Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[Dukhat]

The Excelsior II class is…meh. Like with the Obena class, I’m not sure of the rationale behind making a new design that closely resembles an out-of-date design, or why the new design has such low registry numbers (at least the Obena’s number makes sense for the time period.) I could understand if they were refits, but apparently they are brand-new ships as of 2400 or so.

 

[Ronald Held]

Maybe an old block of Excelsior registries were never used? SF decided to use them on this new class?

 

[fireproof78]

Given the massive losses with the war then they started over.

 

[Vale]

I've just realised (and somehow not previously noticed) that the USS Excelsior herself seems to have cheeky extra impulse engines like the Enterprise-B. These apparently aren't on the accompanying side view and top view, and apparently not on the USS Eureka either. Fascinating

 

[Tuskin38]

I've just realised (and somehow not previously noticed) that the USS Excelsior herself seems to have cheeky extra impulse engines like the Enterprise-B. These apparently aren't on the accompanying side view and top view, and apparently not on the USS Eureka either. Fascinating

Just a design that was never used.

 

[valkyrie013]

Youd think with 150 member worlds .. That they'd think of other names for ship classes before you'd have to have a II to it..
Plenty of fan designs that dine a refit excelsior better.

 

[Vale]

Youd think with 150 member worlds .. That they'd think of other names for ship classes before you'd have to have a II to it..
Plenty of fan designs that dine a refit excelsior better.

It's not a refit, it's a brand new class using the same design cues. Like the Akira-class is not a refit of the NX-class.

 

[DaveyNY]

I wonder how long before this one appears in STO.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I expect about 6 months, give or take. That’s about how long it took for some of the LDS ships to appear.

 

[fireproof78]

Tuesday.

 

[DaveyNY]

Tuesday.

Which Tuesday?

 

[fireproof78]

Which Tuesday?

2/2/2422

 

[corb]

2/2/2422

That would be a Wednesday...?

 

[Tuskin38]

I expect about 6 months, give or take. That’s about how long it took for some of the LDS ships to appear.

It took almost exactly a year for the first LDS ship to appear in STO. The Parliament class released on September 14th, 2021. It first appeared on Lower Decks on September 3rd, 2020. The Cerritos herself is only getting a release on May 10th.

However, according to the Devs, CBS is a lot stricter on how the cartoon designs appear in the game, and they take longer to approve than designs from Discovery and Picard.

A better comparison would be the discovery lockbox, which had the Crossfield, Sarcophagus and Crossfield in it.

It released January 2018, 4 months after DSC Season 1 started. Though they didn’t have a backlog of other ships to get through like they do now. There are still a handful of 32nd century ships they haven’t done yet.

 

[fireproof78]

That would be a Wednesday...?

That's the joke.

 

[DaveyNY]

That's the joke.

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[dantini]

According to the Memory Alpha summary, images of exploding Borg cubes are shown in the new episode. Is this new or reused footage?

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

It's new footage of the cubes hanging in the air around the characters like holograms.

 

[Tuskin38]

Using the cube design from Season 1.

 

[dantini]

Using the cube design from Season 1.

Thanks, that would have been my next question!