General Star Trek thread

Yeah maybe a Capital ship is more appropriate. I'm not sure secondary batteries were needed in-universe though, the Galaxy class had 12 phaser banks, with multiple beams available from each bank simultaneously. 2 photon tubes too, each capable of a 5 torpedo spread at the same time, with each torpedo independently targetable too....it was a monster of a ship for its era, whether going up against a Romulan Warbird or a Runabout. It should have been able to pulverize the antiquated BoP in Generations.

That said, we've also seen what smaller ships can do in the right hands against full on battleships....

You were on the ball with the Seven of Nine 🙂

Good thing my post used text I wrote out then.

It has several phaser blind spots including directly behind* and approaching the deflector if the saucer is seperated. I don't think the main bank rapid-fire has ever been shown to be able to target something else, at least not at a significantly different angle.

*Venture type variants excepted

The real weird part is how it damaged his back at all given the way we see all those barrels bounce around.

Or how Starfleet don't have regulations on securing barrels high stacked on starships.

Starfleet Health and Safety is full of Tellarites who spend al their time arguing about the minutia of the rules instead of ensuring they're enforced.

That's pretty good. I don't like the characterisation of Hansen though.

That was very good. The odd ship and some of the acting was terrible but for the most part it was quiet good.

The silent sitting there as he sends wave after wave of ships to their death did him dirty. He came off as quite concerned for others in his limited screen time in BoBW and the creator's pinned comment said he intentionally turned him into a badmiral.

The tactics were necessary but a hint of regret or some emotion would have been enough, other CGI'd characters got an extra facial expression or two.

Same, there's more than enough Badmiral trope stuff in Trek for a lifetime. Hansen seemed like one of the good ones, no need to have him portrayed as stubborn and foolish as shown. Otherwise it was phenomenal.

That, and the bull headed refusal to adapt, while basically sending people to their death. Granted, as mentioned, there was very little to work with, but I just didn't enjoy that take on the battle.

Sure, as @Rawr says, the tactics were outdated and ultimately there was little chance of them succeeding with them. The Hansen shown in BoBW though didn't appear to be the person that he's made out to be in this short though, so for me, it's a little incongruent. He could have just as easily be shown to be leading the retreat, and going out in a blaze of glory by saving people by sacrificing his ship etc. Not that either version would be 'correct', but at least it's have rang true with the character we seen on screen.

We could always ask him to do an alternate take on it with Hanson going out in a blaze of glory :)

Or maybe someone else will at some stage.