Enterprise-D fights Husnock warship
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2009
- EDIT: Yes, Worf says "shields are down" three times. No more comments about this curious bit of writing are necessary.
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Survivors", the Enterprise is confronted by what appears to be a Husnock warship. The ships exchange shots, and in this episode, the Enterprise can be seen shooting off more torpedoes and phaser blasts than in any other episode. - Фільми й анімація
"Mr Worf, Damage report"
"Several computer consoles on the bridge have exploded sir".
Dang C-4 components!
Wasn't there a factory recall for that?
@@tubefluid Apparently they blew it off.
Grounding the consoles and moving away from spring-loaded seats would mitigate some job related injuries.
Don't forget the rocks on the bridge.
Worf: SIR OUR WEAPONS DO NOTHING!
Riker: FIRE ALL OUR WEAPONS SOME MORE!!!!!!
Squishy I wish I could give this comment a lot more likes 😭
“Fire our weapons faster!”
To be fair, they had to fire more, in order to check if the defenses of he husnock could actually sustain under pressure.
Look at me, I'm Commander Riker! I'm a douche!
When all you have is a hammer...
Red Shirt at 1:27 gave it his all. Probably the most energy put into a bridge attack scene in all of Star Trek. My Goodness, was that the force of the blast or was someone performing an exorcism on that man.
Even Picard and Riker were surprised lol
LOL
Nobody ran to his aid but medical assistance was requested lol
It's funny when you realise there was an unrealistic delay to his leap. He even looked over in that direction to ensure that he was going to land safely.
dezperado2006 give the man an Oscar 😂
Keep in mind that "Shields down" usually means they're fully depleted at that moment. However, shields of that nature are constantly recharging. Therefore it's safe to assume that the shields were, at least partially, restored between each time Worf said it.
Yeah, it seems like the Husnock weapon was acting as a rapid inhibitor to the shields, quickly disrupting them but not doing lasting damage to their maximum output.
If they had coupled it with a kinetic weapon like the torpedoes, that could do some major damage in quick bursts.
@@SlayerKast The Husnock weapon was a projection of the guy who erased the Husnock from existence. We have no accurate scale.
Also consider: 0:45, "I'm having trouble *reassembling the shields*." He's actively trying to get the shields up again, meaning it's fairly likely he's getting them back up before the ship knocks them right back off.
truth…plus IMHO he had to go through damage control checklists and announced that as per regulation especially as the next on the list is always hull integrity then casualty reports
Wouldn't make a difference against that ship. It is capable of more powerful bursts of thermal energy.
"We have been exemplary in our patience"... most epic open fire order ever issued...
Late response, but Picard could tell you to go fuck off in such a way, you'd end up thanking him and proceed to do so
@@welshguy9220 I don't give a damn
@@welshguy9220 probably he isnt giving a damn about S:TD
It doesn't get more English. Why is Picard French again?
@@Discrimination_is_not_a_right it's possible that Picard was born in France to an English Family that had lived there for a few decades. But never lost their English accent. Or Picard's father was English and his mother was French.
Picard delegating the fight to Riker is a perfect example of intended naval command structure. I loved it. Riker knew exactly how to react.
There is no reason for a Captain to delegate the to the first officer. This is _why_ the captain is there. Day to day duties should be delegated to the XO, not the important stuff.
@@tonyennis1787 I literally have no idea how you can be so wrong. Riker picked up on Picard's comment about being "exemplary in theior patience" This is a command structure you want. "Mr, Worf, fire phasers with an intermittent volley of torpedoes".
@@tonyennis1787🤡
@@KH4444444444N”I literally have no idea how you could be so wrong” - love it, haha
Picard is believed to be an Aquarius archetype. Riker is believed to be an Aries archetype.
The important question is does Troi sense any hostility from the captain of the other ship?
I don't know, but shes getting a feeling that they might be lying about something.
There's no one on that ship
In this episode, she was being attacked and her abilities blocked from the person on the surface to prevent her from figuring it out.
They didn't have access to their betazoid sensor array in this episode.
The one episode where she could have actually helped.
"Rapid fire phasers with simultaneous torpedoes" the only time they ever do this in the show
@@lyrethefolf They could've used it in Star Trek: Generations
@@ShaolinShadowStroke Instead we just got a bunch of nonsense about plasma coils
They really needed to do it on the "Yesterday's Enterprise" episode. The rate they fired their weapons on that episode was positively glacial.
@@johnryan6658 Yeah, it was a much different philosophy of battles in TNG. They basically set them up like slow-moving naval battles. Contrast that to DS9 where they changed the style to be more like jet fighter dog fights.
