I got it confused with another one. Apologies for the confusion.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Well OK then. I got the OV-165 I was wondering about a few days ago (that was in the episode 5 thread), judging by the images showing up now, but I guess reference to a DY-something or other for the ride out to Europa was too much to hope for...
I was looking for a DY-class sleeper ship model to be on display but never saw one. I won't lie, I was disapponted.
I'll admit, for a second I thought the Apollo module behind Picard was the upgraded Nomad and wondered WTF that was doing in there.
Nomad's portion of the display has its own scale model. I've seen it on Twitter or Facebook...?
Ah! Found it again!
https://twitter.com/JoeRalat/status/1512393471671390210
Ah! Found it again!
https://twitter.com/JoeRalat/status/1512393471671390210
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So.. Unless Bezoes or Musk kick a supreme program for a venture star craft. This 2024 isnt ours.
True that is the confederation past..
I would Love for one of them to make a STO craft like the venture star.. But doubt it.
Also.. To many knobs and buttons.the dragon capsule just has 1 touchscreen.
True that is the confederation past..
I would Love for one of them to make a STO craft like the venture star.. But doubt it.
Also.. To many knobs and buttons.the dragon capsule just has 1 touchscreen.
Retro deco. Tom did it with the Delta Flyer.
Even in TOS we had the earliest fusion-driven sublight propulsion engines by 2018("Space Seed"), which made sleeper ships obsolete for interplanetary travel within the solar system.
The elephant in the room here is that any trek timelines diverged from ours sometime before the production of "The Cage" Star Trek pilot in 1964. Perhaps time traveling starfleet operatives prevented a certain assassination the year before, thus restoring events to their rightful sequence.
That was Gary 7's job.
We can go further back, re: origins of Trek-specific intelligent life on other worlds, in addition to the modifications to our own history. Also, extra nebula, supernovae, singularities, etc. on the map.
The Rockwell X-30 was on Jellico's desk in TNG. That might be what one user here was thinking of
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
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That's the one I remember!
I knew I'd seen some kind of OV-165-looking spacecraft model on Jellico's desk. Thanks for clearing that up! I was pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating!
That's the one I remember!
I knew I'd seen some kind of OV-165-looking spacecraft model on Jellico's desk. Thanks for clearing that up! I was pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating!
And the Zapruder film would have remained an obscure home movie of the presidential motorcade passing by unscathed, catching a few frames of a man holding a cat and an unusual pen.
Liking a Felix Barthel ship design being co-opted for the Europa mission (he's got a great Charon shuttle design that would get my vote as a "Type 1" shuttlecraft). Also chuffed with a Dragon capsule going canon as a Europa lander. The Shango X-1 interplanetary ship is obviously more capable than the Ares IV (from Voyager) it predates. I prefer to think of the Ares IV as a sort of "Mars lite" relatively low cost orbital support platform, similar to the planned lunar gateway for the Artemis program. I pictured it making a slow, uncrewed ferry crawl to Mars with that ultra low thrust solar-electric thruster setup that was useless for dodging or escaping "graviton ellipses" and such.
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Trekyards has some nice official drawings of the new Excelsior we saw in ep 1, designed by none other than Eaves and Drexler. It is the USS Eureka, Excelsior II Class. Note that the ship is not simply a refit. It is a new Excelsior design, the Excelsior type II class.
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I like the design a lot. The ship looks great. And it is still very recognizable as an Excelsior class while also being updated and looking more modern. The nacelles look like they would allow transwarp or slipstream which is also cool.
Discussion:
I like the design a lot. The ship looks great. And it is still very recognizable as an Excelsior class while also being updated and looking more modern. The nacelles look like they would allow transwarp or slipstream which is also cool.
Dave Blass posted these on twitter the week after the season premier. If you go back far enough in the thread you'll find them.
Thanks. Trekyards did their first look today. That is why I am only noticing it now.
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I have them bookmarked, here you go:
Link to the whole thread – well worth reading for all the background information
