Yeah if the Enterprise opened fire on the bird of prey in Generations like she did here, there would have been nothing left of that ship in a few seconds. Not to mention this Enterprise could have stood up to the Scemitar just as the E did. She could have been fitted with quantum torpedo launchers.
I hated how the Enterprise got destroyed in Generations. I hated the thought that they just scrapped or left her to rot. This show fixed all of that, gave her the most badass showing she's ever had, and as the cherry on top gave her a comfortable retirement in the museum. It's like Dr. McCoy said back in Encounter At Farpoint. "You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home."
It was a two hour film. They weren’t going to show the ship being salvaged. Nor was it intended to leave the ship there. The system had a pre warp society. The federation was always going to salvage the ship to prevent cultural contamination.
@@wintercat2605 I am not sure entirely if there is an in universe explanation- I could only think perhaps as shield systems became more advanced that their defensive capabilities perhaps were enhanced, but the energy drain became more significant. So instead of producing a full shield around the ship, a sort of 'shield skin' is more energy effective than producing an entire bubble.
@@wintercat2605 Conversely, do we really need to block a shot that misses the hull by a few meters or, for example, passes through the empty space between the secondary hull and one of the nacelles? sounds like a lot of wasted energy.
@@HawkGTboythat's debatable, the bubble is very simple and yes pretty cool but the hull wrapped shielding ripple effects look really good on various different ships and on ships like the Akira, Steamrunner, Constitution, Sovereign etc and stations like DS9 the hull wrapped shielding would both look better and make more sense, the designs of some of those ships renders them either very streamlined or offers various bits of empty space in the design like the twin booms of the akira and steamrunner or the tall thin neck and pylons of the constitution, and then DS9 has massive amounts of empty space around it's outer ring and pylons. Both designs are amazing at the end of the day though.
Enterprise -D to the Borg: "You have threatened me. You have threatened my crew. And you have threatened my Captain and his family. *ASSIMILATE THIS!!* "
Borg: You are not the first Federation ship the Collective has faced! Enterprise-D: Maybe, maybe not, but I'll make damn sure I'm the last Federation ship the Collective lives to face! *blasts the Borg beacon to smithereens*
Great. Now lets see the J match moves the Defiant would be envious of. Who needs the Defiant when you have an VFX department who don't have a visual language to denote size and mass in their ships?
@@davfree9732 Or a VFX department that understands that ships capable of 0.25c can probably manage to move around a bit at 2000kph Maybe you just dunno what you're talking about
As much as I liked the Sovereign class, seeing the Enterprise D kicking ass, doing a trench run and Data _handbrake turning a Galaxy class star ship_ satisfied me beyond all words!
You sure they weren’t referring to the Enterprise E there? I thought it was pretty clear the 1701-D was a museum, no reason to think they wouldn’t have kept it at least semi-operational
@@sultanofsauce9816 Nope, that was near the end of the Generations movie. To be fair, the saucer section was the only surviving part of the Enterprise-D, since the warp core overload vaporized the secondary hull. So aside from the bridge and most of the living quarters, there wasn't anything left to salvage... unless your name is Geordi LaForge and you use another decommissioned Galaxy-class to serve as the hull and have the original saucer section affixed instead!
Now the future won't look at the End-D and go "didn't she get blown up by an old ass klingon ship?", and instead go "isn't that the old ship that came back to save us from our own stupidity and the Borg?" This was justice for what happened to her in Generations.
After all this time, we finally get to see EVERY phaser array open up! Dorsal, ventral, port, starboard, forward, and even the aft array flanking the photon launcher. She really kicked ass here, and thanks to Beverly for making it so.
