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While the writing for seasons 3 and 4 of Enterprise really knocked it out of the park -- to the relief of those of us who stuck through a largely lackluster second season while everyone else spoke of "franchise fatigue" -- I will never understand the "bright" idea of reworking the theme to make it sound alt-country. The original version, while neither traditional Berman-era orchestral nor ethnic-instrumental "naturalistic sci-fi" as was in vogue with Firefly and Ron Moore's BSG, had grown on me as an anthem of human progress and the desire to explore as it stood in the mid 22nd-century.... and then they went and did that to it.
TL,DR: I occasionally insist on playing the first/second season version but will skip the third/fourth....
I think it would have changed the feel of the show to change for a more "star trek" styled intro.
I don't know why the production crew felt this might have been a bad thing, but here we are. Truth be told: I rather like the intro song, but I am generally a fan of this kind of folk rock.
I don't know why the production crew felt this might have been a bad thing, but here we are. Truth be told: I rather like the intro song, but I am generally a fan of this kind of folk rock.
Yeah, the S1-2 version grew on me, but the S3-4 is a No. As for an orchestral opening, the one usually referred to as "Archer's Theme" was meant to be that before they decided to go with Faith instead. It becomes obvious if you put it against the actual opening sequence:
A) if it’s timed *that perfectly*, man then yeah. That was the original Intro.
B) the IAMD intro is solid. As is the Jumping the Ravine theme from Generations over these credits.
B) the IAMD intro is solid. As is the Jumping the Ravine theme from Generations over these credits.
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Season 1; faith of the heart.
Season 2: Faith of the heart at half tempo with full instrumental orchestra.
Season 3: Just the instrumental orchestra.
Season 4: Just the TNG theme.
Season 2: Faith of the heart at half tempo with full instrumental orchestra.
Season 3: Just the instrumental orchestra.
Season 4: Just the TNG theme.
Some thoughts on how all the post-Nemesis shows weave together, given the Prodigy finale:
I do know some would rather ignore certain series, but, intentional or not, LD and Prodigy really do seem to have expanded on things enough to explain some of the goings-on in Picard that we all disliked.
If you take the Living Construct, the Texas-class ships(Yeah, I know, LD) and the Mars Utopia Planitia incident all happening fairly close together, it at least makes the seemingly sudden knee-jerk reaction about AI in Picard(Yeah, I know) a bit more understandable, in a human way. (Plus whatever the AI vault in LD is leading to, if it's used for anything more than a one-off joke.) And after what happened in the Living Construct incident basically being a Wolf 359 level event in terms of ship loss, considering this was during the evacuation fleet buildup, and then Mars, it really explains why the Federation was low on ships. And as for mothballed ships that they could reactivate, those probably got mostly scrapped during the Dominion War with how many Mirandas and Excelsiors were lost there.
Still dumb that they didn't keep trying anyways, but if all they had were just enough ships to keep things going internally and the other shipyards were busy building new ships to replace the ones lost here, they they wouldn't have had more than a token squadron to spare and they might have thought that'd be seen as an insult. (Or it was a convenient excuse to abandon them due to Undiscovered Country style attitudes against Romulans, as this basically was their Praxis.) The copy-paste fleet was probably literally pulled from just completed construction too at a nearby shipyard or shakedown area, taking all this into account, as an explanation for why it existed rather than the usual mixed fleet.
Still dumb that they didn't keep trying anyways, but if all they had were just enough ships to keep things going internally and the other shipyards were busy building new ships to replace the ones lost here, they they wouldn't have had more than a token squadron to spare and they might have thought that'd be seen as an insult. (Or it was a convenient excuse to abandon them due to Undiscovered Country style attitudes against Romulans, as this basically was their Praxis.) The copy-paste fleet was probably literally pulled from just completed construction too at a nearby shipyard or shakedown area, taking all this into account, as an explanation for why it existed rather than the usual mixed fleet.
I do know some would rather ignore certain series, but, intentional or not, LD and Prodigy really do seem to have expanded on things enough to explain some of the goings-on in Picard that we all disliked.
So I’m sure I’ll get lit up for this, but why couldn’t they just build a replicator on a large scale to make ships? If starfleet took off the safety protocols like not being able to replicate a gun, and make start ships that way? Seems that might be quicker than constructing a ship.
say for example LaForge made the Enterprise D’s engine the best in starfleet, enter those specs into the replicator then they all come out with those better specs.
say for example LaForge made the Enterprise D’s engine the best in starfleet, enter those specs into the replicator then they all come out with those better specs.
As far as AI goes, we also don't know what happened (unless it was addressed in the novels and I'm not aware) what happened with all the EMH's that were forced in to manual labor. With the near perfect way holodecks were able to create sentient life and certain threads weaved all throughout Voyager, it sure feels like there should have been a hologram uprising or rights movement of some sort between then and Picard.
I would love Picard S3 to get in to that with certain characters coming back, but who the heck knows what it plans to do.
I would love Picard S3 to get in to that with certain characters coming back, but who the heck knows what it plans to do.
I remember reading a novel set on earth after voyager made it home, and the story line was in fact hologram rights and technological sapience. It was actually pretty good, and I wish I could remember the name.
The problem with ship scale replicators is the exponential energy costs. Part of it is the complexity of the material in question increases energy cost (for example; latinum can't be replicated, which is why it's used as a basis for currency.) and part of it is just... size. It's why it's easier to assemble starships from parts cranked out by industrial replicators. I also seem to remember something about the nature of the high energy systems in starships are prohibitively expensive to replicate.
See, people see stuff like that one episode of the lower decks "we don't even use currency in the federation!" and confuse it with "not having an economy". The federation does have an economy, but it's an energy economy not a resource economy.
The problem with ship scale replicators is the exponential energy costs. Part of it is the complexity of the material in question increases energy cost (for example; latinum can't be replicated, which is why it's used as a basis for currency.) and part of it is just... size. It's why it's easier to assemble starships from parts cranked out by industrial replicators. I also seem to remember something about the nature of the high energy systems in starships are prohibitively expensive to replicate.
See, people see stuff like that one episode of the lower decks "we don't even use currency in the federation!" and confuse it with "not having an economy". The federation does have an economy, but it's an energy economy not a resource economy.
I thought they couldn’t replicate Latinum because of safety protocols.
Without me having as much knowledge about that world as others, to me it seemed as easy as Picard in First Contact taking the safety protocols off to get a gun to shoot the borg. I didn’t fully think about an energy consumption basis.
Without me having as much knowledge about that world as others, to me it seemed as easy as Picard in First Contact taking the safety protocols off to get a gun to shoot the borg. I didn’t fully think about an energy consumption basis.
Yeah, lazers are a thing, so light is plenty lethal if you put enough juice into it. Holograms are just light and force fields... so... yeah. If you die in the holodeck, you die in real life.