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Originally posted by Lee:
Sometimes I wonder if that’s what ex-Flareites think. They often seem far too surprised to find we’re still here when they return after a long absence.

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Here I am having to write “LOL” like a 90s-era caveman instead of just using a heart or “haha” tapback.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the ship the kids commandeer will be a derelict from the Dominion War. That implies but doesn’t require that it’s set in the late 24th century like the other new shows... though I suppose it could be set later, if kids flying around in an antique spaceship makes any (more) sense.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
 

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Sometimes I wonder if that’s what ex-Flareites think. They often seem far too surprised to find we’re still here when they return after a long absence.

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Sometimes I wonder if that’s what ex-Flareites think. They often seem far too surprised to find we’re still here when they return after a long absence.

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Here I am having to write “LOL” like a 90s-era caveman instead of just using a heart or “haha” tapback.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the ship the kids commandeer will be a derelict from the Dominion War. That implies but doesn’t require that it’s set in the late 24th century like the other new shows... though I suppose it could be set later, if kids flying around in an antique spaceship makes any (more) sense.

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The implication being that finding & fixing an abandoned war-loss starship is the same as restoring an old Camaro you found in a barn.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
Well yes, precisely. If still a going concern, where will Starfleet be in all this? Presumably they're going to have an opinion about a bunch of teenagers digging up a long-lost starship, on which it's likely people died, so as to be able to get girls. And you just know that the characters are going to be all perky and, well, there's no getting away from it, excessively American about it all. Manifest destiny, self-expression, all that guff. Ugh.
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 
"American Graffiti" in space
 

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Posted by 137th Gebirg (Member # 2692) on :
 
Don’t know about “perky”. Most teenager-based shows I’ve seen are full of insufferable angst-ridden artificial drama. The upcoming “World Beyond” TWD spin-off follows a similar premise, a bunch of teenagers trying to survive during the zombie apocalypse. Don’t know if I want to see it or not, but I’ve been following the other two WD shows and I figure I’ll give it a chance, but my expectations are low... like subterranean low.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
OK well that's boring. The USS Protostar, NX-76884, therefore Protostar-class.

Registry puts it after the USS ibn Majid NCC-75710, but before the tranche of Luna-class vessels - or before the one canon one, USS Titan NCC-80102

https://twitter.com/MariusJacobs16/status/1418625888967659522?s=20

It's just feasible it could be the same class as the ibn Majid (if you ignire the registry, anyway). Only front and rear views in the new teaser trailer, showing it to have Sovereign and Interpid lineage I'd suggest, so consistent-ish for the time period the registry aligns to.
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 
I have so much to say, I don't know where to start.
 

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
 
I'm of two minds on that ship name. On the one hand, the rational part of my brain thinks that we've had ship classes named after astronomical phenomena before (Nebula, Galaxy, etc.) and sees nothing wrong with it. But the aesthetic part of my brain just doesn't think it sounds like a ship name.

The ship looks pretty good though.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Looks like it's a relatively small ship? Can't see what's going on on the underside, but the top half looks like maybe four or five decks?

Not really a fan of the Abramsverse-looking nacelles or the bridge (?) that's almost entirely glass.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
I like the design of the ship, from what little we’ve seen. The fore-aft profile looks a little simplistic, almost diamond-shaped. I agree it looks like about a 5- or 6-deck upper saucer, which suggests a ship slightly larger than a Nova but definitely smaller than an Intrepid.

It’s hard to see for sure, but yeah, it definitely looks like there’s plenty of windows on the bridge. Which doesn’t bother me as much when it’s not a glaring anachronism. (Abrams and Disco) After all, the Enterprise-E had a blank wall with a holographic viewscreen, so why not just have windows instead? It makes just as much sense as having the whole bridge exposed at the top of the ship anyhow.
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 
Soooo...set in the Delta Quadrant...in 2383. But, there's a whole-ass recent-build Starfleet ship just, y'know...sitting there. Plus there's a Medusan & a Tellarite that looks nothing like a Tellarite. In the Delta Quadrant. And a holo-Janeway. And they're making more novelverse shit canon with this Brikar thing.

My butthole is spasming.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
Oh no! They’re bringing names and aliens from the novels into canon! I’m sure Hikaru Sulu and Nyota Uhura would never stand for that.

Considering that there’s a Talaxian now settled down over 40,000 light years from his homeworld and Humans who observed the Borg in the Delta Quadrant in the 2350s, I can think of all sort of possible ways for a Tellarite to make it it out that far from home. And Starfleet misplaces its shit all the time, I have no trouble believing it lost a prototype, especially if it was testing a new propulsion system. (Just guessing there.)
 

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
 

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Considering that there’s a Talaxian now settled down over 40,000 light years from his homeworld

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At least we know how Neelix got there. We never did get an explanation as to how all the other Talaxians crossed the entire quadrant.

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True, except that if it were a one-off character, many nitpickers wouldn’t find “Neelix hitchhiked 40,000 light years in 7 years” to be a satisfactory answer. There’s a lot of weird stuff that happens in Trek, but we often expect it to all be explained perfectly and on-screen.

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Plus we don't know that this initial world they're all escaping from is in the Delta Quadrant. Could be that Starfleet built the prototype ship, lost it in the Alpha/Beta Quadrant, the kids find it, engage the drive again, and wind up in the Delta Quadrant.

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Originally posted by Spike:
The Janeway hologram should wear a FC or LD uniform as the ship's clearly not from the DS9/VOY jumpsuit era.

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