Under Bryan Fuller the Discovery was going to disguise itself as a D7?

[Tuskin38]

I saw this posted on twitter, the source is apparently “Star Trek: Designing Starships Volume 4: Discovery - Page 11”

Source:
https://twitter.com/CodySDax/status/1250897284038037512
https://twitter.com/CodySDax/status/1250897554482638849

 

[TPezz]

Well that’s stupid.

 

[Dukhat]

How can any of this be true, if there wasn’t a single Klingon ship in season 1 that looked remotely like a TOS D7?

 

[Tuskin38]

How can any of this be true, if there wasn’t a single Klingon ship in season 1 that looked remotely like a TOS D7?

You'd have to ask Fuller. Maybe the D7 is the one ship he wouldn't have changed.

 

[Xerxus]

How can any of this be true, if there wasn’t a single Klingon ship in season 1 that looked remotely like a TOS D7?

The hero ship was likely the first thing that was designed. When it was mandated, it's very possible that ship designs were going to follow TOS much closer. I know Fuller intended for the uniforms to be very similar to TOS, so it's likely that plans were changed beyond his control.

 

[Dukhat]

You'd have to ask Fuller. Maybe the D7 is the one ship he wouldn't have changed.

But I thought Fuller was the one who wanted everything to look different from the get-go, including the Klingons and their ships?

 

[Vger23]

And there have been people crying about how Fuller would have made a better series than the current iteration of DSC?

 

[fireproof78]

But I thought Fuller was the one who wanted everything to look different from the get-go, including the Klingons and their ships?

He was.

 

[Kzinti]

there's a reason why fuller was fired on 3 shows back to back...

 

[fireproof78]

there's a reason why fuller was fired on 3 shows back to back...

Mostly because he blew the budget in the first two episodes. That doesn't fly to well with media corporations.

 

[NCC-73515]

First reactions after the initial teaser were: Is this a Starfleet-Klingon alliance project? Some secret collaboration that blends both designs? So it makes sense and would've been interesting, though not as a D7 and a new class instead (does the D6 exist already?)

 

[MFB]

Yeah, I read that passage in the "Designing Starships" book some months ago and I have to say I am very confused about it. The Discovery may have some resamblance to a classic Klingon Battle Cruiser - as some fans pointed out after the first teaser in 2016. But it is really confusing that the man who wanted that transformation ability to a classic Klingon design abandoned exactly that classic design language from the Klingons at all. The book also discusses the Klingon ship design für DSC and it is not implied they ever considered using the established Klingon design and also very early concept drawings already show ships very similiar to the final Sarcophagus Ship and Raider.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I recall people posting side-by-side pics of Discovery and a Klingon D7 after that very first teaser trailer showing off the (early) ship design.

Humbly suggest it's a silly idea and since Trek ships are identified many ways before visually, wouldn't have made much sense in-universe.

 

[Dukhat]

Not to mention that the Discovery’s design was not meant to invoke a D7, but rather Ralph McQuarrie ‘s Enterprise design from the aborted Planet of the Titans movies.

I call shenanigans.

 

[Tuskin38]

Not to mention that the Discovery’s design was not meant to invoke a D7, but rather Ralph McQuarrie ‘s Enterprise design from the aborted Planet of the Titans movies.

I call shenanigans.

That might be why Fuller chose the Titan’s design

 

[Dukhat]

But the original design for the ship did not even have an outer ring:

http://trekcore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ussdiscovery.jpg

 

[fireproof78]

But the original design for the ship did not even have an outer ring:

http://trekcore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ussdiscovery.jpg

That looks better.

 

[Doctor Bombay]

I don't care how it disguised itself, Discovery is one ugly ship and looked like it should have been in my kitchen drawer awaiting a pizza to cut up.

 

[Vger23]

I don't care how it disguised itself, Discovery is one ugly ship and looked like it should have been in my kitchen drawer awaiting a pizza to cut up.

My favorite starship design aside from the TMP refit and original Connie. Love it!

 

[fireproof78]

I don't care how it disguised itself, Discovery is one ugly ship and looked like it should have been in my kitchen drawer awaiting a pizza to cut up.

Nah...

it looks better as a Vulcan symbol.