ST Strange New Worlds - Starships and Technology Season Four Discussion

[HotRod]

But that's exactly what Clarke's Third Law says: you reach a point where the distinction between advanced science and magic stops meaning anything.

My point is that Star Trek uses Clarke’s Third Law as a narrative shield whenever it wants to do something outlandish as hell, something that, in any other franchise, would just be called magic. Don’t get me wrong, I adore the outlandish stuff. I am a TOS fan, after all.

 

[Ronald Held]

Q cannot do everything, perhaps because it cannot be done in this multiverse?

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

New teaser!

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- Heading into a singularity for some reason

- big engine room-looking engine room filled with people

- Where'd the horses come from? Something to do with dinosaurs?

- The giant mess hall / lounge virtual set, once thought replaced by the smaller bar, is still around!

Mark

 

[B.J.]

Still perpetuating the broken-wrist T-Rex model I see. Still looks fun though!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Be nice to get a proper look at Cetacean Ops crewmembers.

Can't wait for the scene in season five when Kirk takes over and demands another console be built over the door to Pike's ready room. I like to think that room is still there in TOS, gathering dust and physically inaccessible.

 

[Henoch]

Can't wait for the scene in season five when Kirk takes over and demands another console be built over the door to Pike's ready room. I like to think that room is still there in TOS, gathering dust and physically inaccessible.

I thought he moves the bridge up into a taller domed structure (now deck 2 has the large forward window).

 

[David cgc]

I thought he moves the bridge up into a taller domed structure (now deck 2 has the large forward window).

I've decided the bridge is on hydraulics like Stargate Universe, and will triumphantly elevate up out of the teardrop in the last episode.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Pike and his ready rooms. On Discovery they apparently always HAD an expansive set, located a half-deck or more above the main bridge, sitting empty while Lorca used a supply closet as his ready room space. Pike rolls up and within an episode he's repurposed the much larger space as his own, leaving the former closet to become a lab or something.

The ready room on the SNW Enterprise is tough to rationalize on even the 440m version of the ship. And moreover, if THAT MUCH space is somehow crammed into the deck 1 superstructure, what's on the OTHER side to balance that out? The bowling alley?

Mark

 

[David cgc]

I’ve mentioned it before, but I really do hate the streaming Trek trope of the combination ready room/conference room. What happens when someone has to have a meeting while the captain has to do paperwork?

 

[Ithekro]

Maybe when they refit Enterprise's mission under Kirk they have to repurpose the space for more environmental units because the crew jumps to 430.

 

[Hellbird]

Pike and his ready rooms. On Discovery they apparently always HAD an expansive set, located a half-deck or more above the main bridge, sitting empty while Lorca used a supply closet as his ready room space. Pike rolls up and within an episode he's repurposed the much larger space as his own, leaving the former closet to become a lab or something.

The ready room on the SNW Enterprise is tough to rationalize on even the 440m version of the ship. And moreover, if THAT MUCH space is somehow crammed into the deck 1 superstructure, what's on the OTHER side to balance that out? The bowling alley?

Mark

A roomy stable for Tango!

If you look too close, I'd imagine that ship is JJ-Prise size what with that cargo hold and shuttle bay.

In hindsight, I do prefer the DSC S2 look to some of the rooms and hallways.

 

[Tuskin38]

- Heading into a singularity for some reason

Clearly not a real singularity

 

[Lakenheath 72]

In that teaser, I see new starship designs at time stamp 00:22 and 00:25. We see the first design again at 00:43.

 

[Dukhat]

Looks like an alien ship.

 

[HotRod]

Some interesting things shown on the SNW prop auction page.

It seems these were hung up in the art department.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It's interesting that they designed the ship using US Customary Units instead of Metric.
They just converted over to Metric for standard communication reasons.

 

[Ithekro]

Very interesting.

Also defined aft torpedo bay and aft phaser banks.

 

[HotRod]

Very interesting.

Also defined aft torpedo bay and aft phaser banks.

She's always had aft Torpedoes between the impulse engines.

The only aft phasers that I've seen are under the fantail.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

She's always had aft Torpedoes between the impulse engines.

Those rectangles were the Torpedo Tubes?
Man that is hard to visually pick out.

 

[137th Gebirg]

She's always had aft Torpedoes between the impulse engines.
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The only aft phasers that I've seen are under the fantail.
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It has long been speculated that the little black dot in the center of the impulse deck between the engine outlets on the TOS model was an aft-facing torpedo tube. Never confirmed by the model builders, to my knowledge.

Aft view of the restored filming miniature on display at the Smothsonian: