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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

...Attachable? There's no pod visible in the artwork posted, just the grappling fixture.

A good design in any case, era-appropriate and all. I want a peek under that bow!

Timo Saloniemi
 
...Attachable? There's no pod visible in the artwork posted, just the grappling fixture.
That's how I interpret it, too, just like it was on the ol' Ptolemy.
This is how STO renders it: https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/File:Wallenberg_configs.jpg

A good design in any case, era-appropriate and all. I want a peek under that bow!
In this Eaglemoss image, we recognise two pods underneath the nose section: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wik...llection?file=Eaglemoss_Starfleet_Tug_PIC.jpg
 
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Yup. In the actual Martian orbit scenes, we see container trains up to three long, with varying lengths to a container even if the cross section remains the same. (In the ship-train combo we see the most clearly, a fairly short container gets grappled, so the grappler extends all the way to the first seam, unlike in the STO renders.)

For once, Eaves created a good no-frills design. I doubt the Eaglemoss blurb about the ship being "able to provide assistance in a wide range of missions" in-universe: this baby could well be capable of one thing and one thing only. I don't think we see a shuttlebay, even.

Timo Saloniemi
 
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And orange really yells industrial. Except in South African scifi. Or The Expanse; I wonder if the color is sheer Martian pride here, too?

Timo Saloniemi
 
I assume it's along the lines of the Lower Decks colour-coded ships like uniforms. Of course, if should be yellow to fit in with that system...
 
It does approximate classic fire truck faded Dayglo and might be the Federation color code for relief and rescue, too. Although how well such things would work is debatable: Vulcans and Romulans are likely to treat a green light rather differently from humans, say. (Heck, even the fire trucks here on Earth are pretty diverse.)

Timo Saloniemi
 
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