Star Trek: Picard

This isn't a spoiler, but in general throughout all of TNG and the movies, can someone help explain how many bodies of data there are?

I know data and lore, always get confused about b4 in nemesis? where did he come from? seems to be bodies all over the place lol

and this new body?
 
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Quite hilarious that

the Disco/SNW Constitution class didn't make it in but the TOS/motion picture refit ones did :D Remind me again guys, that 32.174% different rule, the one that meant STD had to show a changed-up NCC-1701, that still in operation? :p
 
JRS said:
Quite hilarious that

the Disco/SNW Constitution class didn't make it in but the TOS/motion picture refit ones did :D Remind me again guys, that 32.174% different rule, the one that meant STD had to show a changed-up NCC-1701, that still in operation? :p
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That was never confirmed by the studio. Just something fans made up. This show just proves that they can use original props and ships without any changes
Are you enjoying it so far?
 
steve5424 said:
That was never confirmed by the studio. Just something fans made up. This show just proves that they can use original props and ships without any changes
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I know. I just enjoy hanging lampshades for the people who apparently took it as gospel ;)

steve5424 said:
Are you enjoying it so far?
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I am, occasional bit of Kurtzman-era Trek insanity notwithstanding.
 
What makes me laugh is the way the spaceships rocket in a light-speed and stop on a sixpence, two yards away from each other. Even if stopping that quickly was possible, navigating that accurately would be extremely risky.
Anyway, Beverly Crusher, it seems that while medical science has progressed enourmously in the 24th century, plastic surgery still sucks.
 
SpellowHouse said:
What makes me laugh is the way the spaceships rocket in a light-speed and stop on a sixpence, two yards away from each other. Even if stopping that quickly was possible, navigating that accurately would be extremely risky.
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No more risky than any navigating at FTL speeds.

Warp 9 on the TNG-on scale is supposed to be a bit over 1,516 times the speed of light. If you can navigate around while space is whipping past you at that speed then I reckon you could probably time a drop-out from warp that well.

Also, think on that warp drive as written in Trek isn't propulsive the way that rocket engines, RCS thrusters or even Trek impulse engines are. Once the warp engines have shut down, you're no longer travelling FTL - all the momentum is lost to subspace.
 
What makes me laugh that you think even traveling at Warp speed with zero inertia and gravity is OK :) and that mass doesn't matter a jot (unless your near a gravity well or similar)
 
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SPG said:
What makes me laugh that you think even traveling at Warp speed with zero inertia and gravity is OK :) and that mass doesn't matter a jot (unless your near a gravity well or similar)
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I mean...Trek has long since used the 'inertial dampening field' and 'artificial gravity' as a hand-wave for this stuff. Seems a bit silly to rag on this series for something that's been around since TOS ;)
 
JRS said:
I mean...Trek has long since used the 'inertial dampening field' and 'artificial gravity' as a hand-wave for this stuff. Seems a bit silly to rag on this series for something that's been around since TOS ;)
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Indeed. Space is big, very boring and very deadly just play ELITE for 300hrs :) Its as close as us mortals will get.
 
SPG said:
What makes me laugh that you think even traveling at Warp speed with zero inertia and gravity is OK :) and that mass doesn't matter a jot (unless your near a gravity well or similar)
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Inertial dampeners. Star Trek has a word for everything, even if the science doesn't exist.

Imagine being the unlucky janitor sent to clean up after an inertial dampener failure on a spaceship. :eek:

JRS said:
No more risky than any navigating at FTL speeds.

Warp 9 on the TNG-on scale is supposed to be a bit over 1,516 times the speed of light. If you can navigate around while space is whipping past you at that speed then I reckon you could probably time a drop-out from warp that well.

Also, think on that warp drive as written in Trek isn't propulsive the way that rocket engines, RCS thrusters or even Trek impulse engines are. Once the warp engines have shut down, you're no longer travelling FTL - all the momentum is lost to subspace.
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True. I don't think it would even be possible to detect anything outside of a warp bubble. The first thing you would know is when it hits you in the face. Something that would be extremely likely if you are daft enough to warp in to a solar system. But then the entire thing is ridiculous anyway. Warp fields can't be generated inside the bubble and require simply impossible amounts of energy. Well, course, that may change.
 
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gettothechopper said:
i dont care other than it looks rubbish

the run up / down from warp always looked swooshy and therefore, cool

0 to ludicrous speed to 0 doesn't look swooshy and therefore is not cool
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Fair. The TMP 'going to warp' effect is probably my favourite of them all.

SpellowHouse said:
True. I don't think it would even be possible to detect anything outside of a warp bubble. The first thing you would know is when it hits you in the face. Something that would be extremely likely if you are daft enough to warp in to a solar system.
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It's something that lots of Trek writers, both in the TV/movie side and in the expanded universe (novels, etc) have wrestled with. I like Christopher L. Bennett's take on it from the novel 'Ex Machina':

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great ep!

not sure why they stole the cloaking device, i was hoping they would just take the bird of prey. They said starfleet ships all talk to each other now so, cloaked or otherwise, the ships could still track them surely
 
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