Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship?

• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.

  In “Scavengers”, right after Discovery gets her refit, Saru says, “even her nacelles are now detached, improving maneuverability and enabling us to be more efficient in flight.”

  I found this pretty puzzling, but it eventually dawned on me that the explanation is probably seen most clearly with Book’s ship. There are a few times when we see his ship rearrange itself on the fly to navigate the many, many debris fields present in the post-Burn galaxy - it looks like the detached bits let them dodge debris without actually changing their course or speed.

  We do get a glimpse of Discovery doing something similar late in season 5, when they ram their way into the Breen dreadnaught - the nacelles tuck themselves up and behind the saucer, reducing the ship’s profile.

  USS Discovery ramming a Breen dreadnaught’s shuttle bay, with her warp nacelles tucked up and behind her saucer section.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good catch. I knew Book’s ship did the fancy, in-flight reconfiguration but never caught the Discovery refit using similar capabilities. Guess it was a subtle thing I just missed.

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    • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I don’t have a satisfying answer for that one - wireless power transfer is NBD in the TNG era, so maybe it’s just an extreme version of that?

      Reno once had a line about replacing the warp plasma conduits with “polaric” ones, so maybe they don’t use plasma at all?

      But the Athena seems to, so 🤷

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      • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        maybe they don’t use plasma at all?

        Never even thought of that. There was a lot of dialog and plot points about finding alternatives to warp after the Burn, and we know they still use dilithium as a regulator, so I assumed they’re still using the same M/A reaction as before. But it’s very possible they extract the energy from the reaction in completely novel ways now.

        Was just assuming the same way as we’ve always known because (checks notes) the nacelles still light up blue lol.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  retro art deco

  I’m no expert though that’s how it appears to me, though I just realized I should have written: “retro-futuristic art deco”…

  The detached nacelles, I can somehow live with it, but those curves and lack of windows on most new ships are just too off for my brain… it’s like they were made only in CGI with no physical models were ever made, which feels kinda “wrong” and unpractical… as an example, comparing the Enterprise D in Picard season 3, vs in the series and movies. As much as they try, it’s just not the same.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not versed in the arts, but going by this definition of art deco:

    the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That closely fits within the definition.

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