Love the way ships just pop out of lightspeed in SW
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.
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.
You can explain it however you want but it still looks silly
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...
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.
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.
That's entirely your choice!
It's supposed to be dramatic entertainment, not slapstick comedy.
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.)
The spinning must be mycelial hyperspace
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.
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.
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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I think it's perfectly proportioned. It looks good from literally any angle.
There's fake tech, and there's ridiculous fake tech.
This is the same "Star Trek" where in ENT, a 31st Century Time Pod was bigger on the inside then on the outside.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Earth_vessel_(31st_century)
A nice tribute to "Doctor Who's" TARDIS.
Disagree. One is a mind-bending celebration of the unknown possibilities of physics and technological progress. The other is a spinny thing — weeeeeeeeeeeee!
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.
Didnt TNG explain the whole similar look thing with a proto species
Isnt the inside of the 31st century ship essentially the same as the Sona/Fed holoship
Some fake tech is easier to stomach than other fake tech.
