No way that's true!!! We all know that Star Trek has been consistent from the word go! Only DISCO screws it all up.
USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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Well, it seems reasonable to assume that the ship didn't launch without lights. And upon looking again, I see that both side views just have black for the windows anyway. But the lighting is still something to keep in mind when you look at the screencaps.
If you want to argue that the Discoprise only had subtle variations in proportion, color, and window placement compared to prior depictions that are so slight you need an exhaustively detailed blog to even tell what they are, well, you have fun with that.
It is the most beautiful spaceship in popular fiction. The TOS Enterprise has an elegance and cleanliness that no other Trek starship has ever matched though some came close. If I had to name my all-time favorite spaceship in any genre of pop culture, the TOS Enterprise would win the title hands down.
I agree. But it’s still wouldn’t work on modern TV
What I mean is, they added loads of windows to the saucer (adding a second deck), made the bridge module smaller (making the bridge smaller relative to the ship), making the ship look bigger overall. I've no idea if they'd settled on 947' overall length by the time they filmed "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" but it certainly looks like they decided between them and the series proper that the Enterprise should be bigger.
I don't think we can rely on that diagram. The heights of decks is far from consistent on it.
It sure is great, but I think the TMP, 2009 and 2016 versions, in addition to Excelsior, Grissom and Reliant, and maybe the 1701-C and D... phew... that's a lot of clean, elegant Trek ships!
We learn nothing about the Discoprise or how it was made. Jason Zimmerman doesn't say anything specific about it. A "ton of research and a ton of study," whoop-de-doo.
Whoa, Let's not exaggerate here!
The ridiculously overblown n3on nebulae and specularity on some of the models are very B5.
Ok, if you think so, but it's very similar, more of a highly polished version of the design of the ship we saw in the rush job teaser.
The current discovery looks closer to the Comic-Con version then that one.
The ship is nice, but it's not the be all and end all.
The 'golden ratio' itself? Might be another retcon:
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3044877/the-golden-ratio-designs-biggest-myth
? The current Discovery looks completely different to the comic con one. Are we talking the same thing here?
I'm talking about the leaked footage Discovery being similar to the comic con one. Since this board frowns on posting the leaked footage i'll just say that you can find it on youtube by typing "star trek: discovery - Leaked test footage".
It clearly resembles the comic con design, the saucer, nacelles - shape & length, the bussards, the deflector.
They refined the Comic-Con design, decided they didn't like it and made a new one
The design process is described in the eaglemoss book.
They had the final design done by around December 2016
14 percent, actually. Per the myriad Trek Tech and Fan Art discussions mentioned earlier, the optimal size for the TOS Enterprise to match the interior sets appears to be 1080 feet rather than 947.
Wow, that is a terrific little video. Thanks for sharing it!
Well, not with the surface detail the original model had it wouldn't. But DS9 and ENT proved you can reuse it on modern television if you upgrade the texturing and coloring. It's not the design, it's the limitations of the original 1960s shooting model and how detailed it was for the demands of a television series made fifty years ago.
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