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Tyvek Rear Admiral
Joined: 11 Jul 2001 Posts: 2821 Location: Mississippi, USA
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Wed May 07, 2003 11:44 pm |
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WOW,
It also surpassed all my pre-conceptions. I LOVED the ending, and the mention of First Contact.
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PrankishSmart Rear Admiral
Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 4779 Location: Hobart, Australia.
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Thu May 08, 2003 3:33 am |
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How could it take a subspace message 200 years to get to the DQ?!?!
Subspace messages travel at warp 9.9999-9.99999~. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a real time convo, you know when Archer starts talking to the admiral back in starfleet command.
And, why was it when the E-D first encounted the borg, they never knew about them. Apart from that, I enjoyed watching the episode. However, they should not have made this ep. It just felt like they just threw in the borg to have an exciting episode and attract viewers, which they did for just this episode.
And you guys are right, the borg were far too weak, they were not 24th century borg!
But, I should have expected this with voyagers writers. Full of inconsistencys
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Tyvek Rear Admiral
Joined: 11 Jul 2001 Posts: 2821 Location: Mississippi, USA
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Thu May 08, 2003 9:42 am |
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PrankishSmart wrote: | How could it take a subspace message 200 years to get to the DQ?!?!
Subspace messages travel at warp 9.9999-9.99999~. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a real time convo, you know when Archer starts talking to the admiral back in starfleet command.
And, why was it when the E-D first encounted the borg, they never knew about them. Apart from that, I enjoyed watching the episode. However, they should not have made this ep. It just felt like they just threw in the borg to have an exciting episode and attract viewers, which they did for just this episode.
And you guys are right, the borg were far too weak, they were not 24th century borg!
But, I should have expected this with voyagers writers. Full of inconsistencys |
Arriving at the edge of the Neutral Zone, the crew discovers that the Federation stations have simply vanished. Just then, the captain and first officer of a Romulan vessel in the area hail the U.S.S. Enterprise and request visual contact with Picard.
that is from TNGs 1st Season Episode The Neutral Zone According th Various Canon Sources The Borg Destroyed the outposts, both Romualn and Terran. At this point the Federation had not encountered the Borg via Q in Q-Who but there they are 200 years after ENT.
Ok Subspace signals Do NOT travel at Warp 9.9999-9.99999~ or at least there is not a Canon source that confirms this, A series of Subspace Relays are being laid out to help with real time communications by Enterprise (Echo 1 et. al. (Season 1 Episodes)) Similar relays are mentioned in future series' that help relay the messages back to Earth or other planets.
As far as the Borg being Weak, they were in fact weakened, they were not connected to the Borg in the DQ and were just a SMALL collective, they did not have much to work with, and this weakened them dramaticly. plus they only had a 22nd Centry ship to assimilate, one they had to upgrade with weapons that were non-existant before.
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eclipse8472 Captain
Joined: 02 Apr 2002 Posts: 863 Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Thu May 08, 2003 10:45 am |
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I must say I was impressed with all the ties the ep has and how no one believe the story about first contact and how it really happen, lol he was drunk, funny stuff - The borg were handled better than I expected also although Phlox's method of recovering from the assimilation process was far fetched, the episodes was pretty impressive, the assimliated/modified borg ship looked fairly unique. Interesting how the ep went around 15mins with no Enterprise crew or anything nearly forgot I was watching the show. Ah and the ending was awesome
9/10
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PrankishSmart Rear Admiral
Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 4779 Location: Hobart, Australia.
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Thu May 08, 2003 12:11 pm |
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Tyvek wrote: | PrankishSmart wrote: | How could it take a subspace message 200 years to get to the DQ?!?!
Subspace messages travel at warp 9.9999-9.99999~. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a real time convo, you know when Archer starts talking to the admiral back in starfleet command.
And, why was it when the E-D first encounted the borg, they never knew about them. Apart from that, I enjoyed watching the episode. However, they should not have made this ep. It just felt like they just threw in the borg to have an exciting episode and attract viewers, which they did for just this episode.
And you guys are right, the borg were far too weak, they were not 24th century borg!
But, I should have expected this with voyagers writers. Full of inconsistencys |
Arriving at the edge of the Neutral Zone, the crew discovers that the Federation stations have simply vanished. Just then, the captain and first officer of a Romulan vessel in the area hail the U.S.S. Enterprise and request visual contact with Picard.
that is from TNGs 1st Season Episode The Neutral Zone According th Various Canon Sources The Borg Destroyed the outposts, both Romualn and Terran. At this point the Federation had not encountered the Borg via Q in Q-Who but there they are 200 years after ENT.
Ok Subspace signals Do NOT travel at Warp 9.9999-9.99999~ or at least there is not a Canon source that confirms this, A series of Subspace Relays are being laid out to help with real time communications by Enterprise (Echo 1 et. al. (Season 1 Episodes)) Similar relays are mentioned in future series' that help relay the messages back to Earth or other planets.
As far as the Borg being Weak, they were in fact weakened, they were not connected to the Borg in the DQ and were just a SMALL collective, they did not have much to work with, and this weakened them dramaticly. plus they only had a 22nd Centry ship to assimilate, one they had to upgrade with weapons that were non-existant before. |
Well, the borg were never mentioned in the neutral zone, so I do not see how that can be canon. Canon can only be what is seen or heard in a episode.
As for subspace messages, they do travel at around 200,000 xc. For the subspace message to take 200 years to get to the DQ, that would make subspace communication slower than high speed warp, voyager's journey was only going to take 70 odd years. It may not be canon info, but the fact that subspace travels at least 9.9999 is backstage info, confirmed by people like Rick Sternbach.
