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  1. Mark_Nguyen

    Transition and explanation of SNW into TOS technology

    There is precedent for different numbering conventions. While not exactly the same, the US Navy operated the F4F Wildcat in WWII, then later the F4 Phantom II, of which one variant was named the F-4F. Similarly the USN started numbering from the start again when they decided Destroyers should...
  2. Mark_Nguyen

    What Tech do Pirate Ships in Trek need to be effective?

    Bah! Holograms are so 2370s. I want a directed, phased energy beam in the shape of a personal emblem for my ship! [youtube] Timestamp: 1:11:38 Mark
  3. Mark_Nguyen

    What Tech do Pirate Ships in Trek need to be effective?

    Depends on the contract and NDA they have with them, I'd say. Keeping in mind that most pirates and extralegal ventures don't have access to the bigger engines, shields and guns compared to any given Starfleet; but Starfleet can't be everywhere and they only need to catch up to and disable...
  4. Mark_Nguyen

    Transition and explanation of SNW into TOS technology

    Back when fandom thought that this era of Trek had only one saucer design type, a bunch of fans figured that the entire Ptolemy class of transports was retired en masse at some point, leaving literally dozens of relatively low-mile saucers in surplus. In the subsequent ramp up of similar designs...
  5. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    That's like 95% of the argument basis on this forum. Which are then raked over the hot coals of canon / non-canon / headcanon / actual cannons in a debate that WILL NEVER END. All that in mind, were we able to clock the different Klingon bridges in use in 5x10? We had at least two color...
  6. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Well, a century beforehand someone thought it'd be neat to put all the torpedoes and launchers in a plainly visible and targetable pod atop the ship, and THAT design lasted a good century. :) And that space on the Sovereign seems wierd anyway. I'm not sure it's the shuttlebay control room...
  7. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Yes! Which is why the bridge laughter was forced, as it was on the Discovery bridge when Tilly blurted out the same. :) ...And whaddya know, the E-E in LDS does have a bump atop Deck 3 Aft where the Nemesis launcher should be. It's not the obvious pimple that the launcher is, but it's...
  8. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    ...Indeed. I'm sure the Ents will have their own flying rain forest in no time. <SFX: Forced bridge crew laughter> I peeked back at the appearance of the (non-real) USS Wayfarer and she also lacked the forward transporter arrays, so I guess we know what model they used (albeit lit in a less...
  9. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Around 26:15 there's a quick pan over the Enterprise that shows a lack of pylon-mounted phaser strips, the extra photon launcher above the docking area on Deck 3 aft of the bridge, and the aforenoted lack of forward transporter arrays. The extra forward torpedo launchers on the dorsal saucer...
  10. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    They don’t. But OTOH a refit Freedom could easily have been made at some point and kept the same class designation. And hey, the Enterprise-E cameo here confirms that the ship had been refit back to its pre-Nemesis configuration. I’m sure it was a simple reuse of the Wayfarer model from a...
  11. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Yes, upon freeze framing, it looks like your thing makes more sense in one way, and yet still a whole lot less sense in another. But I accept this! Mark
  12. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Following up on 4x08: - The senior staff have a morning meeting, but neither of the newly-minted SSOs are present. I can chalk this up to the writing staff not being fully aware of this (as well as not drawing focus from the more senior senior staff), but it's an omission nonetheless. -...
  13. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    We SORTA have the same thing on the USS Protostar's one lift. It's a bigger than average turbolift car, and also seems to have three doors and only goes up and down. On the Protostar it's more for accessibility (as that ship has visible stairs everywhere) but like the Prolapsicandor it's more...
  14. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Jorg has posted a screepcap of the Atraxislammer's MSD which suggests it was a much larger variant of the Defiant. I'm not sure if anyone has done any measurements of the Zipacnamanger yet but it COULD they purposefully scaled her up..? Mark
  15. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    The bridge of the Beagle was about 80% NX-class. Great throwback! As for the Anaximander, we don't know if it's a prime universe design or not. For all we know it's from some other universe and was always built with an elevator like that. Either way, every Defiant has had beam-type phasers...
  16. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Well, a version of Mariner is in what looks like a Defiant-class ship's engineering, so I'd say this is a pretty sure thing. https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/12/new-star-trek-lower-decks-images-fissure-quest/
  17. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    It's purple. :) My only real thought was that it was from a dimension where time was still back in the original run-ish of TNG (presumably somehwere between "Time's Arrow" and "Generations". I figured the reason the Purple-D didn't hang around was so as to not run into too much foreknowledge...
  18. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    I've been busy with year-end stuff again, but quickly: 5x06: - I get the right to privacy, but wouldn't ELECTRIC POWERS be something on an official record after a medical or two? - It's great that the Cerritos HAS wide enough corridors you can drive the equivalent of a golf cart down. - The...
  19. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    It's Star Trek, and it's clearly a Star Trek starship design, but it's a fan creation, but a re-creation of the original sketch, so that makes it legally okay to use..? This is probably not the forum to ask this questions, but IS it okay to use? Mark
  20. Mark_Nguyen

    Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships & Technology Season 5 Discussion

    Oho, mystery (ship) solved? I knew I’d seen this design around..! https://www.deviantart.com/scifi-shipyards/art/Star-Trek-Lower-Decks-U-S-S-Cerritos-845215001?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR23Cygylj3uWFLpEgv-Z5THms7K6ftqRrgenFfPGq2WqddO0TbzzEtUB5I_aem_qkQS2PmwmwdrNYDNIl3kJA
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