Talk:The Battle (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Picard's Stargazer model
Spike TV recently aired some 1st season episodes. The trivia here stated that the Stargazer model replaced a model of the Constitution Class ship in Picard's readyroom after this episode. But in the recent airings of "Where No One Has Gone Before" and "Lonely Among Us" which were aired today and produced before "The Battle", the Stargazer model was already in Picard's readyroom. Cyberia23 22:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * According to page 22 of Nemecek's ST:TNG Companion, the model was included in Picard's ready room from the beginning of the series. Prior to this episode, it was a work model that had not yet been approved for use, and was not stencilled with any ship name or number. -RJASE1 23:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The Constellation-Class model was in Picard's ready room from "Encounter at Farpoint". It is abscent, replaced by a Constitution-Class model, in "The Battle", and one other episode--either preceding or after "The Battle"--before being restored. This was done because, during production of "The Battle", the Stargazer was envisioned to be a Constitution-Class starship, like the movie-era Enterprise Refit. The model in Picard's ready room was replaced to match this latest development. Then, after live footage of "The Battle" was filmed, the producers had second thoughts, and the Stargazer as we know it today (matching the original model in Picard's ready room) was created. The only remnents of this chain of events is that, for two episodes, the Constitution-Class model replaces the Constellation-Class model in Picard's ready room, for no appearent reason.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.60.155.67 (talk) 05:43, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Hero of Maxia
The hyperlink to Hero of Maxia was self-recursive, leading back to the very article it was linked in (this one). I felt it therefore appropriate to delink it. 68.229.184.37 09:47, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, in the fifth paragraph in the Plot section, there is a link to the Picard Manuver that links back to the page, and I don't know how to delink. 74.132.112.167 20:38, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * All you do to delink is remove the brackets. I already did it for you. Cyberia23 22:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Question: Isn't it the policy of starfleet to auto-destruct a vessel than to simply abandon it and leave it adrift so that aliens can see the technology? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.180.235.217 (talk) 23:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Shield Inconsistencies
There are three minor inconsistencies in this episode. First, the Ferengi captain orders shields up on the Stargazer and then beams back to his own ship through them. Next, communications are abruptly cut off with the Stargazer, and Geordie says "it must have been when the [Stargazer's] shields went up", but the shields had gone up well before the cutout. Lastly, at the end of the episode the captain beams out while the shields are (presumably) still raised.