“The USS Kelcie Mae has a single warp nacelle, an underslung deflector dish, and a pointed hull rather than a saucer section. It’s this unusual physical arrangement that makes the ship stand out, at least from a visual standpoint. In fact, it reminds us distinctly of the Olympic-class USS Pasteur as seen in the alternate future of All Good Things under the command of Captain Beverly Picard …”
This article doesn’t “explain” much, it just repeats the tiny scraps of info clear in the few seconds the ship spends on-screen.
It also refers to it as “the Kelcie Marie” a couple times.
Agreed! But it was the only coverage I’d seen so far, and I’m hoping it could lead to a conversation with anyone else who wants to discuss
@rob_t_firefly I’m not sure why a diplomatic vessel wouldn’t need to be fast. I would think the opposite — diplomacy can be needed in rapidly-developing crisis situations, and you’d want people there as soon as possible.
This ship may have been a diplomacy vessel, or it may be a “some dude we know needs a chill ride from A to B” vessel built for panache and not speed. Maybe it’s a space limo.
Did the ship need explaining? It existed to deliver the antagonist for that episode.
No, but the website needed content.
Many thought it’s and interesting and fairly unusual design
Agreed that the design is interesting. I really dig the underhanging deflector dish.
Looks almost like a Prometheus class precursor
I don’t think having an AI-written clickbait article counts as an explanation.
But that’s just me.
The history of the USS Kelcie Mae
The USS Kelcie Mae is introduced in the Strange New Worlds episode Under the Cloak of War in a rendezvous with Pike’s USS Enterprise on Stardate 1875.4.What class is the USS Kelcie Mae?
The class of the USS Kelcie Mae has not been confirmed, however, we still have plenty of thoughts. Buckle up.What they missed out was this is actually a Borzoi class support ship. Its slim pointed shape allows it to retrieve items such a ambassadors or pringles from the far end of micro wormholes.
“pringles”
I still can’t decide whether or not I like or dislike that design.
Over the years, Ive often found myself wondering how trek would be different if they had ships fleets and ship designs like 1) massive carrier ship with lots of fighters (like the Empire or Battle Star Galactica) or 2) the Jedi and their smaller ships for both interstellar travel and fighting
Imagine if Ben Sisko returned with the Defiant, and the Defiant was a carrier like Galacticca
ST doesn’t have carriers because fighters are uncommon and bombers are unheard of, for a variety of good reasons. There are a few exceptions, like Jem’hadar “fighters” (which are basically equivalent to a smaller Bird of Prey in terms of crew and armament, but actually seem to serve as troop transports?), runabouts, or the Delta Flyer. That size of ship is also roughly equivalent to the Jedi ships, both in terms of travel range and capacity for violence.
@MikeyMongol @snowyday Yeah, they even make a note of how unusual the Defiant is.
“Tough little ship!”
The Defiant is an interesting middle ground, basically a corvette type of thing, and it’s only practical because it has a cloak and it’s (for the ST universe) grotesquely overpowered and overgunned. Well it’s only practical because the writers wanted it to be, but that’s the in-universe explanation.
I really dislike when ships or planets in Trek get named after real world people like, say, Terry Matalas (cough cough) or some producer’s niece. This one seems to be one of those, since there is apparently no historical precedent for it in-universe or out.
I’m guessing that it’s some producer’s niece who drew a spaceship with crayons, and the design is based on that. Not a fan.
