Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Gonzo
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You say its all make believe and then tell me you trust a made up characters skills in its design.
Wondering if you are trolling me (its not working) or just cant handle the topic of discussion as it makes you feel uncomfortable, in which case just scroll past it.
Your posts remind me of the KelvinPrise its not larger as I cant deal with it brigade.
Great Times.
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Exactly, at the very least it will increase maximum safe cruise speed or amount of time it can be maintained safely without damaging the engines.
Also less maintenance as the three/four engines together wont have to work as hard.
That has to be useful out on the edge of known space, an extra engine is always useful even if you just end up scavenging it for parts after a major battle or accident.
What part you have trouble getting? You think that just bolting on more engines would make ships better, it obviously doesn't as they are not constantly doing it. In the fiction they have reasons for doing the things the way they do, even if we might not know those reasons.You say its all make believe and then tell me you trust a made up characters skills in its design.
Wondering if you are trolling me (its not working) or just cant handle the topic of discussion as it makes you feel uncomfortable, in which case just scroll past it.
Yup, that's the only consistent way to argue. What we see is true and good. What we think is irrelevant because we don't know shit, having been born in the wrong century and in the wrong universe to boot.
Except, of course, if what we see is stated or implied to be bad instead. The three-nacelled E-D might be either.
Timo Saloniemi
Except, of course, if what we see is stated or implied to be bad instead. The three-nacelled E-D might be either.
Timo Saloniemi
Probably because, unlike in TOS, where the nacelles seemed to be generating energy, TMP, TNG and beyond made the warp core the source of power. It is entirely possible that Stargazer had a standard Constitution-style core, designed to support only two nacelles (which were, by then, energy consumers) and here it was, being forced to support four - requiring twice the available power, so never reaching its full potential. Sounds like Stargazer, herself, was a bit of an experiment in desperate need of upgrading. She had four warp engines, two impulse engines, a double-thick hull, and seemingly twice the shuttle bay and cargo capacity of a Connie, ostensibly to support the crew during extended deep space exploration missions. There could have been all kind of redundancies built-in that required twice the available power of a single core. I suspect that was the source for Picard’s “overworked and underpowered” statement.
She was just a Constellation class, like USS Victory and USS Hathaway.
She was, however, very heavily armed for a ship of her time, nearly more so in some respects than Excelsior. Four forward torpedo launchers, for example.
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Gonzo
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So its the latter, duly noted.
You being silly and wrong doesn't make me 'feel uncomfortable.'
So why did Children of Mars re-use all those Discovery assets when they did build new appropriate CG models (Galaxy class, McCall-class shuttle, 24th century tug)? From what I can see the new ships don't even seem to play a big role in PIC, it's not like they were saving them for an epic reveal. I think a re-mars-ter is in order.
Yeah, it is weird. I guess they didn't have the assets ready in time or something.
This POS. You can see the faceting all over it in various shots.
That's probably because they
That seems likely, yeah. It also may have had something to do with how post production was budgeted. It seems like the Short Treks are being done on the cheap, and if Pixomondo couldn't bill hours on that project against Picard, well tough luck no new ships for you.
Source?
Wasn't that quote about the Enterprise model? I'm pretty sure it was.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Petri_Blomqvist#Becoming_officially_reacquainted_with_Star_Trek
"(Sci-fi & fantasy modeller, Vol. 26, p. 48-50)"
