#ncc 1701d

[cookiebeard]

Who else but this man could keep the Enterprise running AAAAAND foster a love of reading in an entire generation!?

[mceproductions]

MCE The Jaw Droppers 2023 #2: The Enterprise D Returns to the fold.

Along with the 3rd season of Picard being so great in getting the crew of the enterprise D back together for a final journey. There was one player nobody saw coming.

In the wake of a return of an old enemy, Picard and company were brought back to a piece of their past being unexpectedly restored after they had lost it long ago.

What magic happens when Geordi brings the crew together on the rebuilt bridge is nothing short of stunning.

Even the welcome voice of Majel Barrett as the Starfleet computer was a very welcome touch.

We knew the reunion was going to happen from the start. Nobody expected the original ship would come back in the play.

And jaws were dropped.

[secondaryartifacts]

[azazelsazaleas]

Picard writers built up the anticipation over almost 9 hours before they finally gave us the D

[performing-personhood]

All yall voting for wandering around an empty DS9 all on your own seem to be forgetting its literally a former cardassian prison labor management center explicitly designed to kill you in unexpected, creative and painful ways

No thanks, I'll take the flying carpeted holiday inn conference center

For bonus points tell us if it would be scary or exciting to have run of the whole ship alone. Where would you explore first?

[meilas]

Socks’ Star Trek must-watch list

Socks’ list of must-watch Trek episodes

OG Trek

Welcome to the NCC-1701 starship, known as the Enterprise. The captain and crew follow rules when the plot says so, the captain is often on away missions with his top-ranked crew members leaving some unqualified guy in charge, and the captain gets to snog a lot of ladies. Like, a lot. Seriously. This series features lots of questionable fashion choices, including men’s heeled boots and miniskirts. 

Space Seed - our introduction to Khan Noonien Singh, played by Ricardo Montalban. Khan is the villain of the second Trek movie Wrath of Khan which is why this episode is on the list.

Taste of Armageddon - Do you remember the game Battleship? Two planets wage a war against each other. There is staggering loss of life, but no destruction. The Lottery in Space.

Mirror, Mirror - obligatory parallel universe episode! This parallel universe shows up later in Deep Space Nine which is why it is on this list.

Trouble With Tribbles - Clue in Space. Just a fun episode. Also shows up in Deep Space Nine!

A Piece of the Action - another fun episode. And the reason I don’t know if the proper expression is concrete galoshes or cement overshoes.

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - two individuals who are the very last members of their races who were at war are still trying to kill each other. This episode was about racism and it is not subtle about it at all.

Next Generation

Welcome to the NCC-1701D, also known as the Enterprise! Not the Enterprise from the original series, but a younger, more advanced starship that is the successor to the Enterprise name. And since the Enterprise and trouble go so well together, the crew of this Enterprise find lots of adventures to keep them busy as they explore strange new worlds and seek out new civilisations.

Encounter at Farpoint - The very first episode. Not great, but it also serves as an introduction to Q, who will show up several times throughout the series. So that I don’t fill up this whole post, just go ahead and watch every Q episode (which will 99% of the time have Q in the title.)

Measure of a Man - Data is put on trial to determine if he is property or his own person, and Riker is forced to testify against him for plot reasons. This episode explores individuality and friendship.

Q Who - I said I wouldn’t fill this up and I won’t, but this episode is special because it introduces the Borg. There’s also a great moment between Picard and Q toward the end.

The Survivors - An elderly couple are the last survivors on a planet. Hard to explain why I like this episode without giving away the whole plot.

Sarek - This episode can be pretty sad as it deals with dementia and what it can do to people.

Menage a Troi - Any episode with Deanna’s mother, Lwaxana, is always a funny one. (Except the one that is sad, more on that later.) This episode is excellent because we get to hear Sir Patrick Stewart recite Shakespeare in the most over-the-top delivery possible.

Best of Both Worlds, parts one and two - THE CLIFFHANGER TO END ALL CLIFFHANGERS HOLY SHIT THIS EPISODE HAS ALL THE DRAMA

Family - A follow-up to Best of Both Worlds. Deals with family that is gone, family that can be A Bit Much, and family that is estranged.

Suddenly Human - This episode is similar to the Deep Space Nine episode Cardassians: a boy who has been adopted by others is discovered and found to have living family who want him back. Which family is the child supposed to stay with?

Darmok - An episode all about language and how ideas are communicated. Yes it has some flaws, but overall it is interesting from a linguistic point of view. By the end of the episode, you will understand how darmok=memes and inside jokes.

