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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

That's not the ship I'm talking about. Why are you bringing up a different ship than the one that was being discussed?
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You do know what ship I'm talking about, right? Or did you just jump in the middle of a conversation without knowing the details?:rolleyes:

Okay, apparently you didn't know what ship I was talking about after all, because the need for SIFs to reinforce some ships is what I've been saying all along.

Because the criticisms you're arbitrarily levelling at a fan design apply equally well to canon designs. Or are you really going to be this obtuse? Oh, but of course you are.

Matt Jeffries gave the original Enterprise "impossible" nacelle pylons specifically to imply advanced technology far beyond the present day. Why doesn't that apply here?

The discrepancy is in the ships. A Galaxy-class is prone to more structural deformation than a Constitution-class.

Says who?

You ignored where I said without a SIF.

No I didn't, it's just not relevant. It's like arguing "well ackshually the Enterprise's top speed isn't warp nine because sometimes it'll run out of fuel and not be able to go to warp, nyah, gotcha there, smug mode".

Aside from possibly the life-support system, no system runs at maximum power 24/7. Not the warp drive, not the impulse engines, and I would argue not the SIF either. Except for extreme accelerations and maneuvers, it wouldn't need to, or at least it shouldn't.

That went right over your head, didn't it? My bad.

I never said it had to run at full capacity all the time. You did. I asked for a source. You provided none.

Also, life support can't possibly run at maximum power 24/7, or else starships would never be able to carry any extra personnel.

See above, but I would still argue that antimatter containment is more touchy than you claim it is. How many times have we heard a ship's computer warn of "antimatter containment failure in [INSERT TIME HERE}"? On the Enterprise and other hero ships, they can generally avert it. Not so much for most non-hero ships.

Unless non-hero ships are self-destructing left right and centre that can't possibly be true, can it? Also – a safety system can be robust without being indestructible. Which has been the whole gist of my argument all the way through, which you're choosing to ignore/straw man.

That's the thing, I don't think the particular fan design I was talking about can.

Because apparently it exists in magnificent isolation with no physical design characteristics in common with any other starship we've ever seen? :shrug:

It still has more substantial nacelle pylons than this entirely canonical starship...

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Because the criticisms you're arbitrarily levelling at a fan design apply equally well to canon designs. Or are you really going to be this obtuse? Oh, but of course you are.
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Yup, this where this conversation ends. It's just not that serious and never was. I voiced my opinion on a specific design (or rather, an early rendition of that design) and why I thought it wasn't right, but I'm not interested in arguing just for the sake of arguing. Agree to disagree. And since nothing is going to change about a fictional subject anyway, I'm just going to move on.

Have fun.
 
It really could have been, or maybe even should have been, IMHO. Even the neck of the ship is somewhat reminiscent of that of the Odyssey-class, but filled in.

But nooo, someone wanted a pseudo Constitution-class...
But that looks more like a Constitution than the Titan. The configuration and proportions are almost identical to Matt Jefferies' original design.
 
But that looks more like a Constitution than the Titan. The configuration and proportions are almost identical to Matt Jefferies' original design.
You think so? I guess you have a point there that there's a certain look that all Enterprises are supposed to have, but I kind of think that particular design carries onwards from the Sovereign-class better I hate to admit than the Enterprise-F does. Or maybe it's just a continued design evolution from the Constitution-class...
 
That's really pretty! Did the Ibn Majid perhaps belong to this class? The silhouette looks pretty similar, but that could just be the Eaves-ness of it all.

I actually would like to know more about what's going on in that background, too!
It does look very close. I think the I.M. (of the Curiosity Class) is supposed to have Sovereign-style warp engines, based on the one silhouette we've seen:
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The USS Jein is apparently the class ship (Jein Class, not Curiosity). Understandable they look nearly identical. They are both Eaves designs.
 
I can see the difference now that I look closely. The Jein class has impulse engine housings that go further back from what appears to be a slightly more elliptical saucer vs the Curiosity class.

The nacelles, though, could arguably be the same.
I also noticed that the area of the Jein's rear hangar bay has some pointy bits on either side of the landing deck that the I.M. silhouette doesn't appear to have. I really want to see more of this thing. It's a nice looking design.
 
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