I heard that on the Official Star Trek Podcast
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I heard that on the Official Star Trek Podcast
If this is the Shenzhou then it works. This is the Intrepid class of the era... correct me if I'm wrong but so far Voyager/Intrepid has been the only Starfleet starship shown to be designed to land, and it was smaller and had more aerodynamic curves compared to its peers. All things in common with Shenzhou it seems.
This TOTALLY looks like something in the vein of movie era TOS / TNG (complete with the scale people to show the deck height). For those who think this isn't Trek... behold! It's as classic Trek as you can get.
But what is up with all those ramps??
The ship has a wicked skate park, brah. Plus mondo wheelchair access, because we're socially conscious, yo.
Serious answer: Perhaps they're walkways headed down the nacelle pylons into the warp nacelles, or into that separated underslung pod with a couple of extra habitable decks, which probably explains decks 8, 9. & 10 on the MSD below the ventral bridge (there appears to be more decks listed than the height of the ship would allow for). The habitable decks in the nacelles and pod might be counted as different levels from the ones in the main hull so there's some overlap.
Deck 7 = Bridge
Deck 8 = Pod Level A
Deck 9 = Pod Level B
Deck 10 = Nacelle Access
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I've always wondered why the lack of stairs/ramps before. The Defiant's an odd one for that as you could walk to engineering and take the ladder to the lower level and it wouldn't be much slower than the turbolift. Shenzhou is that small that ladders/stairs etc would likely be as efficient.
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. Ducks for cover.
Which suggests that Discovery could be a time traveling ship as some have speculated. Or it could mean that it's more for the actors' amusement and is not intended for the audience to see it, sort of like the medical displays on TNG that showed graphs with things like "remaining insurance." Or, lastly, they could have used any old graphic available just to fill the screen.
You can probably make out a miniature Riker and Troi in there as well.Holodeck
Well, yeah....You can probably make out a miniature Riker and Troi in there as well.
"These are the Voyages" is an ENT/DSC double-feature Holo-novel.
That would be so sick!!! Kirk can have his motorcycles, I want Burnham to be one gnarly Skater Girl, thrashin it in at least one scene every episode!
The VOY hero ship is the only big one shown to land all the way to the surface intact and then take off again. Nothing about her being the only one designed to do so, either in visuals or dialogue. Or about other ships being incapable of landing. It's sort of implied the Defiant is capable of this stuff, too. And all ships seem capable of flying close to the surface of a planet, and hovering above it.
The Shenzhou is pretty, but her downcanted nacelles might be a big hindrance to landing. Then again, starships are tough - warp nacelles could make for nice landing gear all by themselves. Except that starships tend to blow up if somebody touches their warp nacelles...
I sort of doubt we'll see more than a hover in the pilot episode, in the scene familiar from all the trailers. Doesn't mean we wouldn't see more later on.
Timo Saloniemi
Which I'm not sure the writers ever knew about. They didn't even know how many decks Defiant had, with a deck 5 mentioned at one point despite the MSD having only four.
Similarly, Voyager's MSD had secondary warp and computer cores, which were contradicted by episodes establishing one of each.
I wonder the art department and the writers are on the same page this time?
Help me out here, what's MSD?
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