Discovery saucer ring spins?

[NeoStar9]

Was not expecting both sections to spin but it did. That was a pretty cool scene.

 

[DEWLine]

Gravitational issues?

Remembering that they set up on-board artificial gravity by similar ways and means on a smaller-scale...

 

[David cgc]

So, judging by the window lines, it looks like only the top and bottom surfaces of the saucer spin, and the actual decks and structure don't. It's more like those hubcaps than a fully-rotating ship.

 

[T'Bonz]

Oh man, I LOVE the spinning ship!

 

[Mirror Mirror]

I stand corrected on the spinning, it looked cool.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Was not expecting both sections to spin but it did.

Both? I only saw the outer section spinning. Awesome!

 

[XCV330]

Both spun. Not that they use newtonian physica on that show, but that WOULD keep the ship from spinning around gyroscopically

 

[Sir Stewart Wallace]

Unfortunately, Starfleet banned the spinning saucers as they were distracting to other starships.

 

[Tuskin38]

If you watch closely only the outer top (and presumably bottoms) layer of the hull spins, not the entire section.

 

[omnirad]

Those spinning rings are a lot cooler than Voyager's pivoting nacelles. Just sayin'...

 

[tomalak301]

I loved this effect so much. Best visual effect of the show so far.

 

[think]

star gate effects almost?

 

[Psion]

If you watch closely only the outer top (and presumably bottoms) layer of the hull spins, not the entire section.

Yep, in the scene just after the rescue of Corvan 2, and the obliteration of the Klingon raiders, the Discovery drops into frame with a camera angle on the bottom three-quarters as the lower sections stop spinning.


Edit to add:

How do you say, "That doesn't look right!" in Klingon?

 

[Timo]

It's not even the entire top/bottom surfaces, but just their outer rims, so that even the phaser emplacements (which glow nicely red in some views - are they only red when "hot"?) remain stationary.

Apparently they spin for bleeding off excess something. Stamets claims the ship was built to accommodate his science. Are the spinning sections his doing, too, or a standard feature on a standard Crossfield science ship? This ep would suggest the former. But what else is nonstandard? All of it?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Gonzo]

So it does spin, I haven't seen the episode yet but will do later.

 

[Mudd]

The spinning saucer is unutterably stupid. But it looks kewl.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Star Trek ships are becoming something akin to the lightsabers of the Star Wars franchise. It’s iteration is getting more ridiculously stupid as long as it 'looks cool'.

 

[XCV330]

The spinning saucer is unutterably stupid. But it looks kewl.

Just pretend Seth invented it and you can bask in the glow of his awesomeness. There.

 

[Refuge]

So it does spin, I haven't seen the episode yet but will do later.

It sure does, there's a massive hamster running for its life in there. Actually, no, just poor Ripper.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Star Trek ships are becoming something akin to the lightsabers of the Star Wars franchise. It’s iteration is getting more ridiculously stupid as long as it 'looks cool'.

I wonder what "kewl" thing the next hero ship will have. Flapping its warp nacelles like a bird?