Picard 3x09- 'Vox' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

Oh sorry I was thinking viewer numbers when you said ratings.

This was an excellent episode but it really feels like it should not have taken the writers 8 episodes to get to this point in the story. We've spent so much time with onscreen villains (changelings) who ended up being nothing more than pawns for the real threat of the Borg. I did like the idea of the Borg using the transporter tech to "seed" starfleet with DNA to act as receivers though I would have expected the younger crew to be outnumbered by their older crewmates. It did make for a chilling moment with the fleet executing the Excelsior.

Your suggestion of only having the newer "upgraded" ships in the Sol system for Frontier Day makes a lot more sense. It no longer makes the Federation look entirely defenseless by withdrawing their entire fleet to Earth and it highlights the fact that there are no older ships in system that could oppose them once they're compromised.

Your right about DS9 1 and 2. I remember thinking it was all poor and most of it is but was shocked that "Duet" was season 1.

It feels like a later season episode and is one of the best Trek episodes ever.

Just thought I would post this screenshot I took of some of the ship names in the fleet. Some cool ones in there.

When the Gilgamesh gets destroyed they'll probably be finding portions of its logs for millennia.

Hopefully he absolutely candored himself to death on an away mission already.

Ah here I have something in my eye. Loved it.

Also, Picard being pretty old and wise and kinda feeble for two seasons and 8 episodes until he gets to his old bridge and tugs his uniform after sitting in the chair. Beautifully done fan service. Loved it!

On the amount of classes it wasn't unusual to have classes with relatively low numbers of ships before the outset of WWII. IJN ship classes often had only 4 to 6 ships before moving to a new class

TNG used to use other sources for names, Yamato and Tsiolkovsky (built in the Soviet Union no less) spring to mind.

Well technically the Sulu isnt an English name. We had an Uhura too at some stage.

Erebus is a complicated one because it could be named after Franklin's flag ship which would make it English.

Overall I think the PIC and Disco writers have tried at least to not just use the usual US and British naval ship names.