Spoilers ST Prodigy - StarShips & Technology Season 1 Discussion

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I'm not watching these videos often, because I'd much rather discuss with you guys over listening to other nerds talk. Still glad you're posting them!

=D

One thing about the Runaway, it's brand new and/or replicated, and yet inside and out it's fairly weathered. Scratches and scuffs are everywhere. Was is replicated that way? Or is its metal really, really pliable and subject to constant polishing when not in use, to keep it looking good? I mean, the Protostar bridge has already had nultiple action scenes and it's still pristine...

"The RunAway" seems to have been replicated that way or the materials that got replicated aren't very "Wear Resistant".

Also, Pog can be heard saying "is that leather?". I'm fairly sure that it was an improvisation on the part of the actor, but it could be the first real utterance of the word in this era. Would it matter that much? Or is it because most chairs in TNG et.al. were notably all fabric, and not even pleather? Was Pog worried about chafing on his first away mission?

Maybe Pog hasn't seen real leather in a long time?

And the shuttle last week plus the Runaway are numbered 06 and 07 respectively. What would this signify? Are there at least 01-05 more designs in the buffer? Is this like Thunderbirds?

Maybe 01-05 are missing somewhere on some other planet with the original crew?

 

[shapeshifter]

Number on the shuttle indicating the number of shuttles thus far "manufactured" by that replicator?

I am thinking, like battery charge cycle indicators only for number of shuttles replicated before new replicator raw materials cartridge needs to be replaced.

 

[DEWLine]

It could work either way, I suppose...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The ShowRunners released this image for everybody to enjoy the new vehicle:

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Well, it was nice while it lasted. Maybe the next rover will be numbered "08"?

 

[Commander Troi]

I'm not watching these videos often, because I'd much rather discuss with you guys over listening to other nerds talk. Still glad you're posting them!

Ditto.

Was Pog worried about chafing on his first away mission?

LOL!

Maybe 01-05 are missing somewhere on some other planet with the original crew?

Interesting thought.

 

[Go-Captain]

I'm glad someone is. I never had a problem with them, but after all the anger about the Argo, it makes me feel weird that no one is stomping their foot about Starfleet ATVs in LDS and PRO.

I have mixed feelings about the baby Argo and station car from LD. They're so small, like a golf cart that it's hard to argue against it because it makes sense as a concept for short distance hauler. Except, I still feel it should be a hover vehicle because hovering cargo movers have been ubiquitous since TOS through TNG, and hover cars are a thing.

I have more of a problem with the Runaway. It's great looking, and I would play with it as a toy without hesitation, but as an actual off road vehicle I think it's a bad design. Power train size versus people/cargo capacity it is terrible, and those long arms would scrape over moderate boulders.

But, I have hope the Runaway will surprise me and do something like a hand stand jump or some other wacky thing. It needs some sort of gimmick function given it has what looks like 12 wheels on a vehicles where four would be fine.

The ShowRunners released this image for everybody to enjoy the new vehicle:

It's nice to see an artist who not only appreciates their own work, but knows the fan base does too. I love these detail shots.

 

[fireproof78]

The Runway is my least favorite part of this show.

 

[valkyrie013]

Runaway toy?? Still waiting.

 

[Tuskin38]

Kate Mulgrew = 5'5" = 1.651 meters
Rok Tahk = 6'8.2" = 2.0376 meters
ProtoStar's:
- Height = 37.5825 meters from Top of the Bridge's glass dome to bottom of Cargo Bay hull
- Length = 284.5236 meters from (Tip of Nose to End of Nacelle)
- Length = 217.7331 meters from (Tip of Nose to End of Tail)
- Width = 166.0572 meters from (Outside of Nacelles)
- Width = 126.4323 meters from (Outer Edge of Saucer)

It honestly does not look that big. Might be the the bridge dome.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

On the captain's command console, there is a label which reads "Gun Turret Status". AFAIK, this would be the first time we heard about a gun turret in the Star Trek universe.

(17) Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49) / Twitter

 

[DEWLine]

Interesting...

 

[Timo]

...I still have trouble accepting that a display of ship status would be drawn in perspective, rather than in side elevation view like all previous MSDs. Perhaps if it rotated a lot when viewed? But it seems to be a simple side view, only in perspective so that the nacelles don't overlap.

Is the display itself perhaps supposed to be 3D beneath that flat panel, so we get the perspective view, plus a view of the tip of the portside nacelle because our camera is positioned ever-so-slightly off normal?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Search4]

I’m sorry but here we are in Trek Tech taking about a car and not the new drive?

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

The car's gone. The drive's still there. I'm sure the former will be replaced before long, though...

I'm wondering if the car had any armaments as a standard feature? The Argo had the Worf turret thing, but the Lower Decks vehicles don't seem to have any.

Mark

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The car's gone. The drive's still there. I'm sure the former will be replaced before long, though...

I'm wondering if the car had any armaments as a standard feature? The Argo had the Worf turret thing, but the Lower Decks vehicles don't seem to have any.

Mark

I wouldn't be surprised if the weapons mount was modular.

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[fireproof78]

I’m sorry but here we are in Trek Tech taking about a car and not the new drive?

Yes.

 

[DEWLine]

Looking at the Protostar LCARS imagery again, and comparing to fonts I have licenses for...the font they're using resembles several of the "license plate" fonts I have on file, but no exact match to any of them. Not Driver Gothic, nor any of the Dealerplate family either.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

- The Protostar has a holodeck! Or even, a holo-DOME!

- Sickbay is seen to have a window here - the first time we've seen this on any starship.

- Why did the holodeck choose to have Uhura and Spock as their TOS versions, but Scotty appears in his... uh, older Elvis phase? Crusher and Odo also appear in their later series uniforms.

- The awesomeness of the TNG bridge reconstruction is fantastic, but mad props to the Klingon Ship bridge too! They must be leveraging the sets built for the ship they found on the Murder Planet, cleaned up and looking fab.

- The Ktarian game makes a return! Does this mean that whoever came up with the hardware in the first place had nothing to do with the plot to overhrow the Federation, and is able to make a living selling unaltered devices to avid retro gamers? I doubt Dal whipped this up on his own.

- We establish that the Protostar indeed had a previous crew, with their own uniforms to boot. But where'd they go? The ship as found didn't seem to have any leftover personal effects, except maybe that game?

Mark

 

[DEWLine]

And they may have travelled to Tars Lamora from further away than we suspected. In several senses.