Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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That's what good sci-fi designers would do for sure, Eaves hasn't got a clue about creating new classes with a common design language. Look at all his Federation ships on Discovery, all of them styled completely differently. Like they were made by 6 different designers.
Multiple alien races having different designs?
Do you need to bring that up in every single ship thread you post in? I'm sorry but it's getting annoying.
But fine, you want comparisons? Lets bring this to TNG Era, what common design language do the Intrepid, Sovereign, Defiant, Nova, Prometheus and Galaxy Class share?
They all appeared within 10 years of each other in universe, while in real life 3 of them were designed by the same person, 3 were two separate people.
Or TOS Movie era
The Oberth, Connie Refit and Excelsior. Now the connie and excelsior a few decades apart in universe, but we don't know how old any the DSC designs are, or how far apart in age they are in universe.
My point is, Starfleet has always had wildly different designs serving at the same time as each other.
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It's different because it's TNG which is above reproach it feels like at times.
Personally, I think the ships in both PIC and DSC work fine in context.
I would have preferred if those designs had been 24th Century ships too, but I also don't think the difference is so stark that it truly breaks continuity or is worth feeling alienated from the show over. DIS is a good show with good writing; I don't have to agree with every single subjective aesthetic choice for me to enjoy it. I can squint and suspend disbelief.
I think that’s the issue with most of the Discovery ships.
But you have to remember, the Connie is 10 years old by the time DSC starts, so technically these DSC designs ARE post-TOS design aesthetic (if you ignore the DSC connie changes)
Look how much the TNG Era designs changed after the Enterprise-D launched. Voyager launched only 8 years after the Enterprise-D for example, and it has an almost a completely different design aesthetic.
It isn't unprecedented in-universe to have radical design changes in starfleet design.
Look how much the TNG Era designs changed after the Enterprise-D launched. Voyager launched only 8 years after the Enterprise-D for example, and it has an almost a completely different design aesthetic.
It isn't unprecedented in-universe to have radical design changes in starfleet design.
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The nx01 style ships make sense but Eaves went overboard with the different Miranda style ones and the Shran is a complete joke
So is the defiant for probably the same reasons.
I kinda like the Defiant but it would be nowhere near my favourite
The Defiant is ugly and a design that I would have preferred not have come about in the Star Trek world.
It strains suspension of disbelief at times for me with that design and ship capabilities. Yes, I am aware of all the in universe rationales given.
The Defiant?
Yes. I like it because it doesn't look like most other Federation designs.
Fair enough.
Do you need to bring that up in every single ship thread you post in? I'm sorry but it's getting annoying.
But fine, you want comparisons? Lets bring this to TNG Era, what common design language do the Intrepid, Sovereign, Defiant, Nova, Prometheus and Galaxy Class share?
They all appeared within 10 years of each other in universe, while in real life 3 of them were designed by the same person, 3 were two separate people.
Well they all have red bussards, blue warp coils, as opposd to Eaves, greebly mishmash of nacelles with red, yellow or blue bussards, for starters.
The registries of all six ships use the same font and colour treatment, with the possible exception of the Defiant.
The hull markings are all the same, the UFP stripe etc. Escape pods the same colour for most.
And the fact that they're all from different shows, made in different times, by different people excuses any design differences.
The 6 ships I mentioned were literally made by the same person, at the exact same time. He could built his own design language and lineage, but he didn't.
True. I just wish that the design cues for the DSC ships had hewn more closely to the TOS Enterprise, no matter when they were constructed.
Sadly, they were never going to use the Joseph's designs.
