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The whole show got massively better when Sisko shaved his head, grew a beard, got promoted, and got the Defiant. Before that all that ever happened in terms of conflict was a Cardassian ship came, they either hailed it or locked a tractor beam on it, and managed to avoid fighting all the time (which is good for real life, but bad for a TV show) or the Maquis showed up, and they went out in the little runabouts to fight them. Then they found the Dominion, and the Defiant came, and it was glorious battle after glorious battle.
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Originally posted by Apophis87The whole show got massively better when Sisko shaved his head, grew a beard, got promoted, and got the Defiant. Before that all that ever happened in terms of conflict was a Cardassian ship came, they either hailed it or locked a tractor beam on it, and managed to avoid fighting all the time (which is good for real life, but bad for a TV show) or the Maquis showed up, and they went out in the little runabouts to fight them. Then they found the Dominion, and the Defiant came, and it was glorious battle after glorious battle.
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Initially i was gutted when someone said that you never saw Wolf 359. But after watching BoBW i thought how great it was the way they did it. Just the Enterprise coming across a graveyard of ships. Left it to your imagination as to how they were decimated. It sorta punched home how unbelievably powerful the Borg are/were. I don't know if special effects at the time could've done justice to the fact they were the greatest foe the Federation had ever seen.
Imagine that battle though. Personally, i imagine it like the battle of Sector 001 (First Contact if i remember right..) but with many more ships and just the Borg cube dominating every single one of them.
It's kind of like the same way in DS9, they didn't always show the action in S5-6, they just told of how the attacks went or showed the whole fleet together and you saw bit hanging off the Galaxy classes and ships with smoke plooms coming out of them. I kinda think it gave it an edge, proving how deadly the enemies were. Just my humble opinion anyway. I'm probably alone in these thoughts!
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Hmmm...seems every DS9 thread I make moves onto the ships discussiongumboYaYa: you are all beautiful, your words and openness are what make that shine. don't forget how much talent love and beauty you all have. so for now, peace love love love more love and happy, and thank you, thank you, thank you
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Yeah, I agree with you there Anubis69, sometimes it is better to leave things to the imagination. When I first watched the Best of Both Worlds, the graveyard of ships was quite a shocker. It had me thinking, how the hell are they going to win?
It was after watching the Emissary, I decided to watch TBOBW again, the space battle felt like, so empty. I mean, it was like a 1 v 1 between the Enterprise and the Borg cube. I suppose it could've been FX budget constraints, but there weren't any big fleet actions (that I can remember) in TNG, mostly ship to ship action.
Speaking of Galaxy class ships getting owned, there's been a few! Two I remember vividly were the Yamato (TNG: Contagion) and the Odyssey (DS9: The Jem'Hadar). Both incidents still give me goose bumps to this day. When the Yamato exploded, it was very graphic, you could see the internal structure appearing as the saucer section floated off to the side in flames. As for the Odyssey, well, when the Jem'Hadar rammed the Odyssey, the look on my face resembled look of the crew on the runabout. It was a complete surprise, it proved just how far the Dominion were prepared to go, to stop incursions into their territory.
Originally posted by QasimHmmm...seems every DS9 thread I make moves onto the ships discussion"Captain, you almost make me believe in luck."
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Originally posted by Missster.FreemanSpeaking of Galaxy class ships getting owned, there's been a few! Two I remember vividly were the Yamato (TNG: Contagion) and the Odyssey (DS9: The Jem'Hadar). Both incidents still give me goose bumps to this day. When the Yamato exploded, it was very graphic, you could see the internal structure appearing as the saucer section floated off to the side in flames. As for the Odyssey, well, when the Jem'Hadar rammed the Odyssey, the look on my face resembled look of the crew on the runabout. It was a complete surprise, it proved just how far the Dominion were prepared to go, to stop incursions into their territory.
Originally posted by QasimHmmm...seems every DS9 thread I make moves onto the ships discussion
^WRT Morbo's statement: Indeed. A lot of fleet action like Chin'toka and "What you leave Behind" was reused footage. (The Galaxy class coming from the bottom of the screen to destroy the Galor with the 2 phasor beams jumps to mind) SoA really was one of the best episodes of sci-fi ever made.
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Originally posted by Missster.FreemanAye, as far as I can remember, it ricochets off the deflector dish, knocking a BIG chunk out of it, into the nacelle. Or did the Dominion fighter hit the saucer? I seem to have that picture in my mind.
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Originally posted by Wolf EireSuffice as to say it caused a big assed explosion that satisfied the male need to see things blow up.gumboYaYa: you are all beautiful, your words and openness are what make that shine. don't forget how much talent love and beauty you all have. so for now, peace love love love more love and happy, and thank you, thank you, thank you
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Yeah, I was totally shocked when I saw that. It's like I was in a movie, and a close friend of mine died, and I was like "Nooooooooo!!!". I love Galaxy Class Starships, so that was really an effective way of introducing new, powerful enemies to hate.
As for the number of Galaxy Class ships that have been destroyed, I think it's because of the Enterprise. Remember how many Constitution Class ships got destroyed in TOS? I wonder if this curse will continue, and the next thing you'll see is a bunch of Soverign Class ships blowing up?
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