At least the ships are consistent. Easier to follow.
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I disagree if you read about the designers talk about them.
What do they say?
Can you link the article?
Big muscular Cylon Raider.I wanna see the top of that ship
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Barlow’s EXPEDITION (book) had a small craft a bit like that…
Why do I get Trieste (Bathyscaphe) vibes from that design?
Is it not from Enterprise? You see the top of it in that.I wanna see the top of that ship
I feel we as a fandom are healing, I haven't seen one crash out over the literally ancient Klingon vessels.
Not the one from "Bounty"?No
Ahhh fair enough. Similar, though.Nope
They probably looked at the older designs as references to make the new ones. Keeps the visual language consistent.
Bit late to the party, but rewatching the premiere I realized that the Athena’s atrium is at the bottom of the ship’s neck, with the windows prominently visible above the triangular deflector. This makes sense as the (virtual) set extension goes all the way to the top of the inner saucer, as shown when the P-matter torpedoes cover the dorsal Starfleet logo, for example. This makes one wonder how the sections separate, and what gets covered up when the inner saucer takes off without the neck in 1x04.
Similarly, the inner saucer seems to display similar warp… lines? Grilles? As the ship’s nacelle sections, along the rear curve of the saucer. They glow the same color as the deflector and the (possible) RCS elements on the outer saucer, so it’s possible that this era simply says “white glowey bits equals propulsion” in the design language.
Or for all we know, the deflector and RCS quads ARE warp elements, since it’s most likely that all the sections can warp independently of each other. Whether they do so under normal flight configurations, and the nacelle sections merely boost the overall ship, is unclear.
Similarly, the inner saucer seems to display similar warp… lines? Grilles? As the ship’s nacelle sections, along the rear curve of the saucer. They glow the same color as the deflector and the (possible) RCS elements on the outer saucer, so it’s possible that this era simply says “white glowey bits equals propulsion” in the design language.
Or for all we know, the deflector and RCS quads ARE warp elements, since it’s most likely that all the sections can warp independently of each other. Whether they do so under normal flight configurations, and the nacelle sections merely boost the overall ship, is unclear.
Yeah - the problem then becomes that in 1x01, the context clues put the ground floor in the atrium.
When Genesis says the classroom is nearby, the MSD suggests they are on Deck 12. Later, Engineering is on Deck 8, about halfway up the rim of the inner saucer, and Derem is on the saucer rather than the neck.
If we assume Deck 12 is the visible atrium above the deflector, that puts a maximim of three decks between it and Engineering and makes Athena MUCH smaller than it had first appeared.
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