Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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The DeathStar 2 was about ~160 km in Diameter
If my 103.4 km per side estimate is anywhere near correct.
@ 200 km per side, you'd be way larger than the Death Star 2.
I extrapolated via the Height of the USS Enterprise and used the Hypotenuse of the edge of the cube. Since the Cube is slanted, I calculated the Hypotenuse based on X/Y pixel count for distance in pixels and multiplied the respective Height to pixel ratio via the Hypotenuse of the Cube's edge.I double-checked with two fresh screenshots and I'm still only getting about 25kmPlease tell me where you think I might be going wrong:
Can Somebody tweet David Blass or whomever runs the VFX and ask for the actual answer to the dimensions of the Queen's Radio Transmitter Cube?
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When Picard said.. "There are plenty of letter left in the alphabet.." At the end of Generations.. It wasn't a challenge!!
Well, part of the reason for having multiple VFX houses is to do work simultaneously. Add to the fact that there might be technical differences in how each studio operates, it's possible there was no way to trade the revised model back in the time available (and it may not have seemed necessary, given the other shots were all going to be faster and further away from the -D; we wouldn't have noticed it if the ship wasn't designed with asymmetrical shuttlebays, and even then that part of the model was only barely visible).
As for the interior of the cube potentially being larger than the exterior, that's nothing new, either. Though it does occur to me that if the fly-through is one long shot, you might be able to plug the frames into a photogrammetry program to reconstruct the cube interior model and get a decent idea of the layout and scale of the whole thing.
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There's also the possibility that the cube interior shots were done with the less refined copy of the model just to get them in the can first.
Tbh, I'm surprised to learn the model was built by Ghost for Picard. Due to the shuttlebays, I assumed the wide shots were being done with the Eaglemoss mesh.
Regardless, it could well be a time saving measure. One house works on wides with a less detailed mesh while another builds it out to higher detail for other, closer shots.
The digital model they used at Jupiter - at least the one used for the closeups -has likely, for me personally anyways, replaced the one Tobias Richter created for the TNG BlueRays as the most detailed. Which is impressive considering that Richter is someone who takes his work home.
My question is, what happens when the Enterprise-Z gets destroyed? Do they go to Enterprise-AA? Enterprise-1? Enterprise-I? Enterprise-One?
Enterprise: The Next Generation 1.
It'll look weird as Hell on the hulls but by then the bridge modules will probably not even be attached, neither.
It'll look weird as Hell on the hulls but by then the bridge modules will probably not even be attached, neither.
"The helm console is actually your groin."
"I KNEW THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA TO JOIN STARFLEET!!"
"I KNEW THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA TO JOIN STARFLEET!!"
My question is, what happens when the Enterprise-Z gets destroyed? Do they go to Enterprise-AA? Enterprise-1? Enterprise-I? Enterprise-One?
Going by the rate we see in PIC, we should be at the Enterprise-Z in about 6 months.
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1702
Did anyone else spot a FASA Derf-class in the Starfleet Museum at the end??
Ideally, Starfleet would finally retire the NCC-1701 registry and the next Enterprise would get a brand-new registry befitting starships of her era.My question is, what happens when the Enterprise-Z gets destroyed? Do they go to Enterprise-AA? Enterprise-1? Enterprise-I? Enterprise-One?
My question is, what happens when the Enterprise-Z gets destroyed? Do they go to Enterprise-AA? Enterprise-1? Enterprise-I? Enterprise-One?
They'd switch to the Greek alphabet.
That reminds me: I hope if the NX-01 ever gets revisited and depicted close-up in reality and not a holoprogram, then I hope the next showrunners retcon it as being retired upon the first Federation Day with the designation U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-01) to signify the start of the Federation Starfleet. After all, what other ship would be more deserving of the first NCC registry?
I double-checked with two fresh screenshots and I'm still only getting about 25km
Ideally I'd like a bigger cube too, 25km feels too small given the size of the interior, but I'm still only getting about 25km. Maybe the wreckage of this cube is where Starfleet gets whatever tech makes the Discovery-A's interior vastly larger than her exterior...
Your calculation assume the Enterprise aligns with the forward edge of the cube. It's not quite clear what it actually aligns to, but let's assume it aligns rather centric to the antennas:
The front edge of the cube in your picture is 660px, the back edge 560, so center is 610px.
As per your formula: taking the Enterprise at 17px results in ~23km.
Enterprise at 17px may be over estimate, reducing it to 15px and taking the 660px forward edge gives 28km.
Pretty sure it's the Pioneer.
Isn't the Borg cube that Seven's parents follow like 20kms? Surely this one has to be way bigger than that.
Standard Borg Cubes are ~3 km along each side.
I doubt the Borg cube that Seven followed around was 20 km on each side.
This is the first time we've seen a Borg Cube this massive.
