How would you have the E-D dying?

SuperSaiyaMan12 · Post by **SuperSaiyaMan12** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:52 pm

I mean, after the extremely sub-par performance in Generations, how would you have written the E-D being destroyed?

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:57 pm

Someone accidentally kicks the warp core.

Kidding.
I would have had it fall to three Vorchas, though it would have destroyed two before it was lost. Then, just before it blows, a Nebula drops out of warp, destroys the final Vorcha, and beams the crew off.

This is only after five seconds of thought though.

SuperSaiyaMan12 · Post by **SuperSaiyaMan12** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:59 pm

I'd have it be the victim of the Dominion. It was still around dirng the first initial contact, and could have lead up to Worf joining DS9 better so he could have some sort of revenge thing against the Dominion.

Like, it falls in battle to a Dominion Battlecruiser and six fighters, taking out all the fighters and badly damaging the Battlecruiser before going down?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:02 pm

It should have been a) in a straight up battleship-against-battleship shootout, not an obsolete heap of junk and crap war core design and b) for the survival of the Federation, not some irrelevent planet-of-the-week.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:39 pm

Seconded. It should have died in glorious combat against a superior foe, fighting to the last. Maybe eventualy being destroyed when Picard rams the blazing hulk of the E-D against the enemy vessel to save Earth.

I mean, I'm sure everyone here knows by now that I have nothing but utter loathing for the pathetic excuse for a flagship, but it deserved to have a properly heroic end.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:42 pm

Same. I'd have Picard screaming "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE" as he buries the burning wreck of the Enterprise into the side of the damaged borg cube in orbit of earth.

Sonic Glitch · Post by **Sonic Glitch** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:48 pm

I'd have it going down much like Rochey stated, but with the enemy making a "noble" gesture to allow Picard to surrender, with Picard responding "That'll be the day." So basically, Yesterday's Enterprise.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:51 pm

I get a bit fed up with plots that always involve the entire Federation being at stake, or Earth. It gets old after a while. I quit eliked the idea that Picard was fighting to save some little planet somewhere that nobody had ever heard of and nobody ever even saw.

Damn straight they should have given Lursa and B'Etor a Vor'Cha, possibly two. Didn't have the money, I guess.

kostmayer · Post by **kostmayer** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:57 pm

Would have been a nice touch to see his court martial at the beginning of the next film.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:14 am

I'd have it fighting the Romulans. A one on one with a D'Deridex, the two great ships of the two great powers slugging it out with each other.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:20 pm

I haven't really thought too much about this, but I agree strongly with two comments here.

#1 - GK is absolutely right. Willing to go to the mat for some world you've never heard of, as much as you would for Earth, is a phenomenal symbol of the gregarious morality that Roddenberry envisioned for 'Trek. As bad as some of the concepts were that were involved in Insurrection, that was one of the good ones.

#2 - Dead on, Teaos. Through TNG, GCS v. D'Deridex had been painted as the great symbol of the cold war standoff, and it would seem appropriate to have the E-D go down in the process of bringing down a D'Deridex.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:52 pm

Aye, that would have been cool.

Seriously, what they hell were they thinking having it go down to a BoP?

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:54 pm

Rochey wrote:thinking

That's kind of a wild presumption, isn't it?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:08 pm

Rochey wrote:Aye, that would have been cool.

Seriously, what they hell were they thinking having it go down to a BoP?

Given the combination of BoP and the atmospheric entry, It's possibly they were trying to invoke the spectre of the old Enterprise going down over Genesis. Stupid, given the wildly different situations, but possible.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:25 pm

That's just dumb.

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