Star Trek Discovery - An explosion detaches a nacelle 

STD itself was a bad idea

Discovery is garbage , it is NOT canon.

i think it was a good idea it's easier to replace, easier to repair and can be detached manually for safety if for some reason a nacelle going to kaboom or becomes dangerous to the ship after it was damaged. besides, explosion between the nacelle and the pylon will likely detach the nacelle regardless if it's detachable or not.

​@@someoneinasia Thanks. Keep writing fanfic.

As @someoneinasia said, the classic nacelle would be lost if the connection was severed. So, detachable is beneficial in this case, but looks meh design-wise. At least they reattach at warp.

Those weren't supposed to be stars moving but yea that starfield effect was pretty iconic for ST warp.

Meant to be an effect of increased speed probably. Ships keep getting faster in Star Trek

Maybe its transwarp conduit instead of warp

@@Suntizo In this era maybe. But was it also transwarp in season 1 and 2?

@@chrisevans6548 this is probably a more accurate FTL effect.

the warp field DID collapse, but at no point in Star Trek had they ever said you would turn to dust if that were to happen. Hell, we've seen ships drop suddenly and/or get pulled out of warp in previous Trek shows and films. Yes, including pre 2009

@@k1productions87 Sure, but not with a nacelle detached. I'll describe it another way and hopefully explain why I'd expect instant destruction. It's a structural failure. The force at which you're travelling, losing a warp nacelle in warp, try to imagine the velocity that is moving at. It's unstable at best. If the ship were whole, then sure, you'd expect it could come flying out and survive the forces applied against it, but it's literally just broken up. It's not a limb, it's an organ, and a really important one at that.

@@martinsleight321 hence the advamtage pf the programmable matter. Its like the Structural Integrity Field on steroids. The SIF was already magical pseudoscience technobabble to begin with, just like the Inertial Dampeners

@@martinsleight321 hence the advamtage pf the programmable matter. Its like the Structural Integrity Field on steroids. The SIF was already magical pseudoscience technobabble to begin with, just like the Inertial Dampeners

@@k1productions87 Well it's just a shield of sorts, a bubble. That's rather easy to explain. It maybe science fiction, but you have to have a little bit of rules to it and warp fields have been quite easily established. It would've been much better if it cannoned out of warp and then the nacelle was ripped off by the sudden change in velocity. We canny change the laws of physics, as they say.

Agreed..when was the last time we ever got a wrap chase scene?

@@alternative915 it was a great scene and really displayed how fast Federation ships can travel in the 32nd century. I loved how we saw them all in formation and then the Mars class scout just races ahead

I'll give a look, but if memory serves that was a very short scene, 5 seconds or so.

@@TheRelay I know it was short but it was so awesome. :D

Its on my channel

It was for easy maneuverability and mobility.

@@LAV-25A2_56 The nacelles creat a warpbubble, there should be no effect on maneuverability and mobility. It would maybe make sense to have the impulsenigene rotateable for that but for the nacelles it is just pointless

@@Annishark Strange, I heard it was for easy mobility in the episode where they refit the Discovery.

@@LAV-25A2_56 yes they say so but it doesnt make any sense. We also know from voyager that it is risky to change the direction when you travel with warpspeed (so they need to leave warp for a second every time they change course) and we also know that the direction of the warpbubble has nothing to do in which direction the ship "looks", in TOS theyy even fly backwards in an episode...

@@Annishark Yeah, the corbomite maneuver.

Yeah I can't seem to remember when this happened. I swear I have seen every episode

I believe that's exactly what I just saw.

It would cause the field to fail, yes. Ships don't need all nacelles to go to or sustain warp. It did not cause an immediate collapse so it means the ship is able to drop out of warp with a modicum of safety.

and thats what happened

Since when has the STD team ever cared about continuity? The redesigns seen in just the first episode show they don't.

You forget, it still had one operational nacelle

Then he turns to see Rick Berman aiming his gun and firing on Gene.

Yes it is.

Well, it kinda was fully attached before that explosion.

Say goodbye to your "attached" nacelle then

Those same exact words were said about Enterprise, and Voyager before it, and Deep Space Nine before it, and THE NEXT GENERATION before it. You are saying nothing new. In fact, by the next decade, the majority of detractors will do the same damned thing they did with every previous show, hypocritically turn around and say "What? I never had anything bad to say about it, I supported it from the very beginning"

@@k1productions87 No you don't get it. Discovery is a stupid show. The Star Treks were very good.

@@Capronice Oh, I get it perfectly fine, because I've SEEN it. Again, that same damned thing was said every single time. "No, the other show was fine, THIS new show is garbage" ESPECIALLY about DS9 and Enterprise. You aren't saying anything new, you're just repeating the same old talking point that comes up every single time a new show is made. I've seen the hate against ENT I've seen the hate against VOY I've seen the hate against DS9 (i was even one of them, unfortunately. But at least I have the balls to admit I was wrong) I've even seen the hate against TNG, with my own eyes. Nobody is even telling you to like it. Hell, even I don't particularly enjoy it. But I do believe in what Star Trek stands for. First and foremost, the principle of IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Which, by definition MUST include things we also don't enjoy, otherwise its pointless. So regardless of whether or not I like the show, I will still defend its right to exist, and I will be proven correct, just as I was with Enterprise. I told everyone who bitched at it that the show would get better, that season 3 was the litmus test, and if you bitch too hard in its early seasons it will end up being cancelled just as its getting good... and that's EXACTLY what happened. Even TNG sucked in its first seasons, and you know damned well you bashed it for ... assuming you were even alive at the time

​@@k1productions87 The thing is, even with all their flaws, the previous Star Trek shows had good authors. People who knew how to write a decent story. And due to the episode based format, you could skip the episodes you didn't like and you were still on track. If you have a problem with the story of Discovery, you have to discard entire seasons. And then, you're left with nothing. So by logic reason, we can say that Discovery will fail again and again for those who just aren't satisfied with the attitude of feed-or-die. Star Trek: Enterprise has sometimes the same issue which is why people talk way less about it than TNG/DS9/VOY.

@@jonasklose6472 honestly I am more dismayed by Voyager writers who insisted upon nonsensical technobabble solutions for everything, and the tired old unrelated A and B plot episode structure. Nevermind the magic reset button between every episode, eliminating all consequence. Hell, how many times has Voyager been ripped to absolute shreds, and then been perfectly pristine in the next episode. They sure abandon the limited resources plotline pretty early on, not just for torpedoes, but Shuttles too.

the detached nacelles SAVED the ship if they were standard nacelles, it would have just ripped clean off after the explosion,... leaving the ship permanently sans one nacelle until it could be towed back to Spacedock to have it re-attached or completely rebuilt.