Discovery saucer ring spins?
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¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ The saucer on the ship goes round and round, round and round, round and round... ♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•
Seth would get a joke out of it. Probably one some folks would call "lame and unfunny."
That itself is head and shoulders above this puerile war crap.
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Humor is a difficult concept.Seth would get a joke out of it. Probably one you'd call "lame and unfunny."
That itself is head and shoulders above this puerile war crap.
That said, if somone would like to affix a needle and stylus to the rings, we can see what song the thing plays when it engages Spore Drive (band name.. called it) and what the hidden message is when the other one plays backwards.
Yeah because family guy was so funny! For four years!....and ted spawned a franchise!...oh wait....uhm....a million ways to die in the west?....well American dad is objectively hilarious!....except with the fact he's had nothing to do with it outside of the general concept and it's been show run by two other people since its inception. So yeah....he definitely isn't a one trick pony whose riding off four good years.Seth would get a joke out of it. Probably one you'd call "lame and unfunny."
That itself is head and shoulders above this puerile war crap.
I'd prefer the spore-drive components retrofitted to an older, test-platform vessel with obviously non-original parts bolted on to a ship that was meant to test all kinds of new systems. Also, stationary parts ... moving parts are fun for modelers and folks playing with starship models, but they always look fragile to me from an engineering standpoint.
This would also become a good excuse for the odd little appearances over the years of vaguely Discovery-esque ships in the franchise. They get the triangular secondary hull and maybe the dorsal and bridge cap, and everything else would be bolted on for its specific mission. Of course, my idea would require two types of corridor sets ... some old, some new, and be more expensive.
This would also become a good excuse for the odd little appearances over the years of vaguely Discovery-esque ships in the franchise. They get the triangular secondary hull and maybe the dorsal and bridge cap, and everything else would be bolted on for its specific mission. Of course, my idea would require two types of corridor sets ... some old, some new, and be more expensive.
Replying with a Willy Wonka meme, you're definitely in his demographic. The show would be better if Weitzman and Barker took over.
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It does beg questions to the origin of the two crossfire class ships, they must have been built specifically for this experiment which is unusual.
It does make me think it's a secret Section 31 ship, it's just their kind of style.
It does make me think it's a secret Section 31 ship, it's just their kind of style.
I want to know what happened to its namesake. It is very much tradition that the first in a new line of ship is named after that class. But if it is section 31 I could see them not doing that to maybe keep people off balance? Weak reasoning but I'm trying to figure it out.
Starfleet certainly doesn't shy away from building big experimental ships - the Excelsior, say. Of course, we don't really learn whether these ships were actually built for the respective experiments, or merely modified from existing stock, here or in ST3:TSfS.
What is funny is that the Discovery is a very large ship compared to the combat vessels we saw in the two pilots. But the same was true of the Excelsior in her day. For all we know, it was always the intent to first do the experiment and then to push the experimental ships to regular service.
Timo Saloniemi
What is funny is that the Discovery is a very large ship compared to the combat vessels we saw in the two pilots. But the same was true of the Excelsior in her day. For all we know, it was always the intent to first do the experiment and then to push the experimental ships to regular service.
Timo Saloniemi
Just had an interesting thought. Do we know what kind of ship Excelsior was listed as when it was a prototype? We know after the fact that of course it a heavy cruiser,but maybe all testbed ships regardless of their actual function are listed as "science ships". It technically makes sense since you literally are conducting research with new technologies. Furthermore, it doesn't hurt for subterfuge reasons if the new protoype cruiser is designated as a science vessel.
I would hate to be a crew member in some quarters on the saucer section. I mean you're sleeping, and then just like that you're woken up to the saucer section and considering how rapid it goes, next minute you know you're thrown across the room. That must not be a fun experience.
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Yeah the ship registry numbers are old as well, it could be that there was another earlier ship with the 1031 and 1030 designation and when they were decommissioned the new ships gained their registry.
Before now it's only been the Enterprise 1701 that had that honour.
Another possibility is that there are two ships with the same registry out there and Section 31 has borrowed their registration for secrecy purposes.
Happens all the time with cars and boats.
Aw, you were having an opinion - there was no substance to respond to so I was keeping it light. Loosen up.
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So is it like a Babylon 5 thing where gravity of the spins keep you more or less grounded? I'm not a scientist so I don't really know how it all works.
Nope, in Trek there's always magical gravity aboard that always pulls you towards the deck, and a doodad that completely negates all other accelerations (except the really hard and abrupt ones, in which case the actors lean left and right and then left again and the camera shakes).
But the rooms don't move with the spin. Only the top and bottom surfaces of each ring spin, and even there only the outer edges. In the inner ring, it's the part outboard of the red-glowing phasers. In the outer ring, it's the part onto which the name is painted. The rest of the rings (including all the portholes there) remains stationary.
Except they fold and tie themselves into a knot when the spore drive is activated. But that's supposedly all right.
Timo Saloniemi
But the rooms don't move with the spin. Only the top and bottom surfaces of each ring spin, and even there only the outer edges. In the inner ring, it's the part outboard of the red-glowing phasers. In the outer ring, it's the part onto which the name is painted. The rest of the rings (including all the portholes there) remains stationary.
Except they fold and tie themselves into a knot when the spore drive is activated. But that's supposedly all right.
Timo Saloniemi
