The New USS Discovery....

[Ithekro]

I prefer the slightly redone version with an even larger forward dish and no stern dish.

 

[publiusr]

And raised nacelles wouldn't kill anyone.

 

[Mudd]

The flat plane engines/secondary hull make the design more striking.

 

[Kemaiku]

And raised nacelles wouldn't kill anyone.

Unless the warp field is calibrated for the plane of the ship and the elevation through the cross section of the ship in lifting it did....just that.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

And raised nacelles wouldn't kill anyone.

Unless the warp field is calibrated for the plane of the ship and the elevation through the cross section of the ship in lifting it did....just that.

I'm not sure how much thought FJ put into the Trek physics of it, but the nacelles seem to be pretty evenly spaced from a front view. That has to be good for the warp dynamics.

 

[Kemaiku]

The nacelles go where the model maker/renderer decides they do. Raised nacelles are only common because we're used to in on a lot of designs. But not all of them, some ships do have nacelles straight out from the plane of the ship.

 

[fireproof78]

Unless the warp field is calibrated for the plane of the ship and the elevation through the cross section of the ship in lifting it did....just that.

Crossing the streams again, eh?

 

[Mr. Nova]

You know what I love this design..... It's old, from the 60s but hell I love the look of this.



Bite me........ I think this is ugly too.

Just what a starship needs, a bullseye on the front of the secondary hull.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I always loved the reimagined version on the cover of Diane Carey's old novel, Dreadnought!

 

[Ithekro]

USS Star Empire was a cool ship.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I always loved the reimagined version on the cover of Diane Carey's old novel, Dreadnought!

The USS Star Empire, the prototype of the new dreadnought starships, is stolen by a group of rogue officers lead by Commander Paul Burch, former assistant to Admiral Rittenhouse, who had commissioned the dreadnought and had her built in secret.

Great big zoggin' ship, built in secret. Interesting idea.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Great big zoggin' ship, built in secret. Interesting idea.

You know, I once saw a Star Trek movie where something similar happened...

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Great big zoggin' ship, built in secret. Interesting idea.

I agree. It would be cool if they put it in one of the movies and maybe...

Wait, what?

 

[AaronMorse]

Did anyone see the new article on the Discovery in Vanity Fair? Does that look like it says XXXXXXXXXXXBLE CLASS under USS Discovery? Indefatigable?????? Indefatigable Class!! Wouldnt that be a great reference to Horatio Hornblower?

 

[mattyhugh]

I think you mean Variety.

 

[tenmei]

We're debating this in the Variety thread - my friend thinks it might be Crossfield, after the pilot, and there's a few other suggestions too. I suggested Copernicus, but I'm starting to agree on Crossfield now some people have posted photo manips.

 

[AaronMorse]

Oh! Photo Manips? Where!??!

 

[RAMA]

Did anyone see the new article on the Discovery in Vanity Fair? Does that look like it says XXXXXXXXXXXBLE CLASS under USS Discovery? Indefatigable?????? Indefatigable Class!! Wouldnt that be a great reference to Horatio Hornblower?

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/discovery-in-variety.289595/page-4#post-12140005

 

[AaronMorse]

thanks!! (drools)

 

[Philip Guyott]

Sorry if this has been discussed already but I thought I would share what appears to be test footage of the Discovery before the redesign.

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