Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Just pretend everything you don’t like is from an alternate universe 
so did they use cardboard, badly tailored costumes and cheap plastic models in “Trials and Tribbleations”, “Relics”, “In a Mirror Darkly”, etc... You can match the aesthetic with better quality production if you want to.
Enterprise was set 100 years before TOS not 10. They made a more genuine attempt to show something that may have preceded TOS than the Discovery producers did.
Those episodes were kitsch and relied on pure fun nostalgia. They were never meant to be taken seriously. A better example is from Discovery, which shows scenes from The Cage as background events to the current episode -- implying "hey, these two radically different aesthetics you're seeing? Not different at all." Imagination is a wonderful thing.
Really? That wasn't evident.
Why is it so hard to accept that visions of the future change decade over decade, and backdating what we saw 50 years ago to current standards isn't a huge faux-pas? Just squint and accept that they're "close enough":
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a77e2752-32ee-4afc-9706-50c870ae0b0d
They would have been crazy to revamp the TOS look in the occasional nostalgia episode, but for an entire series set in the TOS era, they would have been crazy not to. The "present day" of the series has to match the production values of its time.
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How can you be so sure they will be John Eaves only, what is that statement based on.
After seeing a Romulan BoP last week I dont think anything can be ruled out at this point.
Just pretend everything you don’t like is from an alternate universe
Or watch the shows, and determine how it all fits together based on how you interpret it.
This would be my preferred method, but they changed things so much that it doesn't work. I can squint and pretend K't'inga and TOS D7 are the same as there the changes are basically just some extra detail. Disco changes are way more extensive. YMMV.
The squint method worked very well for me for all the background ships in Abrams Trek.
Because Eaves is the head ship designer for PIC.
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They could ultimately use any existing design that they want as long as CBS owns it, no reason why Eaves couldn't modify it though.
It doesn't automatically exclude any designs from being used.
He did not design the La Sirena though.
It works for Highlander 2 and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, which is what Discovery is for Star Trek.Just pretend everything you don’t like is from an alternate universe
Highlander 2... works?
Yes, but they hired Eaves for a reason. They apparently love his designs, so when we see some Starfleet ships, there’s gonna be a 99% chance that he created them. They might ask him to make some tweaks, but that’s probably it.
Source?
