Activate your holoemitters and prep your photonic crew, because the ship class that Star Trek: Voyager built is headed to sector near you. The Discovery is the next generation of long-range science vessels, and wow does its design shout it loudly. We're going to overlook the fact that, from the front, the ship looks a lot like a muffin due to its warp foils, and move right on ahead to how cool the rest of the ship looks from other angles.
Although, with the ability to fully customize your ship, we suppose plenty of players will opt for a less bakery inspired frontal appearance purely through coincidence. Plus, there's also the yet-to-be-revealed Cochrane variant as well.
Also, don't let the big blue deflector array fool you into thinking this ship is equipped with some kind of super weapon. Being a science vessel, the Discovery is much more adept at advanced tech, and as such can hone in on an enemies weakness right quick. Who needs heavy weapons when you've got an Achilles heel detector? Heck, this baby can even detect some cloaked ships -- take that, sorta, Klingons!
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 9:18AM NeoWolfen said
Love it, it is an advancement upon my favourite design the Intrepid.. absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on this game.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 10:28AM (Unverified) said
This is an amazing looking upgrade to the Intrepid class.
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 10:48AM saintnicster said
The warp foils look a little weird, but then again, so did the flexo-warp nacelles on Voyager did too, at first.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 11:17AM Purkit said
Nothing wrong with pastry shaped spacecraft, after all no one complained about the imperial destroyer looking like a slice of cheese cake... Mmm imperial cheese cake.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 11:18AM (Unverified) said
I think it looks awesome, nothing like a muffin...were you hungry when you wrote this?
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 11:22AM pcgneurotic said
Yeah, I don't buy the muffin thing either. To me, it looks like pure, flying, sex. Gods I love that Intrepid design. Anything that builds on that can grind in my lap whenever it likes!
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 12:44PM (Unverified) said
Looks like someone was horny when he wrote that. :)
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 2:28PM pcgneurotic said
Well, you know that Captain Janeway... I wouldn't kick her out of my raid group... ;)
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 2:24PM Tom in VA said
I wonder how individual ship names will be generated or assigned in this game? Do you suppose you will get to name your own ship(s) or will names be generated automatically?
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 2:44PM pcgneurotic said
That's an excellent question. I'd hate to see a lot of USS LOLZORs flying around. :(
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 9:36AM Tom in VA said
I'd actually prefer it if you could choose to play on servers that incorporate automatic name generators, for exactly that reason.
I'd sooner pick my own avatar name(s) and ship name(s) from an approved list if that also meant I didn't have to come across the kinds of moronic names some players are likely to come up with. :(
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I'd sooner pick my own avatar name(s) and ship name(s) from an approved list if that also meant I didn't have to come across the kinds of moronic names some players are likely to come up with. :(
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:57PM yavo said
man, i'd fly a big block of cheese around if i could whip some tail with it. I do like Intrepid class though, for now (until next ship release:) it's the ship i want ingame :)
Posted: Sep 26th 2009 9:09PM (Unverified) said
The comments section of the STO beta key giveaway has stopped working! :/