About the borg being weak, I was referring to their body not adapting enough, not the weapon power of their ship.
So, as I said before, this era (B&B) of star trek is full of inconsistencys. As far as B&B is concerned, TNG never happened.
Either way, they should defaintly should have not put the borg in ENT.
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eclipse8472 Captain
Joined: 02 Apr 2002 Posts: 863 Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Thu May 08, 2003 2:23 pm |
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its funny how the borg said - You will be assimilated, resistance is futile, but forgot the- we are the borg - part at the start, I know they left it out to prevent another timeline error though it was kinda stupid
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shrek man Whiz Kid
Joined: 14 Jan 2002 Posts: 5519
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Thu May 08, 2003 3:24 pm |
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It was great and I loved it. I give it 10/10.
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6 of 7 Junior Cadet
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 15
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Thu May 08, 2003 4:48 pm |
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Early 22nd century subspace signals could travel a little less than warp 8 (the ships about warp 2). So I doubt that speeds significantly changed over about 30 years.
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Lt.BirdGod Captain
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 619 Location: Sol System, 3rd planet from the Sun
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Thu May 08, 2003 5:25 pm |
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Well, The one thing that I noticed, the borg bodily shields. When drones exit their alcoves, I can understand they could need a few seconds to power up. But like, 5? Or how about the other drones. They musta shot, what, 8, 9 borg drones. The away team to the borg cube (reference: BOBW) hit about 8 drones before they adapted, and there was 4 of them, correct? (I can't remember, my head hurts) 4 * 2 = 8. So each of them got two shots.
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PrankishSmart Rear Admiral
Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 4779 Location: Hobart, Australia.
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Fri May 09, 2003 12:18 am |
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Yep. And, when the E-E destroyed the sphere in orbit around the northern hemisphere, how did it end up right down in Antartica? I watched First Contact again last night, and it defaintly looked vaparised to me.
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Interstelar_Concordium_CM Captain
Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 603 Location: A galaxy far far away....
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Fri May 09, 2003 5:32 am |
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space debis can drift for a while and even if some portion of the cube was vaped, not the whole thing was. That my friend is only posible for V'ger who could send out those weird torpedoes.
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sevenofninerocks Commander
Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 428 Location: San Antonio, TX
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Fri May 09, 2003 10:05 am |
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I don't need to get into all the scientific details in order to enjoy the episode. Remember that these are new episodes that are supposed to be taking place BEFORE TOS. You should expect inconsistencies since these writers are supposed to be coming up with "new" episodes for the series. It must be a hell of a job trying to think up storylines without messing up what we've already seen in TNG and TOS.
I rate this episode a 9. I do agree however, that these Borg were much different than TNG or Voyager Borg. I noticed that right away.
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Lt.BirdGod Captain
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 619 Location: Sol System, 3rd planet from the Sun
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Fri May 09, 2003 11:05 am |
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Interstelar_Concordium_CM wrote: | space debis can drift for a while and even if some portion of the cube was vaped, not the whole thing was. That my friend is only posible for V'ger who could send out those weird torpedoes. |
Uh, hey buddy, it was a sphere. (Reference: First Contact)
And yes, that sphere was vaporized. I looked at it again, boom, I have entered it into a mathematical equation for those who can understand it:
4 Quatam Torpedoes + Borg Sphere (Partially Damaged) = Space Dust
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PrankishSmart Rear Admiral
Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 4779 Location: Hobart, Australia.
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Fri May 09, 2003 11:22 am |
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Yep, I agree. There can be no way any drones survived. And, a single drone would not survive entry into the atmosphere, the organic body would have charred to a crisp. Oh wait, the borg can adapt for entry into the atmosphere
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Lt.BirdGod Captain
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 619 Location: Sol System, 3rd planet from the Sun
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Sat May 10, 2003 5:39 pm |
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But not space...
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Interstelar_Concordium_CM Captain
Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 603 Location: A galaxy far far away....
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Sat May 10, 2003 7:56 pm |
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but you forget, those borg modified almost all the systems on that ship, and for that ship to go at warp speeds it would have to have a deflector aray so they could have done wat they tried to do in first contact and make an interplexing beacon, there mesage would travel alot faster then a normal transmission, in that case we might end up seeing some more borg on enterprise.
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Captain Leah Manzer Vice Admiral
Joined: 21 Mar 2002 Posts: 5221 Location: State of Insanity
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Mon May 12, 2003 6:18 pm |
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I loved that episode... and I was glued to the screen lol... But it did have a few inconsistency but i guess star trek cant be perfect... in a way it did change a bit of history because it was such a big episode. I rate it a 10/10 because it was amazing.
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Lt.BirdGod Captain
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 619 Location: Sol System, 3rd planet from the Sun
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Fri May 16, 2003 5:09 pm |
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Interstelar_Concordium_CM wrote: | but you forget, those borg modified almost all the systems on that ship, and for that ship to go at warp speeds it would have to have a deflector aray so they could have done wat they tried to do in first contact and make an interplexing beacon, there mesage would travel alot faster then a normal transmission, in that case we might end up seeing some more borg on enterprise. |
Unless Mr. Braga is in desperate need of a script, no, they won't.
Besides, the technology is way too basic for the Borg to build an Interplexing Beacon onto it's, wait a second, THAT SHIP DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A DEFLECTOR DISH! Warning, Warning, Continuity Error.
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speciesLCR Lieutenant
Joined: 19 Nov 2001 Posts: 172 Location: colorado quadrant
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Sat May 17, 2003 7:57 pm |
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Hold on just a second...weren't the first borg found in this episode actually like 100 years old? Isn't that what the researchers said when they uncovered the borg bodies from the ice?
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