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  1. Thom
    Exactly, and that will happen as soon as battle commences. But I don't see the Ent-D getting into a knock-down, drag-out fight with the assimilated fleet. Even with a full crew she should be dog meat. Their best bet, barring intervention from an allied source, will be subterfuge and whit. True, but this isn't DS9 either. Personally, whether the Changelings are more a DS9 thing or not matters little to me. It's all Star Trek in the end. We'll have to differ. I think the Galaxy class, being larger will be able to take more of a punishment even if it doesn't have more armor. Weapons still have to get through shields first and as long as those hold you don't need more armor. As for weapons, if they are working, the D has a lot to bring to a party. The Defiant looks like it should be part of wolf-pack rather than a ship of the line. So it would seem that all they did was remove the override. The D probably still has that. They might be more likely to see it from Picard's perspective. Every single one of those young officers, if they survive being un-assimilated, will be bearing the guilt of having been made to kill fellow officer and friends.
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    Very nicely done! Not perfect, but then what else is? The main story was there and still told it pretty well. I woudl actualy say it could have used a half hour more just to give some more personal nuances to the characters, but I'll keep it!
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    Just cruising from Point A to Point B is easy, it's going into battle and expecting the ship to operate at full capacity without a full crew is where the problem comes in. Ships need their crews. Now split the few people they do have between the saucer and stardrive section and they'd be dead in space in minutes. Or less. That's real world, anyway. Maybe Geordi seeded replicators throughout the ship to replicate any damaged section back into existence. or maybe there is a whole contingent of androids in deep storage. (sarcasm) I'm thinking the D can probably take a hit better than the Defiant, and it wasn't the TNG ship. Replicators! Whose to say they can't replicate entire torpedos? I'm assuming they just have it on-hand, at least for maintenance and short system runs. All of the ship appeared to be fully powered in their enclosures. ? Though Enterprise-D is networked, I doubt it is to the extreme as the modern Starfleet ships. Plus, they have Data and warning that the other ships might try to hijack their computers. That's one thing they didn't specify. Jack is all the way other 'there' far, far away from Earth but the system still worked - however they for some reason needed the entire fleet in one spot. If distance is not a problem, then they didn't need to do that, though I wouldn't put it past the Changelings to have wanted that. I haven't written them out yet, as I don't think the Borg were behind the Face Vadic was taking orders from. I could be wrong, but in that event, I'm hoping that the Changelings have a way of short-circuiting the Borg, perhaps this being a part of their plan, that could open a window for Picard and Crew to wrangle a win through.
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    Clearly, Geordi was feeling very nostalgic! Though I don't think they could do a saucer separation, unless Geordi automated the hell out of that. They have barely enough crew just to man the main bridge. Thoughts exactly. Their officer corps has been decimated! It's a good thing the Romulans are still on their heels after losing Romulus and the Klingons are now allies. But it will be a very turbulent decade following this. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire TNG crew ends up back on the E-D helping to train-up and rehabilitate the ranks. One thing is for certain, Picard will not be the only one now living with that kind of guilt!
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    I hope that is still up when I get off work!
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  7. Thom
    Please spin this out into a new Keaton-Batman movie!!
  8. Thom
    Well, with that opinion, it's a good thing you didn't watch any of it.
  9. Thom
    Well, since they are using the Borg, that they have been defeated so many times by the Federation demands that they switch their tactics from a blunt force approach to the more subtle. And if we consider Jurati's Borg as a separate 'tribe,' existing in parallel but in hiding since the past timeline events of season 2, then that leaves the remnant Borg left over from Janeway's attack. Which doesn't explain the line about having no contact with Borg (no determination) for the last decade. (or more.) The writing fell short at that point. But's that's how I'll look at in the absence of a better explanation.
  10. Thom
    For me the only draw back from this season is odd choices in writing and the apparent inability to look back one year. And having too many enemies. I'm still 'in it,' but they could have left that out.
