Spoilers ST Strange New Worlds - Starships and Technology Season Two Discussion

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I love how they slightly modified the basic Shuttle design into a drop ship, it's quite a good kit-bash for it's intended purpose.
Move the Warp Nacelles up high to be above the armored and extended aft Cargo section, you have a Drop Ship.
Also add extra impulse thrusters on the aft of the Warp Nacelles, you fly a bit faster at STL, where the Anti-Air weapons fire is usually a bit hairier.

Spoiler: I love the Hexagonal Transporter Pad

The basic Hexagonal Transporter Pad is the right way to make a basic but functional & scalable Transporter pad design IMO, just stack Hexagonal Pads as necessary to expand the Transporter Volume as needed.

 

[NCC-73515]

Speaking of shuttles... did anyone notice the shuttle arrangement and very nice close up of the SNW Enterprise's shuttlebay in the Lower Decks cross-over?

posted the first pics of it...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Did anybody notice how slow some of the Anti-Air Beam Bolts / Streaks were moving on-screen for the FlashBack to the Klingon War?

I swear, some of the projectiles were looking like they were moving slower than Airsoft / Paintball rounds.

I understand wanting to pack in as much particles as possible, but having your projectile moving that slow seems wasteful since it seems so easy to dodge, even within Atmosphere.

There's a reason why StarShips prefer to fire their beams at the Speed of Light if possible, yeah it costs more energy to get up to that speed, but it's damn near impossible to avoid in a STL situation.

 

[Markonian]

The basic Hexagonal Transporter Pad is the right way to make a basic but functional & scalable Transporter pad design IMO, just stack Hexagonal Pads as necessary to expand the Transporter Volume as needed.

Hexagons are the bestagons.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Hexagons are the bestagons.

Indeed!!

Try listening to that video at 1.5x speed, it sounds soo much better.

 

[blssdwlf]

posted the first pics of it...

Was it in this thread? I looked through it and didn't see any pics of the shuttlebay.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Looks like a mix between the Raven (which is basically an up-scaled Runabout) and one of the TAS armored shuttle.

 

[Dukhat]

Too bad the Enterprise didn’t have one of those when Sulu and company were freezing to death on that planet.

 

[fireproof78]

The basic Hexagonal Transporter Pad is the right way to make a basic but functional & scalable Transporter pad design IMO, just stack Hexagonal Pads as necessary to expand the Transporter Volume as needed.

Will do. *orders off of Amazon*.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

This early Runabout (sic) has its own NCC. Not to say any ship SHOULDN'T, but by and large we've only seen Runabouts assigned to a station. The one we see in TNG "Timescape" may not have been assigned to the Enterprise-D, and it's strange we didn't see another one afterwards in stories that may have needed one (Descent, Pegasus, Genesis, etc.) as the set was readily available.

Mark

 

[Ithekro]

Too bad the Enterprise didn’t have one of those when Sulu and company were freezing to death on that planet.

Maybe they had left them behind during the refit (to be delivered Tuesday), and finally got some at Starbase 11.

 

[Dukhat]

This early Runabout (sic) has its own NCC.

What is it? And does it have a name?

 

[blssdwlf]

Too bad the Enterprise didn’t have one of those when Sulu and company were freezing to death on that planet.

Or have two more shuttles when they were searching for Spock and company in "The Galileo Seven". Seems like the total shuttles carried aboard the TOS Enterprise was variable.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Or have two more shuttles when they were searching for Spock and company in "The Galileo Seven". Seems like the total shuttles carried aboard the TOS Enterprise was variable.

Apparently 0 at the time of Enemy With In .

 

[NCC-73515]

Was it in this thread? I looked through it and didn't see any pics of the shuttlebay.

Hm, it was in the other SNW ship thread

This early Runabout (sic) has its own NCC. Not to say any ship SHOULDN'T, but by and large we've only seen Runabouts assigned to a station. The one we see in TNG "Timescape" may not have been assigned to the Enterprise-D, and it's strange we didn't see another one afterwards in stories that may have needed one (Descent, Pegasus, Genesis, etc.) as the set was readily available.

Mark

DS9's runabout all had their own NCCs

 

[Ronald Held]

Could it be that shuttle have no NCC number because there are sunlight vessels, but runabouts can go FTL?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Could it be that shuttle have no NCC number because there are sunlight vessels, but runabouts can go FTL?

Shuttles are FTL, otherwise certain episodes wouldn't work. I've assumed that as "subordinate" vessels they don't get NCC numbers if attached to a starship.

 

[Macintosh]

Could it be that shuttle have no NCC number because there are sunlight vessels, but runabouts can go FTL?

Some shuttles definitely have FTL capability.

 

[Macintosh]

Shuttles are FTL, otherwise certain episodes wouldn't work. I've assumed that as "subordinate" vessels they don't get NCC numbers if attached to a starship.

I've been thinking about this and I'm genuinely starting to wonder if the thing that merits an "NCC" number of your very own is whether you have a bathroom or not. Most shuttles seem to have all the lavatorial facilities of a standard family car (i.e., pull over and go in the bushes).

 

[Unimatrix Q]

I've had a head canon that SNW (and DSC) are a separate timeline from Prime Trek/LD/PIC for awhile, and honestly at this point its the only way to justify a bunch of the show, especially "Spock" and his relationship with T'Pring, which 100% goes against the spirit, if not the actual text, of what Amok Time seemed to say about their lack of relationship. The Gorn are also very obviously not the Gorn of Prime Trek (or the Mirrorverse or Kelvinverse).

Since Trek has a history of universe jumping, with both the Mirror Universe stuff and Prime Spock traveling to/creating the Kelvinverse, the Lower decks crossover can even easily be canon to both (Lower Decks, like Picard, being obviously still in the Prime timeline because of how specific, and how much, they connect to it).

I mean in the end its all going to be head canon. The people writing/producing SNW don't give a shit about continuity or the franchise in general, but if its even a little to their advantage to say SNW is canon with TOS/etc then they're going to keep saying it no matter how much they contradict everything that comes after them in the timeline.

Now I really wonder if TNG Season 1 and 2 are part of the prime timeline, according to you. The amount of retcons that happened in the later seasons and the other 24th century shows is at least as big as between TOS and SNW