@@rreagan007 I think a lot of that had to do with a restricted budget. In the late 80's-early 90s CGI was still hella expensive, and didn't look as realistic as it does today (Babylon 5's CGI is a good example). That meant the visual arts people were largely limited to physical models. When the TNG blu-ray was being put together, the effects should have received the same remastered treatment as TOS. If you look at the remastered TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine," you'll see the Enterprise doing strafing runs across the planet-killer, and it looks AWESOME. But you never would have seen that back in the 60s because the money wasn't there and the graphics/visual effects know-how wasn't there.
Standard Star Fleet Attack Procedure:
1. Do a lot of fancy maneuvering.
2. Take at least 6 hits from enemy vessels.
3. Fire ONCE.
4. Ask Worf for a status report.
5. Repeat.
+Dermot B
It was especially bad in "Yesterday's Enterprise."
"Well now that the ship's a burning wreck, let's pop one of them and spend the next ten minutes listening to status reports about how the ship is falling apart."
+Thomas Tarrants Star Fleet needs to cut down on the status reports..
+Dermot B Their objective in that particular episode was merely to ensure that the Enterprise-C got back to the wormhole intact. They could have destroyed two BOPs and perhaps all 3 before being destroyed, but then the 1701-C would have been destroyed as well.
Why did destroying those ships preclude Enterprise-C entering the portal?
The Klingons are pretty smart. During the previous skirmish they had figured out that the Enterprise-D was protecting the C. That was their objective. And BOPs are quite a bit more nimble than the Federation flagship. Note also that the C was crippled and might have been going along at, say, 1/3 impulse. Crusher reported that the BOPs were trying to flank the Enterprise and get to the 1701C. All-in-all, I think they did all they could.
"Sir, the espresso machine on deck six has sprung a leak!"
Picard: "RED ALERT!!!"
@@jaystarr6571 The replicator has lost the ability to make Earl Grey.
Sir, we will need to replace several packs of explodium which we keep behind every console.
This entire thread had my sides hurting 😂
Someone stubbed their toe. Medical emergency!
400 gigawatts is insignificant compared to the power of the Schwartz.
I see your Schwartz is as big as mine
Don't try to frighten us with your Schwartz Ways, Lord helmet!your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't helped you kill off the main heroes in the Winnebago...Or giving you any means of recovering the blown air from planet Druidia! lol
The cat will get you
@Mike O'Horny it's a "Space balls" movie thing.
@Mike O'Horny the Death Star would disagree with this statement. I mean really? 3 blasts from an enemy ship and the Enterprise is rendered worthless. Meanwhile the Death Star destroyed Alderaan while the Star Killer from the First Order took out several planets...with one shot.
“They are capable of hitting us with far more powerful attacks”
“Alright let’s open fire!”
This episode makes you think what the"old man" down on the planet could´ve done to help against the Borg
@@NashmanNash Well if it had been the Borg that attacked Kevin Uxbridges (the only guest character name I can remember) planet, that race would no longer exist, anywhere. So quite handy in one way but the Federation would have been much worse off during the Dominion War later.
Edit: or Q might have restored them I suppose.
@@Thurgosh_OG Speaking of, how powerful is that old man compared to a Q?
@@taelim6599 fodder.
@@taelim6599 I still say Q wanted something done about the Borg but the Continuum told him know, so he used Picard as a loophole.
I like Worf's reaction when Picard orders that the ship be taken out of the enemy's ship firing range. It was like, "Wait a minute. Today is a good day to die!"
+steven franklin Very well. RAMMING SPEED!
I never got that impression from worf, he was just amazed by the ships power and was probably OK with Picard ordering retreat
"Lieutenant Worf, you are a Federation officer aboard a Federation Starship. If you wish to explore the possibility of a "good day to die", I suggest you do it upon a Klingon vessel. Do I make myself clear?"
tenhirankei Commas always go inside parenthesis, even within a quote inside a quote. Otherwise, excellent comment! I read it in Picard's voice, lol.
I can't remember the episode but Data thoroughly punked Worf. Told he didn't know the meaning of fear.
"Worf! Stop fucking around with the shields button!"
Lol!
Oh how i would love to actually see and hear Picard say that
Last words said by Picard or Riker.
Why is it bad writing? Clearly Worf keeps getting the shields back up and the aliens knock them straight down. Anyone who's ever played any game ever knows what that's like!
I agree!
