So by the time the Enterprise swoops in (doing it much better than Poe did in the Falcon in SW ep IX), Deanna is piloting, Data assisting, Beverly firing the salvos, and Geordi getting the transporter locked on... we have four people flying a galaxy class through a Borg cube like its a fighter jet... or more accurately, like its the Falcon flying through the Death Star. A bold choice for the producers to consider something that those of us of a certain age would compare to Return of the Jedi... and they decide "yeah we can do it better". Huge payoff
yeah nope. a 30 years old ship against modern weapons and shields ? nope . Can youre 30 year old technologies from 1990 work today ? nope. Its cool and all but no
I’m reading the comments… Does anybody else think this was really stupid?… but I guess let’s throw as much cartoonish physics, breaking CG at it as possible to try to make it exciting to make up for the awful writing…. People will consume anything…
Hear me out... this episode plays as it does to the point they get inside and rescue everyone. But instead of the thing exploding death star style, they just knock out the transmission virus. Borg then decide to do things old style, but picard raises the now recovering fleet and they converge on the borg for a huge battle.
The Shadows question was an appeal to greed. The Vorlons question was an appeal to... Self-doubt? Introspection? Jack the Ripper's episode revealed it was quite twisted too in its own way.
This never really made sense to me, except as a Because Plot/Because Drama giveaway. The Minbari wouldn't have needed the Shadows help, if they wanted to take things over.
It's really ashame they put their effects budget into Discovery. It would've been nice to see Q de-aged. It would've helped me actually see him as a God rather than just a low budget TV series character
As much as I've loved seeing Q back, and while he redeems it in the last episode. Q coming off as sinister and even vengeful towards Picard at the beginning seems out of character after all the mutual respect the characters had built for one another. The Q we see in the end is what I was expecting to see from the beginning. Someone who was a mischievous trickster in his youth who has now been humbled by eons of existence.
Katsulas and Jurasik got a great workout from carrying that show for five years. (I kid, I kid, so many others were great too... but they did seem to get half of all the shows best writing between them.)
Just that moment when things go from we're screwed, to here comes the cavalry is absolutely masterful, it's a glorious sight when when the jump-points open up around B5 and the Minbari battleships come charging out, it's also a spine-chilling moment when the fourth jump-point turns out to be the White-Star and I love the way the camera immediately switches to an internal view of the White-Star with Delenn in command and the camera immediately moves in on her face, it's so perfectly done because you can see the protective rage/fire in her eyes as she and her forces charge toward the enemy ships at breakneck speed, when she begins to speak, you can hear the steel in her voice as she's in full mama-bear mode, totally focused on protecting everyone on the station that she considers not only her home, but the home of her family and close friends, and there is no way in hell she's gonna let anything happen to them. when she says be somewhere else, she almost has an angry snarl on her face which gives her line so much more power and impact. love this scene from back in the day, and I still do now. RIP Mira, only got to meet you once back in the 90's but I was so glad I did, she made a huge impression on me and she is sorely missed. enjoy your eternal rest Entil-Zha sleeping in light, where no shadows may fall..
