From some of the team (maybe all not sure) that made the Enterprise-D virtual tour the was was C&D'd by CBS
https://youtu.be/ALHs9lDdsc0
It's a shame I hate the dedsign of the Orville as a ship. I just can't wrap my head around those Andromeda-style curvy space engines.
The engines are the one part I'm not a fan of, though they're way worse on the shuttles.
Seth even retweeted it
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1130652866358628353
It's one reason I adore Star Trek so much, as they have clear, concise, and logical rules as to why the space ships look the way they do. (and why I despise the abramsprise, because it violates several of those for no reason other than "looks cool")
Don't the Orville ships also follow the same idea as Star-Trek? As in, their designs makes sense in-universe because they're a "warpdynamic" design.
They're also acknowledge pretty early as structural weak points. One of the Union's ships gets disabled pretty easily when the warp thrusters are shot to shit (might have been the Orville itself, it's been a a while since I've seen it).
It looks like each race has a slightly different take on quantum engine design, just like how different races in the Star Trek universe have a slightly different take on warp drive technology, look at the vulcans and their weird ring shaped warp engines instead of using nacelles like everybody else.
One thing that has been slightly disappointing in The Orville is the UI design, Michael Okuda has spoiled the hell out of us.
In fact, it was based on Science!
Bormanis has written a whole show bible about the various science elements within the universe of The Orville. A good amount is dedicated to the ship. On The Orville you don’t have a warp drive, but you do have a “quantum drive.” And for this faster than light sci-fi ship they are using the theories of physicist Miguel Alcubierre who has postulated a form of drive that works within Einstein’s general relativity. And this theory’s call for torus rings are what is behind the rings of the U.S.S. Orville itself. They have even named the exotic matter that is required for such a drive “Dysonium” after physicist Freeman Dyson.
The Enterprise D (repeatedly) exploded when a miranda class collided with one of its warp nacelles too.
Yeah, the Warp nacelles on the Galaxy class were basically it's glass jaw, 95% of the time, from what I remember from various episodes where the ship was attacked, that's where the enemy struck to basically incapacitate the thing.
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