Such a beautiful swan song for the Enterprise-D, especially given the context. The first human ship the Borg ever came into contact with, the same ship that managed to slip from their clutches multiple times, now risen from the grave just to put them out of their misery once and for all. The Borg truly lived and died as the D's bitch
Technically the third/second in a weird timey wimey way. Chronologically the first human ship the Borg encounter was the NX-01, though these borg technically are future borg so in an interesting roundabout way the first enterprise is also the third one the borg encounter. Then after that with no timey wimey stuff and instead just classic star trek continuity oddness, the Raven encountered the Borg well before the Enterprise, resulting in the assimilation of the Hansons, then they met the Enterprise D. So in terms of order strictly following the years earliest to latest the NX is first but if you follow things as they happen it's the Raven that's first, followed by the D And while the D did have some accomplishments vs. the Borg they never really did anything truly devastating, that honour falls to Voyager, that ship saved the borg from being bitchslapped by 8472, outmanoeuvred them constantly, destroyed several borg ships, a tactical cube, stole borg tech, triggered the borg revolution via unimatrix 0, accidentally made a super future borg and had him destroy a Borg sphere, then to top it all off future Janeway herself talked smack right in the Queens face before infecting the collective with a virus that crippled them just before Voyager and normal Janeway destroyed a major transwarp hub network, stranding them too, Voyager is the reason the borg in Picard are where they are, that lone super cube has likely been the culmination of 20 years of desperation and limping to a position to enact the very same plan announced by the Queen in Voyager.
Finally an Enterprise that kicks ass and doesn’t end up being blown up/crashed/fed to a temporal anomaly I’m so glad the lady has had the fitting send off she always deserved
@@suppressor6172 someone else said it is retired and put in the museum because it's the last of her class and far too valuable. Do we see what happens or are we left to make it up ourselves?
@@nicholas.alan85 A bit spoilery but the D is displayed at the Fleet Museum at the end, fully resorted and functional, one year later. So she is fine and at rest.
0:56 I love it. They're all looking at her with jaws on the floor because she just put up the best performance at the weapons station of the ship's entire career. (That being said, she IS on record as having blown up a Borg ship with only a scratch crew of ensigns to help her, so this is just Badass Beverley Crusher Moment 2.0.) 1:17 I didn't think Troi could pick up Data's moods, but there you go. Finally he gets his chance to drive it like he stole it, because win or lose, he knows that this is the ship's last fight and he doesn't have to worry about conserving airframe hours. And no, I don't fucking care that this is ripping off Return of the Jedi. This is the D's core bridge crew going out with a bang, not a whimper. This is their Battle of Khitomer, and they've earned it.
I think the son of mogh would be happy the way she did it. He would have look at her and say: truly, you are a proud Klingon warrior. She would have look at him and said: I thank you for the compliment, but I'm an enraged mother hell-bent on saving my son.
This is a museum ship? The Enterprise D still looks like the flagship of Starfleet here. I absolutely love this. Thank you Terry Matalas for bringing Star Trek back!
She was being flown by the ONE person in the fleet that could have flown her like that, and i don't even want ot know what all that manouvering did to her hours logged counter. Amazing what you can make a ship do when you give no fucks on what the butcher bill will look like.
@@Dannymiles1987 And really, it was a deus ex machine for the sisters when you think about it. They were literally lucky enough to look through the bug planted in Geordi’s visor and spotted the shield frequency at a precise moment. And even then, they still lost. It’s just nice to know that while the old girl was injured in the fight, she was rebuilt for one last year of service.
As a kid who grew up in the 90s, THIS was my Enterprise. I know everyone has a favorite, but this one is mine. It was so emotionally moving to see that ship resurrected one last time to defeat the bad guys and save the day. To me, it's the best Enterprise. And she gets to live on, no longer, as Riker said, "Gone before her time."
Andrew Probert. Designer of both the Enterprise-D itself and its bridge. What a legend. Both designs still hold up 35+ years later. I hope he got at least a small amount of satisfaction from this "final" appearance of his ship. Thank you to all involved with the return of the ship and bridge.
