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That's pretty much the take I once had, also, in Starships and Continuity of Style: http://weblog.st-v-sw.net/2022/07/starships-and-continuity-of-style.html "In other words, starship design experienced some sudden and as yet unexplained changes in the late 2350s or early 2360s, just as the...

I'd seen that, too. That was @Yaroze86, I believe, but looking at a high-res cap I didn't concur with that when last I checked.

I'm largely in perfect agreement. And, of course, it's also true that if you field an Excelsior replacement, you're more likely to send that replacement over an Excelsior for hazardous work. The ship might not be destroyed, but, over time, the stresses and strains might produce a retirement...

Exceptions exist, but, at least during earlier productions, we could typically identify them and could at least infer why they existed. In this case, it seems 30405 was either forgotten or intentionally overwritten, but this produced an unnecessary contradiction . . . two of them, in fact, due...

Seriously? Do you even know where you are posting right now?

The TNG-era starship(s) USS Lexington are referenced a handful of times. 1. mid-2365: "The Measure of a Man" TNG2 SB173-SDS chart, registry NCC-30405 2. mid-2370: verbal reference to rendezvous with Enterprise 1701-D in "Thine Own Self"[TNG7] 3. late-2371: docked at DS9 ("Explorers"[DSN3])...

I like the thought that 2280s UFP transwarp was just an improvement to warp drive that became standardized, much like the previous 'breaking of the time barrier' that likely occurred circa 2240 and resulted in ships using the term "time warp" through at least 2254.

Having encountered more than my fair share of absurd numbers just in the Trek vs. Wars realm, that video was . . . disappointing. The decibel thing is a minor example, but, as noted above, he barely touches on all that's weird about it. The little issue of sound in space means that, unless...

That's what I'm saying. The scanning beams must not fiddle with spins and fields or else we'd expect to hear of more effects from simple scans, or maybe traces of something having been scanned. Off the top of my head, I can only think of an example or two, but I can't quite place them...

I like the thought, but, really, I don't think it would be a good idea for UFP ships to be sending out scanning beams that actively fiddle with atomic spins and magnetic fields. Given the sorts of anomalies they tend to regularly encounter, that sort of mucking about with things on a simple...

Yeah, I didn't bring up UWB and such, mostly because one would hope the hull blocks most of that. Then again, we saw Voyager's hull fail to block AM radio (ugh). As for looking through windows, there is some wacky tech that can reconstruct imagery from around corners and such by processing...

It's often a bit silly, especially on some occasions like the computer failing to recognize Borg drone lifesigns on the suggested grounds that they read as part of the ship or somesuch. That said, your ideas of thermal and electrical signals imply a passive sensor receiving them, and indeed...

Well, you can see more of my old thinking here: https://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWvolumetrics.html Something closer to the Constitution density would seem applicable, given the apparent vintage. That's 4000kg/m³ instead of an Intrepid's 1200, or about 200,000 tonnes. That said, there's lots of...

Well hello there . . . welcome to my wheelhouse. In the case of Star Trek starships, we have two canonical datapoints (at least pre-2009/2017). The first was Scotty's reference in "Mudd's Women" to the Enterprise being nearly a million gross tons. The second is Voyager's mass, stated twice...

As an aside, a fellow on Twitter brought up "Demon"[VOY] and the TNG TM chatter about the Bussard collectors. A point of whether the Bussards should totally refuel the ship's deuterium tanks versus merely aiding in fuel mileage. I ended up doing some back-of-the-envelope stuff, which I'm...

If you don't mind a fan design, I came across one once that I found quite delightful. It's in that largely untapped size range between shuttle (including heavy shuttles like a runabout (sorrynotsorry)) and larger interstellar spacecraft like cruisers, freighters, and starships, which...

_The idea was a hundred years old_. A side note, but you can often guesstimate a person's age in the US by the presence of a scar on the arm. A lot of folks thought it was from the pneumatic injector device, but they were used with the Dryvax smallpox vaccine through 1972 which would cause a...

"Probert-shape"? Funny you say that, since I have used the term "Eaveshape" for his constant use of swept, chopped half-ovals with harsh linear breaks ... the _Sarajevo_ was literally a whole ship composed of them, as if in self-parody. Also, I don't see anything typically Probert except for...

Two quick notes: 1. The start of the TNG era featured ship type nomenclature . . . Tryla Scott's frigate, Walker Keel's heavy cruiser, et cetera. That was presumably a holdover or active from the assorted border skirmishes just prior to TNG. We didn't hear such terminology again until the...

Not if it's different computers and everything. At this point I would look into router, ISP, et cetera. (If any of those computers might be mobile, take them somewhere else and try.)