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Spoilers Theory on the USS Discovery propulsion
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Potatoes can temporarily power snarky, homicidal AI's, dark matter...who knows.
^ Unidentified planet with cool ruins
^ Unidentified planet with Preserver monolith
^ Unidentified planet resembling Vulcan a little
^ Unidentified planet, possibly a Federation colony/starbase
^ Possibly Janus VI mining colony
Very interesting. Good catch! That might also explain the image of the Discovery in the press kit, where the registry isn't centered in the middle of the saucer.
Also, the blue outer ring of the greenish inner section is counter-rotating.
If you watch the Episode 4 preview at 0.25x you can see the saucer spinning when the Discovery jumps out into that suns gravity well by tracking her navigational lights. Really interested to see how they use this drive and the whole Speirein level thing.
Make little sense. Even if there are new corridors connecting all of space-time, what does a fungus have to do with it? Maybe some perverse version of dark matter and dark energy? BTW, did Lorca talk about instantaneous transport (Warp 10 debacle?)?
The Fungus isn't non-corporeal. Stamets was brushing fungal dust off his uniform.
That could make finding your quarters while the ship is at warp a real pain in the arse.
I don't think it rotates during warp, just during those black alerts and I'd guess during a black alert all personnel on the ship stop where they are at, or move out of moving joints in the ship to more secure areas. Would partly explain why the crew of the Glenn were where they were at as they got twisted up by the rupture. Either way I agree the rotating would get old rather quickly.
Would it also affect the ship's normal artificial gravity?
I wouldn't think so since the gravity plates are in the deck and work alongside the inertial dampeners so I'd think the computer would compensate any centripetal force change from the saucer rotating during the jump. Also the jump seems to happen in the matter of a few seconds so again I would think the dampeners alongside probable safeties built into the "Spore Drive" mechanism would prevent any gravitational shifts (unless of course the system fails and you suffer a basidiosac rupture at which point everyone dies to horrific helical torsion more than likely cause by massive subspace shifts). I'm surprised the Glenn looked as good as it did. I would suspect that in reality and if they had invested more time with the CGI model the Glenn's back was probably broken along with many of it's internal support systems so she was probably barely holding together structurally. Minus all of that though I would think as we see during the first Black Alert that gravity remains for the most part unaffected minus of course the weird water lol
Those navigational lights are moving really fast.
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Agreed at the speed they're rotating the centripetal force would be something close to 4 Earth G's give or take (unless I flubbed my math lol). I'm sure the system safeties and inertial dampeners compensate perfectly fine hence why no one feels anything during a jump, but I'm sure in that split second time frame it's visually quite intense and stunning.
The ring rotates so that Lorca's top secret door lines up to his top secret lab, obviously!
One thing about the USS Discovery that I’ve been thinking about quite a bit of late (absolutely silly, but I’ll share nonetheless): the swept-back, and flattened nacelle pylons (if you can describe them as that) - in addition to the long nacelles themselves - visually suggest (IMO) that the Discovery is quite a fast ship - at least in going to warp using a conventional, non-spore drive.
I also don’t recall seeing the USS Discovery jumping to warp, using the standard warp drive (ie: non-Spore Drive ‘warping’) - only jumping via the spore network.
The spore drive effect doesn’t visually propel the vessel forward - rather, it appears to fold / distort the ship into a spin motion, and the drops the ship out into real space - so the swept-back angles of the nacelles and secondary hull shape doesn’t seem like it was designed with the spore drive in mind (and as we know, the spore drive tech is an additon to the already established Crossfield class starship).
Even the suggestion that the Discovery is a dedicated science vessel, still seems somewhat at odds with her visual stylings: I’m also intrigued somewhat as to how fast the Discovery can actually travel at conventional, non-spore warp.
In length, it could be argued the Discovery is ‘stretched’ and elongated, similar to how the Prime Ent-E is longer than it is wider, with swept back nacelles, and a narrower, oval primary hull. In essence, the Discovery appears to me to be designed for speed - and even the class name suggests meaning relating to speed, and rapid trajectory.
Sorry for the random musings -
I realise this is just my own personal semiotic analysis, and others mileage may differ.
I also don’t recall seeing the USS Discovery jumping to warp, using the standard warp drive (ie: non-Spore Drive ‘warping’) - only jumping via the spore network.
The spore drive effect doesn’t visually propel the vessel forward - rather, it appears to fold / distort the ship into a spin motion, and the drops the ship out into real space - so the swept-back angles of the nacelles and secondary hull shape doesn’t seem like it was designed with the spore drive in mind (and as we know, the spore drive tech is an additon to the already established Crossfield class starship).
Even the suggestion that the Discovery is a dedicated science vessel, still seems somewhat at odds with her visual stylings: I’m also intrigued somewhat as to how fast the Discovery can actually travel at conventional, non-spore warp.
In length, it could be argued the Discovery is ‘stretched’ and elongated, similar to how the Prime Ent-E is longer than it is wider, with swept back nacelles, and a narrower, oval primary hull. In essence, the Discovery appears to me to be designed for speed - and even the class name suggests meaning relating to speed, and rapid trajectory.
Sorry for the random musings -
I realise this is just my own personal semiotic analysis, and others mileage may differ.
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We have seen the ship do conventional warp, for example when she escapes the pull of the star after the first, mis-aimed long jump in "Butcher's Knife". It's the usual red-blue-rainbow effect from the TOS movies, possibly capped by the TNG style flash.
The Discovery isn't given any relative performance specs so far, which is a bit frustrating. Her warp engines are neither slow nor fast (she hasn't had to chase or flee anybody), her guns are neither weak nor strong (going for "doubly hot" to kill BoPs with single shots is ambiguous: did they double-load he guns just because they knew they wouldn't be using impulse for anything during the fight and therefore could, or because the guns otherwise would be impotent against BoPs, and if the latter, would the guns of "proper" warships do better?), her shields haven't been challenged yet.
Even her crew size has not been contrasted against anything much yet, although if Starfleet lost 8000+ in the Battle of the Binaries, and only about a dozen ships partook, then multi-hundred-strong crews must be the peacetime average.
Timo Saloniemi
The Discovery isn't given any relative performance specs so far, which is a bit frustrating. Her warp engines are neither slow nor fast (she hasn't had to chase or flee anybody), her guns are neither weak nor strong (going for "doubly hot" to kill BoPs with single shots is ambiguous: did they double-load he guns just because they knew they wouldn't be using impulse for anything during the fight and therefore could, or because the guns otherwise would be impotent against BoPs, and if the latter, would the guns of "proper" warships do better?), her shields haven't been challenged yet.
Even her crew size has not been contrasted against anything much yet, although if Starfleet lost 8000+ in the Battle of the Binaries, and only about a dozen ships partook, then multi-hundred-strong crews must be the peacetime average.
Timo Saloniemi
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