Dobber

On a different note, I record my Brick Veteran VF-84 F4U Corsair yesterday. Wow they really go all out for their presentation. The box it comes in is really nice. Can’t wait to build it!

It comes in a nice sleeved box  with an image of the model on the cover

With the sleeve off the box is heavy duty with a magnetic flap. Ghost images of Brick Veteran and other WWII nose art are also on the main box. 

The parts themselves come in numbered bags like Lego and the instruction manual is like a notebook and shrink wrapped. All in all VERY professional looking. 

Chris

While I am pleased overall with the new UCS X-wing. It still has some issues. As was mentioned already the engine intakes look a lot better than the previous undersized UCS versions. They are a little too big now but not horribly so and I do prefer it this way to the undersized ones from before. They actually remind me of the original box art to the old MPC X-wing model. 😎

My main complaint is that the nose is a little too wide/bulky. As was mentioned already as well. The whole thing may just need to be upscale slightly and it would be great. 
 

Chris

24 minutes ago, Thom said:

One of the first casualties of war is morality. I could see her side, but it does not excuse her behavior, in the same way I could see the Federation turning to biological warfare when it was clear they were losing. They were responding to an invasion, and though culpability does reside with the Federation, even more sits with the Dominion as they were the aggressors.

You stated it perfectly here. Thanks 🙂 I can’t always put my thoughts to words well, but you pretty much just said what I was thinking…in all aspects. 
I just hope the writers and the audience get that too…since what is being stated overtly is only her side.

Chris

You’re right Thom…and what you suggested would’ve been a good twist indeed. Maybe part of my problem is that I’m not sure if the writers are WANTING/EXPECTING us to agree with the antagonists . 🤷🏻‍♂️ While we can and dare I say should be critical of our own behavior, or doesn’t mean we absolve the other side of their responsibility/culpability. It always just SEEMS like that’s what happens in these shows. Like in our effort to critically view our “side” we start making excuses for the other and their actions….as long as “we” look like the “bad guys”. Maybe I’m looking into it too much.

Chris

Yeah there were some logic jumps in this episode. The ones mentioned above by @Seto Kaiba are big ones. The one that bugged me was when

I get so sick of the poor us argument that antagonists/villains give, so we are supposed to sympathize with them, but they always neglect to account for their own atrocities and culpability in events, and the protagonists always just accept it. The Cylons in the new BSG were the same way. It is endlessly frustrating. 

Chris

6 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

Stupid question about the Star Fleet Ship Museum.

I know story wise they needed to meet up Geordi at his job and it need to be a safe location. Solution any remote star base or space station. They had to make it a museum with the most famous ships because of Easter Eggs. Why is this museum not in orbit around Earth or some busy planet with heavy traffic? You know a bunch passing active Star Fleet ships and tourists flying by?  This is a museum with no visitors?

 

I agree and wondered why ‘in universe’ the museum was so out there. Though, didn’t Geordi say something about with the volume of visitors they get someone is going to notice the Titan. So I’m guessing the remoteness isn’t THAT remote. 🤷🏻‍♂️ But I ‘dunno and wondered the same thing. 
 

Chris

With the state of our universities IRL, I can only imagine what Kurtzman would do with this . 🙄

No interest at all for me.

Chris

I liked the episode and personally didn’t mind the scaled back nature of it…..BUUUUUUUT…..there were a few head scratching silliness/ logic holes in it. Still a decent episode overall but one of the weaker ones for me.

Chris

10 hours ago, technoblue said:

That’s good to read about season 3. I hope you’re right, @Dobber. I might give Picard another chance if the show found its groove, but I have been on a long pause after the first season.

I don’t blame you for that at all. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the whole first season and struggled through the second. I didn’t plan on watching this season but some of the reviewers that I like and generally agree with said they really liked season 3, as they got early access to it, so I gave it a shot. Is it perfect, no…far from it, but it feels more like Trek to me overall. The characters are behaving more like you would expect them to with some new interesting ones added as well. Nice ship designs and some good call backs (for me anyway). It’s too bad this wasn’t where the series started from. Hope you like it when you watch, but as with everything, not everyone will like the same things and there is nothing wrong with that. 😉

Chris

1 hour ago, technoblue said:

Agreed. This and Lower Decks are also the only two series from the latest generation that I’m picking up on physical media. 

