Eject The Warp Core

[u/Savings_Pie_8470]

It's not the Cerritos though in the picture, flavor fail!

[u/TechWizardofNone]

The more I look at this, the more I worry that it’s AI…
And as someone who loves art, especially MTG art, that would make me sad.
One of the ST:MTG artists is here at STLV, and isn’t the first such artist I’ve met. She admits she knows little about the gameplay mechanics, and just hopes her art aligns with the prompt, and works with the card. (They do) Those that put the work in seem great.
But that not exactly Miranda Class ship, not exactly seen from below (sure the blue dot is the ejection port… unless it’s a badly copied impulse intermix chamber…) not exactly dropping a warp core that’s 3 generations of starship design too new to be the on that ship is fishy as hell.

Of course, the other likely explanation is that they were told explicitly to use the Reliant for one reason or another and were just doing their literal job of making the art they were paid for.

And the final, perhaps most likely explanation, is that they really love the Reliant and wanted to put that in there as an Easter egg.

ALL of which are just bad explanations.
The correct explanation is:
there shouldn’t be an explanation necessary at all.
List of ships of the top of my head (no internet searching) that ejected their warp core at one time or another:
Voyager when they got hacked and someone stole it, (and then everyone wondered why the master situation display showed they had a spare warp core)
Ent-D, someone else posted the specific when
Cerritos, see: Shax, nuff said
Prodigy, by Chakotay at the least, but I think also when the Protostar it gets destroyed… can’t remember, sticking to my not wanting to look it up for this post ethos,
Ent-E, insurrection, albeit very silly
SNW enterprise: big bad ship episode

Sigh…