The cutting-edge USS Discovery played a key role in the early days
of the Federation Klingon war in 2256.
Under the command of captain Lorca the ship was initially a testbed science vessel that
could accommodate 300 discrete scientific missions.
The Discovery was designed around the most famous resource the spore drive an
experimental propulsion system that allows the ship to travel 90 light-years in 1.3 seconds
The spore drive worked by harvesting mycelium spores to travel in the mycelial plane.
The Crossfield class was built with a spore drive as the main integrated component
to travel using the jump drive it utilizes a special resources called cultivated mycelium.
it allowed a vessel to instantly jump to any point in the universe
mycelium spores can be mined from 15 systems and can be cultivated from a refinery that creates
cultivated mycelium. The USS Discovery was unique for traditional Starfleet vessels because of the
ship's jump drive an organic propulsion system that utilized the mycelium spores.
By using the spores the ship can travel to mycelial network, a discrete subspace domain
chief engineer and co-creator of the drive paul have envisioned it as a peaceful technology before
Starfleet adapted it for military purposes; however during the war against the Klingons, it was turned
into a warship and much of the Discovery resources were devoted to accelerating research and
development of a new propulsion technology both the federation and the Klingons secretly used this
technology to gain an advantage over the other side this technology was no longer in use by 2260.
In this size comparison, we're going to start with the Enterprise-A
which has a length of 305 meters or 1000 feet with a width of 137 meters or 440 feet
while the larger galaxy-class enterprise d has a length of 641 meters or 2100 feet
with a width of 495 meters or 1624 feet
the longer USS Discovery has a total length of 750 meters or 2460 feet and a width of 300 meters or
984 feet it had a height of 50 meters or 164 feet and with a mass of 200,000 metric tons.
Even though the Discovery was quite long compared to the Enterprise D the USS Discovery could only
accommodate 136 crew members and had a total of 15 decks on board but its most significant
component was the experimental spore drive propulsion system that allowed it to travel
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Even though the USS Discovery share many design philosophy of previous Starfleet vessels
it had many unique features ship have a geometric design a triangular engineering
hull and like a traditional cylindrical shaped body of the Constitution class ships.
In front of the engineering hull was the navigational deflector
unique to Discovery the saucer section of the ship can rotate when it needs to jump
the profile view of the ship was very flat and a have a height of only 50 meters or 164 feet.
The ship also comes standard with a pair of extremely long
warp nacelle with the bussard collector at front of the nacelle.
The shuttle bay was located at the aft end of the engineering hull
the design of the primary hull consists of a saucer with three separate wings
an inner and outer ring that was connected by a thin neck to the engineering hull.
In addition, the ship also comes equipped with multiple phases
and a photon torpedo one on the front and one on the back of the warp nacelle.
The main bridge of the USS Discovery stood on the center main body of the ship's primary hull
at the very center of the room was the captain's chair
from here the captain can easily interact with all bridge officers other duty stations.
Lined the perimeter wall of the bridge the spore ops and communication station
behind the captain's chair was the science station the bridge also comes equipped with two turbolifts.
In keeping with tradition, the main view screen was at the very front of the bridge with the ops
officers and con officers behind it at the back of the bridge was the ready room in server bay.
Facing the wall were the engineering and technical station the door next to the view screen leads to
the corridor and into the restroom for the bridge one of the ingenious new inventions
was the programmable matter which was a major upgrade to the bridge console
when it traveled 900 years into the future whoa what just happened that's the retrofitted
programmable matter it reads your bioscience do we really need all of this hell yeah we do
it's adaptive learn and adjust your reflexes to create an interface style unique to you
let's take a closer look inside the USS Discovery
For many Starfleet vessels, the main bridge was located at the very top of the saucer section
with pike's ready room adjacent to the bridge right below the main bridge was the computer core
the heart of Starfleet's computer system and on the right of the core
was a transporter room the vessel used an older duotronic computer core
which was a common system used aboard the Constitution-class starships.
On the inner wing was where the crew and officer's quarter were located
it also included the mess hall in sick bay at the furthest end of the outer ring was the disc
magnetic rotation system the spore field emitters and the second transporter room.
The USS Discovery comes equipped with several sick bays with the airlock room located above it
Discovery was fitted with a spore space sensor and the main deflector near the bottom of the
engineering hull on the secondary hull was the third transported room the disc
magnetic rotation systems and the small view emitters at the opposite end of the outer ring
similar in design to other star fleet vessels.
Main engineering was located in the secondary hull with a small growth lab adjacent to it.
On many federation starships the warp core was usually located near the main engineering
the ship also comes equipped with a rather large main cargo hole
and toward the aft end of the ship was the shuttle bay and impulse engines.
The USS Discovery carried a complement of class C shuttle craft when it traveled. By the time the
federation Klingon war of 2256 the class c was standard federation should aircraft
for Starfleet, it was piloted by one to two people with the capacity of multiple passengers.
The craft impulse engines were located on the apps section and the main cabin
for the passengers was located in the long main section between the cockpits and the aft section
the aft section was slightly enlarged and appear boxier.
On the ventral hull on either side were fitted with a pair of warp nacelles.
As a Crossfield-class starship the Discovery was officially designated as a science vessel
the USS Discovery was unconventional due to the development and evolution of spore drop
technology and its use of cultivated mycelium the geometric design and architecture made it
unique because it abandoned many of the Starfleet vessel's traditional designs. After Discovery arrived
in the 32nd century the ship underwent several major modifications part of this refit included
the installation of programmable matter into our station for better control and converting
the ship's warp engines to be detached for improved maneuverability and performance
during the refit, the ship was recommissioned with the registry NCC 1031-A. The new architecture allows
for continuous minute adjustments in the position of the nacelles to optimize the warp field
geometry. So what are your thoughts on the USS Discovery let me know in the comment section below
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