The First Duty - A good Wesley episode. This explores truth, loyalty, and doing what is right.

I, Borg - The Enterprise rescues a Borg teenager, who begins to develop individuality. He is named Hugh. Hugh is adorable.

The Inner Light - THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE EVER. IF THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING ON THIS LIST THAT SOUNDS INTERESTING PLEASE AT LEAST WATCH THIS.

Rascals - Picard and a few other randos (no seriously why is this bunch of people even on a shuttle together?) experience a transporter malfunction and are beamed aboard the Enterprise, except they materialise as pre-teen children! This episode is just pure fun. Contains: bby!Picard throwing a tantrum, and bby!Guinan jumping on the bed.

*Frame of Mind - This is a pretty heavy episode that deals with hallucinations. Riker is supposed to be performing in a play, but suddenly he’s in an alien mental institution and accused of murder. Riker repeatedly flashes between being on the Enterprise and being in the institution and he increasingly cannot tell which is real.

*Technically, this episode does not contain gaslighting even though it will seem like it. Please make sure you are in a good place if you decide to watch this episode.

**Dark Page - Lwaxana Troi is back! But something is up with her.

**I can’t explain why this is a serious episode without giving it away, so here it is: this episode deals with child death.

Deep Space Nine

By far my absolute favourite series, and the only one I have seen every episode of. Deep Space Nine is about a Cardassian space station that is now occupied by joint Federation and Bajoran forces. Deep Space Nine just so happens to be situated right by a stable wormhole that goes to another quadrant of space that would take years and years and years to travel to by starship alone. Naturally, everyone wants to be in control of the wormhole. The closest planet, Bajor, was until recently occupied by Cardassians. (Think of Cardassians as Space Russians.) The Bajorans are deeply spiritual people (literally every fucking Bajoran subscribes to the same religion) and they believe that their gods reside in the wormhole. (THEY ARE WORMHOLE ALIENS FFS AND THEY DON’T CARE ONE BIT ABOUT BAJOR OR CARDASSIA OR THE FEDERATION.) Because this series is set on a space station that does not go anywhere, we get to see that actions have consequences. If Next Generation was the fuck around series, this one is the find out series.

Emissary - A two-parter and our introduction to Deep Space Nine and the majority of the major characters in this show. 

Past Prologue - This episode is important because we meet Garak, a tailor and the only Cardassian still living on the station. What could he possibly be doing here?

Duet - A Cardassian arrives at the station, as they often do, but this one seems to be hiding something. This explores topics of colonialism, genocide, terrorism, and how complicated people really are. This was one of the episodes that made me watch the entirety of DS9. (The other was Take Me Out to the Holosuite.)

Cardassians - Another Garak episode. This one has a similar plot to the Next Generation episode Suddenly Human. Garak and Bashir discover a Cardassian boy is the adopted son of a Bajoran man. But since Bajorans and Cardassians kind of hate each other because Cardassions tried to colonize Bajor, there is a concern that the Cardassian boy is being abused by his adopted father. To make matters worse, Gul Dukat gets involved. (Gul Dukat is played by a native Wisconsinite!)

Shadowplay - Kind of similar to the Next Generation episode Survivors.

The Wire - Garak episode! This episode deals with the topic of addiction and friendship.

Second Skin - Kira might actually be an undercover Cardassian agent?!?

Crossover - Welcome back to the mirror universe, which we haven't seen since the OG series. Here we find out what happened after Kirk left that universe. Told you this was the 'find out' series.

Fascination - A fun Lwaxana episode

Past Tense, parts one and two - Time travel episode! This episode takes place August 30-September 1, 2024. The Bell Riots occurred in San Francisco, and were a turning point in earth history. These are pretty heavy episodes, and they deal with things that still resonate today: poverty, racism, classism, homelessness.

The Visitor - Similar vibes to The Inner Light. Sisko jumps through time at increasing intervals. Meanwhile, Jake lives his life with his father literally popping into existance for a short time only. Jake is older every time. Sisko is not.

Trials and Tribble-ations - The 'find out' episode to OG Trek's Trouble With Tribbles. This is just a really cool episode that blends footage from OG Trek with DS9.

Things Past - An interesting episode where some of the crew wake up in the bodies of people living on the station during the Cardassian occupation.

Ties of Blood and Water - Kira's Cardassian "father" (the guy from Second Skin) arrives on the station.

