What you heard on the podcast was purely speculation. If you're referring to STOked, they said as much.
Although the points I'm about to make are also purely speculation, they are derived from developer posts that are actually related to the topic. Consider what DStahl has already told us.
1. The VERY recently, due to massive fan requests, changed the ship from a Cruiser to a Science ship.
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Initial Draft for the ship as a Cruiser
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Current known draft as a science vessel: T3 (ignore the T5, it has typos)
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Currently known science vessel T5 draft
2. The ship is still a little buggy (understandable, since it is a brand new ship, and also has a new skill that no other ship has). Source cited in next point.
3. QA hasn't approved it yet.
Linky
These issues seem FAR more likely the cause of the delay than CBS sticking their fingers in and meddling with the ship's development this close to release. CBS is more likely to provide meaningful input during the approval, initial concept, and early development phases, not when the item is about to be publicly tested.
I'd much rather have a working ship on release, then something that isn't up to the quality standards of the rest of the game, wouldn't you ? Even when it was
delayed, DSthal was pushing for us to still have a chance to
try it out on the Tribble as soon as possible..
Note, that I backed up my comments and speculation with official communication from cryptic on this specific issue, and not a generalized quote from a State of the Game announcement. Now, I really enjoy watching STOked, but considering the info I've cited and provided links for, which do you think is more likely ? Also, to the boys at STOked credit, they filmed that episode around the 19th, so they wouldn't have had access to *some* of the information I've linked.
To Summarize (with links):
1.
Nebula Delayed at least till sometime in October. Ideally.
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Hopefully testable this week on Tribble. *crosses fingers*
3. STOked is still awesome, but sometimes may jump to odd conclusions

4. Nebula coming Soon™
