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Honestly, Star Trek ships are implied to be held together mostly by forcefields anyway, so in that respect I suppose it makes a degree of sense. But that being said, Discovery is still a real disappointment as a series (I didn't really watch it past the first season), and honestly something about the aesthetics of the future-Voyager seem off to me, and like they're trying far too hard to look "futuristic".

Kartr_Kana said:
I suspect they're quoting the episode and it's the writers who are to blame for the mismatched verbiage.
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Trying to make coherent sense out of every piece of Star Trek episode technobabble is a lot like trying to piece together the scattered journal entries of a researcher who went mysteriously missing whilst you're in a Lovecraftian horror setting.
 
Skippy said:
Honestly, Star Trek ships are implied to be held together mostly by forcefields anyway, so in that respect I suppose it makes a degree of sense. But that being said, Discovery is still a real disappointment as a series (I didn't really watch it past the first season), and honestly something about the aesthetics of the future-Voyager seem off to me, and like they're trying far too hard to look "futuristic".
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This basically. It got worse, because they have multiple of these designs, and they're not really built to one paradigm.

So it comes across as them taking all the futuristic nonsense and throwing it at a wall.

This thing shows up in the background, for example.

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Chronic said:
Hilariously, if this ship were to loose its disconnected nacelles it would look very much like a baby-Executor Star Dreadnought.
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its not just the Narcels if you look at the side view you can see that the entire secondary hull is disconected
 
The only way future voyager makes any sense is if those components can be swapped between every class of ship they have letting them have a fleet of almost infinitely modular ships.
 
Bedpotato said:
You mean they are learning how to make more advanced explodium Nacelles. They started out with ones that just might explode when going max speed and now decades later their design does explode when you use max speed. Their gradual Improvements are clearly visible! Now they just need to make sure the next gen explodes under cruising speed and we are golden.
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New from Yoyodine: The Nacelle Torpedo! :V
10ebbor10 said:
Entirely different ship. That's the standard Discovery, which has it's nacelles firmly attached, a contra-rotating saucer, and then spins on it's own axis to jump.
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...once again, I'm glad I didn't subscribe to certain streaming services. Sigh.
 
I guess past a certain point in HoloDeck Magic development it makes more sense to build a few hundred holoemitters than a physical starship. At which point everything is held together by forcefields so it doesn't matter if they look like metal or not. Isn't that sort of how the ships in the Culture books worked?
 
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trooperist said:
.... There's a lot to unpack there. But I'm going to settle for just asking why the ship has to do an aileron roll every time it wants to warp.
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It's not warp, it's Spore Drive! It's powered by magical space mushroom whose micelium grows across all cosmos.

When it warps, it warps normally.

They are also once deliberately stuck at 45 degrees rotation, to be simultaneously in real world and in Mushroom Zone!
 
NHO said:
It's not warp, it's Spore Drive! It's powered by magical space mushroom whose micelium grows across all cosmos.

When it warps, it warps normally.

They are also once deliberately stuck at 45 degrees rotation, to be simultaneously in real world and in Mushroom Zone!
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I mean, that was dumb, but my working theory is that it spins to "drop" into subspace. Or whatever.
 
It's 32th Century, Great Burn Happened, and it's up to new SDB to design new type of spaceship to relink Federation back together.

KNakamura said:
I mean, that was dumb, but my working theory is that it spins to "drop" into subspace. Or whatever.
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It spins to enter aforementioned Mushroom Zone.

And I haven't watched Discovery beyond the clips.
 
Impia said:
And it's subtler than the nacelles, but it looks like the primary and secondary hulls are also separated by a very thin gap? Starship Design Is My Passion.
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Oh god, it's over simplified modern graphic design applied to starships.

Simplified down to four geometric shapes in roughly the right positions to look like a starship.
 
NHO said:
It's 32th Century, Great Burn Happened, and it's up to new SDB to design new type of spaceship to relink Federation back together.


It spins to enter aforementioned Mushroom Zone.

And I haven't watched Discovery beyond the clips.
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Yeah, so. Discovery works by using the mycellial network, which is a specialized subspace zone. (If STO is to be believed), so what happens is that the spore drive opens a rift and then the ship jumps between it.

(Weaponized spore drives open fairly massive rifts.)
 
KNakamura said:
Yeah, so. Discovery works by using the mycellial network, which is a specialized subspace zone. (If STO is to be believed), so what happens is that the spore drive opens a rift and then the ship jumps between it.

(Weaponized spore drives open fairly massive rifts.)
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I like some of STO's discovery missions about the Mycelium network, its a good concept, shame it was wasted on discovery.
 
What about the rotating saucer? It can't be for providing gravity, so what's the purpose of that?
 
Oh please the voyager J isn't even the worst of the year 3000 ships.

During discovery's arrival one of the ships is called out as being nothing but force feilds.
 
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