Spoilers The Ships of Lower Decks
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I never knew that. But an Oberth-class is way too good for him. How about a garbage scow?
Well, when have canon arguments not silly?
Even in the real world, "thematic" naming tends to be a workload-reducing step for providing names for very large ship classes (in which the ships themselves not coincidentally tend to be small). Capital ships may get thematic names, esp. if mass produced (looking at you, USN!), but their naming may also be way more esoteric than that of destroyers let alone assorted sloops.
Carriers today and yesterday are a good example of more or less random naming. And precedent tends to mount: Starfleet has many venerable names to recycle, and relatively few ships to do it with. So "starship class" is likely to be a theme...
Since this is scifi, we also can have fun with themes. "Parliament" is a planet, say. And "Trump" may be a famed quantum mechanic, or "Stalingrad" a popular play, while "Gage" may be a state capital in the United States of United North America of United Earth, estd. AD 2158. Creating a theme out of randomness, or deciding that a theme "in fact" is random, is basically a breeze.
Timo Saloniemi
Carriers today and yesterday are a good example of more or less random naming. And precedent tends to mount: Starfleet has many venerable names to recycle, and relatively few ships to do it with. So "starship class" is likely to be a theme...
Since this is scifi, we also can have fun with themes. "Parliament" is a planet, say. And "Trump" may be a famed quantum mechanic, or "Stalingrad" a popular play, while "Gage" may be a state capital in the United States of United North America of United Earth, estd. AD 2158. Creating a theme out of randomness, or deciding that a theme "in fact" is random, is basically a breeze.
Timo Saloniemi
The Titan also got some touch ups, seems mostly lighting and textures.
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1427376568263974916/photo/1
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1427376568263974916/photo/1
The Hideki looking ships might be new cardassian ships.
https://twitter.com/BradinLA/status/1425971359008530433
I can't see him referring to the Galors, they look too much like Galors, but the Hideki looking ones do have some major differences.
https://twitter.com/BradinLA/status/1425971359008530433
I can't see him referring to the Galors, they look too much like Galors, but the Hideki looking ones do have some major differences.
It's not canon arguments. It's for when you're answering questions or just having discussions on reddit. Then someone comes in with a "The florbazagans actually subsumed the glizabargs in 2392" or something. I just don't like having to ask "Wait, is that "real Trek" or are you just quoting STO?"
That's actually incorrect. The Glizabargs held quite a bit of autonomy for several years after their supposed Annexation in 2392. There are several breakaway states well into the early 2400s that still pester the Florbazagan Hegemony.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is a Triffledole propagandist.
Hehehe
Was it from its mothers womb untimely ripped?
....What made me burp my breakfast milk when checking this up is that good old Ships of the Star Fleet, prime source to the identities and registries of TOS movie era ships, has NCC-1877 as the Polonius.
I get the fascination of a Shakespeare theme, but the specific choice of characters makes me scratch my head.
Timo Saloniemi
I get the fascination of a Shakespeare theme, but the specific choice of characters makes me scratch my head.
Timo Saloniemi
When will the Titan get it's Ventral Phaser Array?
So I was curious and based on the size comp on the bottom right, the 535.2 meter length for the Cerritos, a ruler and some rudimentary math...
The Parliament class comes out at 895.9 meters!!
So I was curious and based on the size comp on the bottom right, the 535.2 meter length for the Cerritos, a ruler and some rudimentary math...
The Parliament class comes out at 895.9 meters!!
Looks like they upscaled the California class without realizing how that would affect other ships. Those windows on the Vancouver are now huge, unless they change the Parliament class to have smaller windows in the future (which will probably be the case, since both the Cerritos and the Titan have been given more detail this season.)
It would be a nice change, as the sheer number of window rows on the saucer already makes one think of the Parliament as the next Galaxy.
Or as the class that is to the Galaxy what the California was to the Ambassador, more likely, since all the dialogue emphasized how the Vancouver was tasked with Cerritos-like jobs, only cooler. And why not? Everything about the Parliament works out the same way vis-á-vis the Galaxy: again she lacks the secondary hull of the "daddy design", has basically the same nav deflector, sports longer and slimmer nacelles, but speaks the same design language when it comes to the saucer, which again has more and bigger shuttlebays than "daddy".
That Second Contact ships would be smaller than First Contact ones isn't quite the premise, it seems. They are just as big for any given era (although they tend to outlive the era and their welcome), only with fewer guns and more mustardshirts.
Timo Saloniemi
Or as the class that is to the Galaxy what the California was to the Ambassador, more likely, since all the dialogue emphasized how the Vancouver was tasked with Cerritos-like jobs, only cooler. And why not? Everything about the Parliament works out the same way vis-á-vis the Galaxy: again she lacks the secondary hull of the "daddy design", has basically the same nav deflector, sports longer and slimmer nacelles, but speaks the same design language when it comes to the saucer, which again has more and bigger shuttlebays than "daddy".
That Second Contact ships would be smaller than First Contact ones isn't quite the premise, it seems. They are just as big for any given era (although they tend to outlive the era and their welcome), only with fewer guns and more mustardshirts.
Timo Saloniemi
One could argue that second contact ships would be bigger because they would necessarily stick around a bit longer than first Contact and have supplies with them to give to the planet.
A welcome to the universe, here's some souvenirs
A welcome to the universe, here's some souvenirs
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