Well I have played Star Trek: Bridge Commander and it takes around 2 min. for one part of the shields to get up and that is after a couple of maneuvers to evade enemy fire or take hits at the other parts of the shields that are at full power. If I did the same tactic they did here, I would be dead after the second attack. So yea the writing for this ep is terrible. And notice at the beginning of the video when Riker says shields up, they are already in yellow or red alert, the shields go automatically up when a starship is in yellow or red alert.
+Elandil5 The bad writing is how they stay in front of a ship that can clearly destroy them with ease. By the time of Voyager, ships (or at least the Nova class) can recharge their full shields in 45 seconds.
The bad writing is all over this episode and by the end of Voyager they didn't need shields.
+Elandil5 It's just like in an RPG like Final Fantasy 6, where you just revive your character only to have the character owned like a little bitch by the next attack.
The shields being down more than once makes perfectly reasonable sense. Remember, this is a Galaxy Class starship. One of its features (if you peruse the manual) is that it's shields regenerate rapidly. In the time intervals between enemy weapon bursts, they'd obviously managed to restore some small percentage of their protective capacity. This partial shielding was then lost, again, when they sustained another barrage. Simple.
Why they never installed the multiphasic shields that Crusher tested, I'll never know...
Plus.....Kevin Uxbridge was going out of his way to NOT damage or destroy the Enterprise, simply deter them to leave
Riker: "Our friend is back"
Picard: "I'm not surprised".
(Picard already suspects that something is up with the ship and Uxbridge, and it not trying to destroy Enterprise but drive them away only. Hence is not being that concerned with being destroyed when Data says the ship is more powerful. Picard plays along like he is falling for the ploy, then withdraws to test the theory)
Worf: "I'm having trouble re-assembling the shields".
(the created vessel is not trying to deal real harm to the Enterprise... circuits, shield projects, shield generators are not being destroyed. Hence Worf is able to bring the shields up again)
Picard is so cool when he say, "Number one, we have been exemplary in our patience". He's like some gangster ordering a hit on some poor guy, getting his henchman to do the dirty work.
Yeh wesley shut up
So epic that the enemy vessel brushed off the Enterprise's weapons volley like it was a case of dandruff.
@Nino. Well, Picard IS a fan of Dixon Hill...
@DJ Hogg Why is ANYONE there? Only Picard should be necessary every else could be run by A.I.
You're right - gangsters use euphemism and indirect vague orders, I guess for plausible deniability if they're bugged.
400 Gigawatts of particle energy?
Well, its a good thing that the Flux Capacitor was offline or who knows when they would have ended up.
Clay Ronso It would've overloaded the time circuits and sent the DeLorean flying out of the shuttlebay.
Clay Ronso That's Jigawatts in BTTF
The DeLorean only use 1.21 Gigawatts. 400 would have vaporized it.
Clay Ronso
400 Gigawatts of energy is pathetic for space age weapons systems to be honest. The first nuke that we ever built released 84 TJ of energy. That"s a factor of more than 2000 times more energy albeit released over a couple of seconds.
Agreed. The Dowd character was really good and well played by the actor. When he talks about committing genocide with just a thought... Picard was right to say "we better leave this guy alone and get the hell out of here."
Kind of like Q except Picard loves to fight with him.
Wouldn't it also make one wonder why Q never mentioned the Dowd or never interfered with his "race?"
@@CustomerSupport-ok3qd Q has much more control of his power.
@@CustomerSupport-ok3qdQ is an annoying SOB who loves to cause trouble. This Dowd just wants to be left alone.
I never appreciated the sound effects at the time, but it’s only now listening through headphones I appreciate how fantastic the sound of the torpedoes being launched is.
I love the sound design of TNG, especially the torpedoes.
I think of that sound effect whenever I fire off my Taco Bell torpedoes.
I rather prefer the phaser sound effect from TOS. It sounded more powerful.
Dang! In every single episode, no matter how scarce the available space there is on the Enterprise, they have room for that fantastic orchestra!!!
I don't understand what's wrong with the "Shields down" being declared multiple times. As I understand it, 1) they get hit, 2) their shields absorb the blast and are weakened or completely dispersed in the process, 3) the shields power up again (as Worf points out he has "trouble reassembling the shields"), meanwhile the other ship is charging their next attack. Makes sense for the shields to go off and on multiple times during the course of one battle, if the ship is hit with sufficiently powerful missiles.
+ericb31 That's essentially how every Star Trek video game featuring space combat does it, too. (Some better than others)
The attack may have depleted the shields but not damaged them. Worf essentially channeled supplementary/auxiliary power back into them.
William Signs xD
A slow clap for your post is in order. Good Show! Top Kek! GG!
