well that explains a lot....It also started as a background ship.
The design not the model.well that explains a lot....
Book confirms length of the class as 630 meters.
(By comparison, the Avenger class in STO is 430m).
It reveals no new in-universe details about the ship and class.
Background material includes STO (Perpetual Entertainment era) concept art, and it's discussed how the ship was based on a concept for a game. STO is not referenced by name, for some reason.
New tidbit: The ship was originally meant to be a Starfleet cargo ship appearing in a background shot in eps four or five, and specifically have a 120m-wide cargo door at the front. This is where the little landing bay at the upper bow of the Zheng He comes from.
After the cargo ship was dropped in revisions, there was not meant to be ANY Starfleet ship in the season. Until Eaves got a call to present a Starfleet ship for the season finale. He finished the drawing in one hour, emailed it, and it was VFXed within weeks.
I wonder what the original plan was for the finale then.BTS Info on the Inquiry via the Eaglemoss booklet:
I wonder what the original plan was for the finale then.
Actually I’ve always felt that the DSC ships would have fit better post-TUC rather than pre-TOS. Technically that would be the 24th century, but at the start of it, not the latter half of it.
Well that's an uncommon opinion if I've ever seen one.Disc's ships generally look like the half-baked crap that STO tends to put out. For every Regent or Odyssey class they come out with they also put out a half-dozen designs that are like "slap some vaguely Federation shapes together and call it a day".
For one the Regent is ugly,
2, almost every time there's a new ship design a majority of posts on reddit/twitter/official forums are positive towards it.
BTS Info on the Inquiry via the Eaglemoss booklet:
Just because its nicer than other ugly ships doesn't make it visually appealing on screen for me.
Mileage will vary.
Hey, don't you be badmouthin' the Serenity, you Yī zhǐ dog gǒu de érzi!
(takes off his coat of a brownish color. rolls up sleeves)
You get him/her!
I'd prefer not to see name-calling, even if it is in jest...and another language.Hey, don't you be badmouthin' the Serenity, you Yī zhǐ dog gǒu de érzi!
(takes off his coat of a brownish color. rolls up sleeves)
Maybe Eaves didn't design that one? He's not the only ship artist on the show.How then, did it happen that we DID get a new Starfleet ship at Mars?
There might be a few (like the Pathfinder skin for the Intrepid class that are pretty good, but there's also garbage like the Stargazer and this monstrosity
http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/deepspacesciencevessel_oracle.jpg
http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/explorationcruiser_celestial.jpg
http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/assaultcruiser_majestic.jpg
Smh...
As in all things, though, your mileage may vary.
I like the Sovereign itself, I don't like any of the variants in STO, other than the Refit based off John Eaves' concept art.Not a fan of the Sovereign line, I take it? That's all a Regent is, a modernized Sovereign.
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