Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread
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Yeah, well, they slacked off. They'll get around to picking up the third letter some time.
the dudes who insisted on calling previous shows STD and STP should call it STLD.
I mean it's even coming out next month.
It takes time to
Who needs a subforum?
I think it's kinda funny myself, that the lower decks on this ship are those right before it gets all funky in its engineering area.
Oh...right.
I think it's funny that the arrow is pointing to the aft decks on the saucer, rather than the lower decks myself.
That, too, is funny.
LOW?
That's what the Enemy Camp should call it. We should call it LDS.
Then we can hit them back with, "When they go LOW, we go high!"
So, what do I spy in the poster image of the USS Cerritos, and what technical speculation does it engender. Hmm... (TL;DR, I suspect this is an intentionally lower-detail promo image, given the omission of certain customary features.)
- There are three rows of windows along the rim of the saucer.
- There are two rows of windows on the ventral side of the saucer, which looks to be flat, which means they're literally in the floor, even more so than with the Galaxy class -- unless those decks are angled via non-uniform artificial gravity. (It's just wet-navy habit and planetary chauvinism that we always draw cross-sections with parallel, evenly-spaced decks.)
- There are four insets (two pairs) along the rim, and aligned notches on the ventral surface. Cargo hatches?
- There are no visible RCS clusters, as with the Constitution-refit et seq.
- There are pale squares that imply escape pod hatches, but not as many as on the Galaxy class.
- The saucer has a broad yellow stripe, rather like the garishly painted ships of DSC, rather than the red pinstripes of the Excelsior, Galaxy, etc. (Also a single pale-blue pinstripe.)
- There are no visible phaser strips (unless it's the blue pinstripe) or single emplacements.
- There's no visible ship name nor registry on the ventral side (the only visible side) of the saucer.
- The navigational deflector is on a Miranda class-like pod, located between the warp nacelles, aft. That seems an odd placement, but it's actually in about the same position relative to the saucer as in the Galaxy class, given that the nacelles are mounted very far forward.
- The nacelles have multiple red-glowy bits, front and sides. We usually identify the red-glowy bits with Bussard intakes, but why would such be lateral?
- The nacelles have multiple blue-glowy stripes -- inboard, outboard and ventral. The TNG-TM identified those as "warp field grills" where warp field recombination along the coil centerlines produces some waste photons -- so why so many?
- The nacelle struts are heavier (more robust) than on other Starfleet classes, and there's no surface detail (warp plasma flush vents).
The ship reminds me of the FASA Ranger Class design with a rollbar deflector added below. I like it! Looks like a work ship!
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With regards to the ship, I feel compelled to quote Scotty, "Laddie, every woman has her charm, you just have to know where to look." I think the California-class is a cool design, and a very creative way to show off a new arrangement of the traditional Saucer/Stardrive/Nacelle setup. If I were a Starfleet Captain, I wouldn't mind commanding a ship like that. 
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