So we got the full MSD for the Cerritos, it looks like the turbolift runs down the pylon and along the top of the nacelle. There are some Romulan Warbirds and Borg Cubes in the title sequence which seem pretty faithful to how we last saw them in TNG. Shuttle
Good stuff. Although I’m now wondering why they didn’t just set the show during TNG instead of 10 to 16 years after it.
Lots of glow on the nacelles, in relation to the rather compact collection of coils in the middle. Where they coincide with the very parts that feature crew presence, namely the turboshaft and the central pod.... Where is the warp core? The pod has a horizontal feature (that is also found in the saucer, but upright) on top. Is the actual core the other horizontal thing below that one in the pod? Is the big volume forward and down from bridge a holodeck, or the fish tank, uh, cetacean emergency rations preserve? The biggest change in the shuttle is the apparent side door, for a long last. No phaser strips in evidence there. None marked on the ship, either, but I trust they are the blue raised rings on both sides of the saucer. Pretty elegant, but coverage down and aft is abysmal as usual. And the MSD doesn't give much hints about what is housed on the oblong blocks atop the saucer, although those would be nice for torpedo launchers. Bubble shields, yay! Timo Saloniemi
Here's the ships at spacedock: The one on the left looks like a TNG-ified version of Eaves' original Shenzhou concept.
...Or like the one on the right, flipped. Which is also what happened to the DSC sketch, which got used both ways up eventually. Would be fun if the two LDS ships were identical (after all, they are!) and simply were flying in different orientations. Timo Saloniemi
Thanks for posting that! I don't know why, but I'm really in love with the Cerritos' design. It's simple and somewhat utilitarian, and yet looks absolutely fast and cool. I like that the saucer is a perfect circle rather than an oval. Always looked better to me.
That bump on top is the hull section that's between the nacelles, which I assume is main engineering, they haven't said where it is yet.
It's another Oberth-style design where the secondary hull is weirdly disconnected from the saucer for no good reason. Looks dumb and wildly impractical.
Some juicy stuff about the ship here: http://blog.trekcore.com/2020/08/st...undup-cerritos-design-new-posters-ready-room/ "The ship is in great condition. It’s a California-class ship, which has always existed in Starfleet — [this is] what we’re saying — that they’re the utility support ships. In the California-class [line], there are three types of hull painting: there’s blue, red, and yellow. We’ve extended the visual metaphor of the uniforms to the ships, and the Cerritos has yellow on the hull because it’s primarily a second contact engineering ship. They show up to planets that need engineering stuff done on them in order to be able to communicate with the Federation. There’s also, you’ll see in the show, blue-hulled California class ships, which are usually deployed to places where there has to be more medical expertise, and red-hulled ships that are like for moving around ambassadors and doing more command-level stuff."
I'm guessing so they can make jokes/references to everything from TNG/DS9/VOY./the TNG movies without us nerds pointing out when they've accidentally mentioned something that hadn't happened yet.
Guessing that - compared to Galaxy, Nebula, Sovereign, etc. - there's a lot of Californias roaming around. Maybe not as many as runabouts, but still...
And I am now wondering if Mr. McMahan - or someone in his circles - is a fan of the SCE/Corps of Engineers novellas.