General Star Trek thread

That moment gave me my biggest Lower Decks belly laugh ever. Loud enough to wake the dog

The Lost Starship: A Star Trek Fan Production

From The Neutral Zone

Directed by Vic Mignogna and also plays a Klingon.

Two short for character development, didn't like the captain in it.

Released yesterday.

Also, why does Picard have some weird Victorian era notion of his ideal family life?

Victorian era stuff was Janeway's thing (or Data and his Sherlock Holmes phase) 😊

The battle was a little silly but I was much more a fan of the E so fine with the replacement and PIC 3 only proved that gratuitous nostalgia makes sht TV for me.

You have to come up wihth a plan somehow. At least they didn't go to the magic meeting room in the middle of a battle, I'm pretty sure that happened in an early TNG episode.

They did shoot it without much effect because of the shields hence the forcing them to drop their shields.

EDIT: Also out of universe they had to destroy it with a single torpedo so theZy could reuse the effects shot from STVI.

I don't think they did stop firing they just didn't show it on screen because a Klingon reports the shields are holding well after that first shot plus main power on the Enterprise had taken hits so phasers might not have been at full power. Bigger isn't always better, there's a reason there aren't any battleships any more,* smaller more agile ships that can pack enough of a punch while being able to avoid being hit are more useful.

*Effective ship mounted railguns could turn that around because they might negate the manueverability advanatage and ships that can take a pounding and still hang in the fight will be needed.

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's obsolete, plasma coil issue aside, or are you forgetting all those Mirandas knocking around in DS9 which were designed before TOS. Timeline wise the brand new out of the shipyard USS Miranda could show up in SNW.

The Reliant's registry is on a status board of ships being repaired/maintained behind a commodore in the TOS season 1 episode Court Martial.

I might be wrong about the new Miranda showing up because registries were supposed to be sequential back then (but Discovery) unless it's an IJNTakao and IJN Atago situation where the lead ship in the class isn't the fist one commissioned.

The Enterprise crew probably thought the exact same thing but take away shields and most ships in Star Trek can't take any punishment without something like the plot ablative armour of the Defiant.

There's a slight problem with the dreadnaught comparison, ships in Star Trek (outside of the JJverse) don't typically have secondary batteries of smaller guns to deal with fast moving ships and a torpedo is a torpedo no matter the size of the ship that fired it. And shields in general throw a spanner into the works on that front because we've seen shuttles and runabouts survive hits from the main energy weapons of much bigger ships.

But a few more shots of an actual battle wouldn't have hurt.

A capital ship is still a big ship, battlecruiser and above which, excluding aircraft carriers with no guns, still have secondary batteries. But on the subject of the Galaxy class the phasers do take a while to fire giving smaller ships a chance to evade which is why they were usually seen trading heavy blows with other big ships in those lovely DS9 scenes.

If the Regent's flagship had secondary batteries those hull runs would have been much more difficult to pull off.

Maybe it s best to think of that old Bird of Prey as an anti-hero ship which pulled off a great feat despite the odds.

Doesn't work with the USA date format mm-dd-yyyy?

Been listening to a TOS episode review podcast called Enterprise Incidents after seeing a recommendation somewhere (perhaps here?).

I think it's well worth a listen, the over-the-top enthusiasm is endearing once you approach it in the right frame of mind.

A completely different take on the subject matter compared to the irreverence of, say, The Greatest Generation.

Their supplemental episode (24/25) about Wrath of Khan would be a good one to try as a taster