"What you see is what you get.Move along."
What a bitch.
The enemy ship is a manifestation of a God-like alien on the planet who wanted to be left alone in exile. Since this was the Enterprise's second encounter with it, the alien had lost patience with Picard and made his manifestation much more powerful in hopes that he wouldn't be bothered by him again if he made the threat to his ship overwhelmingly more serious. The alien had sworn never to kill again, so had the Enterprise held it's ground it would have been able to call the alien's bluff, but Picard had only just started to suspect this was the real scenario and couldn't risk the Enterprise without more information. It's an awesome and rare opportunity to see such a massive volley of firepower from the Enterprise-D, but it was never going to have any effect. The Enterprise's shields recharge automatically, faster than normal if they get auxiliary power directed to them. I would speculate that the alien had no intention of inflicting any serious damage to the ship, but figured if he kept knocking the shields down and repelled any counter attack it would eventually be enough of a scare tactic to get Picard to withdraw.
Or he could have been honest with them at the start, given some demonstration of his power and asked the E to leave. Episode is done in 5 minutes.
... uh, yup..
1:09 - Imagine if they'd done that to the Duras Sisters' Bird of Prey in Generations.
I have said the same thing! they would have vaporized the bird of prey in one motion. instead they shot one bs phaser off
Still confused by how that happened.
Then we never would have gotten the Enterprise E. E is a beauty.
What we should have had was:
Duras sister: "The shield frequency is (something)! Pass it on to the Captains and tell them 'no mercy'"
Two modern Klingon capital ships decloak next to the Duras sisters' 20-year old ship and begin firing.
Everyone watching: 'Oh yeah, Klingon ships can remain cloaked for a long time'
The reasoning behind that is that the people involved in making the Next Gen movies hated the Galaxy class, so they did that to the Enterprise D so they could bring in the ship they wanted. Such a shame, really.
1:27 That Red Shirt almost made Patrick Stewart laugh....
I thought Patrick Stewart's reaction was more "damn, hope Bob is okay because that looked nasty."
Beware low flying redshirts
Luiz Fernando Cavalcanti dos Santos Hahhahha; Damn, that Red Shirt must have acquired his Kung-Fu license with flying colours with a back-leap fall & floor roll like that; Patrick Stewart's face and posture is priceless glancing over at 'em.
Mulinaster
I know, right? That must have been what startled Patrick Stewart.
He was standing behind Worf texting before that. "Go stand on the other side of Worf so you fall down on camera".
Worf: Shields down!
Also Worf: Shields down!
Worf again: Shields down!
why is it that even as old as shows like this is, that they are still so good to watch.
Because back then "Making your Vision able to be seen by a lot of people" was primary before "Making as much money as possible", back then, storywriters and story book authors held quite some power (That's why Season 2 of TNG for example is some episodes shorter than usual, back then there was a general uproar amongst TV and Movie Authors, resulting in a strike,), but nowadays all the power is in the hands of the shareholders whose only value is making money.
I havent rewatched a single episode of Discovery or Picard. Yet I am and always will continue to Rewatch TOS TNG DS9 VOY ENT.
“Captain, they hit us with a crapload of raw power, our fancy weapons and shields are useless.” Pretty much define StarTrek. Because, magic!
Well, the Alien who controlled that illusion (!) of a Ship created by his own mind (!) didn't want to kill anybody off, he just wanted to be left alone. He just choose a quite rude way to say "Leave me alone!"
they should have just modulated the phase polarity, that always works
I love how the enterprise D strike with full weapons on that episode, shame the follow ones would be just a single or two phaser array at once then a torpedo, then the 1 or 2 array again.
1300l budgets my friend budgets
But budger to draw more phasers lines on the other shows?? They have the budget for that
1300l This scene was shot in the very early 1990s their budgets had alot to do with their lack of space battles ect, like notice all the fly by shots of the enterprise are done from the same angles, even those shots were expensive back then their effects didn't get better until the late mid 1990s when First Contact came out
One of the best Star Trek episodes ever
The firepower is huge, the enterprise is a torpedo hose. To think she is able to fire that fast in short of time. Remarkable.
Watching these clips again, I love the way that most of the time Picard simply tells Riker the "what" but not the "how" and let's the kids have their fun. Riker seems to have much more autonomy than most XOs in the Trek universe.
Kirk is too much the straight up hero to delegate.
Janeway is too much of a scientist/technician to leave the details to others.
Sisko is such a straight up badass warfighter that even when he's still and calm you can see the power flows from him to everyone else.
