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1. In the junkyard in LOW: "Terminal Provocations", we can see a ship based on the TAS cargo drone and the automated freighter Woden from the remastered version of TOS: "The Ultimate Computer". A very similar design, essentially just with an additional crew module, could be seen as the Antares in TOS-R: "Charlie X".
2. The ship in LOW: "Terminal Provocations" appears to be the same as the automated cargo drone, without the crew module. Yet, we may argue that the module is simply missing. We never see the front side, where the two designs should be distinguishable due to the different placement of the deflector dish. The registry NCC-502 as visible on the ship in "Terminal Provocations" is very close to that of the Antares, NCC-501. This is why I assume it is an Antares-type ship, rather than a cargo drone.
3. There is a goof in the sequence in which the Drookmani bombard the Cerritos with debris. We can see how the a fragment of an upper hull with the registry NCC-502 breaks apart when it hits the shields of the Cerritos. A little later, the secondary hull of a ship labeled NCC-502 is largely intact again. This certainly doesn't mean there were two ships with the same registry at the same time, although it is possible that one was so labeled to provide spare parts for the other.

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1. California-class ships have stripes running across the saucer hull that come in three different colors: yellow on the Cerritos, blue on the Merced, red on the Rubidoux and Solvang. While this may have been done primarily to visually distinguish the otherwise mostly identical ships (especially regarding the Cerritos and Merced in LOW: "Moist Vessel"), the in-universe reason may be to indicate different primary operational areas of the ships (yellow for engineering, blue for science, red for command). As a further difference, the roughly triangular raised sector behind the bridge is gray on the Cerritos and on the Rubidoux, whereas it is the same color as the stripes on the Merced and on the Solvang. "The Stars at Night" shows still more saucer hull paint variations, such as two concentric blue rings or solid yellow or red color areas on the forward saucer.
2. The master systems display with 11 identifiable decks in the saucer hull points to a length of the California class of around 500m. The shot with the Cerritos and the Titan side by side in LOW: "No Small Parts" confirms that both ships are about the same size. Yet, the window arrangement of the California class as visible from the outside is inconsistent. There are three narrowly spaced window rows in the saucer rim, although there should be only two. This may have led Eaglemoss to list a length of 794m(!) in the book Starfleet Ships: 2294 to the Future. The actual design size has been confirmed by Lower Decks producer Brad Winters to be 535.2m.
3. The Cerritos looks somewhat different in season 2. A side-by-side comparison of the ship in the opening credits of season 1 and season 2 reveals that some of these apparent changes are due to a different animation style, such as of the hull reflectiveness and the window brightness. Some are trivial, such as the new light illuminating the ship name and registry. The actual changes are a bit more than just cosmetic: indentations added to the upper nacelle aft ends, a more pronounced structure on the bottom of the saucer hull, slight modifications to the uppermost parts of the pylons and the warp field grille, removal of the decorative yellow stripes on the nacelles and, perhaps most importantly, "blue squares" indicating shuttlebays.
4. We can see Rutherford's very accurate scale model of the Cerritos in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers".
5. All ships of the class are named for cities in California. This, however, makes it unlikely that the lead vessel really is called USS California.
6. The USS Rubidoux NCC-12109 and USS Solvang NCC-12101, the two ill-fated ships commanded by Captain Dayton, have hull numbers that don't comply with the Starfleet registry scheme and may be real-world in-jokes, perhaps referring to dates.
7. Most other vessels are verbally identified in LOW: "The Stars at Night". Registries of the Alhambra, Carlsbad, Oakland and Vacaville from Paramount+ promotional images.

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1. The Enterprise refit from "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" appears in the holographic scenario "The Good of the Many" for Rutherford in LOW: "I, Excretus".
2. The diagram of the ship in the same episode shows the Phase II Enterprise, rather than the version that appeared in the movies. We can identify it by the kink in the nacelle pylon.
3. Three pictures of the pre-refit Constitution can be seen in the bar in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers". The original Constitution also appears on a monitor in Boimler's holographic scenario in LOW: "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus", illustrating the Chronogami effect.

