I think it looks okay-ish.
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Bryan Fuller decreed it. Though why they’re still listening to his words I dunno
Yeah, I hate that trend. Ever since the end of TNG (that is, like, 30 years in real life!), Star Trek ships are getting flatter and flatter...
From the Voyager to the Ent-E abolishing the necks, to the Defiant and NX-01 being absolute 2D-designs.... Ugh.
Honestly, that was the one amazing thing about the JJprise - finally having height again! - and the one thing I like about the Discovery. It looks like a real, 3D thing again, instead of a painting that looks only good from a 3/4-look from above...
From the Voyager to the Ent-E abolishing the necks, to the Defiant and NX-01 being absolute 2D-designs.... Ugh.
Honestly, that was the one amazing thing about the JJprise - finally having height again! - and the one thing I like about the Discovery. It looks like a real, 3D thing again, instead of a painting that looks only good from a 3/4-look from above...
How many new Starfleet ships have we seen since BotBS? The Enterprise, the Hiawatha, the fuzzy tugs that may or may not have been FJ-style Connie kit-bashes? Plus the two new comics ships, the Sommerville here, and the Dorothy Garrod. That's about fifty-fifty for less-flat ships (though I'm tempted to say the trend started with ST09 reserving the "starship" configuration of saucer with engineering below and behind, and then two nacelles above and behind, for the Enterprise).
Yeah, the beauty of the original Enterprise was the weird, weightless impossibility of the design. There's no way it could work in Earth's gravity, so it didn't need to look streamlined.
I do like the overall grace and weirdness of Ryan Church's design, even if certain details didn't work for me.
I absolutely love that front-facing shot of the Beyond Refit 1701 Enterprise coming through the asteroid / debris field!
Simply beautiful as a neck shot of the starship - which in the example of the Beyond Refit is longer / extended even more so than the 09 (pre-Refit) 1701.
They just confirmed at Vegas what we already knew.
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162 Lakul
163 Orion interceptor from Ent
164 Excelsior Nils Rodis Concept
165 Karemma
Discovery line
18 Klingon Raider
19 Class C shuttle
20 Hiawatha
21 Klingon obelisk
Special 2 Charon lights up
Conestoga bonus
Specials
Son’a flagship
Vulcan warp sled
XLs will be 22 total (through DS9 is 17)
Romulan Warbird
DS9 with stand
New Star Trek Online Starship Collection subscription. Scale of the Enterprise F already out.
Regular sub has been extended to 180. Trying to type the rest of this on my phone.
162 Lakul
163 Orion interceptor from Ent
164 Excelsior Nils Rodis Concept
165 Karemma
Discovery line
18 Klingon Raider
19 Class C shuttle
20 Hiawatha
21 Klingon obelisk
Special 2 Charon lights up
Conestoga bonus
Specials
Son’a flagship
Vulcan warp sled
XLs will be 22 total (through DS9 is 17)
Romulan Warbird
DS9 with stand
New Star Trek Online Starship Collection subscription. Scale of the Enterprise F already out.
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Which scallywag labeled the Karemma ship as TNG?
They did mention the slide was incorrect during the presentation.
Excited to see that the Lakul is a reality at long last. I'll probably get the Karemma ship as well. (Still holding out hope for the Bajoran scout and Degra's ship).
I gotta say, I'm getting kinda tired of concept ships. I'm really happy with the "Probert" Enterprise-C, but a lot of these didn't make the cut as designs for a "hero" ship for a reason. I don't mean to complain, but there's still ships I'd give priority to over these barely-canon background ships.
I gotta say, I'm getting kinda tired of concept ships. I'm really happy with the "Probert" Enterprise-C, but a lot of these didn't make the cut as designs for a "hero" ship for a reason. I don't mean to complain, but there's still ships I'd give priority to over these barely-canon background ships.
this.
i understand the impetus for doing these, but they’re taking up valuable real estate in the collection for ships that actually appeared on screen. it’s silly we’re this far into the collection and just now seeing the orion interceptor or son’a ships, and the yridian ship is still MIA.
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