And 4 and 5 for that matter

A Ferengi ship? Interesting choice!

TIL that I’ve always been looking at them backwards. I always thought the curved section was the front.

Had to look that one up and recognized the USS Aventine from ST: Destiny. Definitely looks like a cool ship. Assuming the models of it are from ST: online?

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.

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.

Edit: The other “how” I’m still struggling with is how the detached nacelles receive the warp plasma from the core. Is it more efficient to just do a continuous transport of warp plasma? Are there many, distributed warp reactors in each nacelle/throughout the ship? I long for the technical manuals on these newer models lol.

LOL. As far as how I’d like to spend my retirement, that’s definitely in my top 3.

The Pasteur’s spherical saucer section always made me think of the Discovery from Space Odyssey.

Ooh, yeah. I always forget about the circular nacelles on Vulcan ships. They do have a certain elegance to them.

I thought she was the oddest looking ship that I had ever seen, but she QUICKLY grew on me.

Like the Triceratops of starships. Hopefully that Jurassic Park reference makes sense.

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.

Oh, nice. Never heard of that but will definitely give it a go.

Also quite fond of pre-Burn Discovery’s “retro Art Deco” style.

I almost added “retro Art Deco of the Crossfield class” to my examples but wasn’t 100% sure that was right. Thanks for confirming lol. But definitely love the style of it.

And yeah, I’m still warming up to the detached nacelles of the 31st 32nd century ships. I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.

:sigh: (high five) ✋

I have that same broom, but it’s to unevenly worn to stand up.

Definitely those two. Ep. 4 and the Klingon’s space play-fight with the Federation over the planet so they could “conquer” it was as adorable as it was believable. After 900 years, losing their homeworld, and nearly going extinct, they still hold on to their code of honor which is the only thing they really have left. Incredibly well done.

As for ep 5, I always shed a tear of happiness when a later series revisits DS9.

hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that.

Sirtis is a lot more like Lwaxana than Troi ever was. Also, @29:48 in the same video:

Well, I only do stuff that’s cult: Star Trek, Gargoyles, Sharknado. It makes sense.

–Marina Sirtis

Oh, “The Dark Veil”, yeah. It wasn’t bad but was definitely the weakest of the 5. I could swear the entire plotline was recycled if not from Trek itself then from some adjacent sci-fi.*

The only one I haven’t read is the Rios one since it’s the only one I can’t buy DRM-free. “Second Self” (the Raffi one) and “Firewall” (the Seven one) were both excellent.

*Or maybe the reclusive aliens on the ark ship in Dark Veil were just similar enough to the reclusive Caeliar and their planet ship in ST: Destiny that I had read shortly before.

Very well could be. It’s a quote from a panel they did on the Star Trek Cruise not long ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ML_ScYo8wQ) and everything was off the cuff (and maybe a little drunk?) . I’m about 15 minutes into that recording as I reply.

I would definitely enjoy Legacy , but I was a total sucker for the fan service that was PIC S3. After reading the rest of the Picard tie-in novels (thanks for the recommendation, BTW), seeing Captain Seven command the Enterprise would be pretty great.

I’ve only seen the first two episodes of the revival, but agreed. It’s pretty fantastic, has the same feel but also fresh at the same time.

It’s been so long since the last season of the original run (clearly season 8) that instead of hearing Sarah Chalke as Elliott Reed I hear her as Beth Sanchez Smith (who is also a doctor). It makes her and JD’s divorced couple snarking sound like Beth and Jerry .