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    Fujimi does have a full hull full deck Akagi as well as a three-deck version in 1/700. But in terms of detail. I greatly prefer the Hasegawa. Side by side and their upper hull detail looks better and more comprehensive than the Fujimi. To whether they are 'accurate..?' Conversely, Fujimi's bottom hull looks far better shape-wise than Hasegawas... (plus I was also unaware of the Fujimi three deck kit, but it now costs a Hondo and I had already bought all the parts almost a decade ago when they were a lot cheaper.) Of course, now that I've started is when a brand new, full hull kit (not waterline!) will be released by every single ship manufacturer in the Solar System!
  12. Thom
    'It's all about that cold hard cash hun!'
  13. Thom
    Looking good there @pengbuzz! And getting closer there @Urashiman.
  14. Thom
    Ah, money! As for Soong, their name is synonymous with dickery! Though even in that, he was trying to do right by Data.
  15. Thom
    I thought I'd heard that Spiner said he would not be playing the character anymore.(?)
  16. Thom
    Other than resurrecting the Enterprise-D from Veridian III, I don't think they can!😁 But I think a Star Trek Titan show would be able to go on their own adventures, with Shaw finally getting his 'adventure' on. Or, if the character is too opposed to any more he could retire and leave the center seat for Seven. Would be a shame though, as I have grown to like him and his whit. In a way, Shaw is like two personalities, the flippant one such as when he cleared Seven back for duty just before he expected her to be marched off the ship, and the one just playing it 'safe.' I'd like to see him coming out of his shell.
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    @Shawn That modified battle pod is one way cool variant! The Daedalus Attack just needs a cherry bomb inside to go off! @sh9000 That's a great scratch build! Keep forgetting the gargantuan size of that ship until the Macross is set right beside it. And I found this on the Face. I'm calling it the Super Mega Maid!
  18. Thom
    I could very well be wrong, but along with the Daedalus carrier with its simplistic toy-car wheel arrangement, it's possible the thought was to have a toy Macross launching a spring loaded missile.
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    That actually looks like a missile and it's launch rail. A frickin big missile!
  20. Thom
    For my battlecruiser Akagi, the main decks are down, Some PE was added, as well as the barrels done, And started on the PE for the superstructure, And, since I didn't have enough on the work 'bench,' the tri-deck Akagi has also been started! Like the battlecruiser, it is a Hasegawa upper hull mated to a Fujimi bottom, which required far more work than the battlecruiser to get them to fit! Shims were needed for both the bow and stern, with the Fujimi bottom needing to be nipped and tucked at the rear. Right now, I'm currently bogged down in refining the armor belts near the bow, adding thin stryene cut to the needed shapes and being blended in. And being blended in. And being blended in. And... But I believe I am getting ahead of it now! Thom
  21. Thom
    Nice @pengbuzz He's looking primed for action!
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    I see what you did there!
  23. Thom
    I thought he was familiar but I couldn't place him. Thanks! It has been a few years since then...
  24. Thom
    It's a valuable ability, as long as the enemy does not know you can do it. Starfleet was sure that their detection systems were working and in twenty years some complacency had creaped in. Then comes Vadic and her handler. Yes, her and the other Changelings abilities come with more weaknesses, but if they could pull off their plan against the Federation without anyone knowing about it, then those weaknesses would not matter. It is all about secrecy, because once someone knows about it, the jig is (almost) up. In the case of the show, Picard and Co are coming into it very late when Starfleet has been deeply penetrated, so the Changelings new advantage has been working for them. But if we really want to pick at something... We know that Jack is somehow essential to their plan. So, why didn't they get him first..? Frontier Day is only hours away, but this apparent lynch pin has been left until the very last. They could have caught him a year earlier, giving them plenty of time to work him before they finally moved against the Federation.
  25. Thom
    In a world where all dreams come true, this would be the way they write 7 thru 9 out of existance...
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