It is. The lead character of the show is a Lt-cmdr, but the USS Discovery is commanded by a captain. At least to begin with...
The New USS Discovery....
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Nice image I found:
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Nice image I found:
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The more I see that design the more I like it (and I liked it fairly well to begin with). I hope the final version isn't too different from that (Since I've heard they've been modifying the design since that teaser that first showed it).
I don't *think* that it will be - I *feel* that it *might* be. And yes, yes - Enterprise drove the point home that anachronisms in set design don't necessarily mean that there's temporal shenanigans afoot. Nonetheless, I feel there might be when it comes to *this* ship. I stand equally prepared to be refuted or substantiated when the actual show comes on.
I keep having to remind myself that this design SHOULD predate the Connie by some years. Maybe it's been kept up to date with refits, but if she's something that was launched (say) a decade or so before the TOS Enterprise was in 2245, even if this show is supposed to happen in 225X. Some of the design aesthetic should be explained-away-able that way,at least in the minds of the producers.
Mark
Mark
Well, but in 10 years before 5 years mission mean that connie are already there, aren't they? At least the Enterprise is already exist. And if we talk about the look, we can count that the connie (including the Enterprise) will also get upgrade in both exterior and interior look. So we don't have to afraid about the look of the ship.
I'm sort of fundamentally unafraid about this whole thing. Every effort to "reinvent" Trek so far has involved a massive bending over backwards to remain true to the 1960s original: the shows and movies bristle with textual, visual and auditory cues to the Desilu production, and these grow the more intense, the longer the particular spinoff runs. Many different parties have tried to do their version of "this isn't your great-granddad's Trek", and we thus have a pretty nice spread of evidence that it just won't happen.
I mean, if we really were expected to go "That is supposed to be Kirk's ship now?" or "Are those supposed to be Vulcans?", all the advertising would have been on that vein. But no, we get classic arrowheads, "story based on something mentioned in Star Trek already", a ship design dredged from the depths of 1970s production archives, another ship design directly deriving from the latest spinoff aired.
There are no doubt going to be differences. But there's a potential story in every one of them, and so far it doesn't appear as if the producers of DIS would wish to skip the story even initially, let alone fail to tie it into Desilu down the road as is standard for Star Trek. If the Klingons suddenly no longer have ears, that's gonna mean something. Whether the story of why the hero ship looks different from Kirk's gets told is less certain, but sooner or later the writers are going to run out of things to tell and that's when continuity always re-enters the picture...
Timo Saloniemi
I mean, if we really were expected to go "That is supposed to be Kirk's ship now?" or "Are those supposed to be Vulcans?", all the advertising would have been on that vein. But no, we get classic arrowheads, "story based on something mentioned in Star Trek already", a ship design dredged from the depths of 1970s production archives, another ship design directly deriving from the latest spinoff aired.
There are no doubt going to be differences. But there's a potential story in every one of them, and so far it doesn't appear as if the producers of DIS would wish to skip the story even initially, let alone fail to tie it into Desilu down the road as is standard for Star Trek. If the Klingons suddenly no longer have ears, that's gonna mean something. Whether the story of why the hero ship looks different from Kirk's gets told is less certain, but sooner or later the writers are going to run out of things to tell and that's when continuity always re-enters the picture...
Timo Saloniemi
Oh, sure, be reasonable and intelligent about it. Where's the sense of entitlement, or betrayal, or eagerness to condemn based on no information?
Naw, the fandom will scream bloody murder if the the Enterprise of the Prime universe isn't carbon copy of what it ought to be, or at least close enough for where it ought to be between "The Cage" and TOS proper. I'm sure they'll find some in-universe explanation for the differences in looks. I'm further sure that we'll be debating it between now and forever.
If this happens about 10 years pre-TOS, the Enterprise will be tooling around somewhere under Cap'n Pike with at least Spock aboard as well. There will probably also be several other Connies in the fleet (up to twelve, say), so even if the Enterprise herself isn't seen on this show, there's plenty of other ships to bump into.
Mark
Would the CGI they used for the Defiant be good enough? Or at least a higher res version of the same?
They've already extensively redesigned the Klingons. It's silly to think they won't do the same to the Constitution-class, if any are ever seen.
But also, that asset is 12 years old, built for a company that no longer exists using software that's no longer industry standard, and intended for a lower-resolution image than DSC will likely have. Even if the DSC VFX crew did get their hands on it, it would require so much work to convert to modern standards they they might as well build a new one from scratch -- and redesign it in the process.
Rumor* has it that they're rigging up a motion-control system in Pinewood Studios and having the original Enterprise trucked in from the Smithsonian in DC.
*And yes, this rumor was started by me
You mean Pinewood Toronto Studios, I assume?Rumor* has it that they're rigging up a motion-control system in Pinewood Studios and having the original Enterprise trucked in from the Smithsonian in DC.
*And yes, this rumor was started by me
Naw, the fandom will scream bloody murder if the the Enterprise of the Prime universe isn't carbon copy of what it ought to be, or at least close enough for where it ought to be between "The Cage" and TOS proper. I'm sure they'll find some in-universe explanation for the differences in looks. I'm further sure that we'll be debating it between now and forever.
If this happens about 10 years pre-TOS, the Enterprise will be tooling around somewhere under Cap'n Pike with at least Spock aboard as well. There will probably also be several other Connies in the fleet (up to twelve, say), so even if the Enterprise herself isn't seen on this show, there's plenty of other ships to bump into.
Mark
The only thing that I hate from Star Trek is because it's too much politic (not in universe but the fan base) and a lot of up roar. If it is what happen, then just reboot the franchise and make a clean universe that don't have any relation to the previous one. It will be more simple, easy and without any bickering
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Paramount changed it in 2009 and got away with it, so I suspect CBS will change it again.
If for no other reason, merchandising. Posters and models of a brand new USS Enterprise will likely sell better than the 5,000th re-release of TOS ones.
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