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Spoilers The Ships of Lower Decks

If I remember right Star Trek Adventures posits something like the NCC numbers being assigned to shipyards in batches, but some don't really build Starfleet ships for a long time resulting in the new ships having lower numbers phenomenon.
Yep, makes sense. Real-world analogue would be the DMV, each one given a large supply of each kind of (non-customized) license plate their state sells in large discrete consecutive chunks of tag numbers.
 
If I remember right Star Trek Adventures posits something like the NCC numbers being assigned to shipyards in batches, but some don't really build Starfleet ships for a long time resulting in the new ships having lower numbers phenomenon.

Yep, makes sense. Real-world analogue would be the DMV, each one given a large supply of each kind of (non-customized) license plate their state sells in large discrete consecutive chunks of tag numbers.

Yes exactly, and with the lag times in subspace communication, you can't rely on a central database to check against.
 
If I remember right Star Trek Adventures posits something like the NCC numbers being assigned to shipyards in batches, but some don't really build Starfleet ships for a long time resulting in the new ships having lower numbers phenomenon.

I don’t have a problem with that theory, if it applies to all ships of a certain class (i.e. the FC ships which have low registry numbers but are clearly new designs.) but I do have a problem with the California class specifically having registries of 1XXXX (for a brand-new ship no less), 7XXXX and 8XXXX for no real good reasons. Although I have noticed that this was a phenomena only in the first season, and other ships we’ve been introduced to lately have all 7XXXX registries.
 
Our first glimpse at...

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...a Steamy bridge :D

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The California yacht is very similar to the Sovereign one

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Steamrunner seemed much smaller than usually assumed. Bigger than a runabout, yet smaller than probably even the Defiant.
 
Steamrunner seemed much smaller than usually assumed. Bigger than a runabout, yet smaller than probably even the Defiant.
I felt that too, but then again there wasn't actually much to base that on. It wasn't near much to compare to. I think its just the cartoon style made it seem small.
 
I felt that too, but then again there wasn't actually much to base that on. It wasn't near much to compare to. I think its just the cartoon style made it seem small.

I agree, I think this is just Lower Decks's visual style. The Cerritos doesn't feel like a particularly big ship, particularly early on, but it's about the same size as an Ambassador-class and several times Voyager's volume. They seem to deliberately exaggerate window size.

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I loved the Steamrunner bridge - very much the kind of think they would have done on TNG by redressing sets. It was basically like the Enterprise-C bridge, with the battle bridge viewscreen!

And were the white, rounded corridors on Locarno’s ship a little nod to the Kelvinverse Enterprise?
 
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