Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™
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I prefer the original. They took the ring concept and modified it so the ship had pointed ears, which I thought was cute.
Likely too cute for someone BTS in SNW.
Likely too cute for someone BTS in SNW.
[soapbox] Will some please remind the VFX team that the big dish thing on the front of the Enterprise is the navigational deflector? You know, put there to push things out of the way as it travels forward.... The Big E should NOT be bumping into space rocks.... [\soapbox]
You mean it's not just for warp speed, where even a tiny rock tears a hole through the ship?
That would ruin the drama, no thanks.
Keep it for warp speed, not impulse.
Also if you look closely the deflector shields are keeping them from damaging the hull. There's impact FX on them.
Yes, IIRC, from the old TNG technical manual, the navigational shields surrounding the entire hull are always on - low-powered and able to deflect cosmic debris and the main navigational deflector is intended for warp use only. However, we can also surmise, from the deflector color change seen in TMP that there was a difference in power output for the refit's deflector, such that it was still being used at impulse (amber), but not requiring as much energy to push things out of the way while at warp (blue). in later movies it was always blue, and considered to be always running at full power, even while at station-keeping.
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Per the TNG Technical Manual, the permanent navigational shields projected by the deflector dish only work on microscopic objects (and, apparently, lasers). Larger objects require either an active deflector beam to be emitted from the dish or the main deflector shields themselves. By far the biggest worry for ships at warp is interstellar gas and dust, not asteroids.
Given that there are designs like that Miranda-class that don't have deflector dishes, the idea that the Enterprise can operate in the same fashion isn't a terrible one. It relegates the deflector dish to pushing (or pulling) really large objects, perhaps much larger than the ship itself, IMO.
You can kinda make out a deck layout in the second image here
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1538608303676305411?s=21&t=aKOOEICM1Mused1AfNnqiA
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1538608303676305411?s=21&t=aKOOEICM1Mused1AfNnqiA
Maybe that layout is more about power conduits or something else other than corridors.
I was thinking the same since the graphic is labeled "rerouting auxiliary power".
It matches the same corridor diagrams we got in Discovery, which were backed up by the Season 2 art book.
Number One: Have you heard that Commodore Paris is supposedly turning the fleet into cardboard looking interior designs?
Pike: No, not like that bridge module she forced on us for the Rigel and Talos missions?
Number One: Yes, like that. Word is she's a huge fan of those old Captain Proton stories and it's influencing her refit approach.
Pike: I won't let this ship get refit until someone else takes command, let them deal with the cardboard.
Pike: No, not like that bridge module she forced on us for the Rigel and Talos missions?
Number One: Yes, like that. Word is she's a huge fan of those old Captain Proton stories and it's influencing her refit approach.
Pike: I won't let this ship get refit until someone else takes command, let them deal with the cardboard.
Aaaand it's just the Discovery deck layout superimposed onto the Enterprise, just as in Into Darkness the Enterprise's deck layout was the Kelvin's from 2009 superimposed onto the Enterprise.
Well, going back to 1979 and 1982 it was the classic Enterprise blueprints by Franz Joseph standing in for the refit version, barely visible in TMP but seen up-close in Wrath of Khan. Those killer hits that blew up half of engineering? Spock points to a graphic of crew quarters having been hit.
I don't see it.
Comparison here. Check out the front of the saucers. They just put an extra corridor around where Discovery has that empty saucer space.
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