For those of you wondering how the ENT-D can maneuver like that... its actually pretty simple: It is because starships project a low level subspace field to lower their inertial mass. DS9 crew did the same to the station when they moved it in the pilot from orbit of Bajor to the mouth of the wormhole (they had to project a stabile low level subspace field around the station to protect it in transit and increase their speed so they could reach the wormhole by next day on thrusters alone). So, low level subpsace field drops a ship's inertial mass, and its able to fly at 0.25c (at least) while making extremely agile turns at sublight (and even at Warp). All established in canon
it makes me wonder how booby trap would have gone had Geordie had faith in data's abilities he said then to not even Data could do it and yet Picard did it so maybe he Underestimated him there to think about it
@@raven4k998 Wasn't the idea behind that that Data would've been making hundreds of calculations if not more, when the trick was to do as little as possible?
especially since we rarely got to see the Ent-D just smack a fool around. Most of TNG the mentality was 'speak softly, carry a big stick, never swing the stick'
Great to see the D get the glorious hero sequences she deserved. She was a cast member as much as any of the actors. Unleashing her arsenal, sweeping through the cube, swinging down to save Picard and company from the explosion - just the most epic thing I’ve ever seen. This episode of Star Trek is my favourite. The season is one of the best ever. The music, the acting, the effects - just such a return to form. I didn’t think I’d ever feel this way again. I’m so glad I got to watch it with my dad. He and I watched TNG together from the start when I was only 5. Tonight, we watched this episode together. 30+ years later - and what a payoff. Just spectacular.
The only one in this scene that didn't get a hero moment was the ships conscience. Troi was as useful as ever. She sat and tried to look pretty. They should have put her on sensors and have Data take the left chair.
@@willdavis3802 Those consoles have never been strictly one use only. You could access almost every system from them, enabling you to get the ship out of harm's way if the rest of the crew was disabled. Deanna later took the other console to take conrol of the transporter and provide Data with the coordinates to get into transporter range.
I have read that Gene R. himself told the Enterprise D's designer, Andrew Probert, that the ship should be considered a cast member as they developed TNG and her design. Knocked it out of the park, guys, and this is 40 years later.
One last notch on the hull for the old beauty. The first Starfleet vessel to kill a Borg cube and now the last. Happy retirement, Big D. You earned it.
Watching the Enterprise drift in like a race car was absolutely badass, the scale seemed a little off but I was absolutely willing to forgive that for a shot that was so great
@@JasonBoyce the scale isn’t really off. A Galaxy-class starship is 641m long with a beam of 470m. The Ent-A is about the same length as the D’s warp nacelle.
@@shaun3423 Have you ever walked off 640 meters? It's fricking huge. People have built it in Minecraft. It's so big that, when you're waling on the hull, you wouldn't even recognize it at certain angles.
Data fucking Tokyo drifting the Enterprise D through the center of a Borg cube is possibly the greatest thing I've seen in years. This made my inner fangirl squeal in delight--I'm so glad they made the ship itself get one last hurrah, and finally cut loose.
I was thinking how ridiculous it was for a big ship like the Enterprise D to be manuvering through the cube like a little fighter, but then it occurred to me- Data was at the helm. If there's one person in Starfleet who could fly a Galaxy class ship like that, its the one with a vast android brain and superhuman reflexes.
We all know the Enterprise E was a beast. We all seen what a Galaxy class could do when configured for battle in DS9 during the Dominion War. But seeing the Enterprise D be rebuilt, come in wrecking faces and showing us all what she could really do is a wonderful surprise and a superb ending to this series. Its been a very long time since anything Star Trek has had me this excited and drawn me in emotionally like this. THIS is what the franchise desperately needed. The star power of the TNG crew and the Enterprise D saved the universe. Not only on screen, but the Star Trek universe as a whole. Thank you Terry Matalas for giving us what we all wanted and needed and taking us for one last ride with arguably the most loved ship and crew in Star Trek history.
