I feel like this is a reference to something, but I can't quite figure out what.

Is that Riker?

crazael said:

I feel like this is a reference to something, but I can't quite figure out what.

Oh_My said:

Is that Riker?

Guess nobody watched the final season of Picard. It was actually good, despite how HORRIBLE the first two seasons were.

FireBranded said:

Guess nobody watched the final season of Picard. It was actually good, despite how HORRIBLE the first two seasons were.

So, can you explain it for us? I can't recommend people sit through two seasons of awful to get one reference

Captain Shaw refers to himself that way when talking about how, when he was just low rank engineer, was one of ten survivors from his ship, picked at random by a ship's officer, to get on a shuttle before his ship was destroyed at the Battle of Wolf 359.

CitrusC said:

So, can you explain it for us? I can't recommend people sit through two seasons of awful to get one reference

You don't have to watch the first two seasons to understand what 3 is doing. It essentially ignores most of what happened (especially anything related to season 2) and could be considered a long Picard movie. The end of season one is even only sort of a passing topic and is mostly ignored for the plot of 3.

ithekro said:

Captain Shaw refers to himself that way when talking about how, when he was just low rank engineer, was one of ten survivors from his ship, picked at random by a ship's officer, to get on a shuttle before his ship was destroyed at the Battle of Wolf 359.

So...basically Sisko's backstory?

Steak said:

So...basically Sisko's backstory?

Sisko was like first officer on his ship and had family onboard. Shaw was a lower decks engineer, probably an ensign that was picked at random by a superior officer to get into one of the last ships...the superior officer remained behind and died. He was basically randomly picked to be one of ten survivors from his ship. Only ten, because only one shuttle was left functional, and the escape pods were either being blown up or pulled in for assimilation.

Judging by the references made in the show, it was an old ship, Constellation-class.

ithekro said:

Sisko was like first officer on his ship and had family onboard. Shaw was a lower decks engineer, probably an ensign that was picked at random by a superior officer to get into one of the last ships...the superior officer remained behind and died. He was basically randomly picked to be one of ten survivors from his ship. Only ten, because only one shuttle was left functional, and the escape pods were either being blown up or pulled in for assimilation.

Judging by the references made in the show, it was an old ship, Constellation-class.

It WAS a Constellation-class, the U.S.S. Constance. It's referenced in the closing credits.