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Spoilers SFA Ships & Tech
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I wouldn't consider it bad at all. Different? Sure, why not? It's supposed to be nearly a millennium in the future of the other "comfort zone" Treks. The ships should look different and more advanced.
Grumall-style freighters, I'm looking at you!
Grumall-style freighters, I'm looking at you!
Add me in. I love the design. I can't wait to see more and learn more.
Like - Is the Athena new? Is she the old academy ship retro-fitted? Are the wings functional or just there for beauty/status as the academy ship? I'm fine either way with that, I'm just curious. How big, exactly, IS she?
The wings kind of give me art deco vibes, as do certain areas of the interior. Beautiful ship, beautiful sets.
Well, good to know!
Several people have said to me, oh, it doesn't look like a Star Trek ship, well, no shit sherlock, the USS Gerald R. Ford doesn't look much like a Viking Longship either... similar time difference
Presuming the Athena is perhaps a one of a kind training platform, the Academy class name seems fine to me. Perhaps we'll learn more as the series goes on.
I myself was never too fond of many of the future Disco designs, in no small part because many of their elements don't make a lot of engineering sense to me. That being said, I do think the Athena is very interesting and I'm keeping an open mind.
I love the Athena. It's a beautiful looking ship.
Athena as a one of a kind ship suits me just fine.
Just noticed the Athena's dedication plaque has the wrong NCC number. It's 325301, but the hull is 392023.
It may have different drive housings to fit into…Vulcan shuttle/warp sled style.
Simple for cadets.
Each season a new housing.
Well the lift journey seems to take ages, so much so there are benches to sit on in the turbolift which is a first for Trek.The best question is, does it come equipped with a turbolift funhouse?
It's probably like Spock's journey through V'Ger every time you go from the bridge to the shuttlebay.
There are patches of it on the ship's consoles, and the captain's chair only has programmable matter controls.
But I imagine they're not showing it in action a whole bunch yet because of budget.
No. The PD is a completely new prototype in 4x01 DSC and "competes" with the spore drive. In 5x01, we learn it had been chosen over the SD; the final season-5 episodes imply that the PD is still in the test phase, as only two ships plus Saru's shuttle are known to be equipped with it.
Seasons 4+5 of Disco are set in 3190-'91; SFA starts in '91, '92 or '94. In any case, fixing all quirks and glitches could take at least a few more years; maybe the show will address it.
Programmable matter on consoles is not always visible and stated to be adaptive.
What retcon? Where exactly did it happen?
Very start of Discovery season 3: Book and Michael teleport around the planet with a portable transporter. He doesn't even know where his ship is at this point, and if he was beaming via his ship, going straight inside would skip most of the episode and solved all their problems.
Discovery introduces the tappy-badge beaming, implicitly the same technology. We saw it in Nemesis hundreds of years earlier and it worked. Discovery season four comes along and has the badge tappy systems fail because the Discovery's transporter system was down. Retconned.
