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Potential Picard STO related spoiler?
wraithshadow13
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There is a Picard final season trailer up on youtube right now, you should go check it out. I'll wait.
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Did anybody else spot the Elachi ships? I.E. the Elachi Walkers? Or the Creatures from Schism and the Solonae Dyson Sphere?
Regardless, this is something that I'm looking forward to. I hope they mention how the Elachi reproduce, as well as some of the other things STO added to that lore. Including a certain TNG actor who showed up in those missions?
All speculative, but I would be curious to see what everyone else thinks of this.
Did you watch it?
Good, Watch it again.
Did anybody else spot the Elachi ships? I.E. the Elachi Walkers? Or the Creatures from Schism and the Solonae Dyson Sphere?
Regardless, this is something that I'm looking forward to. I hope they mention how the Elachi reproduce, as well as some of the other things STO added to that lore. Including a certain TNG actor who showed up in those missions?
All speculative, but I would be curious to see what everyone else thinks of this.
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But then I looked closer and realised there are quite a few differences.
I didn't see Elachi ships though.
There were several ships in the beginning, with an reddish orange light instead of the green, as seen in-game. They were flying around/docked with the federation ship early on.
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It's the legs when they're in flight mode I'm curious to see if they roll with what STO has done story-wise or if they're going to go in a way that contradicts the game.
While the one right at the start looked like it could be either an Elachi Qulash or a Nausican ship flying sideways (like a flounder instead of a sunfish), and a Nausican boarding party was seen seconds later, the ships seen a little later do look very distinctly like Elachi walkers in flight mode.
It does not surprise me that STO-designed ships are appearing in the shows, having seen the behind-the-scenes special for DSC where one of the questions they asked the creative people what previous Treks they saw (if any), and most answers were the movies and only one or two mentioned any of the series. It is probable that some of some of the creative staff are STO players, and some of them might even have the game as their only exposure to Trek previous to the shows they are working on.
Also, CBS appears to be attempting to integrate the various Treks into a multimedia package vaguely along the lines of what Disney's Marvel did, so the inclusions would make in that respect too.
The boarding party didn't look Nausicaan to me.
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In depth: Titan A
if the narration is accurate, Titan A is a 3rd generation Constitution class
I guess Picard will have more than one Enterprise in service at the same time too. From a production standpoint maybe it makes sense to have this hyper-Constitution or hyper-Enterprise nostalgia, but I don’t know if it makes sense institutionally for Starfleet. Why wouldn’t a Titan look like a Luna class or a second-generation Luna? It is of course possible that there are more than one Titan in Starfleet, perhaps this Titan is not related to Riker’s Titan? It seems rather confused.
Also just generally, why do all Starfleet vessels have Earth naming conventions? You would think there would be more ships named using other federation planet’s languages. I realize it would be harder for the viewers, since we only speak Earth languages, but there is so much ouroborus going on with the current Trek—that we could certainly use more originality not just with our ship designs but also the names.
The TOS series bible identified the builder of the Enterprise as the space division of the San Francisco Naval Yards. The wording made it sound like they made all (or at least most) of that class, though later on there was talk about the design itself being a joint effort of several Federation member worlds.
In WWII sometimes ships made from the same plans by different yards were different enough that they could have been called different classes (and some were). I tend to think some of the kitbash kits in the game are probably pretty much the same thing, though others are obviously different because of role differences requiring different equipment instead of just where it was built.
Anyway, some of the names sounding Terran could also be an artifact of translation, for instance the all-Vulcan-crewed Intrepid could have been either one built and named by San Francisco Naval Yards and the Vulcans just did not rename it, or it could have actually been named the Vulcan word for the concept of Intrepid and the translators render it as the word in English to English speakers.
Most likely the TMP refit.
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Unlikely as I think the Connies were starting to be mothballed by the time of Star Trek 6, largely replaced by the newer Excelsiors. However any built between TMP and ST6 would be in Refit configuration, so as I said earlier, the 2nd Gen Connies are most likely TMP refit.
The Enterprise herself lasted into I wanna say the 2280s before destruction, so at least 40 years from when she was built in 2245. And then the Enterprise-A was decommissionsed in the 2290s, but that doesn't include any service before becoming the Enterprise-A. If she was Yorktown before that, as some beta sources say, she would have been around for decades too. While some Connies survived and served into the 2360s, as there was at least one Connie wreck at Wolf 359, It would have been in a far more diminished capacity than even the Miranda. But I don't see any Connies being built by the time of the Ambassador class.
Frickin' Mirandas being the Jeeps of Starfleet.
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