I once saw a French MAS-49 rifle at a gun show. Instead of a bayonet lug under the muzzle, it had a telescoping white flag. Cool feature...
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Ohh...the Picard Maneuver. It's all so clear now.I did, but it didn't come with a white flag so I wasn't sure.
Trekkies gonna Trek... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not without precedent - the Saber-class USS Yeager was in service at the same time the entirely different Yaeger class was out there, whose class ship-of-the-line was also USS Yeager. Stupid thing to do, I know, but still...
That was an instance where the guy who made the in-joke ship wasn’t aware that ILM gave one of their models the same name. Nor was the in-joke ship meant to be taken seriously.
That’s not really a problem. The Nebula class Prometheus appeared first, many years before the Prometheus class was introduced. That’s the opposite of this situation. There’s a whole class of Intrepid vessels presumably still operational in 2401, but now there’s a USS Intrepid that isn’t of that class, and we don’t know how long it’s been in service.
Could be a... Refit... Dun Dun Duuuuuuuun!!! 
Dave gave us a class anme, Duderstadt
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1635370051204440065
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1635370051204440065
It's got to be a Doug Drexler tribute to his late wife Dorothy Duder. Losing her was a massive blow so he probably wants her memorialized in Trek canon in some way.
AH! I was not aware of that. Makes perfect sense in retrospect.
And yeah, Trumbull would have been cool.
It was probably too late, as he only died a month before filming ended. It appears on one of the bridge screens at the very least and those are practical.
There will be a USS Trumbull on a status screen somewhere
https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1491471853797265412
It could be a tribute to Doug Drexler's lost wife or to a city in Germany.
Well at least it doesn’t look 90% like the old ship, only with Stargazer nacelles.
If you're out exploring & by yourself, having Dual Deflector Dishes does have some benefits.
Besides being a "Navigational Deflector", it's also used for Long-Range sensors.
And given that you traditionally only have Long-Range sensors pointed forward, you're largely blind at "Long Range" to every angle around you unless you slowly turn around and scan.
Having a second set immediately pointing backwards lets you watch two major areas and see twice the area at long distance.
It also halves the amount of time needed to scan 360° Sphere at Long Range if you have to scan to find something.
And if you have a another feature where you can have "Dual Main Deflector Shields as well", you could alternate when a Deflector emits the Main Shield Bubble and if one is about to go down, turn it off, let it recharge while off, and have the alternate Deflector Dish emit the Main Shield Bubble.
It's largely a Win/Win situation at the cost of having dual "Deflector Dishes" to maintain, power, and operate. Along with maintenance, support, & providing power to feed both Dishes.
