Generations: Evacuating a Galaxy Suffering a core breach: How it Should be Done

[Nebula]

I really need to pull out my Galaxy Class Blueprints.... I'm sure I found 3 specific areas where there were medical bays. 1 in the neck and 2 in the saucer.

[baz1701]

As far as I remember the escape pods are design for rapid departure from a ship, even in the event of a warp breech. I think that was Mr Scotts guide.

Anyway what use is a escape pod if you can not use it to get away from the ship in a darn hurry.

So yes I'm with the why the hell climb through the star drive section when you could easily escape in a pod. Also there are 2 shuttle bays in the dorsal why not jump in one of those as well.

Perhaps it is like the Titanic they thought she was undistructable so the escape pod hatches were only cosmetic?

[King Class Scout]

what are you guys overanalyzing this for?  this was a Plot-related idiot ball carried by the whole crew.  yeesh.  and, btw, i didn't know galaxies HAD escape pods till I saw them on the models, here, even though i actually ALSO own a copy of the Galaxy blueprints.

[Dalek]

I don't think an escape pod would be able to survive a warp core breach blast. And even if it did, they'd be sent flying out of control.

And whats cooler, escape pods or splitting the ship in half?

And another thing to remember, ship captains get court-martialed if they lose there ship. Better bring back half a ship than none at all.

[Barihawk]

If you want to get technical with physics, that explosion would have had less effect on the lifeboats than it would the saucer due to the size. The outside edge of the boats is also armored. They could have turned around and pointed the heavier sections towards the blast.

Better answer? Special effects were not advanced to the point of being able to render that level of detail on a physical model. Which is a major reason they went combination physical and CGI for First Contact.

[Dalek]

Another thing to consider would be the time it takes to get everyone into the escape pods. Considering you'll have to decide who goes where into what and making sure they're inside safely and ready to launch. With a saucer seperation, all you have to do is get everyone past a cut-off point and then you can detach ASAP. Then you can consider strapping everyone down.

And also how fast can an escape pod go? They don't have 2 huge impulse engines.

[baz1701]

Well they never showed us life boat drill though they all seemed to know where to go in FC and when they had to get off the Defiant in a hurry. So I guess they have them.

[Psyco Diver]

The saucer section also has its own shields too, that would help protect it against it from a blast. I think it depends on time though, in the time loop episode, they needed to get off the enterprise in a hurry so Picard told everyone to get to the escape pods, cause the enterprise was about to explode. I would rather take my chances in a pod then on a ship thats about to explode, but if I had the time I would much rather be on the saucer section with shields, long range communition, impulse engines and phasers just in case.

They had the time to evacuate everyone to the saucer section, the saucer section had shields, yea maybe the escape pods would have gotten clear, but I would rather be on the saucer.  I would imagine in any emergancy situation I would imagine they would try to move everyone to the middle of the saucer for maximum protection.

[Daystar70]

I also recall thinking-"Why Will-why- did You order Deanna to Pilot? YOUR supposed to be the best pilot on the ship, according to that 2 part episode with Picard being tortured by the cardassians with the four lights gimmick--so why did you not just take the damned Helm yourself dude? LOL.

[baz1701]

perhaps with everything else in Generations the escape pods were not due till Tuesday!!!

[Daystar70]

LOL this Guy is Hilarious in his review of how RETARDED Generations really was.

He makes a great point. EVEN w/o it's shields, Enterprise should have been able to easily overpower that Bird of Prey.

[eclipse74569]

Yeah, There's what I would have done RC .  Had I been Picard, I would have just punched Sore-ron in Ten Forward...and be done with it...no saucer sep, no saucer crash, no warp core breech, etc

AKA:  Dude in vid above me has a point!

[martyr]

you guys should check out that reviewrs star wars reviews

[Daystar70]

I watched his star wars they are Hilarious and its so funny the Holes he finds in first contact, insurrection and Nemesis to.

[Joshmaul]

I watched his star wars they are Hilarious and its so funny the Holes he finds in first contact, insurrection and Nemesis to.

Nemesis was just one big hole, I think.

[Bones]

LoL yeah although FC was the best out of TNG movies it was soooo flawed plot wise, Insurrection and Nemesis was always considered poor movies... I love when that guy bashes Picard attitude changes and his aggressive acting

[Joshmaul]

LoL yeah although FC was the best out of TNG movies it was soooo flawed plot wise

Time travel-oriented storylines generally tend to be a risky move. (Unless, of course, it's Doctor Who or something.) That's probably why Star Trek IV was probably the least popular of the trilogy-within-the-series that began with Wrath of Khan. Even though I still kinda liked some bits of it...