Patrick Stewart was against this sort of return. But even hi admitted he was wrong. Same for me, this was my Enterprise. Enterprise E would prolly be my second favourite ship - but by jolly the Enterprise D is beautiful - and powerful. I actually feel sorry for the Dominion.
Yeah but you got a bunch of people champing at the bed about you can't get rid of this character you can't get rid of that character. Sooner or later you have to move on that's just the reality of the situation. You think about this every single member of that bridge team is over 70. You have to be prepared to see new shows new characters etc. But you have a bunch of folks around here who want to sit around and think about what the good old days were like.
Now don't get me wrong in my above comment I love Star Trek and everything about it. But let things move forward. If folks like Terry Matalas can do that sort of thing I'm all for it
Data flying the Big D like was a shuttlecraft, Dr C just standing there flexing a her beauty whilst pummelling the shit out of a big scary metal cube from the inside, La Forge spewing Engineering problems for everyone to cope with and Counselor Troi sensing the emotions of the entire battle at once. Star Trek at its absolute finest...
@@NashmanNash Size still counts for things. The Galaxy class starships still have a massive warp core, several hundred photon torpedoes (that are likely modern anyway) and those enormously powerful strip phaser banks. The Titan and other ships are still more modern, and the Odyssey out weighs her, but she wasn't facing off against the Odyssey. She was going up against an old, pieced together Borg cube put together by what's left of the Collective. The Borg survived their first encounter against the Enterprise D purely by virtue of their ability to adapt. Starfleet had thirty years to come up with countermeasures, all of which will have been built into any systems on board the renovated D. The nacelles were from the Syracuse which means the engineering section and likely main computer core were as well, and the Syracuse was decommissioned. Likelihood is that anything Starfleet knew was on board this version of the Enterprise.
@@NashmanNash It's best not to engage your brain too much when watching Alex Kurtzman's Star Trek, or you'll see a show with more holes in it than Swiss cheese. I try and let my imagination fill the holes in or pretend it never happened. I feel your pain though. 😟
@@NashmanNash Yes. But these are nitpicks and while valid, in comparison to the rest of the NuTrek we have gotten, season 3 of Picard is an absolute godsend. I'll take the minor mistakes if the heart and soul of Trek is there. And it seems to be. Hopefully they don't go back to sucking on the next iteration.
Love that they actually showed the saucer section impulse drives offline as per the Galaxy-class specifications while it was connected to the star drive. The shield bubble was also amazing... Everything about this scene was just amazing and a massive nod to the TNG crew (this includes the Enterprise-D). Seeing it finally win against the Borg without sustaining massive damage made this all the better.
Thank you for pointing out the shield bubble! It's everywhere, fire dancing around it during their first run in the cube surface and as it's flying away.. Love it!
The saucer section impulse drives being lit up with everything else on certain models has always bugged the crap out of me. Glad there's another person that looks for that.
The first time we see the Enterprise-D cut loose. A pilot that knows how to extract every bit of performance out of her, a trigger happy gunner, and the technology to bring the imagination to life.
Great the way you can see the old bubble shield repulsing the fiery explosions of the cube, especially at the end when the Enterprise exits with a ball of fire hanging around the shield. And the phasers charging around the circular saucer strip. Absolutely brilliant show of a brilliant ship. On the new starships, the shields are so close to the hull you can hardly tell if they're actually helping!
It hit me right in the feels as well. I spent most of my childhood gazing at that ship, or playing with various models of it. I still have a 6" die cast toy from the 80s, my youngest kid plays with it. All the paint is rubbed off of it but it's tough and it's still the Enterprise.
Don't just say despite its flaws and not tell us. (Nobody's perfect, folks!). Tell us! You said it, tell us! (I'll probably agree with all and maybe add a couple to the playlist).
See, it can be done. Take note Star Wars and all the other Star Trek creators. Just give the fans (the customers) what they want and we'll love you for it.
