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About "too good to be true", I never noticed that before. I wouldn't have assumed it to be like "If A=B then probably A=B".

Regarding the option to take into account the destruction of the Protostar, I went back to the scene when Janeway ordered to fire the torpedoes. Asencia was shocked, so I take it she just realized that whatever her plan was, it was about to fail. I suppose that if the ship was destroyed and had revealed the weapon, it would have been useless, unless a Starfleet ship had arrived to salvage it, which we can be sure wouldn't have happened.

The Romulan rifles are also based off the ones seen in Picard, but just cartoonishy big.

The Janeway hologram tells Dal: "There's a reason Starfleet has laws about scientific experimentation. If it's too good to be true, it probably is." I listened to it several times, and I am sure she meant to say "...it probably isn't [true]".

Janeway uses the idiom correctly for English. The "is" has the inferred subject "too good to be true". If you instead use "isn't" it has the opposite meaning. English doesn't do a lot of double negation (well, British English doesn't, apparently Australian English does a lot of it for emphasis which really gets confusing for us Pommies...)

The series will have a hard time to explain to me how Asencia aka the female Vau N'Akat could infiltrate Starfleet, hide Drednok and, as an ensign, gain Admiral Janeway's full trust - only to miss out on a few excellent chances to get hold of the Protostar. But I don't even have to go back to previous episodes for her actions to make no sense. In fact, still in "Masquerade" Janeway orders Asencia to listen to Romulan channels, which would have been a perfect opportunity to come up with a deception. But her unwisely truthful report on the Romulans trying to take over the ship only leads the admiral to the decision to destroy it.

We can probably assume the weapon is pretty much indestructible, so destroying the Protostar might leave it in the wreckage, to be recovered. Who recovers it is almost irrelevant.

Had to comeback and mention that meta reference in the final episode of Billips asking for the device that looked like a Phase discriminator. I thought it was cute. According to Mike McMahan, he came up with that when browsing Memory-Alpha and saw something on reused props.

Hmm. I wonder if somehow this *one* Kazon has a souped up ship?

Also I'm so glad you pointed out the romulans committing the very act of war they're warning Janeway against! I hope for some kind of explanation next week!

Further working on the database improvements. Latest updates: Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans

Hey, it threw me for a minute too. :-)

Sure. My bad.

(On that note, I find it strange that human-alien hybrids are treated as aliens most of the time. The mixed background of Spock or B'Elanna gets mentioned a few times but most of the time they are treated as Vulcan or Klingon, respectively. The only exeptions that come to my mind are Simon Tarses and Devinoni Ral who each only had one alien grandparent and thus seem to have been regarded as humans.)

We could of course be viewing this from our human perspective. Spock is clearly not human, ditto B'Elanna. From what we've seen, there seems to be a goodly chunk of Vulcan society sees Spock as human, perhaps B'Elanna is seen as human by Klingons because of her "smooth" ridges?

One thing of course with these alien races is that perhaps their total species identity comes from maybe two or three sets of precursors, what if some of them are still around to a greater and lesser extent? Homo Sapiens probably out competed both Homo Neanderthalensis and the Denisovans which no longer exist obviously, but there was extensive interbreeding and their DNA persists in modern humans.

Whilst we sort of had this before with the Andorians and Enar, we've possibly now got to content with the DIS/SNW appearances of both as well. Perhaps Hemmer was from another Enar colony that evolved on the other continent where the bumpy Andorians were? Just a thought...

Just for the record, those were Xindi-Reptilians, not Insectoids.

For more info on the shuttle, see the WaveRider Technical Manual here.

Other WaveRider images: Exterior Cockpit Lounge Quarters Cargo Hold
Other U.S.S. Nova interiors: Briefing Room Corridor Turbolift Cargo Bay 1 Cargo Bay 2

This project has been long in the making. It was a collaboration with Ray9012, who's been a huge help with the design of the ship, and we've been working on it on-and-off for the past seven months. Fitting such a large interior space into a single model was quite the challenge. Plus, it was the first interior I attempted after starting to learn Blender, which presented it's own hurdles! But I learned a lot from it and I'm very happy with how it turned out.
My thanks also goes to Geoffryn for his input and financial contribution to the project.

EDIT (26/08/2021): I overlay the interior cutaway on an image of the exterior to put it into better perspective with the exterior of the shuttle.

Christened the "Super-Nova" by its engineers, the Elysion Class is an enlarged iteration of the Nova frame. No longer restricted by its scientific profile, the type places emphasis on its multimission capability. Increased range, marked improvements in amenities and a high capacity engine rated at Warp 9.98 are notable features. Currently, all LRIP Elysions are exclusively built at the Tyfersia Fleet Yards, making it a rare vessel in mainline fleets. Starfleet Command sees the Elysion as a specialist light cruiser and advises a further year of trials before the design goes into fleet-wide production.

Models by Rengers, JLS and Captain Fingers