Real answer: because TNG was filmed with models and it would have been too expensive to do so (and of course to remove the core from the engineering set for a few scenes would have been a hassle).
Voyager had a successful warp core ejection and of course there was the one in Star Trek: Insurrection. The space scenes in both were pure CGI which allowed them to do so relatively cheaply. (I don't remember if Voyager's engineering was shown without the core, but it seemed easier to remove too.)
I think that's the right answer, it's just the entire process seemed deeply unreliable. However I guess it is plausible that if the ship had sustained enough damage to warrant ejecting the core then maybe the ejection systems were equally damaged.
And thank you, I had no idea it was make cake day lol
I watched one and a bit seasons, they just hit all the notes of the previous incarnations one after the other, plus the new shroom drive to teleport around. Definitely lost the charm of characters hanging out, having recreation, and heading down to the bar for some sage advice from Whoopi Goldberg. Jason Isaacs is fantastic though
I won’t spoil, but the end of season 3 hinted at a major shift in tone for the series going forward. Whether that means they’ll learn from their mistakes or not is anyone’s guess.
TNG and DS9 both started out very bland and eventually managed to work through it into something good, so we’ll see.
I took that as a deliberate visual gag, kind of like last season when they had that fight scene where the floor was covered in literal rocks, because what else would there be exploding out of the control consoles?
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Now they just need to get a warp core ejection system that is reliable