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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

WNMHGB had the red accents.
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Maybe Pike had them first.
 
For comparison

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I’d post a picture of a Discovery doorway, but I’m not sure what episode would have a similar shot, and I’m not finding anything on google images

This is kind of close. Discovery has gold/bronze highlights

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Here are some views:

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The second is the best approximation, with the first showing the correct doors and the third showing the correct wall. Different color scheme, labeling, comm panel, and detail (the walls are missing the horizontal bars).
 
If you ignore 'The Cage', or put this before 'The Cage' and ignore the pylons. I think the design fits fine. Just give her a refit before Kirk.

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It fits better if you just ignore the TOS Enterprise and jump straight to the refit.
Yeah it does, mind you that's mostly due to how old the design is of the original ToS Enterprise from the 60's, if they do go ahead with a Pike/Enterprise show the showrunners would have the opportunity to update the ToS Kirk/Enterprise as well.

The unveiling of the ToS Pike/Enterprise that Kirk will eventually take command of would be the perfect way to start such a show after the repairs have been made and he is no longer needed on Discovery.

I have noticed that Pike is in more scenes than Burnham in the first episode of the season, I will be very surprised if they don't go for it, I have no doubt Anson Mount would jump at a steady high profile role such as Pike's and the fans seem to like him a lot.
 
The TOS Connie is the odd one out when you take the entire franchise into consideration

Disagree, the others were progressions from the original design. The next step. The Discoprise took elements of what came after and inserted them before they should have been introduced.

It would be like taking the look of the most recent Aircraft Carrier Enterprise, taking it back in time and putting it in place of the WW2 era Enterprise and saying this is how the Enterprise always looked.

Am I making sense? Because it makes sense in my head.
 
Although the Kelvin as she appeared before the arrival of the Narada in 2233 and the creation of the new timeline was a very TOS-like starship that bore a far stronger resemblance to the ships seen in TOS than any of them we've thus far seen in DSC with the one exception of the Enterprise herself. We'd have to consider the Kelvin as being part of the same lineage from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701 and she fits very well into that progression, retaining a heavily saucer/primary hull-based design with retracting weapons emitters such as we saw used on the NX-01 but bearing a much stronger resemblance to the TOS Constitution-class starship in surface graphics, computer and interface technology and bridge design.
 
Disagree, the others were progressions from the original design. The next step. The Discoprise took elements of what came after and inserted them before they should have been introduced.

It would be like taking the look of the most recent Aircraft Carrier Enterprise, taking it back in time and putting it in place of the WW2 era Enterprise and saying this is how the Enterprise always looked.

Am I making sense? Because it makes sense in my head.
It takes elements from before, during and after TOS.

So it’s either pre-tos or replacing TOS.

The nacelles are clearly an evolution from the NX-01, they wouldn’t work post TOS unless In-universe the designers went backwards.
 
Although the Kelvin as she appeared before the arrival of the Narada in 2233 and the creation of the new timeline was a very TOS-like starship that bore a far stronger resemblance to the ships seen in TOS than any of them we've thus far seen in DSC with the one exception of the Enterprise herself. We'd have to consider the Kelvin as being part of the same lineage from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701 and she fits very well into that progression, retaining a heavily saucer/primary hull-based design with retracting weapons emitters such as we saw used on the NX-01 but bearing a much stronger resemblance to the TOS Constitution-class starship in surface graphics, computer and interface technology and bridge design.

The in-universe reason for starships looking different during Discovery is addressed in John Eaves Art book. They all were to be retrofitted for a spore drive. That's why many design elements, especially the nacelles, bare resemblance to the Discovery. If they were building starships anyway, they figured they better "future proof" them to make them able to receive a spore drive in the future after Discovery had completed the tests. When the spore drive eventually fails in the future before TOS, starships go back to normal cylindrical configuration.
 
The in-universe reason for starships looking different during Discovery is addressed in John Eaves Art book. They all were to be retrofitted for a spore drive
That is Eaves’ personal reasoning, it’s not a reason he got from the writers or producers.

So it’s not part of the writer’s room lore.
 
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