What era the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031 will be from?

[SpaceLama]

Cos it looks battered and grubby. And would be the first time we see a ship built in an asteroid, as opposed to stuck in one or hidden in one.
To paraphrase Data...
It is...Brown.

But that could just be it's hull colouring, and the asteroid starbase is just something from that Ralph MacQuarrie concept art.

It was never meant to be anything other than a cool Federation outpost, originally. All this stuff about a secret base is jumping the gun a bit. We already know that the Federation builds outposts on asteroids - for example the ones destroyed along the Romulan border in "Balance of Terror" - I imagine they have a ton of asteroid facilities like this, as they are convienient.

 

[jaime]

But that could just be it's hull colouring, and the asteroid starbase is just something from that Ralph MacQuarrie concept art.

It was never meant to be anything other than a cool Federation outpost, originally. All this stuff about a secret base is jumping the gun a bit. We already know that the Federation builds outposts on asteroids - for example the ones destroyed along the Romulan border in "Balance of Terror" - I imagine they have a ton of asteroid facilities like this, as they are convienient.

Oh I remember the artwork, but a lot of trek has happened since then, all with spacewalk style armatures and whotnot. I am not saying I think it's a secret Base, just that it's the connotations based on what we have seen before on screen (not in planning artwork.) can lead to people thinking that quite easily.

And yes it probably is its hull colour. Which would be a bad thing. Brown says rust and decay when applied to things that are machines. (or is used for bio ships) it is the colour of old blood,of dirt.
I do not like brown. Not for a federation ship.
It is....Brown.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The name "Discovery" makes me feel hopeful about the direction of the series as well, that it won't all be about space battles and evil aliens of the week.

 

[SpaceLama]

Its more of a gold I would say

 

[drt]

Where are people getting the idea that it's been pressed back into service from? A lot of people have been saying it, but isn't it more likely its just going to be set in whatever era the ship was built (more or less)?

I think it's due to trying to reconcile that it seems to be a pre-TOS/TMP ship with the fact that the show is in the Prime universe, yet not between TUC and TNG, and the desire that the show be set post-NEM.

 

[Tim Walker]

One gets the impression that the ship is an old workhorse.

 

[JD]

Just remember, they did say this isn't the final model, so the colors and textures could change before January. For all we know by the time the pilot airs is could be a nice shiny silver and look brand spanking new.

 

[Griffeytrek]

There is an interesting theory floating around that the registry is a tell that the new series might in some way revolve around Section 31. That got me thinking. If you were to do a Section 31 type show, what would it be based around? Something like the USS Halibut comes to mind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Halibut_(SSGN-587)

A unique oddball of a ship, passed around, largely obsolete, but retasked to special operations because of some distinct and unique quirks to its design. It would also put a whole new spin on "Discovery" if it is the ship operated by the secret spymasters?

 

[Ithekro]

The asteroid could easily be just some starbase rather than a hidden facility. I think Phase II/New Voyages had their asteroid base as Starbase 4.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Ever since TOS, we've had hero ships that were fairly brand new and state-of-the-art at the time. It'd truly be different if the Discovery was something that most people thought was an ancient relic that should be in a museum--if not a junkyard.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I posted in another thread that one of the ships in ST09 was brown, so there's that.

 

[Lord Garth]

Ever since TOS, we've had hero ships that were fairly brand new and state-of-the-art at the time. It'd truly be different if the Discovery was something that most people thought was an ancient relic that should be in a museum--if not a junkyard.

It would parallel real life. The design was pulled out from a long time ago. In-universe, the ship was pulled out from a long time ago.

I don't remember if Bryan Fuller is the one who came up with the "Fall of the Federation" idea but I've seen it around before.

Either way, if they want the ship to be different, they'll probably want the time-frame to be different too. Something we haven't seen before. That leaves somewhere Post-ENT/Pre-TOS or Post-NEM.

Unless there are several different variations of uniforms we haven't seen before (which could happen), we've already seen they keep the TWOK Uniforms through the bulk of Post-TUC/Pre-TNG. Unless something came between the last version of the TWOK uniform and before the TNG S1 uniform. Ehhhh... No. I don't know why but it doesn't feel like that would be it.

 

[Karp666]

I don't remember if Bryan Fuller is the one who came up with the "Fall of the Federation" idea but I've seen it around before.

I think you mean an undeveloped Star Trek: Federation series proposed by Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie & Robert Meyer Burnett. It was supposed to take place around year 3000 and some of the ideas behind this project are already - more or less in a similar way - coming up as theories for DSC:
- Federation is divided - many worlds have left the Federation because of its Human-centric nature;
- old ship in use - Starfleet is stretched thin and many of its ships are outdated.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Federation

This proposal had some really great character concepts and the whole idea was very interesting to me:
http://trekmovie.com/2011/04/16/exc...ts-from-star-trek-federation-series-proposal/
This crew would be something totally different from any of the Treks before.

 

[Wulff359]

Everybody seems to be reminded of the klingon D7 when watching the new trailer. I watched it too, several times. Then I made a discovery (no pun intended): The number 3 appears an awful lot, to be just coincidence. The bottom shape is triangular, there are 3 domes on the bussard collector, the registry has the number 3. And which culture likes things to come in threes? And I was sure, I saw some similar design before...

So here's my 2 cents:

The Discovery is a mash-up of a cardassian galor class and a federation starship. After DS9 the Alpha Quadrant was devistated, the cardassians almost destroyed. But there were leftovers from dominion technology. Discovery is a new hybrid, made of federation (saucer section), cardassian (drive section) and dominion technology to be tested out.

Or - through whatever circumstances - two space ships, one federation and one cardassian, are severly damaged. The crews have no other chance but to dismantle them and build a hybrid ship in order to survive - escape - fight back or whatever....

That would also put this show after Nemesis.

 

[Griffeytrek]

I don't remember if Bryan Fuller is the one who came up with the "Fall of the Federation" idea but I've seen it around before.

It was also one of Rodenberry's undeveloped ideas. "Phoenix Rising." A Federation Starship gets frozen/shot forward in time 1000 years to find the Federation has fallen and the Universe in chaos and barbarism. The crew sets out to restore the Federation. Majel Barrett eventually turned the idea into what became Andromeda.

 

[Spider]

Why does a spaceship need delta wings?

 

[Tim Walker]

Down Periscope featured a naval officer (Kelsey Grammar) who is out of favor. He is given his own command, though-but not a nuclear submarine. Instead, he is assigned an antiquated World War II sub, and a crew of misfits.

So.... Will the craft depicted turn out to be an under dog of a ship?

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ Love that movie!

 

[ChristopherPike]

The asteroid could easily be just some starbase rather than a hidden facility. I think Phase II/New Voyages had their asteroid base as Starbase 4.

The Mirror Universe episodes in Enterprise's last season featured the U.S.S. Defiant held by the Tholians within an asteroid.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It was also one of Rodenberry's undeveloped ideas. "Phoenix Rising." A Federation Starship gets frozen/shot forward in time 1000 years to find the Federation has fallen and the Universe in chaos and barbarism. The crew sets out to restore the Federation. Majel Barrett eventually turned the idea into what became Andromeda.

Wasn't Roddenberry's contribution just his Planet Earth/Genesis II concept dusted off and placed in space? They even used the Dylan Hunt name from those two pilots