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apparently the bridge was changed a little bit. Steeper ramps or something.
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They actually brought out the Borg for a surprise finale twist villain, again, again! Long term fallout from the fucking Dominion War wasn't enough it has to all tie back to the Borg! What a crock of utter dogshit! At least it was really nice hearing Majel Barret as the main computer. I am a fan and I have been serviced.
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The show is actually 2.35:1 same as Generations. And the set looked great on Picard. I think the TNG ship fx were made in large format film, maybe 60mm, but that could just be the ILM stock shots and not all the episode-specifc shots made by some other guys. There are widescreen tests available from when TNG was remastered. I heard some foreign markets use a true 16:9 version of the intro credits for syndication, but that is only a rumor as far as I know.
They added some steps, widened the entire room, and put more consoles on the sides (handy for when you need a reason for a bunch of extras on the bridge to get 'sploded during the movie.)
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>Geordi, through sheer mechanical autism, completely restores the Enterprise-D to her heyday in his space garage.
I'll allow it. Hell, this is reaching levels of based that should not be possible.
I'll allow it. Hell, this is reaching levels of based that should not be possible.
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Surpassing Scotty recreating the bridge of the original on the holodeck levels of sadness.
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Sounds like Geordi has a healthy hobby to me. I can picture him on weekends with his friends. Having a few beers. Fixing up the Enterprise. I wonder if Barclay and O'Brien helped him out.
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Gotta give credit, this sounds like a pretty cool and insidious way to use the Borg. It reminds me of how they were portrayed in the shatner book Return. They were very devious, disturbing and clever in that. Combined with that Kirk body nod I feel like the writer was cribbing notes
To sum it up the Borg in that are leagues more dangerous then they were in every subsequent appearance. This was before first contact so there was no queen. It was more like a concentrated overmind linked into various cells of specialized swarms (vger being one example).
One cell worked with (subverted and assimilated) various romulans in power to slowly build a foothold while the others were held back till the signal was given. One of the romulans had a bone to pick with Kirk and Picard, so they used borg nanotech to bring Kirk back and brainwash him to kill Picard. In some ways not unlike how the changelings were used here. Borg went along with it out of curiosity, with the thought process being "we'll assimilate everything when the dust settles."
I liked how the Borg were more flexible and dangerous in the book. We see "one" Borg combat form and it looks like something out of dead space if it were heavily armed and phaser proof. There was also one scene in particular where they almost drew Picard into a trap by pretending to not notice him.
It was also very cool how the ending actually explains why the Borg have been so nerfed after best of both worlds. They lost their overmind and can't connect with the various cells as easily as they used to. they've also lost their combat flexibility and use the queens to compensate.
To sum it up the Borg in that are leagues more dangerous then they were in every subsequent appearance. This was before first contact so there was no queen. It was more like a concentrated overmind linked into various cells of specialized swarms (vger being one example).
One cell worked with (subverted and assimilated) various romulans in power to slowly build a foothold while the others were held back till the signal was given. One of the romulans had a bone to pick with Kirk and Picard, so they used borg nanotech to bring Kirk back and brainwash him to kill Picard. In some ways not unlike how the changelings were used here. Borg went along with it out of curiosity, with the thought process being "we'll assimilate everything when the dust settles."
I liked how the Borg were more flexible and dangerous in the book. We see "one" Borg combat form and it looks like something out of dead space if it were heavily armed and phaser proof. There was also one scene in particular where they almost drew Picard into a trap by pretending to not notice him.
It was also very cool how the ending actually explains why the Borg have been so nerfed after best of both worlds. They lost their overmind and can't connect with the various cells as easily as they used to. they've also lost their combat flexibility and use the queens to compensate.
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This whole post sounds so much like the Zerg, I wonder if there was any direct inspiration other than the Tyranids.
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>tfw it's the fricking Borg and not Pah Wraiths led by Gul Dukat
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I wish it was the three nacelled Enterprise D dreadnought instead. That thing could fucking anyone.
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Oh please, we all know the ED was Geordi's one true love.
Remember that's the ship's computer - aka the ship herself - talking to him there.
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This was a pretty tense and overall good episode. Looks like I was wrong with predicting it would be changeling infiltration alone. While I'm disappointed that they're reusing them as the main baddies how they infiltrated starfleet was pretty cool. I'll give that to the writers.
Say what you will about First Contact but I always enjoyed Alice Krige's performance as the borg queen. It'll be interesting to see her dialogue with Picard when they do inevitably meetup.
