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/\/\/\ correct. The USS Sao Paolo was renamed when the Original Defiant was destroyed with the help of a Breen Weapon in DS9 Season 7.
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I always hated that.
I know they wanted to ramp up the drama, show how big and bad the Breen were by destroying the Defiant that had - in the main - been laying waste to Dominion ships every chance she got since her arrival on the scene. But since they were going to end up with another Defiant anyway so they could reuse the VFX it just felt a little pointless.
At least they didn't destroy her in "First Contact" as was originally pitched (may have even been scripted until quite late in the game). Ira Behr kicked off about the plan so the line was inserted about her being "adrift, but salvageable".
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I got quite emotional watching season 3 in memory of my late uncle. He was a huge Trekkie even into his eighties, and I know he would've loved this. 
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Why oh why did we have to wait for the 3rd season to get this??!
Finally a decent send off for the TNG crew and the D.
Hopefully in 2 years or so we'll get Legacy and the same people will helm that show that did this one
Finally a decent send off for the TNG crew and the D.
Hopefully in 2 years or so we'll get Legacy and the same people will helm that show that did this one
Nice to have someone agree. You put it better than I could. It missed the mark for me, but others have enjoyed it so it can't be that bad, I just seem to find the things you mention soiled the appeal.
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Fantastic final episode and a fantastic season overall. Wasn’t impressed by the guy that played Jack, thought he wouldn’t have looked out of place on Eastenders, but the rest, especially the captain of the Titan, were great.
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I think I've got it, on the old D model, the torpedo launchers on the front, they don't seem to have as much shadow in the section that goes around the neck, perhaps the original model was just a flat texture, where as on the new one its slightly set in from the rest of the neck, the lighting then casts a bit more shadow in that area making it look slightly different.
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That was so cheesy I'm not sure.....
It was "nice" but my god the acting/reading of lines was utter cringe.
I think it jumped the shark with the fleet destroying starbase 1 and the titans strafing runs. Pretty stupid.
Data piloting inside the cube.... ridiculous.
It was still good but stretching the fabric very very thin.
It was "nice" but my god the acting/reading of lines was utter cringe.
I think it jumped the shark with the fleet destroying starbase 1 and the titans strafing runs. Pretty stupid.
Data piloting inside the cube.... ridiculous.
It was still good but stretching the fabric very very thin.
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That was one of the reasons why the Galaxy Class Enterprise D was seen as a luxury cruise liner and not a battleship, even though it is kitted out to be one. It's a slow, lumbering, but still fairly nimble, but not a shuttle level of nimble, beast. That's why the Sovereign Class Enteprise E was seen as the faster and more nimble upgrade, with even more armaments and less of the "luxury". And even then, the Sovereign class was not going to be turning on a dime, although it'll certainly have a much tigher radius. What the Enterprise D was doing traversing the insides of the Cube was shuttle levels of movement and control (which previously established in Trek canon, it has no such capability). So I very much agree that it was one of "those" moments, where you had to just go with the "rule of cool" and not established logic. (Remember in the very first episode of TNG, the Enterprise D took a massive swing around, almost all the time when getting away from something, never a turn on a drop of a dime, not even Voyager was doing anything like that and that was much smaller, lighter, manueverable and faster)
But, again, rule of cool, so I just let it pass, as it wasn't used much, but it was one of THOSE eyes squinting, eyebrows raising moments... Where I'm wondering if I'm watching the same thing anymore.
It’s also her Character.
She’s a strong powerful Woman that’s not an insufferable *******.
Something Hollywood can’t write these days.
(I don’t know what she was like in season 2 refuse to watch it after season 1 pile of ****)
I really want to play Armada again but haven't got a PC. Tell me some alternate ways to play it without spending £1k+ on another PC that will gather dust once I'm finished.
I played it on Intel integrated graphics in a laptop that was 10-15 years old. So any integrated graphics card in a laptop would play it with ease.
Interesting, I was looking at one of those mini PCs with a laptop chip so that might actually work. I did actually watch a bit of a "let's play" video on YouTube after posting this and realised how **** the graphics are
Yep. Might be worth just leaving it as a memory
After avoiding thread until watching the last two episodes in one I just catches up
Yeah. It was acceptable, but could have been a lot better imo. I enjoyed it overall and it was a million times better than what I was expecting after season 1 and 2.
You will be fighting a lot of people then because this was no way near the best best episode of Star Trek.
It was good, but not a 10. I would give it an 8 and most of that is due to nostalgia.
It pains me to say this but all I can think of is, silly old man. That and his Argo. He should not be getting involved in the creative side of things and do what he is strong at which is acting.
Love Picard (the one from TNG) and think Sir Patrick Stewart is a great actor or at least was, but yeah, it is annoying when they get involved like this to the detriment of the show. If he would not do Picard as a show unless he gets a say then they simply should not make it and leave it be. But no, moneys to be made....
Agreed.
How surprised were you in the end? 
Would have been cool. But alas did not happen.
Yeah. It was acceptable, but could have been a lot better imo. I enjoyed it overall and it was a million times better than what I was expecting after season 1 and 2.
Renaming the Titan was stupid. Should have been a brand new ship, wtf... Budget issues I guess?
Oh and please no, let Picard die already, they did enough damage. A new crew needs a new name for their own show.
Oh and please no, let Picard die already, they did enough damage. A new crew needs a new name for their own show.
You will be fighting a lot of people then because this was no way near the best best episode of Star Trek.
It was good, but not a 10. I would give it an 8 and most of that is due to nostalgia.
It pains me to say this but all I can think of is, silly old man. That and his Argo. He should not be getting involved in the creative side of things and do what he is strong at which is acting.
Love Picard (the one from TNG) and think Sir Patrick Stewart is a great actor or at least was, but yeah, it is annoying when they get involved like this to the detriment of the show. If he would not do Picard as a show unless he gets a say then they simply should not make it and leave it be. But no, moneys to be made....
Agreed.
Seems like something she done to keep herself alive, feeding off the collective while whatever borg were semi functional constructed the mega cube. Could well have been a load of regular cubes joined together.
Yeah I had a similar thought but that seemed kinda ridiculous when you they regenerate from alcoves. Seemingly they're cybernetic parts can power them and they would only need a power source.
I couldn't quite get why there was this odd reason for her consuming the ship like she needs to eat metal.
I couldn't quite get why there was this odd reason for her consuming the ship like she needs to eat metal.
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Well, I think I am going to watch the series from start to finish again. I cant say that about any other Star Trek for a long time. It wasn't perfect, there were some flaws but I still loved it.
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After watching back two of my favourite ever Star Trek scenes, I've decided that the biggest issue these days is the total use of CGI, and there's something about the models that just makes them look so much better and realistic, along with the much slower movements that expect from a massive starship, and not the trench-run style aerobatics you see in the episode 10. The same applies to the Millennium Falcon in The Force Awakens, doing backflips and handbrake turns...
But what they did get right was the soundtrack - for the classical music lovers amongst us, this is just an epic 6 minutes.
Make It So.
But what they did get right was the soundtrack - for the classical music lovers amongst us, this is just an epic 6 minutes.
Make It So.