Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The USS Discovery You Need To Know

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[DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

"U.S.S. Riker's Erection" _needs_ to be canon. NX-96069.

[teammeteamus.]

I’d like to know about Star Trek’s Star Bases

[Kmadden]

One detail that kind of stuck out to me is that pretty much all the Federation ships we saw in the first two seasons were some variation of a saucer-and-nacelles design, and the only ships in the show that had the secondary hull were the Crossfield and Constitution classes.

So... you could make the assumption that the Crossfield is so big because it’s the Federation’s first attempt at making a ship with that design configuration and they just haven’t figured out how to minimise all the technology (which could also explain why the Crossfield’s design is so blocky and angular). And then they started work on the Constitution class where they were able to refine the concept and scale it down to a more efficient size and design.

[spergber]

Finding out that the Discovery is larger than the Enterprise E is hilarious because even with all that size, Burnam still has to share a room with Tilly.

[jpwphoenix]

The Shenzhou and Enterprise Bridges were actually separate sets. The Shenzhou bridge itself has been reused multiple times or redressed to make other ships. There was another Starfleet ship in a Season 1 episode, which was fighting Klingons, so they used it in that. For Season 2, it became the Section 31 ship bridge and then, most recently, it became the central section of Starfleet HQ in Season 3. The Enterprise Bridge has only ever been used for the Enterprise, both on Discovery, Short Treks and the upcoming spin-off "Strange New Worlds".

[CiaranMartin]

The Enterprise bridge was a completely new build, even constructed on a separate soundstage on the Pinewood lot. Watch the behind the scenes featurettes on the Discovery Season 2 BluRay.

[exilestudios]

so there is actually a fantastic explanation for the design differences between TOS and DIS in beta canon and it predates discovery by a time and that is all of the ships, stations, and bases of TOS era trek were basicaly designed by 1 person and that person is captain robert april the founder of the "modern" starfleet corp of engineers and first captain of the ncc 1701 enterprise. before his rise to prominence starfleet didnt really have a standardized design template and they just sort of built whatever the disjointed engineers of starfleet could come up with but the Robert came along and changed everything and created uniform design principles for all starfleet ships from that point on. the bit of fluff was created to add an in universe explanation for gene roddenberrys strict design rules for TOS, TAS, and early TNG ships and its clear that the creators of discovery took this explanation and ran with it but that still means that starfleet entirely changed the designs of their ships, stations, and outposts in about a decade so there is still that inconsistency but ya win some ya lose some

[timdawg]

I'd love to see more about Book's ship the Nautilus and its capabilities.

[Cosmic_Storm]

Your comedic delivery was absolutely on point in this video hahaha, I'd love to see some videoes about Earth Spacedock/Starbase 1

[BasementBerean]

Thank you so much for giving credit to the XB-70 bomber. I'm so old I remember my father holding a TV Guide magazine and telling me about a new series called "Star Trek" that would soon premier on TV, and I recognized the design long time ago from the bomber itself and the early 70's series that never happened.

[Zamugustar]

On the size, yeah it is long but it also appears to be much flatter than other ships so while it is longer than the Enterprise E the E looks to be 4 times thicker.

[talideon]

Up until the '80s, when it came to ship sets, they had the excuse that they were doing a teleplay, with everything that goes along with that. But since the '80s, we've been in a position where we could produce plausible sets. Paramount/CBS need to take the right lessons from Babylon 5: make your sets as flexible as possible, and have a good excuse for saminess.

[nickcampa]

Just saying I'd watch the deep dive on the video idea mentioned in #9

[joermnyc]

Disco-“A” got a repaint, and those floating nacelle things, and lots more glowing blue lines.

[Cptn]

Actually Discovery's warp core is in Stamets' lab. It's an horizontal one like the Enterprise's from TOS. It's placed at the end of the of the room opposite to the entrence. If you google for images to 'USS Discovery warp core' it's the second search result.
So one could argue, that the room with the spore chamber actually is engineering.

[johncorvo]

Well, similar bridges make sense in the real world too. You would have to expect some standardization in building a massive fleet. I imagine the bridges of many naval vessels look alike.

[robertavyrostek]

Despite my earnest desire to be a "good audience member" I cannot ignore that Starfleet put black boxes in every single ship for the express purpose of finding the cause is any catastrophic disaster to the ship. Then, when it happens on a vast scale (AKA "The Burn") it never occurred to the Entire Starfleet system to track down the black boxes until Burnham does it? That is stretching credulity, isn't it?

[saintwildfirerecords]

Adam, are you sure you're not a character on that holodeck? You are too awesome and funny to be real. "Computer, create a holodeck character to make Data laugh"

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One interesting bit that wasn’t in here, but revealed in Eaglemoss’s magazine that came with the XL Discovery was that the initial idea for Discovery’s defining feature wasn’t the Spore Drive, but a camouflage mode to infiltrate Klingon space:
The outer ring of the saucer would detach, so the ship would be able to mimic the warp signature of a Klingon cruiser.
Pretty cool idea. My personal headcanon about the segmented rings has been the ability to detach and or quarantine that segment because of all the science experiments that are on it.

[jonathanwigmore]

Miracle any work ever gets done on the Discovery. With such a small crew, a high percentage are always seen in the corridors walking around!