I watched some of the Trekyards video on this trailer. One of them, the English guy, pointed to a ship created by John Eaves for an Australian fan club - the USS Mawson.
The New USS Discovery....
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I think that new design is the USS Shenzhou.
I watched some of the Trekyards video on this trailer. One of them, the English guy, pointed to a ship created by John Eaves for an Australian fan club - the USS Mawson.
I know a lot of fans don't like Eaves' Starfleet designs, but I love quite a lot of them, and this is no exception.
Eaves designs are okay, but I don't think they belong in the TOS era.
Then lets be thankful he's working in the Discovery era and not 1966.
We are indeed thankful because there wouldn't be a "Discovery era" nowadays if John Eaves was working in TOS in 1966 instead of Matt Jefferies.
We are indeed thankful because there wouldn't be a "Discovery era" nowadays if John Eaves was working in TOS in 1966 instead of Matt Jefferies.
Of course not. He was only born in '62, they'd be shut down for child labour!
We are indeed thankful because there wouldn't be a "Discovery era" nowadays if John Eaves was working in TOS in 1966 instead of Matt Jefferies.
Nonsense.
“That’s what she said!”
I am sorry, I will at this point admit my ignorance. What exactly is the U.S.S. Shenzhou? I thought the primary ship's name was U.S.S. Discovery. Can anybody fill me in?
Starfleet ship commanded by Captain Georgiou, played by Michelle Yeoh. Not sure yet about the exact role of the ship in relation to the Discovery.
Whatever it is, it is a good looking design. Certainly much (I mean massively) better than the absolutely horrible Discovery design from the teaser. I don't like the engines though. They try too much to look cool. This ship would look great with TOS-style engines.
New ship design seems fine to me. As long as the nacelles are explained in some fashion it should work. The TMP era nacelle shape was either entirely new, or it had to come from someplace. If it came from someplace, than their had to be an older starship design or member species design that used nacelles like we see on this new ship that eventually becomes the TMP era design, which becomes the Excelsior style two or so decades later.
I'd venture to say that there could be competing design styles among the shipbuilders for Starfleet designs across the centuries. The cylinder style is just one of these. It is also possible that their are different interpretations and takes on how to get into warp, as you have the Franklin and Kelvin type nacelles that behave differently NX era nacelles (which work more like TNG era nacelles), which behave differently than the TOS nacelles, which behave differently that the TMP nacelles, which behave differently from the Excelsior-TNG+ era nacelles. So perhaps different nacelles work differently to accomplish, getting to warp speeds. All is really just different eras of special effects designs, but it can be written off as different tech paths.
So you'd have USS Franklin's warp 4 engine's nacelles being one company's design that later was contracted for the Kelvin type ships, while the NX-01 warp 5 Archer design's nacelles was eventually used for the Prime Timeline's Constitution-class, while the changes to the Kelvin Timeline requiring a larger ship lead to the Constitutions contracts going to the designers of the Franklin/Kelvin style nacelles. Some other company would get the contract for the Enterprise refit nacelles which would seem to be based on whatever this new ship's design was. Excelsior got similar or perhaps a different company designing its nacelles. Later the Enterprise -C and later -D nacelles style was from either a different company, or a design evolution by one of the older companies after 100 years of design studies or whatever.
USS Discovery herself could be yet another design style or a compromise style using multiple nacelles in a larger nacelles instead of the Kelvin type nacelles for a large ships.
I'd venture to say that there could be competing design styles among the shipbuilders for Starfleet designs across the centuries. The cylinder style is just one of these. It is also possible that their are different interpretations and takes on how to get into warp, as you have the Franklin and Kelvin type nacelles that behave differently NX era nacelles (which work more like TNG era nacelles), which behave differently than the TOS nacelles, which behave differently that the TMP nacelles, which behave differently from the Excelsior-TNG+ era nacelles. So perhaps different nacelles work differently to accomplish, getting to warp speeds. All is really just different eras of special effects designs, but it can be written off as different tech paths.
So you'd have USS Franklin's warp 4 engine's nacelles being one company's design that later was contracted for the Kelvin type ships, while the NX-01 warp 5 Archer design's nacelles was eventually used for the Prime Timeline's Constitution-class, while the changes to the Kelvin Timeline requiring a larger ship lead to the Constitutions contracts going to the designers of the Franklin/Kelvin style nacelles. Some other company would get the contract for the Enterprise refit nacelles which would seem to be based on whatever this new ship's design was. Excelsior got similar or perhaps a different company designing its nacelles. Later the Enterprise -C and later -D nacelles style was from either a different company, or a design evolution by one of the older companies after 100 years of design studies or whatever.
USS Discovery herself could be yet another design style or a compromise style using multiple nacelles in a larger nacelles instead of the Kelvin type nacelles for a large ships.
More likely art trumps the writers' and concept artists' adherence to any specified rules of subspace physics. It's like reimaging WW2 warbirds without any consideration of the mechanics of internal combustion engines, or the aerodynamics of airfoils. It's lousy world building.
True, but that applied even back to the original TOS Enterprise. It was hardly the most efficient design for a spacecraft. But it looked cool
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