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Oh no I can definitely see the D in there, its essentially a larger Galaxy class with an elongated and deeper saucer akin to the Sovereign class.
Looks great.
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Looks great.
To each his own. I do not like the design, nor do I think it’s original in any way. Its saving grace is that it’s not canon.
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Oh I agree its not original but then none of the Enterprises have been really except the NX01 which chronologically started it, I do appreciate seeing a proper design lineage, it makes it more believable.
The Odyssey class looks like a true successor to the Sovereign and Galaxy class all rolled into one, with knobs on.
I am fine with that, not that it matters, its probably going to be the Enterprise E we get.
There've been none post D that I find appealing - in fact AFAIC Eaves' uncreative "homage to Enterprises past", and his inability to design anything without the same limited handful of shapes, is what set the Trek designball rolling straight into Uglyville.
You’re kidding, right? The NX-01 is the most unoriginal design ever, being based on a ship from 200 years in the future.
There've been none post D that I find appealing - in fact AFAIC Eaves' uncreative "homage to Enterprises past", and his inability to design anything without the same limited handful of shapes, is what set the Trek designball rolling straight into Uglyville.
Unfortunately, he’s also probably going to end up designing the next Enterprise...
Nah, it's based on a ship from just a few years earlier.
People give Eaves too much credit. He only designed one Post-TNG (timeline wise) screen used Starfleet starship before Picard came along.
The Akira, Steamrunner, and Norway, none of those were Eaves, they were designed by someone who's name I'm forgetting from ILM. The Prometheus and Intrepid were Rick Sternbach.
Eaves making the Ent-E flat was inspired by Voyager being flatter, since that's the way Starfleet designs were going already.
The Akira, Steamrunner, and Norway, none of those were Eaves, they were designed by someone who's name I'm forgetting from ILM. The Prometheus and Intrepid were Rick Sternbach.
Eaves making the Ent-E flat was inspired by Voyager being flatter, since that's the way Starfleet designs were going already.
I think you know what I meant.
I prefer the NX to much of TNG era.
Too much contemporary Trek is fashion over function. You don’t look at these ships and think, yeah, that’s an actual spaceship (whatever that means). But you sense that we’re in a hyper-stylized period in the aged evolution of Star Trek that’s not to be taken too seriously.
This is something I lament. The glorious thing about the Original, Refit, and Galaxy was how much thought was put into their verisimilitude. That gave the designs and the franchise a realism and gravitas that it’s survived on.
This is something I lament. The glorious thing about the Original, Refit, and Galaxy was how much thought was put into their verisimilitude. That gave the designs and the franchise a realism and gravitas that it’s survived on.
Props should also be given to Andrew Probert for his original design of the Enterprise-C, which truly looked like a mid-point between the Excelsior and the Galaxy classes. The only reason why it ended up looking different on the screen was because of budgetary issues (although what Sternbach and Jein came up with was still a pretty good compromise.)
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It fit as the lower tech beginning of the design lineage which was good enough for me, when looking at it I could see how it could in time become the Enterprise 1701 and on through to the E and then the non canon F.
It actually fits better as a design step before the Discoprise but that is simply because they are both newer models made with up to date CGI.
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PICARD: Is that an Akira?
RIOS (hits some controls and flips the image)
PICARD: Ah, an NX.
The C’s circular secondary hull evoked the original TOS and TMP Enterprises more than the B and D. But that’s ok. No one said that the designs for successive ships need to be similar.
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Same goes for the Shenzou, lets make it upside down for no reason whatsoever, I don't think its ugly I just think its stupid and its not like it was ever going to be used again past the pilot anyway except once or twice.PICARD: Is that an Akira?
RIOS (hits some controls and flips the image)
PICARD: Ah, an NX.
I think they were similar enough to be considered the same lineage and that was fine for me.
Same with the Miranda class and the Nebula class with the useful pods.
I don't think its an accident that the flagships have always had the classic shape.
Just imagine an Enterprise D with 3 or 4 nacelles, I think the internet and these forums would go into meltdown.
I would be willing to give it a chance.
I like the Shenzhou.
The biggest missed opportunity was not having Ambassador Class Starships in the Dominion War. If they were there at all, I sure never noticed them. I understand why they couldn't use the Sovereign Class (had to save it for the movies) or the Constitution Class (they hadn't used it in the 24th Century at all, so to reintroduce it 10 years in as background fodder would've been weird), but otherwise they used virtually every other ship they ever designed in all those massive fleets except for the Ambassador Class.
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