Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™

[Enterprise1701]

Never thought I would see Macross World intersect with official Star Trek, lol!

The artist who modeled the ships from the season 3 opening titles, W.M. Cheng, has posted some clear renders on another forum. It looks like an upside-down version of the salvaged fake ship from the season two premiere is a real design, so we can all pretend that this real ship is the one that was at the starbase, and not the very similar looking fake ship built from salvaged parts.

My condolences to The Wormhole with regards to the retro-Nebula.

Embedding here via Imgur:

And the static shot in question:

 

[David cgc]

Weird as hell seeing a proper Discovery-type Crossfield in the background. Mildly impressed they used the era-specific version and not the 31st century floating nacelles version.

And it's far enough away that I can maintain my head-canon that Discovery and Glenn were heavily modified for the spore drive, and a stock Crossfield would look more like the first VFX team's model and/or the ComiCon teaser version. Maybe these ships got upgraded with the long nacelles, but don't have the spinny saucers with the gaps.

 

[Cox of Seagulls]

Never thought I would see Macross World intersect with official Star Trek, lol!

Oh, Macross and Star Trek have intersected before!

Spoiler

 

[Markonian]

Never thought I would see Macross World intersect with official Star Trek, lol!

The Freighter-class and Nebula-class starships share the registry number NCC-0711. Can anyone make out their names?
(The reuse of the reg isn't an issue for me because Admiral Cornwell mentioned Starfleet has thousands of ships but the reges are NCC-1XXX, so they gotta see duplication.)

Looks like the Macrossfield doesn't have any labelling.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Mildly impressed they used the era-specific version and not the 31st century floating nacelles version.

Why would they????

 

[Enterprise1701]

Why would they????

Carelessness. Like the season 2 premiere silliness of NCC-1279 appearing docked upside down at Starbase 1 despite the whole point of NCC-1279 being a one-of-a-kind fake kitbashed from salvage scrap by the Broken Circle.

 

[Gepard]

Those are some great designs.

 

[NCC-73515]

They’re in the released episodes

Pictures Will have to wait for me to get home unless someone beats me to it.

I’m surprised NCC-73515 hasn’t already done it.

I was traveling and only now saw them. Thanks for taking over

 

[Tuskin38]

I really want that ‘Nebula’ in STO

The False Federation ship as well tbh

 

[Dukhat]

So it looks like there are only three new ships in the credits: The ‘freighter’ type, the ‘Nebula’ type and the ‘False Federation’ type. All other ships seen in the actual episode are either ships used previously, some DSC ships with round nacelles, and the ‘FASA Larson’ type which appears to be new.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I hope they give these ships better class names than “False Federation” and “Freighter” class.

Nebula? Yeah, I get it. Looks like a 23rd century USS Phoenix with the AWAX dish.

 

[Daedalus]

I'll just presume there's a USS False out there. Named after the famous Batman villain False Face.

 

[Tuskin38]

I hope they give these ships better class names than “False Federation” and “Freighter” class.

Nebula? Yeah, I get it. Looks like a 23rd century USS Phoenix with the AWAX dish.

Why would a fake ship get a class name?

 

[Markonian]

Why would a fake ship get a class name?

It looks like the fake ship’s design is that of an actual Starfleet class.

 

[David cgc]

It looks like the fake ship’s design is that of an actual Starfleet class.

More or less. The pirates apparently put the back of the ship on upside-down.

 

[Tuskin38]

It looks like the fake ship’s design is that of an actual Starfleet class.

It isn’t.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Why would a fake ship get a class name?

It looks like the fake ship’s design is that of an actual Starfleet class.

^^^ This.

It isn’t.

Dude, there's a bunch of them right there in the opening scene at the Starbase!

 

[Tuskin38]

Dude, it’s right there in the opening scene at the Starbase

Which was confirmed to be a mistake.

The FauxCrossfield was a purely Klingon created kitbash creation.

The individual parts come from existing ships, but not that combination of them.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Then they keep making a hella-lotta of these mistakes with the same "fake" ships. Why would they go to all the trouble to making a brand new model, put a bunch of them in a scene that's going to be in every episode intro for the entire season and then say "oops!" I can see where putting the fake Klingon-built non-Crossfield in the starbase dock might have been a accidental, but sorry, not this time.

Nope. Not buyin' it...

 

[Tuskin38]

Why would they go to all the trouble to making a brand new model, put a bunch of them in a scene that's going to be in every episode intro for the entire season and then say "oops!" I can see where putting the fake Klingon-built non-Crossfield in the starbase dock might have been a accidental, but sorry, not this time.

Nope. Not buyin' it...

The VFX supervisor was not involved with the creation of the title sequence, I’ve been over this.

The title sequence was made by an outside vendor with no oversight

He talked about it on his social media

He did say he may try and get the other two new designs into an actual episode in season 5 however