Cool little Kelvinverse and Discovery era Enterprise details...

[bryce]

...that I have noticed.

Sorry, the computer I am on is kinda randomly restricted in websites it will let me view, so I can't post pics, but there are a couple of cool things that I have noticed and always liked about the Kelvinverse and Discovery era Enterprises.

On the original Kelvinverse 1701, in front of the bridge window there appears to be what looks like a retracted physical shield and track for it to run on, if the window is ever damaged. Yes, I know there are shields, but shields need power and shields can fail...so this looks like a physical backup.

You can kinda see it here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/9f/fa/469ffa968a36718c0102749a51485fd8.jpg

But I don't notice any similar type of arrangements on any of the Discovery-era ships that I have seen so far.

But something that both Kelvinverse Enterprises and the Discovery-era Enterprise all have that I really like, is what appears to be rear photon launchers on the undercut of the secondary/engineering hulls. I think it's a nice touch, since we have never seen any accommodations for rear photons on any of the Connie's before.

 

[Timo]

Most of the windshields would have outside structure of some sort - at their scale, it's difficult for them to actually be flush with the outer hull. But the Kelvin-1701 is exceptional in that respect in that there seems to have been a decision to upscale that design (and the Kelvin) at some point by at least 100%, meaning the bridge is drastically inset and forms just a tiny fraction of the exterior dome, an odd non-concencric circle pushed against the forward edge. The windshield area thus has larger detail, including this "air gap" to greeblies that could mark a physical sliding shield.

What this particular windshield is especially bad at is glare. In most of the designs, the windshield is not flush with the upper surface of the saucer, but at least has a threshold of some sort. Here the saucer is particularly reflective and glares right at the helmsman...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

...that I have noticed.

Sorry, the computer I am on is kinda randomly restricted in websites it will let me view, so I can't post pics, but there are a couple of cool things that I have noticed and always liked about the Kelvinverse and Discovery era Enterprises.

On the original Kelvinverse 1701, in front of the bridge window there appears to be what looks like a retracted physical shield and track for it to run on, if the window is ever damaged. Yes, I know there are shields, but shields need power and shields can fail...so this looks like a physical backup.

You can kinda see it here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/9f/fa/469ffa968a36718c0102749a51485fd8.jpg

There is indeed, and you see it in action in the 2013 Star Trek videogame, after the bridge gets rammed by a shuttlecraft.

But I don't notice any similar type of arrangements on any of the Discovery-era ships that I have seen so far.

But something that both Kelvinverse Enterprises and the Discovery-era Enterprise all have that I really like, is what appears to be rear photon launchers on the undercut of the secondary/engineering hulls. I think it's a nice touch, since we have never seen any accommodations for rear photons on any of the Connie's before.

Into Darkness showed us the Enterprise had 72 broadside torpedo launchers in the secondary hull, all hidden behind panels. The USS Discovery wasn't designed with any torpedo launchers, they just seem to come out of anywhere and everywhere so I guess hers are all similarly concealed.

 

[bryce]

There is indeed, and you see it in action in the 2013 Star Trek videogame, after the bridge gets rammed by a shuttlecraft.

Into Darkness showed us the Enterprise had 72 broadside torpedo launchers in the secondary hull, all hidden behind panels. The USS Discovery wasn't designed with any torpedo launchers, they just seem to come out of anywhere and everywhere so I guess hers are all similarly concealed.

Cool, I would like to have see that sliding shield in action! It kinda remind me of the blast shield in the original Battlestar Galactica that they had to use whenever the Cylon would do a kamakazi run on the command center. (The designers of the BSG used in the new series wisely just out the CIC at the heart of the ship, where it could survive almost anything.)

Yeah, that 72 photon torpedo launchers was, I think, another case of making the ship bigger on the inside than the outside. Just like the turbolift Space Mountain in Discovery. Plus it ignores the clearly intentional fore photon launchers at the base of the neck, and aft photon launchers on the underside of the secondary hull.

I dismiss them in my head as special launchers installed specifically for use with the special advanced torpedoes they installed. (With Star Trek future technology, I imagine they can upgrade a starship really damn quick of the need to I guess.)

 

[David cgc]

While the exterior shot implies it came from the front of the ship, based on the shape of the space he came in from, Scotty used one of the broadside launchers to escape from the ship in Beyond (and also a long-range torpedo, though I don’t think we ever saw a normal torpedo case in the Kelvinverse).