Well, apparently they're not much for combat. It was outright stated they were "no match" for a...
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That's what I'm figuring. As I mentioned over in the episode thread, they basically took the existing Crossfield, took out the middle/aft bit, grave it a triangular secondary hull, and slapped on some new Nacelles.
Seeing an unmodified Crossfield has me thinking that the triangular secondary hull was far more involved in the use of the Spore Drive then I originally figured.
I've always wondered what these glowing panels were used for....
Now I figure they, and the rest of the secondary hull are key to producing the Spore Drive effect.
I rather like that theory given how severly out of the box the Crossfields looked compared to every other ship.
My guess would be mainly Diplomatic and Firked-up secondary missions.
Perhap an earlier equivalent of the 24th century California Class.
I had figured the saucer section was from a Crossfield but they were taking a bunch of scrap starship parts, slapping them together enough to fool the Klingons, and hope that no one figured out their ruse until it was too late to stop a war.
It wouldn't be the first time that Starfleet altered a ship's appearance for a specific reason. There is the Antares with its crew habitation module and there are the various Nebula-class starships with their various add-ons (small nacelles, pods of different shapes and sizes, etc.)
So here's the best shots of the Crossfield I could crop and brighten from https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sc-SNW2-1.php
I kinda like it. Here's hoping we get some beauty shots from the production staff.
I kinda like it. Here's hoping we get some beauty shots from the production staff.
Being as they "re"built the thing in a cavern, it may not be any single class. Then the ship hiding under the awning at SB1 may not be the same. I would like to have a better look at that one though.
It's on the top pod you can see it in a few shots.
It is in the same location where the USS Kelvin's secondary hull was.
my assumption while watching was that the ship was self reporting as a crossfield (computer core probably located in saucer, which is crossfield), but in reality it was a hodgepodge of collected parts.
unable to comment on the ship at starbase 1 since we never get a good look at is as far as I recall, and that could potentially be on purpose due to it just being used to fill out the scene, hard to say.
unable to comment on the ship at starbase 1 since we never get a good look at is as far as I recall, and that could potentially be on purpose due to it just being used to fill out the scene, hard to say.
I'm going with a Franken ship and not a crossfield propper For now.. Don't want to accept that they'd take a saucer and toss the rest For the Disco.
Unless it shows up latter, then disco is the Franken ship..
Unless it shows up latter, then disco is the Franken ship..
The Franken class.
Agreed, plus to me that seems like it would be backwards for the saucer to be the 'stock' section. The nacelles and warp drive were still totally normal functioning. The saucer in Disco seems to be the custom designed section for the spore drive with its segmented spinning sections, while the engineering hull doesn't appear to deviate too wildly from established norms. The drive core itself may be contained in engineering, but the saucer appears to be performing its function, like how nacelles perform the function of a warp drive.
I would sooner expect a 'stock' Crossfield to have basically the same engineering hull but with a more traditional saucer, kinda like how Hunter-56 envisioned the saucer. The saucer is the part most obviously designed around the spore drive.
(But really, it doesn't make much sense to me for a 'stock' crossfield to exist at all in the first place. The class seems to exist solely to host the spore drive experiment, with a design unlike anything else of that time period, and it's not been firmly established that any more even existed besides the two experimental ships. Makes me wonder if this thing was using pieces from the destroyed Glenn that were abandoned adrift. On the other hand, who is to say that the Glenn was even their first failure? Maybe it's just the first we know about.
But hey, it's all make believe, if they go on to say a stock crossfield exists then it's no big deal.)
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What has caught my attention is the registry of the Farragut-type starship on the nacelle. Is that the USS Farragut registry?
The D was shown as the D on the Titan's display even though it was just the saucer with the Syracuse engine section,
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