Spoilers The Ships of Lower Decks

[Tuskin38]

they took the steamrunner bridge and turned it 180.

 

[NCC-73515]

So it should be a runsteamer

 

[fireproof78]

The bridge is looking a little bit weird on that picture

It's a bridge too far.

 

[Macintosh]

Sabrerunner!?

...I love it.

 

[USSCoriolis]

Decent design and a nice homage in memorium.

I do like the idea that they can scale up and down as requirements are needed for mission profiles.

ngl I don't. The ship by ship constant flexibility of STO is something I never liked about it, and I am not loving that it keeps creeping into canon

 

[fireproof78]

ngl I don't. The ship by ship constant flexibility of STO is something I never liked about it, and I am not loving that it keeps creeping into canon

I mean, if you have nigh infinite resources then why not?

 

[Dukhat]

Nice tribute, but if they wanted a ship the size of a Sabre…why didn’t they just use a Sabre?

Well at least the larger windows, lifeboats and bridge size give the impression of a smaller ship, like the BoBW kitbashes.

 

[Tuskin38]

Going back to Sabrerunner. Here, side by side.
Look how much bigger the Windows and RCS thrusters are relatively speaking, because it's a smaller ship. That is more than what they did for the Connie-III in Picard Season 3.

Also Fabio's upgraded model for the heck of it

but if they wanted a ship the size of a Sabre…why didn’t they just use a Sabre?

Because they wanted the Steamrunner.

 

[fireproof78]

Look how much bigger the Windows and RCS thrusters are relatively speaking, because it's a smaller ship. That is more than what they did for the Connie-III in Picard Season 3.

I like it.

Reminds me of some of the Discovery designed ships.

 

[Tuskin38]

Jörg made same nice comparisons
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1721225868708880746

 

[fireproof78]

I like this comment:

Makes sense. Starfleet engineers probably looked to the Klingons & their umpteenth variants of the Bird of Prey from cruisers to scouts. Find a useful, easily modified overall design, then scale up or down as needed. Now I want to see a giant cruiser variant!

 

[Dukhat]

Jörg made same nice comparisons
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1721225868708880746

Unfortunately the shuttle bay doors look to be the same size for both ships. So either that was a mistake, or the Sabrerunner has extremely small shuttles.

 

[Macintosh]

Now I want to see a giant cruiser variant!

There's the Appalachia-class from Star Trek Online, which is a sort of post-Steamrunner using the same general arrangement... I'm not a massive fan of most STO designs but I like this one.

Edited to fix quote attribution.

 

[Dukhat]

Because they wanted the Steamrunner.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

There's the Appalachia-class from Star Trek Online, which is a sort of post-Steamrunner using the same general arrangement... I'm not a massive fan of most STO designs but I like this one.

I think you meant to quote Fireproof, as I didn’t say that.

 

[fireproof78]

There's the Appalachia-class from Star Trek Online, which is a sort of post-Steamrunner using the same general arrangement... I'm not a massive fan of most STO designs but I like this one.

I was only quoting a Twitter user but hey, cool ship.

 

[Tomalak]

Unfortunately the shuttle bay doors look to be the same size for both ships. So either that was a mistake, or the Sabrerunner has extremely small shuttles.

It's normally crewed by Evora and Dooplers.

 

[CaptChris42]

Spoiler

Well, they're all gone by 2401, as none of them were in attendance during Frontier Day, when all of Starfleet was there.

Well, we only saw maybe 450 ships, onscreen, at most... and the fleet surely was overall, greater than that.
Anywhere from 6,000 to 15,000, easily...?

 

[Macintosh]

I think you meant to quote Fireproof, as I didn’t say that.

Huh, that's weird. Some sort of multi-quote editing issue my side maybe? Apologies! I have fixed the quote.

 

[drt]

Unfortunately the shuttle bay doors look to be the same size for both ships. So either that was a mistake, or the Sabrerunner has extremely small shuttles.

Defiant had shuttles and didn't have doors at all (well, except for that one episode).

I'd expect it has a shuttlepod or two.

 

[Dukhat]

Defiant had shuttles and didn't have doors at all (well, except for that one episode).

I'd expect it has a shuttlepod or two.

Yeah, but the Defiant isn’t a good measure of proof, as its scale was wildly inconsistent throughout the show.