In the Cards - Jake and Nog do increasingly weird tasks in their quest to obtain a baseball card for Jake's father. Oh and that bitch Kai Winn is there too.

Statistical Probabilities - This episode introduces the Jack Pack! They're a bunch of genetically altered humans, just like Bashir! Oh, and they are extremely neurodivergent and would probably be tons of fun to hang out with.

Far Beyond the Stars - The crew, but what if they were science fiction writers in the 50s? Deals with the topic of racism.

In the Pale Moonlight - How far is Sisko willing to go to get the Romulans to join the war against the Dominion?

Take Me Out to the Holosuite - One of DS9's obligatory holosuite episodes. A Vulcan that Sisko knows shows up and in a very un-Vulcan-like manner boasts to Sisko that he and his crew are superior beings who have been trying Sisko's favorite sport and just absolutely crushing it. Sisko challenges him to a baseball game. The only problem is that most of his crew are not human and have never played baseball before.

Chrysalis - Have you ever read Flowers for Algernon? The Jack Pack returns.

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Crew

I know this is fanon, and justifying stuff in-universe that otherwise kinda doesn’t make sense. But I was thinking...

I think Starfleet’s biggest problem is - and has always been - getting enough personnel.

Now, let me break down a few things. These are canon:

The NX-01 had a crew complement of 82, not counting the MACOs. Which isn’t all that many, but that’s in a ship with only 7 decks and 230 meters long (including nacelles). From what we saw of the interior, the spaces were not uncomfortable, and nobody hot-bunked, but they didn’t have all that much space either.

Now, the NCC-1701 - the original Constitution class Enterprise - wasn’t much longer at only 288 meters, but it had 22 decks and originally had a crew of 430 personnel. Which roughly makes sense. (Out of Universe, the crew size and layout of this Enterprise was informed by Roddenberriy’s military background). When the DS9 crew found themselves on this ship, Dax commented “They really packed them in on these old ships”. The original Enterprise was probably the most crowded of the starships we saw. Interestingly, the enlisted crew had similar accommodations to those on modern US navy vessels: 8 people to a cabin, each one having their own bunk and locker.

The next iteration of the Enterprise, the Excelsior-class NCC-1701B, was a whopping 466 meters long, with a crew complement of 750 - but also 34 decks. It was significantly larger than the Constitution class, but nowhere near as crowded.

Next we get to the Ambassador class Enterprise: 478 meters long (or 526, sources vary), 33 decks, 1,320 crew. This one is actually pretty easy to compare - the Ambassador class has 570 more crew members than the Excelsior. It is worth noting that while the Excelsior class remained in use even into the Dominion War, Ambassador class vessels are unheard of in that era.

Now, the big one: the Galaxy Class NCC-1701D. Sometimes derisively referred to as a “cruise ship” by fans, Galaxy class starships were 641 meters long, and 473 meter wide - wider than the next largest ship is long. The crew complement varied widely, from 1000 to 6000 depending on the mission. This may seem like a lot, but that’s on a whopping 42 decks. The 1000 figure is the standard for the ship to be fully operational, which suggests that while the Galaxy class starship was easily 8x the size of a Constitution class, it could operate on little more than twice the crew. This vessel had science labs, leisure options including holodecks, a ship’s lounge, and an arboretum. Senior crew members were given entire suites (typically a luxury only afforded the captain and sometimes visiting officers), and had education facilities for shipboard families.

In some ways the Sovereign class bucked this trend - it was much more combat-oriented and did not have families on board. However, it was even bigger, 700 meters long with 29 decks. While probably having somewhat smaller volume, the crew complement is only 855.

Starfleet keeps building bigger ships - and more of them - but with fewer crew relative to their size.  We don’t ever really find out how much of that interior space is livable or most other details. But we do see the accommodations progressively improve. This is actually somewhat similar to how US Navy berthing has improved - when it transitioned to an all-volunteer force, crew got better berths, more pay, and better food. This seems like it would continue in an ostensibly post-scarcity society: “Give up your comfortable house, life of leisure and personal pursuits, and your private unlimited replicator usage in order to live in a closet and eat gruel while getting shot at” is a pretty tough sell.

We also see two important considerations.

At least since the TOS days, Starfleet has pursued heavy automation. - the M5 multitronic computer, and later we see the use of holographic personnel (a practice which apparently becomes very common on civilian vessels), significant automation in the Prometheus and Texas class vessels (the near-loss of the one due to that automation, and many deaths with the other do not dissuade Starfleet, suggesting a significant need for the automation.) In Picard we see that Starfleet has integrated Borg technology into their ships, which results in a major security hole - though, to be fair, one that has to some extent always existed, as apparently it’s possible to take remote command of any Starfleet ship to some extent. All this suggests that Starfleet is desperate to reduce crew requirements.