Shaw grew on me so I was sad to see him go.
That fleet doesn't really look all that big I mean compared to some of the fleet actions we saw in DS9 those scenes didn't really convey that most of starfleet's ships were present.
So does this retcon the borg from season 2?
Overall pretty decent episode.
Edit: Why am I not surprised the review posted up above came from fucking Endgadget of all places.
Say what you will about First Contact but I always enjoyed Alice Krige's performance as the borg queen. It'll be interesting to see her dialogue with Picard when they do inevitably meetup.
Shaw grew on me so I was sad to see him go.
That fleet doesn't really look all that big I mean compared to some of the fleet actions we saw in DS9 those scenes didn't really convey that most of starfleet's ships were present.
So does this retcon the borg from season 2?
Overall pretty decent episode.
Edit: Why am I not surprised the review posted up above came from fucking Endgadget of all places.
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I wasn't expecting the Borg. I was hoping Jack would go to the benign faction from last season but that didn't happen.
... Hang on, would this hint that the insurgent Changelings are NOT associated with the Changing hive but are tools being used by the Borg? What happened to all of the Changelings on the ships? Did they evacuate, get assimilated, or are cooperating? Is the Borg going to betray them?
... Hang on, would this hint that the insurgent Changelings are NOT associated with the Changing hive but are tools being used by the Borg? What happened to all of the Changelings on the ships? Did they evacuate, get assimilated, or are cooperating? Is the Borg going to betray them?
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Despite all the spoilers, this is setting my curiosity. Yes, I know it's not perfect, and yes, I also know our standards are very low now, but it does look like something I would personally watch, like, and enjoy. I'm ok with liking trash, I mean, I'm in this board, fgs. Do I think it's trash? Nah.
I like First Contact and the ST movies in general. I don't care that they're action movies because they are movies. If they want a broader audience than the tv fans, they need to give them more than Picard talking for two hours looking for a diplomatic solution. That works for us fans, but I've seen these movies with non-fans and they enjoyed the action. I watched Generations with a friend who's not a fan and whose knowledge of Star Trek is just my autism and he liked it.
That can be explained by saying that the amount of energy they need to send more than one ship to Federation space and then to the past is too much for them to handle. Or that, considering the nature of the mission, it was better to just send a small group that was easier to control.
I like First Contact and the ST movies in general. I don't care that they're action movies because they are movies. If they want a broader audience than the tv fans, they need to give them more than Picard talking for two hours looking for a diplomatic solution. That works for us fans, but I've seen these movies with non-fans and they enjoyed the action. I watched Generations with a friend who's not a fan and whose knowledge of Star Trek is just my autism and he liked it.
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At least for O'Brian it is alternative weekend hobby other then doing mental exercises of how different ways there are to suck starting a phaser.
There been gradual changes to the bridge from season to season. As part of the visual example of the Enterprise D having gone through refits, modernizations and the odd rebuild here and there.
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I was expecting Pah'wraiths behind that red door, Gul Dukat strolling through like a chad, but they never had anything do with Jean-Luc Picard. The Borg have been used in the previous two seasons, atleast hopefully they won't bring back that Jurati Borg Queen CGI abomination this time around.
What I really did like was the Changeling infecting every single Starfleet member with the Borg DNA, kinda how Section 31 infected the Great Link through Odo in DS9.
What I really did like was the Changeling infecting every single Starfleet member with the Borg DNA, kinda how Section 31 infected the Great Link through Odo in DS9.
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I just need to type this
It took until the end of season 3 for them to put Picard and the crew back on the bridge of the Enterprise in a show called Picard.
3 Seasons.
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It took until the end of season 3 for them to put Picard and the crew back on the bridge of the Enterprise in a show called Picard.
3 Seasons.
3
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As fun as it would be to see Dukat get a curtain call, I wasn't really expecting it. Marc Alaimo seemed kinda feeble in that 2019 DS9 doc...
On top of that, he apparently has some kind of weird reputation among Trek-affiliated people. Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating mentioned him a few times on their podcast and referred to him as "an interesting character" in a sort of suggestive way. Not sure if they ever worked together professionally or just had some contact at conventions, but I'd be interested to know what they meant by that.
On top of that, he apparently has some kind of weird reputation among Trek-affiliated people. Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating mentioned him a few times on their podcast and referred to him as "an interesting character" in a sort of suggestive way. Not sure if they ever worked together professionally or just had some contact at conventions, but I'd be interested to know what they meant by that.