Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed
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PreBurn and possibly pre-shortage. And as pointed out time ships might have priority.
Do we know they were powered using dilithium?
I would assume so, considering how Burnham specifically mentioned that other attempts at alternative engine power distribution tech failed.
...Or "were not reliable enough". Being a piss-poor technology didn't keep the Concorde from flying, the Savannah from sailing, or the Apollo from getting to the Moon; it just wasn't even remotely sustainable. Which didn't necessarily translate into "it was not sustained". Timeships might have been flown with unreliable power sources come hell or high water.
Timo Saloniemi
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So perhaps the spore drive will become the standard method of FTL travel for all ships in the newly restored Federation?
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Anyone else think that the 26th-century Enterprise-J somehow still looks more advanced than the 30th century ships we glimpsed?
On the whole, I would agree, but the segmented vertical-aligned ships of the EDF are definitely something we’re never seen before and uniquely surpass the E-J technology compared to the others shown.
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Good point. I like the implication from the EDF ships and planetary shield generators that their technology has less of a need for physical structure, that they're held together by forcefields and are beyond even 23rd century technological understanding. In terms of how this would relate to the design of a genuine 4th millennium Starfleet ship, have nacelles that don't have pylons. Hell, have nacelles that spontaneously assemble from programmable matter only when the ship needs to go to warp, and the rest of the time are safely stowed away. Or have the entire ship be continually reconfiguring itself, again out of programmable matter or holodeck tech or some advanced combination thereof. Need a bigger deflector dish? No problem. Need extra nacelles for enhanced range or more speed? There we go. Need all the phasers to face foward to fire a much more powerful barrage than normal? They just slide across the hull. Need to scoop up a stricken shuttle but the bay's at the back? We just move the door to the front. Imagine the captain calling a red alert and suddenly the ship's security teams can literally walk through the ship's internal bulkheads. This might mean that the crew of Discovery think 32nd century Starfleet ships seem stupidly small, because they don't need to be hauling round all these extra facilities that spend most of their time not being used. Just crew quarters, which are endlessly reconfigurable and can therefore also act as gymnasiums or even personalised sickbays should any crew member be injured or ill, some general "communal space" which can be configured into meeting rooms or mess halls or gardens or theatres or whatever and probably spends most of its time as corridors, and some dedicated engineering spaces to keep the whole thing running. A Defiant-sized ship is horribly cramped even in the 24th century, but could feel absurdly spacious and luxurious in the 32nd.
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"Bigger on the Inside" technology like the TARDIS from Doctor Who didn't become common until as early as 3000 AD.
So larger ships might not be necessary compared to smaller ships with lots of "Bigger on the Inside" rooms on the inside.
We have already seen reconfigurable furniture with the beds and such that dissolve into the floor. It’s totally possible that, when on duty, crew quarters are shrunk and packed down into the size of a walnut, making more room for duty stations, as needed.
I like the idea of floating weapons mounts, taking phaser strips to the next level, guaranteeing full 3-axis 360-degree firing arcs. The more I think about it, the cooler these designs get for me. I do not envy Eaglemoss trying to make those things into models.
I want one for STO!
I like the idea of floating weapons mounts, taking phaser strips to the next level, guaranteeing full 3-axis 360-degree firing arcs. The more I think about it, the cooler these designs get for me. I do not envy Eaglemoss trying to make those things into models.
I want one for STO!
The Dilithium shortage happened in the mid-30st century (circa 3058) - a full 100 years after Braxton's adventures in the 29th century. It's possible that it ran out right around the end of the 'Temporal Wars' Daniels was a part of as well.
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'The Burn happened about about 10 -20 years after the Dilitthium became scarce. I think some people are just fishing for retcons/contradictions at this point,
Maybe the timeships were part of the problem? Perhaps they burn ( for lack of a better term) through dilithium faster than a normal starship.
Or worse, time distortions being caused by the temporal war may have struck a sympathetic vibration in the crystals, causing them all to explode.
Not even a little bit.
The Relativity and other time ships could have been powered by time crystals for all we know, at least for the time travel capabilities. And they could have been S31 in the respect that they had alternates to dilithium/warp they didn't share.
Do Romulan singularity drives use dilithium?
I don’t recall anything mentioned on-screen about it.
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We have no idea. There is no evidenced one way or the other.
One thing i'm hoping for is federation ship and class names that are either alien, unusual and unrecognisable. It will be weird if Starfleet are still naming ships for people who have been dead for 1200 years by their reckoning.
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