And, you know, this tracks. We only ever see Starfleet as having a singular academy, located in San Francisco. Which is... well, worrisome. Sure, the US Navy only operates one officer’s academy - but the US Navy isn’t trying to field a fleet of starships for hundreds of planets. Unless Starfleet is running dozens of other academies - something which is never mentioned - they simply aren’t commissioning enough officers.

We see in Prodigy that Starfleet is able to essentially replicate small vessels, and in Picard the idea of (with extensive use of synthetic lifeforms) building enough ships to evacuate all of Romulus and apparently much of the Romulan empire is entirely realistic. The Federation’s industrial base is adequate to field an enormous navy. They simply, plainly, don’t have enough people to crew them. Even in TNG, when they assemble a fleet to stop Romulans from supplying the Klingon civil war, they have trouble coming up with enough officers to command the ships.

The idea of having more ships than commanders is such a foreign concept today. Even in WWII, when every country was cranking out as many vessels as they could, they were always able to find people to command them - perhaps not well, perhaps lacking in experience - but they were never hamstrung by empty captaincies.

Whatever the reason, Starfleet just doesn’t have enough people. That’s their biggest problem, and seems to have been the case for all of Federation history.

[little-yugi-muto-rp]

You. That's right, YOU. My muse is blindfolded and listening. Go on anon and whisper something into their ear.

Malik leaned in and licked Yugi's ear. "1701D is back!"

"What are-Oh. Oh HELL yes!" Malik was of course referring to the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, Yugi's favorite version of the iconic ship from the Star Trek world and the one whose type he used most when he played Star Trek Online (he was a Fleet Admiral, high level, and he hadn't even been playing it that long.)

[skyfire85]

"Captain's Log, Stardate 43125.8. In preparation for the decommissioning ceremony for the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, we have the exceptional honor of being escorted by one of the newly re-engined Federation ships...the B-52X."

“Captain, a human starship has shown up on scanners.” “What is it’s designation?” “They call it a B-52” “Isnt that a plane from 200 years ago?” “Yes”

[alex99achapterthree]

Star Trek history...

Excellent view of NCC-1701D ENTERPRISE bridge.

(I believe this is the re-created set used for PICARD.)

The Conn and Ops stations were "wild", they could be moved out of the way for camera dollies to shoot reverse-angle scenes of the captains chair and the rear of the bridge. In this shot I don't believe the upholstery for the conn and ops seats is in place. The little nook under the seats is a good place to stash your stuff while you are on duty. Magnetic cupholders beside Riker and Trio's stations show up well (jk...), as does the "blue screen" behind the viewscreen used to overlay graphics in post.

[ao3feed-imzadi]

An Unexpected Journey

An Unexpected Journey https://ift.tt/dtP7X2A by Bosscat Having been forced from her own world to preserve her sanity. Tarya winds up joining Starfleet Academy. Afterwards, she joins the crew of the NCC-1701D. What will happen when they discover who she really is? Will they disrupt an otherwise, seemingly, small and peaceful planet, or will that planet have big implications for Starfleet? Includes, Picard as judge, Alchemy, Sorcery and very dark subject matter. Also lighter and fluffy at times. Words: 1235, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/M Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Data (Star Trek), Worf (Star Trek:TNG/DS9), Wesley Crusher, Geordi La Forge Relationships: William Riker/Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard Additional Tags: Rape/Non-con Elements, Sleepy/Unconscious Sex, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort via AO3 works tagged 'William Riker/Deanna Troi' https://ift.tt/VxIKGJl June 19, 2023 at 05:24PM

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The incomparable Dr. Beverly Crusher!

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Star Trek First Contact

Star Trek First Contact

At last we have arrived at a point where the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation is free to soar without the original series cast hanging around.  It was finally time for their first venture on their own with Star Trek: First Contact. Star Trek: First Contact Of course, we left off last time with the old Enterprise NCC-1701D had been destroyed, so the whole crew starts out in the next…

[skyfire85]

It's 17/01, time for some Enterprises!

[unit-54ryn]

Autumn and Saryn gazing at the Enterprise D

Made for @randomgurustuffs

[ronsalas]

My tribute to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Based on one of the best episodes of TNG, Cause and Effect.