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Star Trek: Lower Decks hero ship revealed(how long do you think it will be before we get it in-game)
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I don't think so, since fundamentally, they have completely different premesis.
The Orville is basically just a "Star Trek With Some Jokes", and plays it very straight, it's very much got the typical hero types and adventures.
The idea behind Lower Decks, as was mentioned before, is "the least important ship and the least important crew on that ship". Whatever THAT entails is going to be incredibly different from not just what The Orville does, but most other Star Treks in general.
........ also, the people behind Lower Decks worked on "Rick & Morty" and seem to be emulating that animation style most, don't conflate it with Family Guy for flippancy's sake.
Look, if they can give us a Kobayashi Maru-type freighter ship, they'll dunk a California-class on us in a hearbeat, haha.
The drawing style and facial animation style make it clear that it is not a Fuzzy Door production so the humor is likely quite different since the writers would not be the same as "Family Guy". That style looks familiar though I cannot place it at the moment, along with the point-out-the-obvious arrow thing (the arrow is not a good sign, it is more of younger children's show convention than anything else, hopefully the writers did not come from the same genre background).
Still, the hype about the show is more "general audience" so the question becomes whether, despite the silly look of the drawings, they managed to balance the comedy and dramatic plot anywhere near as well as Orville.
Reminds me a bit of an episode of Babylon 5, where they just followed a couple janitors around while things were going on around them. Was rather funny.
As for the ship design... looks like something that could have been designed before Wolf 359.
The "least important ship" sounds a bit like the old Quark show from the late 1970s (the hero ship was a garbage scow that often ran into trouble), which was a decent comedy back then which mainly spoofed Star Trek and Star Wars. The "least important crew" sounds a bit like the start of Red Dwarf before the accident. If it is like a mix of the two older shows in comedy style it might actually work out well enough, though I doubt it will be that mix of styles.
The showrunners, I believe, are two writers who worked on "Rock & Morty", and the animation is highly reminiscent of that show.
I suspect the arrow is pointing out WHERE precisely the main characters bunk on the ship, what would be considered the "Lower Decks" as it were. There's an animated version of the poster itself that, in addition to the arrow highlighting that area, there's also a very small red box that pops up specifically at the very, very end of the ship.
And again, the showrunners are writers from "Rick & Morty". I did actually mention this in my previous posting, lol.
I mentioned this before in my post, but the showrunners are writers who worked on "Rick & Morty" previously, and I believe the animation is highly reminiscent of that show's style.
The arrow is more than likely pointing out where the main cast bunks on the ship, what would probably be considered the "Lower Decks" as it were. The animated version of the poster itself has the arrow bolstered by a small red box that highlights a very small portion of that section.
This show is most definitely not going to be aimed at younger audiences, to be frank. But coincidentally, an actual younger audience-appropriate Star Trek animated show is currently being developed to air on Nickleodeon.
I don't even want to think about the stress impulse would put on the SIFs..
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The design of the ship seems functional enough. Assuming the disk is three decks high at the rim like the "window" lights suggest the struts would be thick enough to accommodate turbolifts even instead of just the crawlspaces the NX had leading to the highly automated module it had.
It has the ugly, busy art deco look that many of the later shows ships have instead of the smooth organic googie look of Jefferies designs, but it is not any worse than most of the other CBS designs, and unlike a lot of them it does look somewhat practical if you ignore thrust balance.
Come to think of it, it looks vaguely like one of the ships that was in the background of TAS with that of boxkite like arraignment of the bridged nacelles.
As for the SIF aspect, the impulse drives got retconned into field effect drives ("gravity impulse" according to TNG) and have not been matter-antimatter emergency rockets since TAS ended, so there would not be much (if any) stress on the struts from the impulse drive. In fact, if it was a thrust system that ship and many of the others from TNG on would not go anywhere, just spin in place like a toy rocket engine stuck on toy car or whatever without attention paid to the thrust angle and center of mass.
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Probably take a turbolift there since the struts are more than thick enough to pass one, in fact the reason for two verticals on each side is probably so they can have a shaft separated from the plasma flows by a more than safe distance.
EDIT:after all you don't send a GCS on routine supply run for remote colony or starbase.
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This is probably is not a frontline ship, so it's probably screwed in combat anyway.
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