Picard, sometimes is like a Jedi that fell into the wrong franchise. I bet him and old Ben Kenobi would be BFFs.
It's entirely possible Picard is either allowing Riker to gain experience, or he has a better grasp on tactical combat. Picard is absolutely the sort to turn control over if it serves a greater benefit.
Chris in stasis. Could you possibly be more of a geek?
And they all pale in comparison to the supreme being: Michael Burnham who can do every single thing anyone else can, except better. Don't even need a crew when she's around!
If you trained your people well, you just have to say what.
If your people are new or dumb, you have to say how also.
"We have been exemplary in our patients number 1", what other show gives you lines like that!? Gotta love it
I think the reason he says "Shields Down" three times is: A) It's his job, and B) It emphasizes the Hussnock ship's power by establishing the fact that the Enterprise's shields can't withstand it. Also, I think it adds a kind of urgency to their situation.
Shadowkey392 I mean also it’s probably cause he keeps reassembling them and then they’re get fucked up again
Shields recharge.
Picard: We been patient.
Riker: FUCK THEIR SHIT, WORF.
Hahaha, that Red Shirt got really into that.
+sailtheplains I'm glad that kind of language wasn't in it. Kinda brings done the class of the show don't you think.
+saquist You mean, it makes it pretty cool rather than extremely nerdy. Yes I agree.
*****
Then you're agreeing with yourself from an apparent lacing of affirmation in your life.
+saquist Don't be such a pedantic stupid nerd, the guy is joking, and it's a fucking cool scene.
heuh3 Pedantic: ostentatiously learned and stupid: lacking intellectual acuity are rather contradictory descriptions as is nerd where this slur is regarded against those with formidable thirst for knowledge.
Fascinating...You're a blatherskite it seems.
"Lieutenant Worf, fire phasers on full with a simultaneous spread of torpedos," ordered Commander Riker after the Duras sisters found a way to compromise the Enterprise's shield. "Sir, I also recommend rotating our shield frequency to prevent further direct hits to the hull," adds Mr Worf.
Yes, Riker fires phasers once or twice in that movie while sitting on the very weapons that could have blew that tiny bird of prey into dust. It drove me nuts knowing that all Riker had to do was unleash the full strength of the Enterprises wepons. He could have cleaned the carpet with the Duros sisters but instead chose to tinker with schematics and looking for unusual ways to destroy them... ugh...
LMAO! The redshirt at 1:27 got Worf, Riker, and Picard to look back to see WTF was going on!! He throws himself back against the door, tosses the clipboard, falls down, then does some kind of break dance move to finish it off!
Lol....
That was a mission-critical clipboard too. It contained vital information on the size and composition of Worf's facial hair. It's loss was deeply felt throughout the fleet.
XD
that's hysterical. i have seen that episode numerous times but never noticed how the redshirt jumps back and flops around while 'dying.' Picard, Riker and Worf, maybe caught off-guard, look like they almost come out of character to look over to see if the guy is really hurt.
But, if the hushnoc ship was an illusion created by the man on the planet, how could it have damaged the Enterprise?
I have zero recollection of this episode. Welp! Looks like it's time to rewatch the whole show again.
Me too.
Another omniscience being, like Q, just not nearly as powerful as one. The episode can be an emotional one considering the narrative and plot you’ll soon uncover. I really enjoyed it and may catch it again.
"Give us a tight visual Data."
*ship appears on screen*
"Whoa, that is pretty tight."
Husnock warship are tight!
Sheilds are down - whopsie
Barely an inconvenience...
"Give us a tight visual Data."
*Data brings up an Orion slave girl doing a pole dance.*
"Whoah, that is even tighter!"
The dude in the background at 1:27 is EPIC.
and then Stewart's reaction ;)
He must have just gotten done with competing in the World Cup.
THROW YOUR ARMS IN THE AIR LIKE YOU JUST DON'T CARE
Picard was checking on him and making sure the dude was down
Bits of Real Panther Riker was was watching that acrobatic moron and Jean Luc nearly snapped his neck “What the Fuck?!”
It is possible that he said "shields down" because the shields did come up minimally between exchanges of fire.... but then again, that's just speculation.
Shields do recharge.
1:27 I love how all three of them look at the poor crewman who got blasted off his feet. LOL!!
The Shields Obviously recharge very quickly. The only way to take the Shields down permanently is to destroy or damage the Shield Projectors (Of which the Enterprise has many). It's much easier to cause a Warp Core Breach that will definitely destroy the vessel from the inside rather than carving up the Hull with Disruptors.
^ Cool name; interesting avatar.