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1. Runabouts appear in LOW: "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie" (to rescue Mariner and Boimler) and in "I, Excretus" (in Boimler's Borg scenario). These runabouts are definitely supposed to be of the Danube class. On both occasions, we see the ship from just one angle, and the superstructure looks a bit odd, not quite as the familiar rollbar would. Although this may be just an inaccuracy, Lower Decks might show a new pod or new variation.
2. Furthermore, several Danube-class ships can be seen in Mariner's holographic scenario in LOW: "Strange Energies" where they look as we would expect. At least some, if not all of them, have a rollbar.
3. A Danube class also appears in LOW: "Grounded" to rescue "Captain Gavin" from the Phoenix replica.

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1. The USS Hood appears in LOW: "Mining the Mind's Mines" alongside two California-class vessels.
2. The shown starship is definitely meant to be an Excelsior and the very same USS Hood that appeared on TNG. The nacelle type, the rectangular nacelle pylons, the smooth rounded deflector dish era and the shape of the neck set it apart from the Obena class. Yet, the saucer is drawn in the same way as the one of the (much larger) Obena, with three full decks at the edge. So this is a lazy take on an Excelsior, unless we choose to make up excuses why an Obena class would use scaled up Exelsior nacelles.

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1. USS Voyager is depicted on Boimler's Tom Paris collector plate in LOW: "We'll Always Have Tom Paris".
2. A picture of an Intrepid class can be seen in the bar in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers".

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1. Riker's USS Titan of the Luna class appears in LOW: "No Small Parts", "Strange Energies" and "Kayshon, His Eyes Open".
2. The USS Titan was designed by Sean Tourangeau. It was the winning entry in a competition to design Riker's ship (as mentioned in "Star Trek Nemesis") for the novel series Star Trek: Titan. The ship was first pictured in The Sword of Damocles, released in 2007. As such, although often otherwise stated, the Titan was non-canon until its appearance on Lower Decks.
3. The Titan as seen in LOW: "No Small Parts" is the exact design as in the illustrations by Sean Tourangeau. The registry is the same as well. Yet, the animation doesn't get some details right or interprets them very liberally, such as the window placement. This is especially noticeable in the undetailed and windowless saucer rim of the animated version.
4. The name "Luna class" is official since LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers".

See also Starfleet Ship Classes L-Z

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1. The USS MacDuff is a holographic ship in Mariner's probably not quite realistic holoprogram in LOW: "Strange Energies".
2. The detailing of the hull (as well as the design of the bridge) overall match with how the USS Reliant looked in "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan". But the holographic ship has more windows in the saucer section, only two rows of windows in the angular superstructure instead of three and a couple of detail changes on the aft sensor platform and the phaser cannons.

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1. The Obena-class USS Archimedes promeninently appears in LOW: "First First Contact".
2. The neck and secondary hull of the Obena class look mostly the same as on the Excelsior class, the striking extension around the main deflector is like on the Enterprise-B sub-class. Many details are different, such as the exact arrangement of windows and the shuttlebays. The saucer with its typical U-shaped superstructure looks much like that of the Excelsior too, but besides some detail changes such as new phaser emitters there are two decisive differences: The saucer is not round but elliptical now (with the major axis in flight direction as on the Sovereign class), and it is clearly larger, as indicated by the three rows of windows in the saucer rim. Three decks in this location on the original Excelsior would be absolutely impossible, and although Lower Decks has a history of window rows not complying with decks (California class!), the additional fact that the saucer shape is wholly different leads to the conclusion that the ship can and should be larger.
3. The most noticeable difference to the Excelsior class is the different nacelle type. Under the assumption that the nacelles are the same type as on the Sovereign class (note that the connection point to the pylons is the same too), the Obena class would be some 630m long. The three instead of two decks in the saucer rim, on the other hand, would necessitate a length of some 700m.
4. The title graphic for the holographic scenario "Escape from Spacedock" too shows an Obena class, rather than an Excelsior. We can recognize the sloping nacelle pylons and the extensions around the deflector dish.
5. The class is named for art director Nollan Obena, according to Mike McMahan.

