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Excuse my French, but I still do think the Titan-A is plug-ugly. While watching PIC I find myself thinking of "Galaxy Quest". :D The better registration number for the Titan-A would have started with "NTE" (Not The Enterprise). :D

One sentence in the "Guess the museum starship" game scene makes no sense for me.
Jack says "this one is my personal favourite. (…) All those perfectly clean retro lines", when Kirk's refit Enterprise-A is on screen. But one ship before Seven showed him with the New Jersey a pre-refit Constitution class ship. Doesn't he know that the New Jersey is a Constitution class as well? Instead, he is calling himself a "Constitution-class man". Yikes.

And why did they steal the cloaking device from that BoP and not the maybe latest version from the Defiant?

If both are indeed in he same system, well, it’s “plot distance”. Note this would raise quite a few issues. Other ships and sensor arrays would not have any problems finding the Titan pretty quickly. Not to mention that as you wrote, security at such facilities are supposed to be multi-layered. I am pretty sure writers could have found ways to keep the action and avoid inconsistencies.

As for the momentum, even if one assumes inertial dampers and similar stuff, nothing is actually at a full stop. An observer within a starbase may see a ship coming out of warp and immediately holding position, but the truth is the ship came out of warp moving at the starbase’s orbital velocity. So, if a ship warps out immobile, it’s actually moving at the same speed of the camera’s point of view.

"The history of weird inter dimensional shit they've both encountered (the Nexus in particular) would be much more interesting for study, just in case."

This was my exact thinking with Kirk as well. And with Picard- well, it's always possible that not all Borg tech was able to be removed form his body, as with Seven and Icheb...

I keep wondering that, too. Honestly, establishing DSC/SNW as an alt timeline can really only help at this point, I think it might make SNW more acceptable to some of the holdouts. (And I can stop gritting my teeth when they do ridiculous things with the transporters and/or Nurse Chapel's character. ;-) )

I was most gratified to see the original, not the redesign.

Come to think, in Star Wars ships just "pop" out of hyperspace when you see them from outside, but from their own screens/windows it looks like they're slowing down. Maybe you slow only until to reach normal space, and then...pop, stop.

Ships do appear to fly into hyperspace, but that's probably just because their impulse engines are already working. [Edit: I just watched a Star Wars scene. I think it's more that as you get really close to light speed you distort, and looks like moving forward.)

"where it becomes inevitable because Boimler and Mariner can't help themselves"

Love it! They're like the Comic Book Guys of Star Trek.

I can see them requiring to talk to Odo/the Great Link, which would require the Wormhole, so here's hoping for a cameo from the station at least.

Daystrom Station is a high-security facility; logic would dictate a discreet location, a system with few visitors. Think of Area 51’s location. As far as I know, nothing indicates both installations are in the same system. So, plot speed is the remaining option for me.

But when they are talking about being 90 seconds away, it has to be the same system pretty much.

Area 51's location is secured by virtue of the patrolled boundary. It's not that remote, we all know where it is, getting in and out unauthorised is the issue. So I would put high confidence that Daystrom is within the same system, just not around the same planet necessarily.

Star Trek verses have weird physics, yes, but I suppose like in ours, velocity (except light’s) is relative. When a ship drops out of warp with idle impulse power, her speed should be the very same before entering warp. Impulse engines not working means the ship’s velocity is constant, just like a real spacecraft- you fire the engines to accelerate, deccelerate or change course. So, ships coming out of warp will appear stationary only to observers traveling at the same speed.

There's nothing stopping a ship at warp coming to a "full stop" whilst at warp as well (i.e. dropping any forward momentum).

Memory Alpha’s location is not exactly clear from canon or non-canon sources. I’d say Starfleet Museum and Memory Alpha are probably composed by complexes scattered across Federation Space for a number or reasons ranging from safety to politics. Daystrom Station is a high-security facility; logic would dictate a discreet location, a system with few visitors. Think of Area 51’s location. As far as I know, nothing indicates both installations are in the same system. So, plot speed is the remaining option for me.

Star Trek verses have weird physics, yes, but I suppose like in ours, velocity (except light’s) is relative. When a ship drops out of warp with idle impulse power, her speed should be the very same before entering warp. Impulse engines not working means the ship’s velocity is constant, just like a real spacecraft- you fire the engines to accelerate, deccelerate or change course. So, ships coming out of warp will appear stationary only to observers traveling at the same speed.

Yup, one can think of a number of purposes for a bunch of cells from main characters. But still, a bunch of tissue is all you need. So, assuming these quantum signatures are worthy of investigation, tissue samples from Archer, Janeway, Spock, Bones and lots of other folks must be stored somewhere. Same is valid for hardware pieces.

I think in episodes 7-10 we also pay a short visit to DS9 ... maybe we'll see Nana Visitor as Colonel Kira or Armin Shimerman as Quark again.

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