Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes? Doc Watson is the narrator of their stories and sometimes (not very often though) shows his medical knowledge as an ex military surgeon.
The Constitution class is supposed to be significantly smaller than the Galaxy class, so that makes sense. And obviously, DS9 is huge since it can handle multiple ships even larger than Galaxy class ships.
DS9 is such a funny escalation too. The station is just gigantic, since the D can easily dock at it while only using one of its (eight?) capital berths. But how much of it do we ever see? Private quarters, offices, some cargo holds. The Prominade should be the largest set we encounter but it barely seems larger or more impressive than a suburban shopping mall.
Something like Mass Effect’s Citadel is how I image DS9 should really look on the inside, and even that’s probably underselling it given these dimensions!
When you look at TOS as basically a submarine show in space (Roddenberry being a navy man and all), the original scale makes a lot of sense.
My take was that much of DS9 was unused. It was originally both an ore refing facility and a military base. After the federation took over there was basically no use for much of the ore refing facility. There must have been large storerooms for both raw and processed ore. Along with large ore handling systems to move bulk ore.
I bet its ability to dock multiple capital ships was probably adapted from being able to dock large bulk cargo ships for the ore. Think about it like current bulk material handling terminals for ocean going cargo ships. They are vast areas with relatively few people working at them.
Additionally I would assume that there were military brackets that were unused. I think it is a safe bet that the Cardassians had a much larger military presence there. Just think of how easily it absorbed the additional personal need to operate as the in theater HQ during the Dominion War. It was able to have a Federation, Klingon and Romulan General Staff along with some kind of unified command. While also serving as a place for RR and ship repair.
And now that I typed this all out, I realized I really need to find something better to do with my life. 😂
I would love to see a remake of The Questor Tapes, one of Roddenberry’s pilots that never got picked up. It was about an android trying to find his creator. There was a very stupid scene in it that was made stupid by network executives- Questor had to get information from a woman. Originally, she only agreed to give it if he had sex with her (which Roddenberry said would have been suggested tastefully). They changed it to being friends with her.
Went to the page, read about it, and then to the Modiphius page to buy the book where it estimated shipping at $37 for untracked US Post Office?? For a single book? The shipping is almost as much as the book. Speaking of Star Trek, what kind of parallel universe did I wake up in? That is insane!
I have emailed my local gamestore to see if he is going to pick up copies. I will get it from him if he picks some up. He has the Star Trek Adventure RPG books, so I am guessing he can add this to his next order.
Yeah, shipping is insane especially if you don’t live in the US or the UK. If you have a local game store or one relatively nearby, it might be better to order from there. I bought most of mine from a local store and it was cheaper than the price on Modiphius’ US site and no shipping charge because I could go pick it up.
Praxis. It was destroyed earlier in the Kelvin Timeline as compared to the Prime Timeline. You can see the remnants of Praxis when they’re flying into Qo’nos. There’s a comic book prequel for Into Darkness that shows Khan going on a mission to Praxis to sabotage and detonate the moon.
The destruction is recent and heavily impacted the atmosphere of Qo’nos in both the Prime Timeline and the Kelvin Timeline. Praxis was also originally based off of the Chernobyl disaster so reflecting the destruction as a nuclear winter on the ground feels pretty appropriate to continuing that idea of Chernobyl and showing what it looks like on the ground a little while after Praxis. Then there’s the fact that they decided to reflect the Klingons in this time period as being heavily industrialized with a thick layer of pollution covering the planet.
Gotta say though, not sure how I feel about these comments just being dismissive immediately without even looking into the answer. Merely insulting it and saying it is undercooked or that it takes/doesn’t provide adds nothing to the discussion or theory crafting. The whole point of discussions like this is to come up with a potential answer, not to throw up your hands and say “They’re dumb lol”.
Most of Kelvin 2 was undercooked and relied on the other Star Trek 2 to carry the narrative. It would be unsurprising if there was no forethought put into why Qo’nos as uninhabitable regions other than “it sounds cool”.
Possibly. If it’s not already established, I wonder if the backstory could be filled in later in an episode on one of the TV shows or something. Maybe they could tie it to whatever eventually blew up Praxis.
Other than that, I’ve read there’s active volcanos on Kronos, so perhaps that area with all the ash falling was once inhabited until an unexpected round of volcanic activity, like a giant Pompeii.
Maybe a failed class, but inadvertently serving as a testbed with a lot of the lessons being incorporated into the Galaxy-class design lineage of ships?
That would make some sense. Its destruction during the battle could be why it was not developed further as well. Starfleet felt it wasn’t powerful enough.
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