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The multi-ringed saucer is a fairly distinctive feature that we, as of the 23rd century, have only seen on the Crossfields, and we only saw two of those, so it’s entirely possible she had never actually SEEN a stock Crossfield-class, but simply remembered the distinctive ringed saucer and that’s...

You’re not wrong! There have been studies that have shown that colorful surroundings delay onset and alleviate the severity of claustrophobia.

I love many starships, but for me I could only answer the Galaxy class, because for me, the Enterprise-D is home.

As we come upon it in DSC, the Federation is very much on the back foot, having faced a massive disaster and the withdrawal of some of it’s most prominent, founding member worlds. They’re trying to preserve the institution, and appeal to tradition is a favorite trope of conservatism.

https://xkcd.com/927

Chicagoland born and raised actually, but my dad’s job was building and working on specialized machinery until he retired. It’s a whole different world when you get your stuff from Granger and McMaster-Carr rather than Lowes and Home Depot.

Robertson. They’re high-torque, self-centering, resistant to cam-out and, most importantly, they don’t fall off the end of the driver!

I always figured Empress Sato, and those who had control of the Defiant after her, would have had significant interest in keeping the Defiant’s tech to themselves as long as it maintained an advantage over others. Also, having the Defiant didn’t necessarily mean they had the technology to build...

It seems like a rather specific name for it to be a coincidence, so I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge what seemed to be a nice little tribute in them naming the captain of the Armstrong after Grant Imahara, who we lost far too early last July.

I always kind of figured that the capabilities of Miranda class starships varied wildly. She had greater internal volume than her design contemporary Constitution class, and unlike the Constitution, it was all arranged in a single monobloc hull with two giant holes in the back, so over the years...

Considering that even at Warp 1 it would take almost an hour to get from Earth to Jupiter as I write this assuming the unlikely scenario of a straight shot, shuttlecraft (as opposed to shuttlepods which are basically ship-to-ship or ship-to-ground) wouldn’t even make very good in-system craft if...

Honestly, I’m for only having an aft torpedo emplacement. I mean, if you’re a little science vessel, and you’re in a situation where you need to be firing torpedoes, ideally you would want to be running away!

In terms of layout, I like the Cerritos bridge from Lower Decks. It really feels like a less “grand”, workhorse counterpart to the Galaxy class bridge while maintaining a similar design philosophy, including the ramps, which I prefer to stairs for both accessibility and safety. Also, no great...

Because “I” is gender-neutral. Adira, and many other enbys, prefer they/them to he/him or she/her because of gender identity, not because they’re a Trill.

If we look at the overall situation, at the time of Search for Spock, Starfleet was already looking to decommission NCC-1701, and I think that the damage she sustained in Wrath of Khan only put her to the front of the line of a larger standing-down of the Constitution-class as a whole. With...

Speaking from a metallurgical perspective, it could be to have the crystalline lattice of the metal in different orientations so as to prevent crack propagation

This is actually a technology that we have right now, it’s just still in it’s infancy. Most commonly it’s referred to as retinal projection, and it uses lasers and optics to “paint” raster images directly on the retinas of a user. The problem up to now has been creating a light source both...

Colani-esque, and I mean that in the very best way.

I know it goes back a bit in the thread, @The Lensman, but I can’t help but wonder, since it’s meant to evoke the ‘60s Japanese aesthetic, if the lights on the rocket engines of the Japaniprise are inspired by the underslung headlamps of the Mach Five?

Probably a stupid question, but I can’t remember, has anyone brought up the German Tank Problem in relation to the issue?