Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[fireproof78]

Figured.

The bass alone...

 

[Tuskin38]

Since I haven't seen it posted, here's the bottom of the ship.

Mind you this is the STO version, so it has some details that show model doesn't. We probably won't learn what the bottom of the show model actually looks like until Eaglemoss' model comes out

 

[nic3636]

Sidebar, the ECH was awesome. Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy was a great episode and I loved how they actually followed up with it in Workforce.

 

[Timo]

Mind you this is the STO version, so it has some details that show model doesn't. We probably won't learn what the bottom of the show model actually looks like until Eaglemoss' model comes out

One of the "details" that the onscreen ship failed to include was phaser strips. The STO version has conventional ones at conventional locations. Perhaps the weapons of the real deal are supposed to look different, though? Perhaps death rays now emerge from the lighted rectangles on the flanks of the primary hull?

If we never see the Inquiry again, we can replace the "perhaps" with headcanon that this is indeed so, and forget all about "supposed" for good.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tuskin38]

Well hopefully the Eaglemoss booklet goes into the design process and has concept art.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Since I haven't seen it posted, here's the bottom of the ship.

Mind you this is the STO version, so it has some details that show model doesn't. We probably won't learn what the bottom of the show model actually looks like until Eaglemoss' model comes out

Oooh, that's pretty! Do you happen to have other ortho views that are that high-res?

I'm curious what those two pointy iris things are supposed to be on the primary hull. Never seen that greeble before on a SF ship, to my recollection.

 

[Tuskin38]

Yeah I'll dot that in a bit

Here's Oh's command ship compared to a K't'inga. STO Typically uses the Tech Manual numbers, so the K'T'inga should be around 349.5 meters long.

I don't know if CBS gave Cryptic a length for Oh's ship, they didn't for the Inquiry. But the size of the windows go well with the K't'inga there.

 

[Tuskin38]

Oooh, that's pretty! Do you happen to have other ortho views that are that high-res?

 

[137th Gebirg]

Very nice - many thanks!

 

[cooleddie74]

I wish this was the level of detail we'd seen on at least the Zheng He! This is good work!

 

[Tuskin38]

According to the Eaglemoss booklet at least, the Romulan BoP is 91.5 Meters long.

http://blog.trekcore.com/2021/02/may-2021-hero-collector-star-trek-picard-starships/

Their TOS Issue has the TOS BoP at 131 Meters long.

 

[nic3636]

What's that thing on the bottom of the front view? Looks like jail cell bars. Is it a shuttlebay?

 

[Tuskin38]

What's that thing on the bottom of the front view? Looks like jail cell bars. Is it a shuttlebay?

The Inquiry? That's the deflector.

 

[nic3636]

The Inquiry? That's the deflector.

Oh, that's pretty cool. It's so big it almost looks like it's multiple deflectors. I'd love to see the polarity reversed on that bad boy.

 

[Dryson]

It would make dramatic sense: Riker pulls off a fantastic stunt - but only after his old mentor has utilized it himself.

(Of course, it would have made even more dramatic sense for Oh to call Riker's bluff, on basis of Picard already having pulled that one - only to discover slightly too late that those "holograms" were actually firing back...)

At the conclusion of the adventure, we're simply left wondering, not knowing one way or another. It's not as if we ever got a grand fleet departure scene; perhaps there was a rather less grand fleet shutdown scene instead, when the camera looked the other way?

Timo Saloniemi

Maybe Picard knew Riker was bluffing and is the reason Picard opened a diplomatic channel with Oh. Picard should have opened a galaxy wide channel and made the same intentions to the galaxy, on behalf of the Synths, like he did with Oh, upon finding the Synth planet.

 

[NCC-73515]

I'm curious what those two pointy iris things are supposed to be on the primary hull. Never seen that greeble before on a SF ship, to my recollection.

Voyager has similar ring things there

 

[Tomalak]

Voyager has similar ring things there

I always assumed they were linked to the cargo bays somehow.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Voyager has similar ring things there

Oh that's right - I forgot about that! Although I think those were comparatively small and had more of a hexagonal outline than circular, IIRC.

 

[Tuskin38]

that could also just be an artifact from the UV map. Might not be intended to be a hatch.

 

[darrenjl]

Voyager has similar ring things there

EVA egress doors.