USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

[Gonzo]

I am with you here, it looks older than the walker class to me.

I wouldn't say it looks older as such but it sure as hell causes a disconnect in the design lineage.

I can live with it though.

Of all the ships we have seen the Walker class is by far the odd one out with the under slung bridge and angular nacelles followed by the Constitutions with round nacelles and a top bridge but if you discount the first Enterprise its not so bad.

Still weird though, if I didn't know any better I would say some serous changes were made to the ships very late on in the process, its the only reason I can think of for the disconnect.

 

[Tuskin38]

It might be buried in this thread. But has anyone else noticed the Enterprise has the Bridge "window" as well?

yes

 

[Longinus]

Of all the ships we have seen the Walker class is by far the odd one out with the under slung bridge and angular nacelles followed by the Constitutions with round nacelles and a top bridge but if you discount the first Enterprise its not so bad.

Walker-class looks great, but if they wanted to convey oldness, they failed. It looks much more streamlined than the supposedly state-of-the-art Discovery. They should have at least given the Walker NX-01-style engines.

 

[PixelMagic]

It might be buried in this thread. But has anyone else noticed the Enterprise has the Bridge "window" as well?

Yes, and it's HUGE. Way bigger than the JJprise one. It takes up 45 degrees of the front of the bridge. Lol.

 

[Gonzo]

Walker-class looks great, but if they wanted to convey oldness, they failed. It looks much more streamlined than the supposedly state-of-the-art Discovery.

Oh I don't think it looks bad, just rather out of place against the other ship configurations.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

It might be buried in this thread. But has anyone else noticed the Enterprise has the Bridge "window" as well?

Well it was canon.

 

[XCV330]

Walker-class looks great, but if they wanted to convey oldness, they failed. It looks much more streamlined than the supposedly state-of-the-art Discovery. They should have at least given the Walker NX-01-style engines.

Unlike many of them, Walker class has a reason for being steamlined though, atmospheric missions.

 

[Gonzo]

Yes, and it's HUGE. Way bigger than the JJprise one. It takes up 45 degrees of the front of the bridge. Lol.

Yeah it looked really big and its one of the reasons I think the Enterprise we saw is around 50% bigger than the original, that's yet to be confirmed with the official word though.

 

[F. King Daniel]

OK, so I see big windows on the bottom sides of the saucer. It also sure looked like windows across the top front of the saucer, but that could just be the lighting.

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I suspect they're lighting apertures for the NCC-1701 which appears on the saucer sides in the original... but isn't on this one. I bet they forgot to add them

 

[Longinus]

Yes, and it's HUGE. Way bigger than the JJprise one. It takes up 45 degrees of the front of the bridge. Lol.

Probably because the ship itself is much smaller.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It might be buried in this thread. But has anyone else noticed the Enterprise has the Bridge "window" as well?

Yep, it looked to me like the same apperature as the Discovery herself has.

 

[Longinus]

Unlike many of them, Walker class has a reason for being steamlined though, atmospheric missions.

Decent rationalisation, actually.

 

[PixelMagic]

Walker-class looks great, but if they wanted to convey oldness, they failed. It looks much more streamlined than the supposedly state-of-the-art Discovery. They should have at least given the Walker NX-01-style engines.

The Walker class also looks FAR more advanced than the Constituion class. So either dial the Walker class design back, or dial the Constitution up.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Pretty sure that's the light source for the registry.

A lot of the ships for discovery have visible sources like that. It was something John Eaves did.

They don't put out as much light like that thing on the TMP refit, so I was leaning towards "windows".

 

[SJGardner]

The operation was successful, the patient's stabilized. A beautiful update, but I hope we'll see her in different lighting as well. Maybe some beauty shots with the Discovery in Vulcan's orbit at the start of next season. A man can hope.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

Yes, and it's HUGE. Way bigger than the JJprise one. It takes up 45 degrees of the front of the bridge. Lol.

Not sure on the size yet

Well it was canon.

LOL, I have had fans who worship TOS and the old manurals inform me ( Like someone taking to a heretic) that those are not windows, but senor panels

The Walker class also looks FAR more advanced than the Constituion class. So either dial the Walker class design back, or dial the Constitution up.

Agreed, although the walker does fit with the other ships we have seen and does fit post NX, the issue is however, is the connie does not fit. However, we do not know how old the connie design is. I mean we know that age of the big E, but not the constitution itself. It might be possible it is older, or that the walker has been refit recently

I wouldn't say it looks older as such but it sure as hell causes a disconnect in the design lineage.

I can live with it though.

Of all the ships we have seen the Walker class is by far the odd one out with the under slung bridge and angular nacelles followed by the Constitutions with round nacelles and a top bridge but if you discount the first Enterprise its not so bad.

Still weird though, if I didn't know any better I would say some serous changes were made to the ships very late on in the process, its the only reason I can think of for the disconnect.

I have to disagree, the walker fits as post NX design and nothing you stated makes it odd. I mean look at the other designs we got, non TOS derived configurations are common. The Connie still looks like the odd duck and one that does not really fit with the other ships in line up.

 

[Tuskin38]

The Shenzhou is also odd, because it has no visible bussards. Its engines don't match anything else we've seen in the series.

Almost every other Fed DSC ship has dome shaped bussard collectors just like the Connie and NX.

 

[Nightowl1701]

I suspect they're lighting apertures for the NCC-1701 which appears on the saucer sides in the original... but isn't on this one. I bet they forgot to add them

No, they're there. They're just very faint with the lighting and angle shown.

 

[Donker]

I'm weirdly positively surprised how well the Enterprise and the Discovery scaled in size to each other.

Honestly, the biggest problem is the official numbers for Disco's ship don't line up with what we actually see on screen. As I did with my size comparison, the Enterprise should be dwarfed by the "official" numbers of Discovery, but the official numbers of Discovery and the Shenzhou make no sense, it's just stupid JJ scaling again for no reason.

If we're going by official numbers

But even though I actually think that is a cooler shot showing the actual huge scale of Discovery, it doesn't work with the fact the Constitution class is supposed to be the biggest baddest flagship of the fleet

 

[Brainsucker]

I don't know, but I think that Star Trek Discovery is better if it's really a reboot.