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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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The Romulan ship Narek arrives at the cube on has a bird on the bottom. Which we never see because we never see the bottom of the ship in the show
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According to one of the people who got the ship, the book says it was originally meant to be a ship that attacks Mars.
Now an early trailer of Picard did show Romulan ships approaching Mars, but it was one of the other Romulan designs in the show, not that one.
So I wonder if the book info got mixed up, or both of these designs were originally intended to attack Mars.
STO calls this one above ship a 'bomber', while early Eaglemoss marketing for the other design called it a Bomber, but now it's just Romulan Vessel.
Now an early trailer of Picard did show Romulan ships approaching Mars, but it was one of the other Romulan designs in the show, not that one.
So I wonder if the book info got mixed up, or both of these designs were originally intended to attack Mars.
STO calls this one above ship a 'bomber', while early Eaglemoss marketing for the other design called it a Bomber, but now it's just Romulan Vessel.
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Raffi: JL don't you see! The Romulans were behind the attack! They were seen clearly in the first trailer!
According to one of the people who got the ship, the book says it was originally meant to be a ship that attacks Mars.
Now an early trailer of Picard did show Romulan ships approaching Mars, but it was one of the other Romulan designs in the show, not that one.
So I wonder if the book info got mixed up, or both of these designs were originally intended to attack Mars.
STO calls this one above ship a 'bomber', while early Eaglemoss marketing for the other design called it a Bomber, but now it's just Romulan Vessel.
So that first pic is supposedly a Romulan fleet getting ready to attack Mars in 2386. Interesting. I can see why it was cut then: they didn’t want the audience to know of any Romulan involvement in the synth attack, so I guess they replaced that shot with the shots of the Federation drone ships attacking Mars.
...But presumably not to replace this scene of attack on Mars, since it would make fairly little sense for anybody to hit that burning planet a second time, and fairly little sense for the writers to eliminate the first attack from the equation at a late hour.
Having Romulans be shunned and left to die because they bombed Mars would be a less interesting story than having them shunned and abandoned because somebody else bombed Mars. But that fleet is a powerful image, of a calamity that was averted many times in history but now there was this one time too many... It then would call into question the whole concept, though. If Romulans could hit Mars (presumably thanks to their cloaks), why had they never done that in TNG?
"Turncoat Synths" is a less problematic approach to a surprise attack on Mars in that respect.
Timo Saloniemi
Having Romulans be shunned and left to die because they bombed Mars would be a less interesting story than having them shunned and abandoned because somebody else bombed Mars. But that fleet is a powerful image, of a calamity that was averted many times in history but now there was this one time too many... It then would call into question the whole concept, though. If Romulans could hit Mars (presumably thanks to their cloaks), why had they never done that in TNG?
"Turncoat Synths" is a less problematic approach to a surprise attack on Mars in that respect.
Timo Saloniemi
the original plot might have been the Zhat Vash attacking the androids directly on mars.
It would however make the story point about several Federation worlds protesting helping the Romulans make more sense if the Romulan involvement was known.
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Either you trust the starship designer enough to let him do his work or you constantly tie one hand behind his back, either with telling him 'no round nacelles', giving him an afternoon to design a brand new ship, or completely changing his designs like in this case.
The Eaglemoss/HeroCollector book Star Trek: Shipyards - Starfleet Ships 2294 - The Future has arrived.
It counts 4 Inquiry-class variants.
These are:
INQUIRY - pointed nacelles - yellow bussards - USS Zheng He NCC-86505
VARIAN FRY - pointed nacelles - red bussards - USS Varian Fry NCC-87883
TOUSSAINT - rounded nacelles - yellow bussards - USS Toussaint NCC-87111
MAUI - rounded nacelles - red bussards - USS Maui NCC-96761
It counts 4 Inquiry-class variants.
These are:
INQUIRY - pointed nacelles - yellow bussards - USS Zheng He NCC-86505
VARIAN FRY - pointed nacelles - red bussards - USS Varian Fry NCC-87883
TOUSSAINT - rounded nacelles - yellow bussards - USS Toussaint NCC-87111
MAUI - rounded nacelles - red bussards - USS Maui NCC-96761
So after 232 pages, there WERE more than two variants!
Can we all go home now?
Can we all go home now?
No.
Sweet. More of these ships is exactly what I want.
So after 232 pages, there WERE more than two variants!
Can we all go home now?
Well, if you feel that two different colored lights gives your ship a ‘variant’ status (which I personally don’t), then yes, there are four variants.
(Que the Picard ‘There are FOUR LIGHTS!!!’ meme…)
Aren't some of the chiller bars/glowing details on the nacelles different shapes and the ends of the nacelles different?
There's two models, with 2 colour variants each.
So yeah, it's really a stretch to call is 4 variants IMO.
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I'll take one of each, please.There's two models, with 2 colour variants each.
So yeah, it's really a stretch to call is 4 variants IMO.
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Also, I recall some other ideas of "variants" being passed around for other starships, such as one for the Constitution class having an "Enterprise" variant to explain possible differences between the hero ship and others in the same class. So, yeah, variant is a loose definition in Star Trek, at least in my experience.