It's sad this is one of the few episodes you see the Enterprise use its full firepower. Half the time it shoots only once while the enemy fires back over and over. Then you get crap like Rascals or Generations, where a where a weaker rusty Klingon ship (in Rascals used by idiot Ferengi) overpowers the Enterprise.
Alien ships can be humbling. That thing took them out faster than the Borg.
to be fair, the guy in the planet could wipe out the whole borg
@@gg-eo6ez Like Q
@@MrGriff305 The alien on that planet (called a Douwd) is showed to be just as powerful as Q.
@@EnforcerX71 Not quite.
Flagship of a federation of hundreds of planets always gets knocked down by some small side imperium.
And even after they become friends, SF never seems to integrate the new tech
I remember asking myself when I saw this episode, "Could that entity have rivaled or beaten the Q? He had immense power, enough to erase an entire species and he could have sneezed the Enterprise into oblivion if he wanted.
Who says he wasn't a Q?
@@herbertcrawford9634 We don't know for sure, certainly didn't at the time, but we now know many Q have fled the Continuum; and most of them were hunted down. We've seen a good number of aliens advanced far beyond starships, but this is the only one I recall with Q level powers.
The Q are known to track down their own kind based on the use of these powers, so he either was one, or he evaded detection by them for a long time. Hmm. I wonder if the Q could have rivals, or if they'd be snuffed out..?
Q would have turned that ship into a keychain.
@@Cougar65429 Don't know why I never thought this entity could be a Q. I guess I assumed that since most of the renegade Q had been hunted down, that if one chose to hide from the continuum, hiding on an remote planet isn't the best place to be inconspicuous.
@@dennisavent1686 The Q best known to the Enterprise, had told Picard other Q had been permitted to leave the continuum on the condition they do not use their powers & live as mere mortals. He was then implied to have executed them with a tornado when they couldn't keep that bargain. The Q were aware of their existence, but either couldn't find or chose to ignore them. I suspect using their powers upsets some kind of balance within the continuum, and it is for that, they were executed. I believe that was on Earth, Kansas, in fact. I don't believe the world they're on is a factor.
The world this entity was on, was once richly populated with colonists prior to its destruction by aliens. He claimed it was against his morals to kill, thus he did nothing, and, Q or not, that satisfied the conditions not be visited by the continuum. Q may have seen this, realized Picard and his merry band were close by and chose to let things play out
I just figured he Worf was able to bring them slightly back up soon after saying "I'm having problems reconfiguring the shields."
All 400 Gigawatts went straight in to that redshirt and knocked his ass out!
*falls to floor*
But in this series the red shirts aren't the ones that always die.
+MrDextreus: Seriously. Red is the color of Command Division in TNG.
***** IKNOOWWW but i can still make corny joeks
The Droud seems very careful to make the ship dangerous but not really hurt the enterprise crew. He relearned restraint after the Husnock genocide.
One of the best battles in TNG, the battle with the Tamarians are a close second. It's more fun when the enemy vessel is a decent match. ;)
I get it, but FYI, the Husnock warship is far more than a match to the Enterprise-D., as much as I hate to admit it.
i get the impression that their shields are, in fact, down
I get the impression that you're a moron.
Shields recharge.
"Shields up, weapons ready." Shouldn't that be done automatically when the ship goes to Red Alert?
Make it so!
Not necessarily.
_Yes Mr. Reed_
Yes, but it's also nice to know when the shields are fully up and the weapons are at full ready state and aren't still in the process of becoming ready. So hence the announcement once they are.
Still gotta call it out.
1:38 *MR* Crusher. The respect Piccard has even for a teenage ensign
Traditional British navy etiquette
An official rank is an official rank. And as a Captain, even THE captain of federations flagship you'll do your best to get the ensign through the best training possible.
Worf said he was having trouble reassembling the shields, not that he couldn't get them back up. They regenerate when power is directed to them, something that is well established in Star Trek canon. Considering he's chief of security and the tactical officer of the Federation *flagship* , I imagine he has some expertise in the matter.
Possible Kevin Uxbridge was manipulating with the Enterprises' systems.
It's an LCARS problem. the shield control panels keep slipping as he's trying to Tetris them back together!
I sincerely miss this series. My all time favorite Star Trek's were Star Trek TNG and Voyager. When their last episodes aired, it was almost like losing a loved friend, a definite ending of an era. Sad
I think you make a really valid point here. I loved TNG & Voyager also. They were obviously rushed when making but the logic, methodology, tactical strategy, & behavioral science was far superior of anything today. Intelligent writing is utterly absent in Sci-Fi now. God rest Gene Roddenberry & Jacque Fresco.
ship was already at red alert when he said shields up. I remember reading in the tech manual that shields were automatically raised and defensive systems primed the moment red alert was initiated, which makes a lot more sense in an automated future.
