Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed

Huh so STO's model for Book's ship isn't scaled up.
If you watch the first episode where the ship lands in Discovery's bay, it folds up to fit inside.

However, in the last couple episodes of the season, they just shrunk the CG model instead of folding her up for those shuttlebay shots.

 

Clearly referencing Voyager, here.

 

Hmh? In order to dive in, the ship clearly folds, to 1/3 of her usual width, in "There Is a Tide...". The ship then remains compact, largely by virtue of remaining in (now twisted) pieces.

It appears to be a slightly different type of folding that first allows the ship in, in "People of Earth". In "Scavengers", we cut before we get the folding-and-entering scene. And in "The Sanctuary", movement in and out of the bay is merely implicit and not shown at all.

No shrinking going on that I can see.

EDIT: Okay, now I found it: the final zoom-out of "Unification III". Elsewhere, she's neatly folded up. And for all we know, the "Unification III" scale has always been the correct one, and "People of Earth" is in error; the only contradictory shot would come from the introduction of the vessel in "That Hope Is You Pt I", and she doesn't appear much larger there.

Timo Saloniemi

 

STO's Crossfield Refit model

 

The Janeway isn't a subclass, the STO devs didn't call it an Intrepid Class because they didn't want to confuse it with the existing Intrepid Class already in the game.

It was a practical choice, not a lore choice. Maybe in the STO's 32nd Century Timeline it was just called Janeway instead of Intrepid if you want a head canon for it.

Considering this one is still referred to as a Crossfield Refit, I imagine it won't be a complete separate ship from the existing Crossfield variants in the game.

 

It's not a variant though. It's the 32nd Century Intrepid, as I said Cryptic only changed the name.

Memory-Beta is just making shit up lol

 

...no? The 32nd Century intrepid isn't a refit of the 24th Century intrepid.

 

There is a chance it is 10 generations of refits later. They have magical future tech, they add suffixes with refits too now. It's possible Voyager-J is in some way the same vessel Janeway commanded (albeit likely in a Ship of Thesius-kind of way)

 

I doubt it.

We don't know when they started doing that.

 

Why not? It sounds ridiculous but there's nothing to stop it being true. Just look at the USS Discovery NCC-1031-A.

Some time between Picard and Discovery season 3

 

Other ships have been refitted as much, or more so, than Discovery was, and their numbers didn't change.

No, I'm sticking with the story that they changed the registry number so Starfleet could claim, to the general public, that it's a different ship (because time travel is illegal).

 

Maybe the intrepid design is like the McRib of starfleet getting a re-release every few decades.

 

The only canon ship known to have changed its entire shape after a refit was the TOS Enterprise. And that was the mid-23rd century, not the 32nd. We have no idea if Starfleet changed its policy with suffixes over a 900 year time period. But the fact that Discovery was given a suffix even though it’s the same ship, and dialogue indicating that the Tikhov-M was the same ship as the original 23rd century Tikhov, indicates that the policy changed.

 

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