The saucer actually resembles the scaled up Eaglemoss Centaur, with the extra-large impulse engines and nacelles & pylons based on the Parliament class. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41dsJsOboKL._AC_SX425_.jpg
Looks like someone was listening when Mike McMahan said he likes the Miranda class. Or Mike was just approving the ships he likes. Spoiler: New ships Those aren't Parliament-class ships, the Vancouver dwarfs the Cerritos and these two are smaller than her right alongside. They only share the same general configuration but the details are all different. Are these new guys the new background ships? I wonder what happens to the generic background starships from S1? Replaced by these more detailed models, and never to be seen again? And what about that STARBASE! Some child of a mushroom and Vanguard? (Thanks Mike!) Mark
I like the starbase for exactly that reason: the hybridization of the Spacedock "mushroom" with the Vanguard/Watchtower-class design! Wondering if we can get one or more of those Frontier-class bases - per the DS9 novels - into the mix somewhere. Andrew Probert and Doug Drexler did good work on that one, and I'd like to see it worked in, either on LDS, PIC or wherever else the production teams consider a good fit.
https://i.ibb.co/2sT4xbC/new-ship.jpg https://i.ibb.co/C5r7FjN/new-ship-2.jpg The new ship's saucer seems to be taken from the Eaglemoss Centaur CGI model, while the two large impulse engines, nacelles & pylons seem to be based on the Parliament class.
The primary hulls also seem to be a tad-bit elongated, almost like a Sovereign, but yeah, with Excelsior/Centaur dual impulse deflection crystals that the Sovereign didn't have. It's quite an interesting hybrid of visual elements. Almost intentionally ambiguous as to the era in which it was made. This may be even an era-connective experimental "missing link" testbed ship, which would explain why it's at this station, assuming it is a museum of some kind.
The scaling on the starbase is completely off. Unless those windows are the size of 3 story buildings
I’m all for seeing ships from the “Lost Era” between 2300 and 2360. Maybe it’s even one of the conjectural classes from the ST Encyclopedia (but I doubt it.)
If it is a 'museum' of some sort, then having multistory windows would be advantageous to viewing ships parked out in space. Kinda like what STO has done with their main area for displaying new ships. (though I would imagine that it's just the style of animation that makes things appear bigger than they might be in real life)
Possibly but I'd be surprised if it's a museum, more likely just more of the shoddy production prioritising fan service above all else, hence the Daedalus class ships that shouldn't be there. We'll see I guess.
It was in TOS Remastered long before this. Unless you don't count TOS-R as canon. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starbase_6_model I guess it would depend on what the deal was when it was used in the Vanguard novels and in TOS-R, it's possible CBS bought the rights to it so they wouldn't need to.
I wasn't asked, but I don't expect to be. I was a low-paid worker bee. Of course, I'm happy to see it still being used.
Well that sucks, guess I can Twit the show runner and see.. I don't think they asked or even let know the Titan designer either. Guess there's a clause in those 4000 page contracts for the books or contests that its a work for hire and they can use it however they want. EDIT: I tweeted him asking to give you a credit in the credits, see how that goes,
I jest about being a worker bee. I wasn't paid a lot, but having the chance to design a Trek ship and space station professionally for Simon and Schuster novels was a great thrill. The designs being used for TV is even cooler. An we fans getting some credit would be great. So, thanks for tweeting.
To me, those 2 ships look like the fugly love-children of the New Orleans class and the Ronin Class (FYI, I've always loved this Ronin class. Sovereign + Nebula, good stuff).