Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™
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Pike's ship still has a crew of ~200?
Approximately.
195 if she had a dog.
After 50+ years, they’re still having scale problems! 
Discovery took scale problems to a whole new level thoughAfter 50+ years, they’re still having scale problems!
Those birds of Prey are the worst. Still can't stand them.
But enough about theAfter 50+ years, they’re still having scale problems!
Gorn.
Sombra is a word from Spanish and Portuguese and translates to "shade" in English. There is a town in Canada named Sombra.
Sombra, Ontario - Wikipedia
Sombra, Ontario - Wikipedia
They looked about the same size.
We also have at least one real-worlds tanker vessel of the same name. Seems to travel around the waterways of the Netherlands a lot.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/photos/of/ships/shipid:219905/ship_name:SOMBRA
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/photos/of/ships/shipid:219905/ship_name:SOMBRA
That's exactly what I was thinking. The ship being a different class is a leftover from an earlier draft of the story before they decided they didn't have the time or money for new virtual sets for the cargo bay, exterior models, and on-set graphics (it is late in the season), so they changed the class name from something established and added the handwave about the similarity between the ships without really interrogating whether their reasons for making it a different kind of ship in the first place still applied. Keeping the Constitution "special"? No big deal, there can be another one added, especially before Kirk's line about there being only twelve (or thirteen) around. The crew size? Ships can have different crews and, even if they couldn't, is 203 people being xenomorphed or dying from exposure drawing the Gorn into a trap really that much more horrific than 99?
But in a fast-paced creative environment, sometimes you can end up married to earlier ideas without realizing it.
The weird thing is that these shows weren't produced like they were in the old days when they were filming just weeks before the episode would go on the air. The whole season was completed many months before the first episode was available for streaming, so there was time to make other choices.
There was never a need for significantly different interior sets: Trek has a long tradition of re-arranging the exact same sets to represent vastly different ships. So it was just the external look that needed to be different to fit the story. It still seems strange to me that they didn't just re-arrange the model a bit to make it look different from a Connie. Maybe attach the nacelles to the primary hull or something. They obviously modified the model enough to make it look like a *damaged* Connie, so it's not like they didn't have to modify it anyway.
I'd love to hear the background on that decision, especially since the show has otherwise done a very good job with visuals so far.
The doctor said it was a fast ship so let’s just think of it as a Sports version of the Connie. Something Clarkson would make.
A Connie GTI so to speak….
Powerrrrrrrrr…..
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