That flip tho, lol
That's the kind of weapons fire Riker needed to employ in Generations...
But Alas
First of all, Worf kept trying to rebuild the shields but as he stated, they were getting hit with massive bursts of pure energy which scrambled the shields and fried circuits throughout the ship. The Dowd was hoping that they would just run from a superior force and not return - he was not trying to kill them. A Hunsock ship could probably go toe to toe with a Borg cube.
They hit us with *OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!* gigawatts of particle energy XD
+RedShirtGuy96 Lol, bear with me. I just have to do this:
"Worf! What does the Sensors say about their Energy Level??"
Schwatvogel ITS OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND gigawatts of particle energy. *crushes console*
I read that in Worfs voice! :') Thx for that!
at 1.21 gigawatts a pop.. you could travel time 7,438 times with a Flux Capacitor.
over 9000??? what would vegeta say??? Thats impossible even for a ....
Data: "Our weapons won't work against this ship"
Riker: "Fire all weapons as quickly as possible!"
Maybe Riker thought LOTS of weapons wold work against that ship.
To be fair, it's not out of the question that a greater quantity of firepower would overwhelm the defenses.
What else would you do then?
They need a photonic canon.
They need battleships. Which they finally get during the Dominion war.
Ahh, someone else remembers the holographic doctor on voyager playing mind games!
@@TheCaptainSplatter more like small escorts. The Sovereign class was still a militarized Exploratory Vessel. It would have been great to see true purpose built Warships like the Defiant but on a larger scale.
@@richardched6085 I agree, just with the caveat that the Federation doesn't want a militaristic appearance, so they would have to be hidden unless absolutely needed. The Defiant is a complete badass of a ship though.
Does it come with an Emergency Command Hologram?
Picard: “Continuous fire, don’t stop shooting until we break their shields!”
Worf, “Captain weapons can’t fire, were already over budget on special effects for this episode!”
If the night crew were handling this situation, then it would be over by now.
Beer me
You glorious sons of bitches! 💪🤪🍻
Your party.. so hearty
This is one of my favorite episodes.
I love watching the "red shirt" falling at 1:27.
Not only does he stumble back hitting the door, dropping his i-pad, but he flips into the air and completes with a roll.
Picard is a great tactician, during the battle of Maxia he invented the Picard maneuver, under extreme distress to save the Stargazer and its crew.
Shoot the Enterprise D with 400 gigawatts of pure particle energy and you may possibly disgruntle Pichard a little bit. He may even shoot back you never know.
A particle energy beam is a stream of charged or neutral particles, in many cases moving at near the speed of light.
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 299,792,458 meters per second (approximately 300,000 km/s (186,000 mi/s)[Note 3]). It is exact because by international agreement a meter is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 second.[Note 4][3]
Assuming a layer 20 cm thick of steel absorbs the energy, in the first second this 200 kg of steel heats to 2 million degrees. That’s a problem. The target is exploding vaporized steel all through the beam and can’t get out of its own way. It is going to come back up the vacuum tube and hit the laser . We will have a thermal blast equivalent to a small atomic bomb. That is so hot that x-rays are going to be coming out all over the place and kill everything within a few kilometers. The explosive force of the vaporizing steel is going to push the target away from you. It is going to behave a lot like it was just hit with a kiloton atomic bomb!
All of this power is in just ONE gigawatt of particle energy! Now imagine 400 Gigawatts firing at a target.
Obviously, in reality, no one has ever come anywhere close to making a laser of even one gigawatt cw.
Bond Pyant why the hell weren’t you on the bridge?
Pat R
BECAUSE, if he is art enough to do the math, he is smart enough to not be under it.
BTW doesn't all this math mean that the shields are Uber strong, too, considering that the husnock blast is hitting on shields that are in the act of failing?
@@williamcasey1927 well the purpose of shields primarily is to disperse and absorb the energy of whatever they touch, and match with equal force anything left over.
And considering the Galaxy class has the total firepower, over a prolonged period, to glass an entire planet multiple times over then you imagine the shields to be capable of handling huge HUGE amounts of energy. 400 Gigawatts is enough to immediately drain them entirely though, apparently.
@@bondpyant5730
Star Trek has tritanium alloy instead of steel, a fictional material.
The look on Worf's face. "But Captain, my horoscope said today was a good day to die".
