"Where are the shuttlebays?" is the Trek equivalent of asking how people who think mermaids are sexy are planning on consummation.
I haven’t seen much info on it. Will it be available through the Zen store, Lobi store, shipyard, or the lock boxes only?
If They think it's going to be really popular, it'll be in a Lockbox. I got a Lifetime sub when STO first came out and bought every ship They put in the Store. But once They started doing the Lockbox thing, I drifted away from playing.
It’s in a lockbox. I bought it off the exchange with EC I had saved up https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11497213 It seems to be shorter than the length given in the Eaglemoss book, I’d say around 600 instead of 640, since the Gaiaxy is 640 and the Parliament is shorter.
I saw this pointed out on TrekYards, but that not-quite Parliament class ship docked at Starbase 25 has a modified Centaur saucer
I've said that ship reminds me of a cross between a New Orleans class (from those things sticking off the saucer) and maybe a Nebula class. YMMV of course. Def some similarity to the Centaur, which is one of my favorite on-screen kitbashes.
Also, if this is a Centaur upgrade of sorts, with late 24th century warp nacelles and impulse engines and perhaps strip phasers but the same hull, the size makes sense in comparison with the Maquis raider and the Kumari variants both, being a bit over 200 meters long. Those are some tiny Daedaluses, tho... Timo Saloniemi
The designer's name is lost to the anals of history? Somebody should go dig it up if they have access to the right resources.
The Aeroshuttle was always canon. We saw it attached to the bottom of Voyager in literally every episode!
TrekYards loves the word canon. Everytime one of the new show uses a TOS version of a design (usually Lower Decks) instead of the Discovery version Samuel loves to say it's been 'recanonized'.