Well this season had a trans allegory with seven of nine being dead named by Shaw. But like all the best allegories in sci-fi, they’re gracefully inserted subtlety as to not be distracting. But make no mistake, Star Trek is a show born of a desire to promote “SJW shit”
From what I’ve seen in Star Trek, I have never seen a ship this large perform maneuvers with unbelievable grace. this is a fitting way for one more run.
You've never seen large maneuvers in context of battles but if you watch a few episodes you realize for things the size of skyscrapers and carriers are ridiculousness maneuverable
Let's hand it to Geordi. When he wanted to make all the ships in his museum historically accurate, he did just that. Shields, Loaded Photon Torpedo Bays, Fully-Charged Phaser Arrays and operational Cloaking Devices for the Klingon and (we assume) Romulan Ships.
I think Kirk's Bird-of-Prey HMS Bounty and USS Defiant NCC-74205 were the only ships to have a permanent cloaking device without incurring the wrath of the Romulan Empire and then the Romulan Free State. USS Enterprise NCC-1701, Enterprise-D, and USS Titan-A (now Enterprise-G) had their cloaking devices only temporarily, and USS Pegasus had it secretly.
I think that was the first time in a long time since the Wrath of Khan that I've ever been so amped watching a ship-to-ship battle I was jumping up and down smiling laughing my ass off the whole time and especially with the look data had
Aye the old girls still got it. The final member of the family coming home and doing what shes always done best, protecting her family and this time....she made sure everyone made it home. Now she can have a peaceful retirement.
Enterprise: No my Captain, I am whatever ship you need me to be. I prefer to be a ship of exploration but if needed I can be a ship of war. Today I am a BATTLESHIP.
Anyone else absolutely lose it when they saw Data grinning like a mischievous kid while he made the Enterprise literally dance at his fingertips? Because I did!
@@christopherlong9493 Oh, they sometimes showed that the D could do that... Remember the Husnok? Most other ships would have been space dust after the first hit.
@@Timberwolf69 eh, I dunno if I’d count that since that was a Q like entity construct. A better example would be Darmok, and the battle with that ship. Another point: Though it was destroyed in a kamikaze attack, the Odyssey did take a beating from 3 Jem Hadar fighters unshielded. Which was nice after the BS story line of a Bird of Prey destroying the D in Generations.
@@christopherlong9493 I am not entirely sure if I mixed these two ships up, somehow... My memory is tainted a little by watching many snippets of TNG here on YT with no real timeline or reference. The Crew of the BoP used a cheatcode that enabled them to tap into the signal of Geordie's visor - an exploit used more than once in the show...
I've always felt that TNG always managed to make the D herself into a character. This felt to me like she decided "You have now reached the Find Out stage." She was NOT having any of the Borgs nonsense.
She had come in to chew bubblegum and kick ass And her replicators were not installed. Campy line I know, but the Enterprise D was definitely here to wreck shop, and boy howdy did she do it in style.
oh every hero ship in star trek has always been a character, but yes, for me i could just tell she was having fun and was so happy being with her friends again for one last adventure.
I watched this with a friend the night it went live. I didn't even realize it, but during that photon and phaser volley I apparently said out loud "Holy shit Beverly, forward, aft, dorsal, ventral, port and starboard?! Home girl just opened up every array and photon launcher on the entire ship!" My friend told me afterwards "seeing you geeking out like that was delightful."
Seeing the D back in action again with modern CGI really does the grand ship justice. This is just fantastic. The galaxy class still can kick ass for sure.
Loved seeing the Enterprise D kick some ass again. It was glorious. And I laughed so hard when Troi said, "Why am I sensing enjoyment" and seeing Data with a big smile on his face. LMAO!
It's both exciting and hilarious seeing the old D pulling off a death star run, when it was always depicted as being as maneuverable as a blue whale in the past.
