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Starfleet, and, by extent, the Federation was the dominant force in the Galaxy for more than a century. The Federation gre in size and power, and Starfleet was both an enabler and a protector of this process. But the Galaxy is a harsh, unforgiving world, and there were things out there that were beyond even the wildest dreams of Humans, Vulcans or anyone. Starfleet, mighty as it be, was humbled during the encounters of the 2260's, such as the "Planet killer" event that showed that even the powerful Constitution class was but an insignificantr dot on the galactic maps.
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Please do more of the Connie!
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Beautiful
The Doomsday Machine my most favorite episode of TOS
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This art piece was done by and based on a scene that takes place in the Star Trek-TNG book Vendetta (which is non - canon) with an upgraded more powerful version of the planet killer. But do we even know the application of neutronium on a starships hull is still beyond Borg capabilities, if so it's not exactly easy to say how Borg weaponry would affect the skin of the original Doomsday Machine. I'd personally lean towards the Borg weapons having zero to very, very little affect on the hull though, given how other weapons react to neutronium throughout Trek.
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I read Vendetta when it first came out too, and was thinking of that when i wrote my comment. Mostly forgotten the actual story now though other the the rebel Borg plotline that slightly pre-dated Seven of Nine but not, I believe, Hugh.
Also, as some are perhaps unaware, neutronium is a real substance that really is indestructible. though that is mainly because it is the super-densely-packed material of a neutron star that weighs many millions of tons to the teaspoonful and this would likely be a helluva drag (literally) to haul around. Also, outside a neutron star's super-powerful gravitational field, neutronium would likely return to an uncompressed state (that is, resume being matter of only ordinary density) in a exceptionally violent explosion. Most mentions (canon or otherwise) in Star Trek of neutronium after the Doomsday Machine episode seem to imply that the writers of those stories are unaware of any of this (I think Norman Spinrad probably knew however, as he was a professional sci-fi writer);they seemed to think it was a made-up substance they could attribute any properties they wanted to.
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We'd be screwed ten times over!
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You're assuming the Borg would succeed. Me, I am not so sure.
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Thank you very much!
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Very true. Its just a shame that having learned that lesson, they let themselves forget it in the long period of relative peace between Tomad and System J-25. The Federation thought it was the greatest power in the Galaxy, the wars with Cardassia and the Tzenkethi little more than a nuisance. Then came Wolf 359 and the Federation had to learn its true place all over again. What followed was twenty bad years from Wolf through the Hobus and sadly the Federation turning inwards from the Galaxy in the aftermath...
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Yupp, there's always a bigger fish...
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Except that's not exactly accurate
While after Tomed the Romulan Star Empire withdrew from the galactic stage, there were still conflicts between the powers. The Enterprise C was lost in 2344 in an attack by the Romulans on Narendra III, the Tholians attacked a Federation starbase in their own border conflict, etc.
The Federation has also had some conflict on the horizon and always experienced losses. Wolf-359 wasn't the Federation "learning it's true place over again", it was just the largest loss in a single battle they'd had in a little while. Even after that, tThe Federation was still fairly outgoing and were still engaging in relief and exploration missions post Dominion War too.
The Federation also didn't turn that much inward after the Romulan star going nova either. Yes they scaled back some. but that was because they had invested a massive amount of resources in building evacuation ships to save billions and ended up losing all of them plus Utopia Planitia shipyards. Of course they're going to keep some more ships at home for a little while as they recover from that massive resource investment. They had dumped so many resources into that venture that various Federation colony worlds started threatening to secede as the resources needed to build thousands of massive ships in only a couple of years impacted the various colonial projects.
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True I guess, but the arrogance of the early TNG Starfleet suggests they had gotten seriously complacent by 2364.
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I have to disagree with that for the most part. At worst, they just didn't consider out-of-context problems.
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Excellent render; I do remember this episode The Doomsday Machine or "Attack of the Giant Killer Space Cannoli"!!!
This was a time when special effects took a back seat to good story telling and solid performances from the cast. For me Matt Decker was one of the most tragic and most powerful characters of TOS Star Trek. Can you imagine being the Captain, trying to save your crew only to hear them all die, suffer and begging you to safe them and yet you cannot do anything; that would mentally wreck anyone.
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Decker was a great character, one of the greatest in TOS.
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I read an anecdote somewhere (on StarTrek.com, I think, years and years ago?) that during the filming of "The Doomsday Machine", someone looked at the planet killer ship model and said, "Geez, Gene - that looks like a wind sock dipped in cement." And Gene Roddenberry said something along the lines of "Yeah...it is. We ran out of budget."
Like all good Star Trek anecdotes, I can't at all prove that this is authentic fact. But it's such a bang-on description of the planet killer pre-remaster that I've always been fond of it. (And the special effects don't damage the episode at all - it's one of their best without question.)
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