( Star Trek: Discovery The Official Starships Collection, issue 1, pp. In order to rationalize this divergent design ethic, Eaves and Cherniawsky speculated that Starfleet of this era might have deviated from earlier, Vulcan-inspired designs, or that the Shenzhou and Discovery originated from a different production base than the Enterprise. The Walker-class, represented by the USS Shenzhou, was designed by John Eaves in conjunction with Star Trek: Discovery production designer Todd Cherniawsky, under guidance from co-creator Bryan Fuller who requested that the ships have a lower profile than that of the original USS Enterprise and possess angular nacelles. 10) A photo of Walker standing next to Little Joe, a Bell X-1E, was used as set decoration in the Shipyard Bar, a location visited in the film Star Trek. ( Star Trek: Discovery The Official Starships Collection, issue 1, p. The Walker-class was named for NASA test pilot Joe Walker.

ISS Shenzhou (NCC-1227) ( mirror universe).

Quarters towards sleeping area Ships commissioned ( DIS: ' Battle at the Binary Stars')Ī picture of a Walker-class ship could be seen in the mess hall of the USS Discovery. ( DIS: ' The Vulcan Hello', ' Battle at the Binary Stars') The Walker-class brig was located on deck nine. The Walker class possessed transporter systems similar to that of the Crossfield-class however, it was equipped with lateral vector transporters, a design deemed obsolete by the late 2240s. The internal arrangement of the Walker class did not change significantly by the development of the more advanced Crossfield-class ships, with nearly identical corridors and crew quarters. ( DIS: ' The Vulcan Hello')Ītypically for a Starfleet vessel, the bridge was located on the underside of the saucer, on deck seven, and had an adjacent captain's ready room. The ship's medical facilities featured an antiproton chamber. The ship was equipped with internal and external plasmatic filters.

The ship's armament included phase cannons, phasers, and photon torpedoes.

This ship class was capable of atmospheric flight by means of thrusters scattered over its ventral hull. It carried a compliment of shuttlecraft and worker bees, as well as escape pods which could be launched from breakaway panels lining the top of the saucer section. The Walker class had at least fifteen decks and two shuttlebays. The design of the Walker class consisted of a saucer section with an integrated, laterally-positioned navigational deflector, a compact secondary hull, and two nacelles attached by pylons extending beneath the ship's superstructure.

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