D7!!!.... huh?

[Timo]

Using the spore drive still when they said that kills lifeforms earlier on.

But it doesn't. That was all a mistake, a poor understanding of what the "May" being was trying to convey. Culber's ghost was killing lifeforms, and "May" initially mistakenly associated this with "Captain Stamets" and the ship he was flying through the network, because Culber's ghost was following that ship. The heroes dealt with the problem. And in any case, it wasn't something they brought upon the network: Culber's ghost was using a native lifeform as May repellent, and its poison thus wasn't a new element to the network, but something belonging to it in the first place.

The only reason Starfleet considered stopping spore-jumping was because of the combination of it no longer being needed for defeating the Klingons, it being painful to Stamets, it having been illegal to make Stamets a compatible pilot, and it being a poorly understood force affecting the entire multiverse. But none of that really mattered: the heroes ignored their superiors' "recommendation" and suggested that Pike make use of the drive for studying a distant mystery that posed no immediate threat to the Federation (because it was so distant, doh!).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[publiusr]

Always good to see a D-7

 

[Spaceship Jo]

The ship is also the worst designed ship in the galaxy with that long skinny neck (like the ship of the dead) which one good shot cuts the ship in half.

Then again Starfleet ships almost all have their bridge on the top of the saucer and the enterprise has a skinny neck that Khan took immediate advantage of. But I expect more from a warrior race.

It's... uh... honorable... to keep the command crew away from the engines.

Really though, nearly anywhere on any ship besides borg 3D solids can be a kill shot, so we must presume in-universe there are engine function or weapon function or aesthetic/cultural reasons for ship layouts.

So maybe Klingons want to lead the charge, be as close to battle as they can, because every day is a good day to die (in battle instead of from proximity to their warp radiation or whatnot).

 

[fireproof78]

The ship is also the worst designed ship in the galaxy with that long skinny neck (like the ship of the dead) which one good shot cuts the ship in half.

Then again Starfleet ships almost all have their bridge on the top of the saucer and the enterprise has a skinny neck that Khan took immediate advantage of. But I expect more from a warrior race.

Well, when the warrior class dominated the engineer class just went in to hiding.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The ship is also the worst designed ship in the galaxy with that long skinny neck (like the ship of the dead) which one good shot cuts the ship in half.

Then again Starfleet ships almost all have their bridge on the top of the saucer and the enterprise has a skinny neck that Khan took immediate advantage of. But I expect more from a warrior race.

The idea from some old novels (I'm not sure if they invented it or it was perhaps planned but never depicted for the show) was that the Klingon command crew remained in the head, and the slaves toiled and died in the radioactive engineering hull. Of course, many versions of Trek have since shown Klingon ships to have all-Klingon crews, and that all areas of the ship are equally safe.

 

[publiusr]

The cobra head was intimidating as well. Super-metals, no need for slab sided push it 'till it moves stuff. Great field protection, etc.

 

[Jesse1066]

The ship is also the worst designed ship in the galaxy with that long skinny neck (like the ship of the dead) which one good shot cuts the ship in half.

Then again Starfleet ships almost all have their bridge on the top of the saucer and the enterprise has a skinny neck that Khan took immediate advantage of. But I expect more from a warrior race.

In an emergency they destroy the central corridor and split the ship in half, and then the crew can use the foredecks as a lifeboat.

If they care about that sort of thing.

 

[Longinus]

The ship is also the worst designed ship in the galaxy with that long skinny neck (like the ship of the dead) which one good shot cuts the ship in half.

Then again Starfleet ships almost all have their bridge on the top of the saucer and the enterprise has a skinny neck that Khan took immediate advantage of. But I expect more from a warrior race.

What a silly thing to say. It is painfully obvious that you don't understand a first thing about warp field dynamics or structural integrity field optimisation. How 21st century of you.

 

[Kemaiku]

The idea from some old novels (I'm not sure if they invented it or it was perhaps planned but never depicted for the show) was that the Klingon command crew remained in the head, and the slaves toiled and died in the radioactive engineering hull. Of course, many versions of Trek have since shown Klingon ships to have all-Klingon crews, and that all areas of the ship are equally safe.

Kind of like Event Horizon's design with the command module, the neck, and the singularity riddled engineering section.

 

[Longinus]

Kind of like Event Horizon's design with the command module, the neck, and the singularity riddled engineering section.

I always though that the Event Horizon ship looked like an early Klingon space ship.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

In my mind, those ancient ships were left by the Hur'q and the Klingons based their own designs on them.

 

[Rahul]

In a universe with anti-matter weapons it makes no difference weather you're protected by one layer of outer hull, or one layer and three levels of habitat floors. The same way a nuke doesn't care weather you live in the first floor or the ceiling of a building.

What protects the crew are the shields, and maybe the hull plating. Everything else makes no differences. That's why long, spindly nacelles are no issue in the star Trek universe. They must have a different, technological reason to be that common in all Star Trek species' design.