Spoilers ST Strange New Worlds - Starships and Technology Season Three Discussion

[publiusr]

I was always under the impression that the “Drell” nomenclature was in reference to its engine nacelle type. Not sure where I got that idea though.

Graph units the nacelles were called in TAS

 

[drt]

I was always under the impression that the “Drell” nomenclature was in reference to its engine nacelle type. Not sure where I got that idea though.

For what it'swrth, the "Drell-4" is actually listed under "MODEL", it states "Battle Cruiser" for "TYPE" and "Star Cruiser" for "CLASS".

The equivalents for Enterprise on the TMP blueprints are MK-IX-A / Heavy Cruiser / Starship II for MODEL/TYPE/CLASS, which I find a little interesting since I'm pretty sure the "MK-IX" and "Heavy Cruiser" both originated with the FJ Tech manual, yet Kimble went with Starship II Class instead of Constitution.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Nothing new this week.

 

[DEWLine]

I disagree.

Just making reference to inhabited worlds in

Spoiler: a particular star system rarely mentioned in Trek until now.

the Polaris system

...

 

[Markonian]

I disagree.

Just making reference to inhabited worlds in

Spoiler: a particular star system rarely mentioned in Trek until now.

the Polaris system

...

Placing inhabited planets into household-name star system is a common Sci-Fi writers trope. I hope this one doesn't prove to be polarizing.

 

[drt]

Honestly, it's a little surprising it took sixty years to place a planet there.

 

[DEWLine]

And putting twelve worlds there tells me there's supposed to be a network of routes between there and the old core systems of the Federation.

HYGMap

 

[Ronald Held]

For the hero ship in the holo adventure, did it have a registry number and class name?

 

[David cgc]

For the hero ship in the holo adventure, did it have a registry number and class name?

U.S.S. Adventure
20-1

I didn't see any plaque or display on the bridge set where you'd expect to see a class name.

 

[137th Gebirg]

20-1... I wonder if that's some kind of in-joke hidden meaning or it's just random numbers.

Either way they should have padded one of the numbers with a leading zero just to piss off the Prime Universe gatekeeper nerds out there.

 

[Ronald Held]

Being a holodeck simulation, does it reflect at all to PU ships?
What is the closest class to TOS ships?

 

[David cgc]

20-1... I wonder if that's some kind of in-joke hidden meaning or it's just random numbers.

It could be an allusion to Jefferies' idea that the Enterprise was hull 01 of the 17th starship design.