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CBS marked the one-month countdown to the the Season 2 return of Star Trek: Discovery today with another new behind-the-scenes video from the sets up in Toronto, this time showing the cast between filming enjoying each other’s company during production… but also gave us some tantalizing details about the revised hero starship of the Original Series.

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Along with featuring a few moments of levity on the Discovery bridge set, we get some brand new information about the revamped USS Enterprise, which at this point in the Trek timeline is commanded by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount).

In a bit of dialogue seemingly set just after the arrival of the Enterprise in the Season 1 finale, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) confirms that “scans show all 203 crewmembers aboard,” which is the same personnel complement the ship carried in “The Cage” back in 1964.

We also get to see a look at the first on-screen technical schematics of the Consitution-class vessel, thanks to a quick shot of Discovery’s scans of the ship — which seems to be in trouble, as noted by the bright red ALL SYSTEMS OFFLINE warning.

Image has been cropped and enlarged, with minor color correction to enhance legibility.

Starting from the top left, we have on-screen confirmation that Discovery has retained Captain Robert April’s place as the original commander of the Enterprise; April of course appeared in the Animated Series episode “The Counter-Clock Incident,” and was mentioned by name in the Discovery Starfleet records in last season’s “Choose Your Pain.”

While the overall length of the ship can’t be read, we can see the secondary hull measures (as far as we can read) approximately 103 meters, with the primary hull at a 127 meter diameter and nacelles of 153 meters in length; this seems to align the revised Enterprise close to the 289-meter length of the classic design.

We can also see that the ship’s armaments include two phaser emitters and two photon torpedo launchers, indicating that the aft torpedo launcher — never featured in the Original Series, but seen in use by the Defiant in “In a Mirror Darkly” — is in fact a standard part of the Constitution-class design.

The Enterprise, a work bee, and Discovery.

Finally, based on the graphic it appears that the warp nacelle struts are now vertically straightened — like the classic Jefferies design — rather than swept back as seen in the Season 1 finale, but this seems like it may be an incorrect rendering, as all the physical models of the ship have the swept-back nacelles in place, and new clips of the Enterprise in the trailers released so far maintain the previous look.

What do you think about the new details about Discovery‘s version of the Enterprise? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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