People keep SAYING that...just because she wasn't doing stunts every week doesn't mean she had no maneuverability. There WERE times we saw it too, such as performing a quick roll at full impulse to escape the Dyson's sphere. I think people let DS9 mess with them, that battle scene where it's moving slow and firing, well duh, you don't speed around among close quarters ship battles with hundreds of ships meters away from your hull. The Odyssey is the ONE example where the galaxy class looks sluggish, and that was after receiving serious battle damage. I found the scene totally believable simply due to the enormous size of the cube, which HAD to be 5 times bigger than the J25 cube.
Haven't been this absolutely thrilled for Star Trek The Next Generation since 1990. Well done, Enterprise D and well, done, crew. You'll always have a special place in my heart. Bravo.
0:52: when they all turn to Crusher like, damn, girl! 😆 And at 1:14: Deanna: "Why am I sensing enjoyment?" And it's because Data 2.0 is having the time of his life. 😂 (If I recall correctly, she didn't really sense Data 1.0 anymore that the computer because it was a different wavelength or what have you than from plain fully organic life forms, so she likely wouldn't recognize what she is able to sense from Data now because this is a new form of life. She knows WHAT she senses, just not from whom.) Seeing a real smile from Data is a thing I did not know I needed, but damn, if it wasn't lovely. Also Data's fingers dancing over the controls. Always loved that.
That's the D I know and love. I remember how excited I was to see the premiere of TNG when I was almost 9 years old, and now all these years later I feel that excitement over again. Thank you for getting Picard Season 3 right.
Never thought I'd see a Galaxy class moving like that. It always seemed like such a heavy ship that moved slowly and purposefully. I totally get why Data is grinning. I too would smile if I was drifting around a corner in the coolest ship in the galaxy that isn't a D'deridax.
I'd add that the Enterprise isn't actually going that fast -- at that speed in a straight line, it would look like very low impulse. But the ship also has thrusters all around it, which probably helps a great deal in moving in any direction Data wants.
The studio model was a b#%h to film. That, and the poor condition of the interior sets is why they destroyed the ship in Generations. Having a CG model of the D to work with let them finally do all the crazy 💩 they’ve wanted to do for decades with her! 😃🥳
Data is pushing the ship so hard that the inertial dampeners can't dampen all of it. That's why the crew is feeling it even though they're not under that much fire inside the cube.
@@TheGuyWithTheSniper was sad seeing her fully cleaned up and retired again at the end,certainly less than in generations when we all thought that was it for the D but knowing she’s there just doing nothing must be sad for Picard,shame starfleet didn’t give her to Picard as a thank you and we also didn’t get an explanation about what word did to the E lol. If you watch the scene at the fleet museum notice how the enterprise is behind the stargazer and behind the D is the A
To be fair, usually it was 'fire some shots and then ask if they still wanna play rough.' The Borg have made it clear that they wanted to play, so (crass as it sounds), the crew finally gave them the D.
I dunno... The D seems to have acquired Defiant levels of handling. Sure she can move, but the level of abrupt banking and reversal is what we'd expect from Voyager or Defiant. Suddenly even the D could navigate through the Badlands. It looks cool... But it just shows Secret Hideout aren't standardizing ship class performance in it's CG work and that builds a foundation of believability when a small ship has more maneurvabilty than a big ship.
@@davfree9732 That throw me of a bit too but then i remembered Jodie Laforge re-made this so he probably put some Stabalizing Tech in allowing better Maneuverability that's also probably why he couldn't get The Weapons Guidance System up in time. To busy working on that.
@@davfree9732 they did this during the dominion war and the final season of tng. A lot of the reasons the ship moved the way it did in early tng was because special effects were expensive to animate it moving fast and look good.
Honestly, I can see it. She would have way less momentum/mass. No cargo, no science labs, she would have been stripped down for display. Just a MASSIVE dorsal/ventral phaser array, and a ton of torpedos.
