The Glenn had modified the reaction cube in their engineering to hold the tardigrade, as Discovery later did as well. Aboard Discovery's sister ship, the Glenn, the engineering section was highly shielded and the hull was double reinforced, preventing transport after a spore drive disaster.
Immediately off of main engineering was a cultivation bay where Stamets was growing his own prototaxites stellaviatori spores. ( DIS: " Context Is for Kings", " Brother")Īboard Discovery, the engineering lab was highly classified and required a breath print for access. Paul Stamets and his Glenn counterpart Straal operated their spore drives from engineering test bay alpha, a standard engineering workspace specially converted for that purpose. This ready room featured a more personalized décor, additional seating, and a conference table as well as a food synthesizer slot and several computer panels. In 2257, Captain Christopher Pike favored a ready room disconnected from the bridge.
( DIS: " Context Is for Kings", " Brother") Clockwise from the center command chair, the bridge stations comprised of a free-standing multi-purpose station, science, another free-standing multi-purpose station, tactical, helm, operations, spore drive control, communications, and a free-standing science station. The main bridge was located on deck one, with a central command chair for the commanding officer, turbolift access at the front-starboard and rear-center, and a computerized transparent window- viewscreen. The bridge of the USS Discovery through the window/viewscreen See: Crossfield -class decks Main bridge and command deck Those same rooms, as well as sickbay and the corridors, mirrored the window design through recessed alcoves on the wall.
#Spore depot windows
The ships' design featured polygonal windows to space in crew support compartments including the mess hall and crew quarters. Sensors included multiphasic scanning capabilities. ( DIS: " Context Is for Kings" ST: " Calypso")ĭiscovery at warp speed Scientific systemsĭiscovery's facilities were capable of supporting over three hundred discrete scientific missions – a Starfleet record in 2256. ( DIS: " The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")Ĭrossfield-class starships were equipped with at least six tractor beam emitters for towing objects in space, two on the ventral engineering hull (port and starboard), two above the aft doors to the cargo bay to guide boarding shuttles, and two dorsal on the inner-ring of the saucer section. The ships had deflector shield capability for defense. The ship's armament included phasers and forward and aft photon torpedoes. ( DIS: " The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry") The outer and middle sections housed rings that could rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise respectively, so as to provide excess energy cavitation. When engaging the spore drive, the ship went into black alert, which alerted the crew to the drive's activation.
To facilitate the operation of the spore drive, the saucer section was divided into three concentric sections separated by gaps. ( DIS: " Will You Take My Hand?", " Through the Valley of Shadows") The Crossfield-class design consisted of a saucer section, a wide secondary hull, and two elongated nacelles.Īlthough they were longer, Crossfield-class vessels were of generally similar size to those of the Constitution-class. ( DIS: " Despite Yourself", " Vaulting Ambition")Ī Crossfield- (left) and a Constitution- (right) class vessel connected by evacuation corridors The class was also utilized by the Terran Empire Starfleet in the mirror universe, although that version lacked spore drive technology. Both the Discovery and the Glenn had been commissioned by that time. In November of 2256, " Stone" and " Psycho" noted that Discovery appeared to be a brand new starship, without even "a scratch on the floor" of the shuttlebay. Two ships of the class were equipped with an experimental spore drive propulsion system, the USS Discovery and its more advanced sister ship, the USS Glenn.
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