USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

[BillJ]

There's a little arrow in the illustration, so maybe there's a rotating wall like the transporter in the old Mego bridge playset.

(That's my Trek deep dive for today.)

I'm not sure a bulkhead is going to stop a photon torpedo if your shields are down.

 

[fireproof78]

This particular comeback is starting to grate on me almost as much as "but what about Hilary?!" in any political discussion. Shouldn't newer shows with more money and a lesser production schedule strive to eliminate errors that other shows made in a mad dash to meet production deadlines?

Ideally, yes but we do not live in an ideal world.

I'm not sure a bulkhead is going to stop a photon torpedo if your shields are down.

If the shields are down a ship is pretty much screwed. Even in TUC the torpedoes were blasting through the hull.

 

[Jadeb]

I'm not sure a bulkhead is going to stop a photon torpedo if your shields are down.

But maybe it could spare them the hassle of calling Safelite. After three chips, the whole viewscreen has to be replaced.

 

[F. King Daniel]

More like the Trek way........all the others have been full of mistakes as well.

I do like Discovery, but they're making more and bigger than any Trek before it.

 

[DaveyNY]

It's so they can't actually SEE the phaser blast or Photon Torpedo coming toward the bridge that is about to kill them all.

 

[F. King Daniel]

so uh, i nabbed this from the eaglemoss facebook fan group (where folks in the UK are getting their disco-prise):

this enterprise has a "battle mode" and "exploration mode" where the front of the bridge can transition from opaque to translucent.

I'm pretty sure they've put more thought into this Enterprise than they did the Disco herself (where are the photon launchers?)

Battle mode will likely get as much use as the Next Gen's saucer seperation. That's also a lot of wasted space between the window and bubble.

 

[pst]

I'm pretty sure they've put more thought into this Enterprise than they did the Disco herself

just makes me wonder what this set is going to look like.

i already have enterprise-envy based on the props, costumes, and cast...

 

[fireproof78]

It's so they can't actually SEE the phaser blast or Photon Torpedo coming toward the bridge that is about to kill them all.

To be or not...to be.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

I'm not going to lie, that battle mode on the front of the bridge module sounds dumb. I hope they don't use it at all.

 

[Tuskin38]

maybe to make the bridge less of a target?

Maybe there is density shifting tech in there, when it becomes opaque the material is stronger?

Also the shuttle bay interior is nearly identical to TOS.

 

[Kemaiku]

Yup, that big sheet of glass is certainly stronger than a duranium hull plate.

 

[Tuskin38]

it's transparent aluminum according to the text on the page.

 

[Jadeb]

Wow, they worked fanservice into my fanservice!

 

[WarpFactorZ]

maybe to make the bridge less of a target?

Maybe there is density shifting tech in there, when it becomes opaque the material is stronger?

Presumably this hardens the bridge in the event of exposure to high energy radiation... which would happen in space all the time anyway.

 

[Tuskin38]

Wow, they worked fanservice into the fanservice!

How is it fan service?

According to the text, the reason they did it this way was because they wanted to keep the dome shape of the bridge.

It also says it was designed at 1500 feet. Not 300 and then scaled up.

The book gives more context to the Anovos Enterprise bridge

I that red spot a door? There also appears to be one on the left, you can barely make out the frame.

 

[pst]

The book gives more context to the Anovos Enterprise bridge

i don’t have my model yet so i can’t consult the magazine, but this anovos image makes it look like the bridge window/viewer is separate from this larger “exploration mode” window.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

It's even on the Season one version.

 

[F. King Daniel]

They're drawing attention to their own questionable choice to put a window in front of the bridge. Next season, they'll point out how stupid it is to have the bridge up on top as a clear target but still do it for 200 years of canon.

 

[cooleddie74]

it's transparent aluminum according to the text on the page.

Madeleine would be proud.

 

[cooleddie74]

I'm not sure a bulkhead is going to stop a photon torpedo if your shields are down.

A bulkhead sure didn't save the bridge of the Enterprise-E during the battle with Shinzon. Reman weapons blasted a big hole in the bridge where the viewscreen was located and only emergency force fields saved the surviving bridge officers from being blown out into space with the poor guy who got killed right after the impact.