Starship design history in light of Discovery

Yup.

 

I think Eaves himself said he designed 20+ ships for Season 1. He also worked on Federation ships as far as I know, so that narrows down his stuff.

 

S2E1 not only shows massive open sections of the ship but also pointless launch tubes for those single seater landing craft

 

Those could have been torpedo tubes, since there seem to be torpedo tubes frickin' everywhere on that ship.

 

That would be nice. If Harbert and Berg leaving was the reason why we got half a season of interesting questions and story-telling and another half of juvenile cliched scifi tropes, then I'd rather have them back. The second half of season 2 was a disaster, after a promising beginning.

 

Considering three movies = 6 hours and 1 season of Discovery = 10-15 hours, yes, you would hope they made 3 movies worth of material.

I wish they did that on Picard, and designed ahead, creating 4 or 5 different starship classes that could be used throughout the show's run, including the climactic action scene of season 1. Sadly, they didn't.

Unless you're part of the group of people who don't like modern Federation ship designs all that much, like those on Discovery or the USS Copy Paste, in which case it's a middling time for starship fans.

 

I did like all the S31 ship designs.

 

I think there is a huge promise for more starship designs than ever before.

 

Can't wait for the Cerritos to be Eaglemoss'ed!

(Waits for some heads to explode)...

 

^^^ count me in as keen also!

 

I don't remember that one. I remember the name though.

 

The new ship from Lower Decks.

 

OK haven't seen any of that. I know the ship name though.

 

That one looks sharp.

 

For all we know, the Ba'ul are the Preservers, treating lower races as cunningly forced labor and monitoring them with obelisk technology. Nothing as straightforward as laser-whips and forcefield fences: instead, the Ba'ul appear as benefactors to their victims, in a variety of ways, while making them harvest kelp or process diverted asteroids into precious minerals or whatnot.

Or then the Preservers gave the Ba'ul obelisk tech to Preserve them, back when the Kelpien were trying to exterminate the species.

Or then every two-bit slaver purchases from the same vendor.

Or then <quick check; okay, at least six pages since I last claimed this> the Discovery is a former shuttlecarrier, internally renovated into a flying laboratory, with mushroomrooms and other weird stuff suspended inside the vast hangar cavity, but most of the space left empty save for creatively rerouted turborails and random logistics spaces. Properly separated landing bays and launching tubes would be a must for such a carrier.

...What were these tubes supposed to be in the original McQuarrie drawings? They're part and parcel of all the versions, but there seem to be separate "impulse engines" or other rocket-analogues on the back wall of the hull, flanking the bay doors.

It's funny how the ship actually seems to have zero identifiable torpedo tubes anywhere on the hull. But that's just par for the TOS course.

Timo Saloniemi

 

In the absolute original drawing, I always thought that area below the shuttlebay would be impulse engines, since there aren't any other features that appear to be.

 

We saw that the torpedoes are fired from the warp engines XD

 

At least the producers admitted that was an FX mistake that should've never happened.

 

Well, launchers next to the nacelles is a pretty good idea - they command good cones of fire there. Heck, when viewed from forward, they might even clear the saucer in a way that makes it looks as if they emerge from absolutely random parts of the saucer...

(...Or then they do emerge from the saucer, that is, from the spinning part which has those suspicious boxes on, and for that reason fly whichever way when terminating Kol.)

Timo Saloniemi