Starship design history in light of Discovery
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...All engine. A courier?
Bringing aboard Spock or Georgiou? But we see the latter arrive in a shuttle with medical symbology. Does Starfleet Medical have reservations about transporters? Does Section 31?
Then again, the courier seems to have a big shuttlebay facing the camera, perfect for showing a shuttle launch here - and no doubt the ship is a custom job for this specific adventure and indeed this very scene.
Timo Saloniemi
Bringing aboard Spock or Georgiou? But we see the latter arrive in a shuttle with medical symbology. Does Starfleet Medical have reservations about transporters? Does Section 31?
Then again, the courier seems to have a big shuttlebay facing the camera, perfect for showing a shuttle launch here - and no doubt the ship is a custom job for this specific adventure and indeed this very scene.
Timo Saloniemi
If that's Georgiou's ride, then I say it counts as postcedent... Starfleet sends people across interstellar distances in these bad boys, and then shuttles them over so that the passenger can have his or her entire retinue complete with wardrobe, but the courier ship can immediately leave to another busy assignment.
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
don't forget that padded cell and those notorious voyager doors, but well spotted.It's Spock's ride, more likely. This is the ship depicted on the corridor walls in the scene where Spock is moved on a stretcher.
Would explain the caduceus shuttle scene if Spock is unexpectedly accompanied by Georgiou here... Circumstances that would prompt the whole present crew to draw their phasers and point them at a medical shuttle are rather rare (why are they packing heat in the first place?)!
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
It looks very reminiscent of some of the pre-NX ships shown in ENTERPRISE.It's Spock's ride, more likely. This is the ship depicted on the corridor walls in the scene where Spock is moved on a stretcher.
Especially the Warp Delta.
...The "benefits" of a lifting body hull are probably lost by adding nacelles that put Princess Diana's wedding dress train to shame...
Me likes nevertheless. Very angular, this new baby. Quite at home with the other "older" designs from S1. And the presence of supernacelles here sort of "evens out" the exceptional design of the hero ship.
Timo Saloniemi
Me likes nevertheless. Very angular, this new baby. Quite at home with the other "older" designs from S1. And the presence of supernacelles here sort of "evens out" the exceptional design of the hero ship.
Timo Saloniemi
By the look of the blue coloring for most of the length of those nacelles, one would guess that it's primary purpose would be some sort of cooling system.It's Spock's ride, more likely. This is the ship depicted on the corridor walls in the scene where Spock is moved on a stretcher.
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The pylons already lift the nacelles well about the body of the ship.
Line of Sight, isn't really a problem for this particular one.
I love this ship.
Dang! That's a damn good explanation for Discovery's extremely unusual long nacelles!
Was thinking the exact same thing!It looks very reminiscent of some of the pre-NX ships shown in ENTERPRISE.
Especially the Warp Delta.
It looks very reminiscent of some of the pre-NX ships shown in ENTERPRISE.
Especially the Warp Delta.
And the Franklin, especially some of the aft sections.
Just missing the round nacelles of both.
TrekYards also noticed the similarity.
Maybe it's just the angle of the shot, but the one in the trailer looks shorter and more angular then the diagram on Spock's ship. Reminds me of the Sabre class.
Could just be an earlier version of the design, we've seen that happen in Trek before, a computer graphic doesn't match the CG.
Maybe it's just the angle of the shot, but the one in the trailer looks shorter and more angular then the diagram on Spock's ship. Reminds me of the Sabre class.
Could just be an earlier version of the design, we've seen that happen in Trek before, a computer graphic doesn't match the CG.
On DSC, many of the displays show the Discovery Alpha. This goes back to the TOS display by the turbolift that shows what could be called an approximation of the Enterprise, a diagram that's somewhat more accurate than a crosswalk sign human. But diagrams need not be accurate: it's more important that they convey whatever information they need to, so even that wonky DS9 Defiant display never bothered me.
And most of the displays in Star Trek Beyond had the 2009/ID version of the ship on them.
And weirdly, the Enterprise-C in "Yesterday's Enterprise" is drawn without her neck on that bridge set.
And weirdly, the Enterprise-C in "Yesterday's Enterprise" is drawn without her neck on that bridge set.
Nukes and bullets often come off nastier as well. A Klingon seeing a pulse rifle equipped marine from ALIENS would flinch in a way he wouldn't a red-shirt. In one episode of THE WALKING DEAD, the honest bark of Kalashnikovs still wasn't as impressive as seeing arrows strike near characters.
I can see this thing easily finishing off a starship already damaged:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarshipPo...ct_orion_battleship_one_of_the_most_powerful/