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dracovamri
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Just a thought but would love if we could customize our Discovery Ships to the looks of Season 3 with the way the new delfector array & nacelles look, etc....
I have a Gagarin and was thinking of how the Shepard variant would look with the Season 3 Discovery tech.
I have a Gagarin and was thinking of how the Shepard variant would look with the Season 3 Discovery tech.
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Might only apply to the Crossfield, and maybe a stretch the DSC Connie. The rest of them might get a 32nd Century variant in the C-Store, and IMO it would most likely not be retroactive. To get the parts you'd need the newest version. Kinda like how the Mirror Connie wasn't automatically added to the Legendary DSC Connie.
We've seen similar things with other C-Store ships. The only one that kinda does what you described is the Avenger line with the promo Inquirary class.
The Crossfield will definitely be box/promo, just like the original and the Mirror variant.
Hopefully the other DSC ships are C-Store though, like their predecessors.
We do have the 26th Century ships.
Ultimately its probably just going to be the Crossfield Refit, and it will follow the pattern of the Mirror Warship. Need it to unlock the parts for all variants and not added retroactively to the Legendary.
And also, the 31th Century ones in the c-store... so there is a chance..
The original U.S.S. Enterprise design had its problems--I really don't think Matt Jefferies really thought through the structural integrity issues those long pylons and neck would have--but there was genuine thought put into it. Those structurally-weak long pylons, for example, were--IIRC--because he thought any engine powerful enough to propel a ship faster than light was something you really didn't want anywhere near humans. But these things? No. Those are pure Rule of Cool, with no thought whatsoever to what happens if something goes wrong.
Jefferies said in interviews when asked about the thin struts and neck that it was purposely done as a way of getting the idea of highly advanced metallurgy across. They are not too thin when you are talking about materials hundreds of times or more stronger than steel. Thin struts are much lighter too, and shed heat better, both considerations he took into account.
Okay, fair enough. I still disagree with his reasoning--but at least he had reasoning. I'd very much doubt the DISCO starship designers had any such excuse. I mean, seriously. There is no way "advanced technology" can account for that one. No matter how advanced, power failure is going to be a possibility, and with these ships any such failure is automatically going to be a catastrophic one.
At least compared to most other ships: this century's Federation ships, Booker's ship, the Emerald Chain ships, the Ni'Var fleet, etc..
I just hope if/when Cryptic releases yet another Discovery ship it isn't just for newer aesthetics & actually more is added to justify the cost.
I'd be much more interested in Booker's ship, the S3 Federations ships as long as it isn't just some updated look, the (2) Ni'Var ship versions, & Emerald Chain ships including the Viridian.
The (2) Ni'Var ships could be argued to include the Romulan faction. The Viridian & any other Emerald Chain ships could be open to the KDF faction as well. & of course the S3 Federation ships would be strictly for Federation.
I also think I saw that the nacelles on Discovery actually reattach before going to Warp.
I think you're correct about the nacelles, it was either warping or when going through the shiled perimeter. It would be a neat animation in STO.