And the little fighter pets it will come with are named after one of the characters from Yamato, Kodai.
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I guess it beats an Oberth-class.
Come on. Those things are Starfleet's VW Beetle. You know there are still some puttering around in deep space.
Yeah, based on the Grissom’s registry number, that class is arguably older than the Constitution class.
Since they didn’t change the design from the 2280s to the 2370s, I’m not sure they wouldn’t have looked the same for the preceding forty or so years preceding that.
More like a Ford Pinto. One hit and >>> POOF! <<<I guess it beats an Oberth-class.
Come on. Those things are Starfleet's VW Beetle. You know there are still some puttering around in deep space.
Y'know, I now find it very unfortunate that TNG 5.18 "Cause and Effect" had to recycle the TWoK Reliant model with relatively few changes to save on budget. As Geordi identified the Soyuz-class as having been retired before 2288, it would mark a smoother transition of Doylist and Watsonian lineage alike for the Soyuz-class to have TOS-style nacelles, being succeeded by the Miranda-class with TMP-style nacelles, and then the Reliant-class with STO/PIC-style nacelles.
Is the Intrepid not the "Wasp"
That is absolutely fantastic.Isn't that based on Diogo Vincenzi's Kusanagi-class? (An incredibly pretty starship in my opinion.)
One of my favorite ships merged with my absolute favourite design eras.
No, because this one is called Cole, not Coleman. She’s named after
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lee_Cole
Yes, but the exterior was completely updated/redesigned unlike the Titan-A.
It wasn’t just upscaled and given new nacelles and some phaser strips. It’s closer to how STO does their ships. Take the basic shape, but completely redesign everything about it.
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I wouldn't be calling a new design as stated previously.
Well, the Klingons were aiming for the gas tank essentially with the Grissom.
Has everyone finished episode 8 yet?! Regardless, I was just looking at the official diagrams of the intrepid and it appears what I assumed to be the impulse crystals (the lit up blue domes) are now the "warp field governors"??? Can anyone grab me an image so I can clarify what I am talking about. I don't know how to embed images on here properly yet.
I recall someone in production saying that those charts were labelled for ease of conversation when working with the designs with the artists, and that the labels may not necessarily be correct. They specifically called out the impulse domes being mislabeled as warp governors, basically saying to disregard. So don't take everything on those diagrams as gospel.
I’m pretty sure Drexler is retconning them into warp field governors, since that’s what the similar looking thing on his NX-01 was. He posted one of the first diagrams from this season labeling them as governors with a snarky comment about how he knows starship design better than previous artists, so it wasn’t a mistake.
Except on the TMP Enterprise, which the Titan-A is modeled after, it is a glowing Impulse defelctor crystal and on the NX-01 it is a completely different component of the ships WARP drive.
Thus the completely different names, Impulse Deflector vs WARP Drive Governor
The fact that the Titan-A has double the number of impulse engines, may account for it also having two impulse deflection crystals.
Doug may be an expert, but even he can make mistakes.
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I know that, but every ship diagram from this season has labeled them as warp governors, seems odd they’d keep propagating the same mistake.
The deflector crystal structure was never established as such in canon, and it doesn’t fit in with how impulse engines have been described as a completely separate system from TNG on. In the TMP novel the matter/antimatter reactor powered them, which is a clue to how the production was thinking and is probably why a “deflection crystal” was needed in the first place, to focus that output into the impulse engines.
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Even if they are now WARP Field governors, it makes zero sense for them to be in the same place as the IMPULSE crystals, directly behind the IMPULSE ENGINES. Either way I think I am going to disregard that label. They weren't just impulse crystals on the TMP Enterprise and Reliant, they have been referred to countless times as impulse crystals on the Excelsior Class too. The TMP Enterprise had a small blue dome on the top of each nacelle right near the front, it would make a lot more sense that those would be the so called Warp Field Governors.
One would imagine that if the top of the WARP Core is destroyed (where the Impulse Deflector Crystal sits) that would definitely damage the WARP drive.
No way! I stand corrected. So they truly are Warp Field Governors, and any reference to them being Impulse Deflector Crystals must be taken with a grain of salt. They must at least be a power source for the impulse engines given their location or perhaps like a Warp Field Governor an 'impulse drive regulator' also. Is there any Canon in-universe mention of them specifically called 'Impulse Deflector Crystals'? That's always what I assumed them to be and even Bernd Schneider refers to them as such in several of his articles on starship design.One would imagine that if the top of the WARP Core is destroyed (where the Impulse Deflector Crystal sits) that would definitely damage the WARP drive.
