Ship shape style

Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by C57D, May 24, 2020.

  1. TimeIsAPredator

    TimeIsAPredator Commodore Commodore

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    Love the way ships just pop out of lightspeed in SW
     
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  2. darrenjl

    darrenjl Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    The spore drive spin is no different to the warp drive stretch. It's not actually happening, as in the ship is not actually being stretched in reality, nor is the Discovery flipping itself over, it's just how we 'see' it from a stationary viewpoint. The 'flipping' is the ship piloting through the network (with its endless twists and turns), and the final light beams are the jump itself. We just see it from our position looking like it's happening all at once because it is so quick.

    The saucer sections spinning are only the outer section of the hull, the insides aren't spinning, and are the "excess energy cavitation system", which may be some kind of link back to species GS54 that infected the outer hull of the prison shuttle from the pilot episode. It might be these are intensified journeying through the network and this is some kind of way of negating their effects.
     
  3. TimeIsAPredator

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    You can explain it however you want but it still looks silly
     
  4. Angry Fanboy

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    It does look silly.

    I think there's also a certain visual logic (whether correct or not) to a starship appearing to stretch away into the distance when undertaking this phenomenal acceleration - it looks like it makes sense.

    The spinning on the other hand...
     
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  5. Angry Fanboy

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    You're presenting these statements as fact when they're merely your opinion/interpretation.

    You don't know whether the ship is 'really' spinning or not.
     
  6. darrenjl

    darrenjl Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    It’s a TV show made for entertainment purposes, neither do you know.

    I shan’t bother adding to this debate if that’s your attitude.
     
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  7. Angry Fanboy

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    That's entirely your choice! :techman:
     
  8. Forbin

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    It's supposed to be dramatic entertainment, not slapstick comedy.
     
  9. BK613

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    point being, it really hasn't changed across the history of the SW franchise. Maybe a tweak here and there* but nothing to the reinvention mentality of the Trek franchise.

    *(The most notable to me is whether the hyperspace tunnel spins or not.)
     
  10. TimeIsAPredator

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    The spinning must be mycelial hyperspace
     
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  11. Blamo

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    Excelsior - Bulky (thanks to the squarish pylons and thick neck), technological marvel and powerful. Its a much different take to TNG ships that would try to make their ships "sleek".
    Enterprise-D - It feels like a vanity project, designed by a team who never once thought that exploration may be dangerous. To be fair, that does fit with the era.
     
  12. Arpy

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    Or it’s designed by a team trying to present a hopeful and far more realistic vision of the future than one overcrowded super bad aliens of the week. Aliens often with the advantage yet still never manage to win.

    The Federation would have been conquered (or destroyed) a dozen times by now if this were anything other than a TV show. The baddies more.

    Also, it doesn’t matter how stout the little piggy looks, when those shields go down, the ANTIMATTER weapons should totally annihilate whatever ablative polarized tritanium hazabooza hull is underneath.
     
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  13. scotpens

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    I think it's perfectly proportioned. It looks good from literally any angle.

    There's fake tech, and there's ridiculous fake tech.
     
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  15. Arpy

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    Disagree. One is a mind-bending celebration of the unknown possibilities of physics and technological progress. The other is a spinny thing — weeeeeeeeeeeee!
     
  16. F. King Daniel

    F. King Daniel Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Trek is a universe where 90% of aliens are human with bumpy heads, silly colours or pointed ears. That fans can accept that but get upset about the technology being equally silly bewilders me.
     
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  17. TimeIsAPredator

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    Didnt TNG explain the whole similar look thing with a proto species
     
  18. TimeIsAPredator

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    Isnt the inside of the 31st century ship essentially the same as the Sona/Fed holoship
     
  19. BillJ

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    Some fake tech is easier to stomach than other fake tech.
     
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  20. publiusr

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    We have seen the spinning before—or should we say *later* with Tin Man... also organic as were the spore drive.