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[ManaByte]

Speaking of the Defiant, a ship that was originally designed to fight the Borg, startrek.com just posted a 20-minute video documentary on the Borg done in a timeline fashion:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/vi...l;jsessionid=ABCC4520FF1A56B2BD8F840D5A5F8878

Watching the documentary reminds me how great First Contact was:

They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done.

I need to watch that again pretty soon.

 

[Escape Goat]

The funniest things about all good things is that they travel at warp 13 in the future lol

They did in TOS too. They had to redraw the warp scale obviously.

 

[Shouta]

The Defiant was a rocking ship

Riker: It's a salvagable, she's a tough little ship.
Worf: "little"?

 

[LakeEarth]

Defiant is the most kick ass ship. Little ship that can toss 9 photons in a second. Take on 3 Dominion warships. Ahh, DS9, brings out the nerd in me.

 

[Mashing]

The funniest things about all good things is that they travel at warp 13 in the future lol

So much for that warp 5 directive... stupid aliens, who gives a shit if warp engines kill... die!

P.S. I didn't like that TNG episode if you didn't guess

 

[LakeEarth]

So much for that warp 5 directive... stupid aliens, who gives a shit if warp engines kill... die!

P.S. I didn't like that TNG episode if you didn't guess

Well it was only in their sector of the galaxy. Screw them.

 

[maharg]

I stand corrected and take it back. I find it weird that the initial mission it was sent on was essentially war-related (chasing Maquis), but whatever

Also, for all intents and purposes, there was only one writer for B5.. JMS. He wrote 90 out of the 110 episodes (holding records for, I believe, most episodes of a series written by one person and longest string of episodes written by one person -- Twilight Zone aside, or something like that -- which is pretty much mid season 2 to end of season 4). The other 20 were all done by either sci-fi novel writers or old trek writers. Unless they got JMS himself on board (and after being a show runner for so long, I don't think they could pull him back down to staff writer very easily).

 

[Mashing]

I think they sent Voyager after the Maquis because, as you said, it was very manuevarable... which is a necessity in the badlands. Any bigger ship than Voyager would have got owned.

 

[ManaByte]

So much for that warp 5 directive... stupid aliens, who gives a shit if warp engines kill... die!

P.S. I didn't like that TNG episode if you didn't guess

Well it was only in their sector of the galaxy. Screw them.

No, it was for everywhere. However, ships built after the Warp 5 Directive are equipped with space-time friendly nacelles.

Unless they got JMS himself on board (and after being a show runner for so long, I don't think they could pull him back down to staff writer very easily).

Won't happen since he's the executive producer on a upcoming sci-fi series.

 

[explodet]

However, ships built after the Warp 5 Directive are equipped with space-time friendly nacelles.

The milky-way version of California Emission Standards?

They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done.

"NO! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" *smash*

I love that scene.

 

[DarienA]

Since Voyager has been mentioned I'd like to take the time to point out that Year of Hell could have been a kickass multi-parter episode...but they fucked it up and made it only 2 eps.... it sure as hell didn't fell like a Year to me....

Gotta give a shout out to the Timeship Relativity while I'm here...

 

[ckohler]

Most people are quick to hate on Voyager but I thought the show got pretty good after season three. "Year of Hell" was an awesome two-parter.

I also liked "Timeless":
http://www.startrek.com/videouploads/200306/voy-901/300k.mov

..and "Blink of an Eye":
http://www.startrek.com/videouploads/200306/voy-933/300k.mov