Picard Season 2 Stargazer Deflector Crystals

[Mres_was_framed!]

The term deflection crystal isn't even canon. It's never mentioned on screen.

I know that it is not mentioned onscreen, but it is in Probert's designs and I use the term because it at least keeps it simple and consistent to describe what I am talking about.

Interesting, I was sure someone mentioned a field governor in "Enterprise" at some point.

I remember reading about the "symmetrical warp governor" and the reference to Archer's father in periodicals before the 2001 show came out. I did not watch enough of that show to know if this key part of Archer's past actually ended up in a script, but I would consider it an official term for the show because:

1. It is better than not having a term to describe this component, and it appears on diagrams which makes it as official as pretty much any other label on any published diagram.

2. If I were to not use the term "symmetrical warp governor" then I'd prefer to just move the engine room to that space on the ship since that location makes a bit more sense in engineering terms, in my opinion.

 

[Deks]

Those seem to be warp governor from what we know of possibly the technical manuals?
As such, its not really canon information, but its the closest we have on what to call them.

As for their presence on the Stargazer... that was odd.
The Stargazer appeared to be a newer class of ships of the 25th century... it makes no sense it would have them.
Older designs which used refitted Constitution class nacelles (like the Titan-A, Intrepid, etc.) were essentially refitted 23rd century class ships with tech in the 25th century to keep them up with the times.

It would make sense they would have them if SF wanted improved Warp stability (or they were useful maybe for Slipstream?) but the early/mid/late 24th century ships don't have them... anything from the Ambassador class onward doesn't seem to have them.
It looks to be a 22nd/23rd century ship class feature for the most part.

 

[Ithekro]

The Titan-A and Intrepid use the exact same nacelles as the Stargazer.

The internals of the Titan-A's nacelles were from the Luna-class USS Titan, that would have been built 20+ years earlier.

One wonders if there were more Constitution III class starships. Class names usually mean there would be a USS Constitution built in the 2390s, unless the class ship was renamed to Titan-A when the Luna-class Titan got massively beat up, returned home and they used its parts to finish what was to have been USS Constitution.

That fits with some theories about the USS Enterprise-E and the seeming lack of a USS Sovereign of the Sovereign-class. That maybe the first ship of the class got renamed to USS Enterprise after the loss of the Enterprise-D.

 

[David cgc]

One wonders if there were more Constitution III class starships. Class names usually mean there would be a USS Constitution built in the 2390s, unless the class ship was renamed to Titan-A when the Luna-class Titan got massively beat up, returned home and they used its parts to finish what was to have been USS Constitution.

By precedent of the Constitution-II, it'd suggest that the first Constitution-III was refitted from a Constitution-II. Of course, that is assuming the Enterprise-refit actually is the Constitution-II class-ship, but I'm not sure if that's canon. There's a strong argument that it was the first of its kind, and that it was still a Constitution-class (thanks, TUC), but I don't know if the designation Constitution-II has been specifically attached to it in a production source. The Star Trek Logs Instagram that revealed the Constitution-III name also called the Enterprise-A a "refit Constitution-class," so maybe the Constitution-II is some totally different design that was, like the Excelsior-II (presumably), it was named for an actual new USS Constitution.

That fits with some theories about the USS Enterprise-E and the seeming lack of a USS Sovereign of the Sovereign-class. That maybe the first ship of the class got renamed to USS Enterprise after the loss of the Enterprise-D.

I mean, nowadays, there are dozens of Sovereign-class USS Sovereigns. Though their nacelles all say Enterprise-E...

 

[Ithekro]

One thing we don't know is just how old is the Constitution-class? They have a wide range of hull numbers from Constellation (NCC-1071) to New Jersey (NCC-1975) with the largest known collection of numbers in the 1600s and 1700s. The Constitution II-class could be the new built ships based on the refit of USS Enterprise in the 2270s. Maybe they refit Constitution herself, or they built a new one based on Enterprise. If the later, than the refit Enterprise was still a Constitution-class starship, but the Enterprise-A was a Constitution II-class starship. It gets muddled a bit though since we don't have many references for the Constitution II class starships that can pin down what they did over time. Though this has also been a problem with the Constitution-class itself as even after nearly 60 years we still are not sure how long the class was in service.

 

[blssdwlf]

Since the Constitution-III is twice as large as the redesigned and refit Enterprise from TMP that apparently is in its future called the Constitution-II then it would make more sense that the Constitution-III is a new build that has physical features resembling the earlier version. It would be along the lines of the F/A-18 Hornet and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet lineage.