We aren't given any sort of conclusion to the crew's R&R on Earth (nor any real resolution to what's going to happen with the Xindi, for that matter, but I digress). So, what will we be seeing in the next episode? Will Enterprise launch from Earth with orders to pick up Soong? Or will we rejoin the ship en route, with at most a log mention that they're all fixed up and better now? Dunno if I'd be comfortable with that sort of reset button applied...
And in terms of crew changes, this may be the first modern Trek series NOT to have a major cast change in the early fourth season! In TNG, DS9 and VOY we had the departure of Wesley, or the additions of Worf or Seven.
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Did anyone notice the cool TOS-triangular computer screen at the debriefing? And sadly, Fotopic doesn't have a cap of closeup on the Seleya's MSD. Can anyone here do that?
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I've never understood the compulsion to totally wreck a vehicle's lines by having little whatzits in the front stick out above where they ought to. They did it to the Jaguar XK headlights in the late 1960's and I'm still pissed off about that. And now, you're telling me that in the 2150's it will still be going on.
So much for theories of progress.
On the good side, this explains the genesis of the secondary hull. Once they start installing enormous round deflector dishes on the NX Class, someone finally realizes that the ships look f---ing stupid and you can't even tell them apart because of the enormous dish blocking the name.
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They are open hatches - they're on the Enterprise model too. I can't find those hi-rez images, but the Polar Lights model they made from it show 'em:
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It just occured to me - the lack of on-ship action allows for the show's set decorators to make the necessary upgrades to the bridge. So, they cleverly hid those parts of the set that are probably being re-done. You can see for example that all the railings are missing from Columbia (they're silver, but being painted blue for the next episode), and the doors are either open or covered with plastic sheeting (same thing - they'll be more Smurfy the next time we'll see them). The aft situation table is also absent... Will we be getting a new one, or a modified prop?
Of course the seat hasn't changed (yet), but it seems to be a plot point that kept it there for a couple lines of dialogue.
ADDITIONAL: Look at the position of the Columbia's CO chair in the screencap, compared to the overhead diagram. The chair has been moved back to the upper deck.
Granted the chair may not have been installed yet and was simply sitting on the upper deck before someone put it in its place, though it was likely just placed there as a directorial choice, hoping that we wouldn't notice. Haw! As if!
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quote:Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QUOTE] Also, the music during that scene . . . well . . . sucked. Sounded like music off of a computer game. It was done by the same guy who won an Emmy for his "Similitude" music, though.
OMG! YES! The music in that scene SO sucked. I also thought 'computer game' - it matched the digitised sets.
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We've seen different phasor effects from TOS to the Movies, relating to improved technology. maybe 'pulsed phase cannons' will be more like the Refit Enterprise's phasors. I expect that over the space of hundreds of years, there will be lots of weapons changes. Ditto with torpedo launchers.
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Anyway, it's pretty much a given that these upgraded pulse phase cannons are only another step towards "real" phasers. Supposedly, if the timeline holds, at some point they're going to switch back to some form of laser for weaponry, at least temporarily or in terminology.
They shoulda just stuck with the damn plasma guns... Seriously, who needs a stun setting?
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I wanna see Stun Torpedoes! Why not? they have stun grenades.. can you say RPSG?
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