Spoilers ST Strange New Worlds - Starships and Technology Season Two Discussion
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Oh yeah, realistically TOS Klingons will not return since they're kind of just a mix of bronzeface and Asiatic features. The only series I can kinda imagine featuring them again would be Lower Decks.
I could go for this, with one edit - swap TOS bronze-face Klingon for ENT Flat-Head Augment Virus Klingon, in TOS inspired clothing. (The real kicker would be to lampshade it - have one ask "What are you looking at?" But then I'm in pain from a pinched nerve and testy today.)
Back to SNW spaceships.
Well while y'all were complaining about how Klingons look I got my answer!
https://twitter.com/TheScorch1701/status/1668368329919086592
And the peasants rejoiced.
We lower our pitchforks and torches until we see her incongruent registration, or way-too-low crew count. At least for the two "new" starship classes seen last season. :P
That said, sleek! A proto-Miranda, perhaps?
Mark
That said, sleek! A proto-Miranda, perhaps?
Mark
I posted in the other thread that it appears to have a large fin of some kind, and reminds me of one of Drexler's NX-01 concepts.
I only critique it based on aesthetics and does it appeal to my eye.
My critiques usually are about size, scaling, etc lol. Im a ship-size queen
My critiques usually are about the design and the registry numbers.
The new Crossfield (she thinks)
Looks like a earlier predecessor to the Miranda Class
The Crossfield class appears early in the episode. It is the first starship we see. It is upside down and the registry number is barely visible (NCC-1270). I know that it is upside down as the navigational lights (green for starboard, red for port) can be seen briefly and the number is flipped.
Interesting that Mitchell ID'd the fake ship as a Crossfield. It's definitely a Discover/Glenn saucer, but the overall silhouette is way off. I'd always assumed the spore-drive ships were gutted to the rafters and rebuilt TMP-style and a stock Crossfield would look more like the SDCC teaser or test-shot version of Discovery, but if Mitchell was right and that actually was a Crossfield (or an accurate approximation of one using loose parts from destroyed ships), it'd seem the entire engineering hull and warp drive was replaced, while the saucer was more-or-less unchanged.
Oh, I just thought of something funny. What if my old instinct was right about Crossfields looking like the pre-production designs, and Mitchell was going off of instruments, looking at energy output or something, where did the Syndicate get a spore-drive-equipped Crossfield hull since we know the Glenn was blasted to atoms and Discovery wasn't destroyed? The mirror-Discovery was ambushed and destroyed on the Klingon border, maybe there were enough big chunks left to build a ship out of, like most of the saucer and the warp reactor.
I thought it was fun that we saw both original-to-SNW Starfleet designs flanking the Enterprise in spacedock. We knew it already, but the Archer really is a tiny little guy seeing it next to normal-sized ships.
Oh, I just thought of something funny. What if my old instinct was right about Crossfields looking like the pre-production designs, and Mitchell was going off of instruments, looking at energy output or something, where did the Syndicate get a spore-drive-equipped Crossfield hull since we know the Glenn was blasted to atoms and Discovery wasn't destroyed? The mirror-Discovery was ambushed and destroyed on the Klingon border, maybe there were enough big chunks left to build a ship out of, like most of the saucer and the warp reactor.
I thought it was fun that we saw both original-to-SNW Starfleet designs flanking the Enterprise in spacedock. We knew it already, but the Archer really is a tiny little guy seeing it next to normal-sized ships.
as mentioned above, you can see another ship of that design docked at Starbase 1 (upside down)
Here's a brightened and flipped image that a friend edited.
The impulse engines look very NX Class. They're even in the same spots
They added more windows to the D7
The ones on the neck were not there in Discovery, or in renders of the CG model done by eaglemoss.
Here's a brightened and flipped image that a friend edited.
The impulse engines look very NX Class. They're even in the same spots
They added more windows to the D7
The ones on the neck were not there in Discovery, or in renders of the CG model done by eaglemoss.
From the Bandai booklet?
I suppose they could've pegged the ship as a "Crossfield" on account of the saucer being mostly from Discovery (or is it? Could this ship's saucer be more akin to the solid disk we saw in the very first reveal of the ship concept). Alternatively, the IFF transponder could have been broadcasting a fake signal to make the Klingons wet their pants at the possibility that another Discovery-esque, spore-drive-enabled ship was out there to make their lives miserable.
As it stands, the not-Crossfield ship used Discovery's corridor and sickbay sets, only lightly redressed from the 32nd century version (which itself was barely touched when Discovery was nano-refitted in their show's third season). Those corridors have already stood in for the 32nd Century USS Creedence with barely a coat of paint to disguise the fact, and here they've strewn rubble and plastic drapes everywhere to prevent most lay-people from catching it.
Mark
As it stands, the not-Crossfield ship used Discovery's corridor and sickbay sets, only lightly redressed from the 32nd century version (which itself was barely touched when Discovery was nano-refitted in their show's third season). Those corridors have already stood in for the 32nd Century USS Creedence with barely a coat of paint to disguise the fact, and here they've strewn rubble and plastic drapes everywhere to prevent most lay-people from catching it.
Mark