Same here…though Picard season 3 will likely be got too unless they really screw up the last few episodes. 
 

Chris

51 minutes ago, Thom said:

I hope you're wrong too! But so far, SNW has been a better show for its first season than all of Disco's three, with better stories and acting and far better reception, so hopefully, they'll leave the formulas 'as is.'

 

 

Oh I agree wholeheartedly. Just a nagging feeling. Maybe because it still has some of the things that do bug me about the latest editions of Trek, though thankfully to a much lesser extent, like the back talking subordinates or the oversized sets. Pikes quarters are cool and all but a bit too extravagant IMO. Just little reminders of Discovery that make me fear they sucked us in with the first season and then will “pull the rug out from under us” and go full on “agenda” driven like Discovery. If so and that’s anyones thing, good for them. It’s just not for me. Fingers crossed. 
 

Chris

This show was really a pleasant surprise for me. Very well done. 
 

Chris

Glad to here it as well. I’ll admit I am slightly concerned though that this show will go “off the rails” so to speak and follow the “Discovery formula”. I just have the feeling is all, truly hope I’m wrong. 
 

Chris

Awesome! LD and SNW are very enjoyable. I really hated LD at first but when I gave it another chance and got past the first couple of episodes I saw it wasn’t what I was afraid it was going to be. It was actually very TNG in spirit while also poking fun at it but in good humor. 
 

Chris

1 hour ago, Thom said:

I liked that!

Wow, me too. The Titan’s theme really came through to me there!

Chris

So it didn’t even occur to me at the time, but you guys are absolutely right about the “interrogation” of Riker. That was not right. 
I still really like this season but there are little missteps here and there for sure. 
 

Chris

I also…

Chris

My guess…

That being said I enjoyed this episode quite a bit too. Don’t care about the first 2 seasons. Minus a few details….namely Picard being dead…this season can mostly stand on its own and AFAIC  is a worthy successor to TNG. Hope they can stick the landing .

Chris

Kind of funny when you think about it, as the first 2 seasons of TNG are by and large pretty bad too.

Chris

1 minute ago, Thom said:

Be checking this one out tonight. If it's even better than last week's, that's awesome!

As for size/dimensional discrepancies, as  @pengbuzz mentioned, all they do is blow up the size and the ship and not worry about fitting dimensions into it. Might be a good thing though, as I don't like these ships being super big, esp when they look like more classic(smaller) designs. One reason why I am glad the Horner Shipyard's Titan is 1/1400, is that it'll make it smaller than it's supposed to be when set next to the 1/1000 ships.

A lot of tension built in this one!

Damn, I really liked this weeks episode. Best of the season thus far for me. 
 

Chris

While I agree that the Neo-Constitution III class would look better in the post TMP era alongside the Excelsior class (late 23rd early 24th centuries) the window thing isn’t that drastic nor the saucer thickness. The standard Connie/Shangri-La class saucer is only 2 decks thick. The Neo-Connie looks to be only about 3 decks thick. The windows look like they could be about the night of a deck. Like the ones Ben and Jake Sisko looked out of when they saw DS9 for the first time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

So the Intrepid looks….interesting. It looks like it has a rear facing deflector like the old Franz Joseph Dreadnought did with a sort of Bill Krause Wasp underslung engineering hull vibe. Bill is definitely pulling inspiration from his bullpen and that is not a bad thing IMO.

Intrepid:

Wasp:

Chris

FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!!

Chris

So a question for you all. After watching the “Indianapolis” speech by Shaw several times…..great performance btw….I was a little confused by the crew’s expressions afterward. TO ME they kind of looked discussed with Shaw rather than sympathetic, or were they even supposed to be. Am I reading it wrong or were the extra’s performances just off? It just stuck out to me and was curious what your reads were on their reactions. It just seems like the scene is intended to bring some much needed context and humanism to Shaw and it appeared to be completely lost on the people around him. Like these are people haven’t really endured as much hardship that more senior officers like him have (2 Borg incursions, Klingon War, Dominion War) and rather they just pass judgment on him.

Chris