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1. A model of an Oberth class (obviously the ill-fated USS Pegasus, we can almost read the registry) is on display in Riker's ready room on the Titan.
2. One Oberth class can be seen salvaging the ripped off nacelle of the USS Archimedes in LOW: "First First Contact".

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1. The USS Quito as it appears in Mariner's flashback in LOW: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" is a faithful reproduction of the USS Pasteur from TNG: "All Good Things".
2. A ship of this class is also visible in the illustration of Captain Freeman's recount in LOW: "Grounded".
3. So far, the Olympic class was only shown in the parallel reality in TNG: "All Good Things". Lower Decks features the first verifiable appearance of the ship class in the persistent timeline.

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1. The Osler can be seen in LOW: "Much Ado About Boimler" where the ship emerges from an anomaly. It seems that this is a deliberate cloaking strategy (although an anomaly would raise unnecessary suspicions).
2. The ship is apparently named for Sir William Osler, a Canadian physician. Note that the Osler doesn't seem to have a USS prefix.

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1. The USS Vancouver appears in LOW: "Cupid's Errant Arrow", where the illustrious ship literally overshadows the USS Cerritos. Another ship of the class can be seen at the end of "First First Contact".
2. It is unusual that the warp pylons apparently contain inhabitable space, as indicated by the windows in this region.
3. The master systems display with 9 decks in the saucer hull points to a length of the class of between 500 and 600 meters. Unlike the ship encounter suggests, the Vancouver shouldn't be much larger than the Cerritos if we go by the two MSDs. Also, just as with the attempt to match the structure of the Cerritos with its exterior, there are more windows visible on the hull of the Vancouver than the MSD would permit.
4. In "An Embarrassment of Dooplers" there are two ships that may have been supposed to be of the Parliament class, but that have substantially different superstructures and nacelle pylons (see "unknown class 4").

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1. Several of the fighters that are likely named Peregrine class can be seen in Mariner's holographic scenario in LOW: "Strange Energies".
2. We can also briefly see them on the viewscreen in LOW: "Grounded", chasing the hijacked Cerritos.

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1. A Sovereign-class vessel named "USS Wayfarer NCC-80035" appears in Boimler's holonovel in "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus". I assume he made the name up.
2. The USS Van Citters is attacked by the Texas-class ships in LOW: "The Stars at Night". This ship is named for CBS brand manager John Van Citters.

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1. The Aledo shows up in LOW: "Trusted Sources", all three ships of the class in "The Stars at Night".
2. As an unmanned ship, the Texas class has no windows and no recognizable decks on the MSD either.
3. According to Admiral Buenamigo, the primary objective of the Texas class was to replace the California class. But in the "second contact race" against the USS Cerritos, his automated USS Aledo only performed predefined tasks and would not have been suited at all to maintain good relations with alien species.
4. As it seems to be customary in modern Trek, the class and the lead ship have different names.

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1. Two of these ships can be seen docked at the starbase in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers".
2. Although this may have been supposed to be the same design (Parliament class) as the USS Vancouver from "Cupid's Errant Arrow", there are clear differences about the superstructure and the nacelles struts.

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1. Two of these ships can be seen docked at the starbase in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers". They are probably supposed to be Daedalus-class ships.
2. While we might explain why one museum ship is docked to the (old) station, perhaps permanently, the existence of two Daedaluses would be a stretch. We can't see the ships up close, and there may be detail differences to the Dadalus (that so far never appeared as a "real" ship anyway) besides the illuminated nacelles. So the interpretation is possible that these are two newer ships that resemble the Daedalus.
3. We can see the ship somewhat better in LOW: "Room for Growth". While the nacelle configuration is confusing, it doesn't look like a Daedalus here.
4. For what it's worth, the estimated length of just around 100m looks just right for the Daedalus, but only for the too small size of the ship as given in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

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1. Several Delta Flyer designs appear in Mariner's holographic scenario in LOW: "Strange Energies". As they are only holographic, there is no need to explain if and how many new Delta Flyers Starfleet may have built after Voyager's return. Yet, there is an actual design based on the Delta Flyer, see "large Starbase 25 shuttle".
2. The Delta Flyer prominently appears in the scenario in Rutherford's mind in LOW: "Reflections", as modern-day Rutherford's racing vehicle of choice.

