ST Strange New Worlds - Starships and Technology Season Four Discussion

[Tuskin38]

It has long been speculated that the little black dot in the center of the impulse deck between the engine outlets on the TOS model was an aft-facing torpedo tube. Never confirmed by the model builders, to my knowledge.

According to Doug Drexler, the aft torpedoes fired by the Defiant in ENT Season 4 were meant to come from that hole, but the idea got lost in communication somewhere from outline to final FX.

Man that is hard to visually pick out.

Not really.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Yeah I think I remember that back in the day. It always made good tactical sense (to me, anyway) that all ships should have aft-firing torpedoes, particularly in an emergency evacuation situation.

 

[Tuskin38]

It seems these were hung up in the art department.

'As Seen in Discovery S02'
Must be a pre-production diagram, considering none of the new SNW characters are listed there.

Though it does have the new saucer windows added in SNW, at least on the side view, they're missing on the top view, and it still has the larger DSC bridge window.

 

[HotRod]

A closer look at the SNW Shuttles.

 

[korblborp]

blerg. made the space van look all predatory, and huge for no reason...

 

[Nerys Myk]

 

[B.J.]

blerg. made the space van look all predatory, and huge for no reason...

It looks like a giant bug to me. Actually, a bit like the larger beetle-like replicators in Stargate.