Contents 1 Page name 2 Nog's rank 3 Storyline similarities? 4 Voyager Mess Hall Set? 5 Uniform Regulations 6 First use of new cadet's uniform? 7 Nogs Rank Speculation 8 Style

Page nameEdit

I think we've had this discussion before, but I think this page should be "Valiant", as most all the pages that link there refer to this page anyway. Other the qualifiers of the SS Valiant and USS Valiant are not compatable with the qualifier used here, therefore not requiring the qualifier used here. --Alan del Beccio 09:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Could someone program one of those robot things to help change the links from Valiant (episode) to its new name? -- When it rains... it pours 15:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I almost didn't discover this, changing now ... please direct bot requests on Bot requests or my talk page, though you don't need to start a new paragraph there ... -- Kobi 18:13, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Nog's rankEdit

Is it just me, or is Nog promoted to Lt. Cmdr. yet wearing Lt. JG pins for his entire stay on the Valiant? hobmcd 00.29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Storyline similarities?Edit

"The failed attack run the Valiant attempts on the Jem'Hadar battleship has similarities to the attack run on the Death Star by Red and Gold Squadrons in Star Wars A New Hope. Both involve out-matched protagonists attempting to take down a much larger target by coming in very close, launching torpedoes, and blowing up the target by exploiting a key weakness. However, the results from both occurrences are quite different."

Isn't this storyline closer to many other famous stories, such as Moby Dick? A captain chasing a monstrous beast, using his drive to keep the crew going, with key protagonists objecting to his single-mindedness? The Star Wars similarity just seems like a very loose connection (a single ship versus an attack wing, an enemy ship vs an entire fortress, and entirely opposite outcomes) Ranger Bill XX 05:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I think the other Star Wars comparison was supposed to be the torpedo attack on a single vulnerable point (in Star Wars it was the ventilation shaft with the proton torpedoes). The same cannot be said of Moby Dick. Still, the Captain's single mindedness is certainly reminiscent of Moby Dick. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 06:17, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Voyager Mess Hall Set? Edit

The following background note was recently added:

• The set for the peptalk scene in which Watters rallies the crew to destroy the warship before going home is a redress of the mess hall set from Voyager.

From my watching of the episode, it appeared to be the standard Defiant mess hall set, and rather different from Voyager's. – Cleanse 05:30, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Uniform Regulations Edit

I noticed from my own viewing of this Episode that as Jake Sisko is a "guest" aboard the USS Valiant and is clearly stated as being so (for example in the scene with Captain Watters's pep talk to a small assembely of the crew in the Mess Hall and when it is established he is a reporter onboard the Valiant in his discussion with the Captain) that he should be wearing a Starfleet Uniform to identify him as an observer just as Lieutenant Paris did in VOY: "Caretaker". (Lieutenant Miller 23:48, November 4, 2009 (UTC))

You're talking about two very distinct situations. Paris wasn't just an observer, he was a former member of Starfleet, a prisoner basically being held under Starfleet jurisdiction, not just some civilian hanging about. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 03:45, November 5, 2009 (UTC)

Voyager had a somewhat irritating tendency to be constantly awarding Starfleet uniforms, ranks, insignias, and positions to every completely untrained civilian who walked onboard. Everybody on that show had a combadge, even the children! Regulation Bowling Alley 09:02, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

First use of new cadet's uniform? Edit

Is this the first use of the new cadet's uniform (with the quilted shoulder pads)? I couldn't find an earlier use. If so, that should be noted in the background information. LinkTiger 01:35, January 30, 2010 (UTC)

Nogs Rank Speculation Edit

This could be because the Valiant was simply so low on supplies and so heavily damaged, rank pips weren't allowed to be replicated. This would be similar to the fact that while the crew of Voyager were clearly aware that Starfleet had updated its uniforms mid-way through the series, they continued to wear the same ones the show had started with.

Unnecessary speculation. — Morder (talk) 18:01, November 25, 2010 (UTC)

Style Edit

This page continually refers to Nog as "the Ferengi" or "the ensign" instead of by name. Jake is called Nog's "reporter friend". Is this standard Memory Alpha style? Am I the only one really annoyed by this -- not least because it doesn't seem consistent with a formal encyclopedia? Should I stop whinging and change it?Pooneil 21:16, December 2, 2011 (UTC)

You can be bold and fix it. :-) –Cleanse ^{( talk | contribs )} 00:35, December 3, 2011 (UTC)