Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"

[JohnCrichton1999]

There was no warp ring on the XCV-100. The episode goes out of its way to say that the launch was in the 2050s when there was no warp drive on Earth. Whatever powered the ship (my guess would be nuclear fusion reactors that provided sublight velocities) it wasn't a warp reactor of any size or sophistication.

Yeah, if you look at the screenshot, you can tell there was SOMETHING that was torn off, whether it was a ring or an engine pylon for some kind of rocket booster, we'll probably never know, but its not been determined yet. It was before the supposed XCV-330 Enterprise, and we don't even know whether or not other forms of FTL were experimented on at the time or not. So who knows? Not like that everyone had every record post WW3 about all those experiments. And if Cochrane was doing it, so were others, but the question remains is WHO was able to fund a ship of that size but crew it with so few? My theory is Mr. Flint from TOS. If you ever read the novel "Star Trek Federation" he was already friends with Cochrane and others, so maybe it was him that had a hand in helping as well with this ship? And his name in the novel was Micah Brack. So IDK...just theorizing here as I seriously am now obsessing the back story of that mysterious XCV 100 ship.