More from the pre-credits sequence, which I sneaked a look at early. Please don't tell my wife I spoiled myself. 
- All the ships seen in 3x03 are seen here plus a few more. The Nog and Voyager are granted a little extra screen time as scans on various Disco bridge monitors.
- Nilsson announces that she's detected previously-theorhetical "neutronium alloy fibers". The first chronological appearance of neutronium is in TOS "The Doomsday Machine", which therefore tracks.
- The USS Nog is the first screen-canon starship with six numbers in its registry. Arguably the design (and the USS Nog) is well over a century old, but assuming registries are sequential in general, does this suggest that starship construction ain't as rapid as it used to be? In theory we've gone through some 240 years of Starfleet history from the founding of the Federation to the last episode of "Picard", and have barely scratched the surface of the NCC-80000s by that point.
- Tilly spots the J on the end of this Voyager's reg and instantly concludes that it's the tenth (eleventh) Voyager. This in turn suggests that popping a letter on the end of a registry didn't happen first with the Enterprise-A (which happened almost three decades after they left), and that it was a known practice in the 2250s.
- Organic hulls! Holographic hulls! Nothing we haven't REALLY seen in Starfleet (or am I confusing with that one episode of Red Dwarf). WRT the "holographic containment walls", I'm guessing that doesn't mean that the WHOLE SHIP is holographic, but that parts of the hull are composed of photonic matter that is somehow reliable enough to stay in place if the power fails. Or then again, maybe it's where the holographic sentients hang out.
- "Is that a new Constitution?" trumpets Owo. Probably just going off of the ship's general configuration, which is the most traditionally "Enterprise-esque" design we've seen in the mix. Of course, sleeping a crew of 1000-2000 isn't a big deal even 100 years after they left, but it suggests that crews bigger than the Constitution of the day was not common.
- Detached nacelles are weird, but we saw that Burnham was flying a ship with some form of this earlier (which the Disco crew didn't see). Also the orbital ships around Earth had some form of detached modules.
- On that, how DO you get power from the core between hulls? Maybe the cores are somehow in the nacelles and held in place by permanent tractor fields?
- What looks like half the remaining crew of Discovery all gather around ONE bank of windows on ONE deck of the ship to nerd out at the stuff going by. This is really just the usual corridor set with new elements punched out. Naturally this doesn't match the aesthetic of the rabbit's tooth windows that dot the exterior - one wonders why they didn't just use the existing mess hall set that has windows ready-punched for this sort of thing.
- Advanced scanners that can pick out particular species aren't a big deal in the 24th century. Not sure if that happened much in the ENT era though.
- Upon their orders to beam out, Saru hands the conn over to Lt. Nilsson, even though Commander Nhan is standing right next to her. Nilsson has been seen in the center chair before, too. I'm guessing it's some combination of Nilsson being the designated officer of the watch, or more than she is command division where Nhan is engineering / security / whatever she is now.
- The transporter effect is the same as that used by Earth. It MIGHT be the same as the one used by Book and the other guys using the personal transporters. They have the same sound effect, at least.
Mark
- All the ships seen in 3x03 are seen here plus a few more. The Nog and Voyager are granted a little extra screen time as scans on various Disco bridge monitors.
- Nilsson announces that she's detected previously-theorhetical "neutronium alloy fibers". The first chronological appearance of neutronium is in TOS "The Doomsday Machine", which therefore tracks.
- The USS Nog is the first screen-canon starship with six numbers in its registry. Arguably the design (and the USS Nog) is well over a century old, but assuming registries are sequential in general, does this suggest that starship construction ain't as rapid as it used to be? In theory we've gone through some 240 years of Starfleet history from the founding of the Federation to the last episode of "Picard", and have barely scratched the surface of the NCC-80000s by that point.
- Tilly spots the J on the end of this Voyager's reg and instantly concludes that it's the tenth (eleventh) Voyager. This in turn suggests that popping a letter on the end of a registry didn't happen first with the Enterprise-A (which happened almost three decades after they left), and that it was a known practice in the 2250s.
- Organic hulls! Holographic hulls! Nothing we haven't REALLY seen in Starfleet (or am I confusing with that one episode of Red Dwarf). WRT the "holographic containment walls", I'm guessing that doesn't mean that the WHOLE SHIP is holographic, but that parts of the hull are composed of photonic matter that is somehow reliable enough to stay in place if the power fails. Or then again, maybe it's where the holographic sentients hang out.
- "Is that a new Constitution?" trumpets Owo. Probably just going off of the ship's general configuration, which is the most traditionally "Enterprise-esque" design we've seen in the mix. Of course, sleeping a crew of 1000-2000 isn't a big deal even 100 years after they left, but it suggests that crews bigger than the Constitution of the day was not common.
- Detached nacelles are weird, but we saw that Burnham was flying a ship with some form of this earlier (which the Disco crew didn't see). Also the orbital ships around Earth had some form of detached modules.
- On that, how DO you get power from the core between hulls? Maybe the cores are somehow in the nacelles and held in place by permanent tractor fields?
- What looks like half the remaining crew of Discovery all gather around ONE bank of windows on ONE deck of the ship to nerd out at the stuff going by. This is really just the usual corridor set with new elements punched out. Naturally this doesn't match the aesthetic of the rabbit's tooth windows that dot the exterior - one wonders why they didn't just use the existing mess hall set that has windows ready-punched for this sort of thing.
- Advanced scanners that can pick out particular species aren't a big deal in the 24th century. Not sure if that happened much in the ENT era though.
- Upon their orders to beam out, Saru hands the conn over to Lt. Nilsson, even though Commander Nhan is standing right next to her. Nilsson has been seen in the center chair before, too. I'm guessing it's some combination of Nilsson being the designated officer of the watch, or more than she is command division where Nhan is engineering / security / whatever she is now.
- The transporter effect is the same as that used by Earth. It MIGHT be the same as the one used by Book and the other guys using the personal transporters. They have the same sound effect, at least.
Mark
