Emperor's Ship...since everyone seems to have missed it.

[PixelMagic]

While not shown in the episode, the Emperor's ship was shown in an After Trek promo on Star Trek Discovery's FB page. I just haven't seen it mentioned here or anywhere else. I saw some speculation that the Emperor's ship would be the Defiant, but it's not.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

It reminds me of the World Devastators from the Star Wars expanded universe.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

I saw it, but just a glance, I am guessing this is the Palace.

 

[SCE2Aux]

I've generally been positive about the new Discovery ship designs (and find the Discovery itself to be one of my favoyrite designs in all of Trek), but I'm not sold on this one yet.
It has a Stargate Goa'uld-like quality which seems both fitting for the domineering Terran Empire, and yet also kinda unoriginal looking too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Looks like the USS Vengeance but with an entire palace stuck in the centre of the saucer.

Nice blingy lights. Makes it look like the USS Essex Girl.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It has a Stargate Goa'uld-like quality which seems both fitting for the domineering Terran Empire, and yet also kinda unoriginal looking too.

You're right, at least from the angle seen here. I'm beginning to think there's a Stargate fan on the DSC staff:

Bird of Prey = Death Glider

D7 Battlecruiser = Destiny

Palace ship = Gua'uld mothership

 

[SCE2Aux]

Ha! I can totally see the death glider/bird of prey similarity.
Original or not, it's going to be interesting to see this kind of ship getting depicted in Trek, as it's quite rare to see behemoths.

 

[Michael]

To be honest, I can't even make out what exactly I'm seeing in this image. Looks like a portion of the ship is cut off from the image, no? It's not configured like a traditional Trek ship in the saucer/nacelles/secondary hull configuration, is it?

 

[Agony_Boothb]

It looks like it has rings on the underside. Maybe those are warp nacelles like the ones on Vulcan starships

 

[Timo]

Looks like two boxy pontoons joined at the middle by a transverse block on top of which is the palace tower, with all the windows and lights. And the great big arches, at least one and apparently two, connecting the bottoms of the pontoons. And a free-floating miniature star held in the middle of the arch - in this picture we only see its glare reflected from the insides of the arches, but another angle (with Burnham's shuttle) reveals the star itself.

Might be a Vulcan-style ring drive. Might be a Romulan-style drive where it's important to have a compact astronomical object in the middle. Might be a Cochrane drive, with the pontoons being the two nacelles, and the rest just gaudy decoration or perhaps fancy weapons.

Is this an ancient vessel, dating back to the early days of the Empire and relying heavily on technology stolen from the Vulcans that Cochrane gunned down? Or a modern juggernaut? Is she built to outgun everything else in the 2250s MU by a ridiculous margin just because? Or is she a mostly harmless barge with a few token torpedo launchers and a need for escort?

Here's hoping the next episode will offer lots of techno-fun, against this week's almost techno-devoid take. (Oh, we did get some 'babble on the spores, but that was pretty much it.)

Is the shuttle new, too? Or at least modified to MU specs? I don't think I have seen those cheek fairings with the three glowing dots (guns?) before...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Firebird]

Are we actually sure that's the Emperor's ship? We're just shown a quick shot of it, without any context, so I'm not convinced until I see the episode itself.

 

[Timo]

What we appear to be told is that the Emperor doesn't usually fly around in an invisible ship. Whether this apparent flying palace is the invisible ship she arrived in, or a separate ship, of course remains officially unknown till next Sunday. But it is curious that the crew of the Shenzhou would be so surprised by the stealth arrival of the Emperor... Apparently, invisibility isn't the standard method by which the Emperor remains faceless.

Of course, she doesn't appear faceless to these officers - all of them recognize at least the regalia, suggesting those make public appearances every now and then (on a mannequin?). But what's public to the Imperial Fleet may still remain secret from the general populance. Odd that the Rebel data didn't contain enough dirt on the Emperor to defeat the "faceless" characterization...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tuskin38]

There is what looks like a miniature sun underneath it in those rings (that's what that orange glow is)

 

[shapeshifter]

Looks like many ships, (perhaps the flagship of every conquered race?) stitched together into one huge conglomerate...

 

[cultcross]

You're right, at least from the angle seen here. I'm beginning to think there's a Stargate fan on the DSC staff:

Bird of Prey = Death Glider

D7 Battlecruiser = Destiny

Palace ship = Gua'uld mothership

A few of the corridor shots really remind me of Stargate's style too, and the planet from Latin Title was classic SG-1, Canadian trees with a colour filter. The plot reminded me heavily of the episode The Nox too.

 

[BillJ]

I still don't get the upside down arrowhead.

 

[cultcross]

I still don't get the upside down arrowhead.

Eeeeeeevil.

 

[Ithekro]

Its lit up like the USS Cygnus in The Black Hole.

 

[DaveyNY]

So it's a Space Catamaran/Surfboard?

 

[F. King Daniel]

I still don't get the upside down arrowhead.

Really? I've been wanting the mirror universe to do an upside-down arrowhead for years. I guess the idea is a spin on an upside-down flag meant as an affront to everything the correct-way-up version stands for.