@@suppressor6172 A good percentage of a Galaxy class is just empty space. Plus the engineering section came from the Syracuse. That was the original Enterprise D's head on a refitted War Galaxy's body, with every spare bit of power pushed into the defensive systems, being flown by an android with a microsecond reaction time and the computational ability to rival the Borg Queen herself. Basically, the most powerful Galaxy class ship ever constructed, flown by the best crew that's ever flown one, armed with modern torpedos and reconstructed by modern construction techniques.
That angle at 1:58 of the Enterprise D parking itself over Picard and Jack and then beaming them up is awesome; similar to the Titan warping in and cutting the Shrike's Tractor Beam early on in the Season.
Also, at that point Deanna had taken over piloting because she knew where they were. She was finally redeemed after crashing the ship twice (tho the 2nd time was under orders.)
The old girl still has some moves in her! It really was great to see them give 1701D a fitting encore. She deserved better than what happened in Generations.
It was nostalgic seeing the D back in action. There was a moment where she is approaching the cube and we get a view of the Enterprise from behind. I noticed that there was a variation in colour between the saucer section and the star drive! I just thought that it was a nice touch showing how they were different ships that had been put together.
It's actually because the saucer hull is dirty and burned from going in the atmosphere in Generations, you can still see the burn makes at the vary front of the saucer. At the end when it was in the museum you could tell they had cleaned it up and everything matched.
I always KNEW The Enterprise D, The Big D, was more than just a "luxury liner in space". She was much much more than that, and this scene showcased her doing a serious kick butt on the Borg and gracefully doing so! The Big D was and still IS the best Starship to bear the name, ENTERPRISE!
Thank modern CGI for allowing for the show to, at LONG LAST, showcase what the Galaxy class can REALLY do. This would not have been possible when TNG first aired. At most she woulda just been able to do a U-turn to sling her saucer section into safety. (From what I remember. If the Enterprise D in TNG pulled off something better in terms of manuevering feel free to let me know.)
I haven't seen this show due to the awful reception of the first season. Is this literally a 1:1 copy of the Enterprise D or is it like visually the Enterprise D but with say the Dominion War upgrades? Because the upgraded Galaxies from the Dominion War were massively powerful.
(0:58) ~ I half-expected *Billy Dee Williams* to saunter onto the Enterprise-D bridge and say, _"Perhaps I can be of some assistance..? I have some flight-experience in this kind of scenario."_ *;p* Thanks for uploading this, *The Relay - Sci-Fi.* :)
Like Han Solo without his Millenium Falcon , or maybe even Mad Max without his Interceptor , I think the next gen crew so needed Enterprise-D . Yeah sure , Enterprise-E was sleek , probably more firepower and all .. but I remember growing up watching these guys on the Big D. When she crashed in Generations , I was heartbroken.. and all movies later never really gave me the same kick they should have, I felt there was always something missing.. until now. It was Enterprise D - the big beautiful lady back , a little battle scarred from her crash on Veridian 3 but still so beautiful and having a score to settle with the Borg.. This crew needed Enterprise D , just as she did them, she is as much a character as they are. With todays special effects, the battle scene was amazing, and as for bringing back Data.. thats another thumbs up - Thank you Terry Matalas . You have made an old Trekkie so nostalgic and happy.. I found myself jumping up and down and shouting at the screen with joy like an idiot when Big D was entering the cube and firing and acrobaticallly manouvering through ... lol... brought me back to my childhood.. A fantastic way to close their book for good. Thanks Terry. You have done for Star Trek , what John Favreau and Dave Filoni did for Star Wars..
A detail I just noticed that I think is neat, is when the Enterprise dives into the Cube, one of the phaser shots scores a line into the outer hull. Someone remembered their beam physics
@@MrFrans1983 Yes i know what you mean, it's like those models in the bar and nobody wanted the 'fat' one but it was that one that saved everyone's ass :-)
I'm a Constitution-class man like Jack. But the D was my first Enterprise, and seeing her come back and kick all the Borg ass ever for her final mission was amazing.
