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Fun(?) fact regarding a *Defiant-*class ship landing on a planet.

Per Ex Astris Scientia, while the Defiant MSD had visible landing struts fairly early on (the revised MSD introduced in "Shattered Mirror"), it seems no one thought to inform the writers:

The real-world reason for the Defiant never landing is that the producers were not aware that there were landing struts visible in the MSD. Ron D. Moore said in an interview with LCARScom.net: "The Defiant has landing gear? You have to remember that things like CD-ROMs and the various "official" manuals put out by Paramount are not done in conjunction with the writing/producing staffs and that the authors are usually simply extrapolating information based on what's actually been seen on screen."

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the shuttlebay appears to be in the nose assembly, where the deflector dish, docking port, and phaser emitter usually are.

There's always room for more shit in the nose of a Defiant.

I'm quite happy with the way it ultimately went, but it's a pretty interesting thought experiment.

It'll make one hell of an oral history some day.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As I understand it, the original plan was that Captain Kim was going to be kind of like Admiral Shelby [Elizabeth Deneny], that was going to be you.

Correct.

So, I was wondering how far down the road did they go with you on that?

It went all the way to my manager saying, “You’ve been cast.” It was originally a three episode arc, which then changed to two, then then changed to one. But I was told by my manager that I needed to be in the LA area in January for a fitting for Picard. So it was there. It had progressed fairly far actually having Harry on that show, pretty darn far. The script was written. Harry’s name was in there… Jeri Ryan said to me, “It’s so funny because we got sent a script, and Harry was in there, and all sudden, the revisions, Harry wasn’t in there.” I was like, “Oh, wow.” So, it went pretty darn far. And I’ll be perfectly honest, being a sci-fi fan, I was depressed for months after that when it didn’t happen. I was literally crying into my own sleeve. [laughs]

I haven't listened to the audio, so I don't know what Wang's tone is like during this story, but...that sounds really shitty. Possibly worse than filming something that later got cut.

 

I think this is a transcription of the podcast that was shared here last week.

This is a few months old, but I don't remember seeing it before. I'm a sucker for this kind of "inside baseball" information.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that was Wesley on "Prodigy," but it's possible - probable, even - that I'm forgetting something.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

With all this talk about the multiverse, I can't help but wonder whether we'll get a tip of the cap to the mycelial network.

 

This game came out in 2021 as an Apple Arcade exclusive, which means I have not played it, and quickly forgot it existed.

It's a mobile game, so adjust your expectations accordingly, but this review caught my eye, as this game apparently has no time gates or microtransactions (or, at least it didn't three years ago).

It apparently came out on Steam in June, and there's a free demo there that I might check out.

Details are weirdly hard to come by, but it looks like it will launch on Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox later this month.

Has anyone played this thing? Is it worth your time and money?

 

Not your average average Starfleet officer! I'm beaming in to the first season of @StarTrek: Starfleet Academy on @ParamountPlus.

It's very possible - in 2001, it would have been harder to find things that weren't influenced by "The Matrix."

The plot setup itself isn't too original for Trek - DS9's "The Assignment" comes to mind.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It looks like Trudeau wasn't asking her to resign - he was looking to shuffle her out of the role and into a different cabinet post. Which isn't exactly a vote of confidence.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I swear, this story said something about Canada Post agreeing to a 5% intirim raise last night, but that doesn't seem to be in there any more.

Well, that's a bombshell.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, unfortunately basic geography means there's likely a hard limit on how much diversification is realistic.

We absolutely should do everything we can to reduce our reliance on the US, but options become limited once you remove rail and road from the equation.

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