12 years later this pops up. What’s sad is that I remember this. Age sucks.
gotta love picard's quote: "we have been exemplary in our patience" - funny how he can make pacifism seem like badassery.
If only they had reversed the polarity of the sensor array and cycled the frequency of the phasers they may have got them.
You know you like the technobabble.🙃
I like on that last hit Picard looks back, “Just a red shirt” and gets back to business.
The photon torpedos hitting the husnock shield sounds like a sick beat
My favorite part of this entire episode is at 1:34. The look on Picard's face instantly tells you that he's already figured out what's going on.
With regard to the "Shields down" thing. It may simply be a starfleet protocol for the the Tactical officer to give shield status with each damage report, even if shield status hasn't changed.
I hope there's an alternate universe we may see in future trek episodes where the Husnock still exist, they would have been quite an enemy/adversary for the Federation and that could make quite a storyline.
“Sir our weapons have no effect, indeed mr. worf...perhaps we can play music and see if their heads explode”
Uxbridge: In a moment of anguish, I rendered the Husnock extinct.
Picard: We have no record of Husnock.
Uxbridge: All righty, then. Never mind. Want some tea?
'Commence rapid fire all weapons on full.' Riker don't fuck around.
"Is it my imagination or does it look a lot meaner this time?"
That's what she said.
That's what is in your imagination only.
@@menacelurkingyet8345 Nah, I think it's in YOUR imagination, based on your comment. Lol
1:27 Worf laughs at that red-shirt tumbling on the ground and then Picard looks over as well to see what Worf was laughing at
Oooo! Worf certainly didn't like the order to move out of range. His Klingon ears heard RETREAT!!!
Dynamite-laced control panels, gotta love them but why? lol
They are tied directly to Starship functions. When those functions are damaged or are subjected to intense energy. It overloads and blows the console up.
@@richardched6085 If your TV blows up, the remote should still be fine.
@@Gauntlet1212 good point..... Except the remote is wireless. The Enterprise computers are directly tied into ship functions. Plus it's cheaper to film consoles exploding and throwing rocks than Actually destroying sections of the bridge set (Which would logically happen long before consoles explode) and Require far more money in every episode with a Battle scene.
Because it was a t.v. show...
Just like the lens flare generators in the 2009 Star Trek 😏
if only we saw more galaxy class firepower like this.
Why didnl
Why didn't the Odyssey use this sort of firepower against the Jem’Hadar?
@@ianhirst1148 excellent question.
Yes Picard, your sluggish response-time under fire is exemplary.
1:27 Explosion, guy in the back gets wasted.
Riker looks like, "Was there a guy standing there a second ago. I guess not."
Jean Luc Looks, "Anyone I know? No? Alright then, back to it."
I would think the Douwd controlling the ship would want to keep taking the Enterprise D's shields down as well, to let them know they were powerless against the ship. But, considering the Douwd would not kill, he just kept flexing until the Enterprise was helpless, and had to retreat. First the shields, then damage to the hull, then the weapons.
00:39 How many Jigawatts? Great Scott!
1:26 dude by the turbolift earned his paycheck that day, and everyone noticed
Not only the enemy warship just playing with the Enterprise, it was nice enough to just target the poor red shirt on the bridge.
This is why I like Kirk vs Picard. Kirk says, “fire photon torpedos!” And Picard says, “Number One, we’ve been exemplary in our patience”
Kirk every time
"I didn't just kill one Husnock, or a hundred, or a thousand. I killed all the Husnock. All of them. Everywhere."
A race of 50 billion gone
"...and not just the men, but the women and the children too. They're like animals and I slaughtered them like animals. _I HATE THEM!"_
@@BigJwlz lol
We have no law to fit your crime...
A lot of firepower displayed here. I like the rapid firing.
1:21 Anyone else like the fire weapons sound when Worf presses the fire button and why didn't Worf do that in Generations
I've thought that, too... but keep in mind that in this episode, they weren't even fighting a "real" ship... it was a construct created by a god-like being to scare the Enterprise off. If he'd wanted the Enterprise destroyed, all he would've had to do was snap his fingers and it would blink out of existence.
Poor redshirt. Even though 3 of the main cast was near that explosion the redshirt was the one to catch the hit.
Also, in "All Good Things" Admiral Riker did choose the Enterprise as his flagship, although part of the reason behind that was that the Enterprise was going to be decommissioned if he hadn't. But since that took place in a timeline which obviously will never occur, what you said is in fact true.
Picard: Status report.
Worf: Just look at the view screen, captain....