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1. Type-6 shuttles can be seen on Tulgana IV in LOW: "Envoys" and in the museum in LOW: "Veritas". It is not certain whether the latter are museum pieces. More likely they are just used to transport visitors directly into the exhibition hall.
2. The shuttle named Contra Costa can be spotted at the transporter facility in LOW: Grounded". Although only a part of it is visible, we can tell this one apart from the otherwise dominant Type 6a because of the window shape and the nacelle tip.

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1. The designation "Type 6A" is visible on an LCARS panel inside the shuttle in LOW: "Envoys" and again in "Mugato, Gumato". There is no rationale for the designation Type 6A, as it doesn't look a lot like Type 6.
2. The Titan shuttle Coltrane continues the fad that shuttles have nacelles reminiscent of their mother ship, rather than a standard type. At least, it is a more subtle resemblance than on the Voyager, let alone the Defiant shuttles.
3. The shuttles attached to the Cerritos are all named for California national parks, those on the Vancouver for neighborhoods in Vancouver. Riker named his shuttles for jazz musicians. An unnamed shuttle of the type appears at the end of LOW: "Much Ado About Boimler" to take Boimler and Tendi back to the Cerritos.

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1. One shuttle of Type 15 can be seen, among several other designs, on a landing platform on Qualor II in LOW: "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" and once again in "The Stars at Night". It looks like it has been modified and has a new, probably non-Starfleet paint job.
2. A nameless Type 15 of Starfleet, assigned to the notorious Starbase 80, appears in LOW: "Trusted Sources". This is the first time we actually see one of them go to warp, although on a few occasions in TNG it could be inferred from the story.

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1. Douglas Station appears in LOW: "Second Contact", "Crisis Point" and "No Small Parts". The unnamed station in "First First Contact" looks the same, is in orbit of apparently the same planet and hence is likely Douglas Station as well.
2. The design of Douglas Station is very similar to, but not quite the same as the familiar Earth Spacedock and its various re-uses. We can see that Douglas Station has some kind of platform on top where the antennae are located. Also, the shapes of the lower sections are somewhat different. Considering the relatively high level of detail in Lower Decks, we may argue that the differences are more than just artistic license.
3. Douglas Station also appears in LOW: "The Stars at Night", where it is attacked and heavily damaged by Texas-class ships.
4. In LOW: "I, Excretus", we see the original Earth Spacedock from "Star Trek: The Search for Spock" in a holographic sequence.

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1. We can see Starbase 25 in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers".
2. The design of Starbase 25 dates back to Masao Okazaki's J-Class station. It appeared in its original form in TOS-R: "The Ultimate Computer" and was adapted for the first book of the Star Trek Vanguard novel series by David Mack (with an increased diameter of 849m). The Starbase on Lower Decks was modified with an extra habitat ring. But we can see that the upper cap and the lower docking ring and antenna are still much the same. The size complies with the one given in the fold-out in the novel.

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1. One ship docked to the station in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers" is undeniably a Kumari class, just like Shran's ship on Star Trek Enterprise.
2. The appearance of a second old Andorian design in the same episode doesn't exactly help because it rules out the possible interpretation that the Kumari class could be a museum ship.
3. The anachronistic design also shows up near the Dove in LOW: "Room for Growth".

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This particular ship is operated by former Starfleet officer Petra Aberdeen on behalf of the Independent Archaeologists Guild, as seen in LOW: "Trusted Sources" and "The Stars at Night".

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1. A Maquis raider is docked to the starbase in LOW: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers". It is likely meant to be the better known variant II, the same as Chakotay's ship. The size relative to the other docked vessels looks about right.
2. Since the Maquis doesn't exist any longer as of 2381, the ship may belong to a different organization or a private owner. As we know from TNG: "Preemptive Strike", the Maquis didn't possess proprietary ship designs (and definitely wouldn't have had the time to build them).

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1. The Sampaguita only appears in Rutherford's hallucinatory encounter with his former self in LOW: "Reflections". In reality, he never finished the shuttle.
2. Sampaguita is the national flower of the Philippines. Eugene Cordero, who voices Rutherford, is of Filipino descent.

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