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Not sure how accurate it is but given the figures I vaguely recall, this feels pretty accurate.

Realizing that the Discovery is longer than any of these ships really puts shit into perspective

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[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sneaky Defiant! Took me a moment.

[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That the Defiant is as big as the entire saucer on the Constitution class is wild. I thought it was much much smaller

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's even funnier when you hear the Sisko's initial description of the defiant.

It's a warship, nothing more, nothing less.

And also

No families, no science labs, no luxuries of any kind...

Meanwhile it's almost as big as the OG Enterprise which did in fact have a regulation size bowling alley inside.

So all that space, basically just for engines and guns on the Defiant.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

It had a lot of engines and guns

[–] Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It also had a Romulan cloaking device and ablative armor that would disintegrate when hit rather than rupture.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I always forget just how large the defiant is. I feel like there is rarely anything close enough in the camera shots to get a good idea of scale. Other than DS9 I mean.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everything looks tiny when compared to ds9

[–] Basilisk@mtgzone.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Although when they created DS9 in Star Trek Online, they had to massively scale it up because otherwise it would have gotten lost among all the players' ships, both by sheer volume and because so many ships in the game are absurdly large.

I think the shot we see of it against the Enterprise E in "First Contact" doesn't help with the perception of the scale of the ship.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 2 years ago
[–] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Realizing that the Discovery is longer than any of these ships really puts shit into perspective

All it puts into perspective is how much the nu-trek folks (both Disco and JJ-Trek) lost the plot on ship size. It makes no sense that either the Discovery or the Kelvin-timeline Enterprise would be significantly different in size from the TOS Enterprise.

(This doubly pisses me off because I play Star Trek Online, where the devs implemented canon ship sizes and the Kelvin Enterprise stands out as being stupidly out of scale with the rest of the game.)

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, somehow I always imagined the Sovereign class to be bigger than the Galaxy...

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Enterprise D ... still the ship for me ... I'd swoon after those curves in any quadrant.

[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Need the Orville in this

[–] Aesculapius@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It would be nice to see the NX-01 in there

[–] thessnake03@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Throw the -J in there, just for the hell of it

[–] deepthaw@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

I stand by my head canon that Galaxy class ships are equipped to deposit saucers on planets to establish starter colonies. It's already basically a floating city in space.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did not realize that the Intrepid class was that much smaller than a Sovereign class. I though it was maybe slightly smaller.

[–] SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I have an inexplicable fondness for the Excelsior class. Both NX-2000 and NCC-1701-B are fun to watch. I would've liked to see more of them.

(I know there's a bunch in the Dominion War battle scenes, but never for very long.)

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Pictured against a sparkly holiday jumper worn by your mum.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago

You forgot one img