Apart from the registry number font, that stays the same
Starship design history in light of Discovery
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Apart from the registry number font, that stays the same
It's DSC. I'm just glad it's not half the size of the ship and in bright neon lettering.
I want to see what the turbolift hub looks like in that one after 800 years of upgrades since Disco left drydock. 
As a nerd, I feel nerdily giddy that an VFX error has been turned into a feature.
It is a great opportunity to give the "one out of many" ship-classes of the future a unique feature.
So far we have: Crossfield class - Kwejian support craft, Janeway class - photonic cannon, Courage class - tactical reversal.
I hope that the Mars-class escort will be a futuristic Defiant-class, and that the Eisenberg class somehow references Nog, his ship the Chimera, the Ferengi or stem bolts.
Maybe little physical changes to the ships, but lots of unseen tech changes?
I'm sure this has been posted already, but I want to see a show set on the Maathai (maybe the show after Discovery they can do that), that would be insane...
Or any of those ships for that matter.
Or any of the other ships...
In a movie set in the 32nd century they could do something with the Maathai, probably... That U.S.S. Nog could be the main ship for a movie though.
So much cool stuff.
Hooray, future!
Or any of those ships for that matter.
Or any of the other ships...
In a movie set in the 32nd century they could do something with the Maathai, probably... That U.S.S. Nog could be the main ship for a movie though.
So much cool stuff.
Hooray, future!
I love the trend of going vertical.
I've always said, TNG-onward era Trek should have the bridge be a forest, where they all sit in comfy outdoor sofas all fly the ship with their iPads.I'm sure this has been posted already, but I want to see a show set on the Maathai (maybe the show after Discovery they can do that), that would be insane...
Or any of those ships for that matter.
Or any of the other ships...
In a movie set in the 32nd century they could do something with the Maathai, probably... That U.S.S. Nog could be the main ship for a movie though.
So much cool stuff.
Hooray, future!
Not a fan of most of those designs, they're a bit non-sensical from a practical pov (a trademark of Eaves), the Mars and Eisenberg Classes are just 
BUT I googled them to see if in-universe they happened to look better and it's so noticeable just how terrible the space visuals are on these new shows. Barely any clear, WELL LIT shots of them. Everything so contrasty and blurry it's hard to see anything.
BUT I googled them to see if in-universe they happened to look better and it's so noticeable just how terrible the space visuals are on these new shows. Barely any clear, WELL LIT shots of them. Everything so contrasty and blurry it's hard to see anything.
Not a fan of most of those designs, they're a bit non-sensical from a practical pov (a trademark of Eaves), the Mars and Eisenberg Classes are just
I don’t think Eaves designed those ships.
Good ships. Bad lighting. I mean, come on DSC, your producers have $7 million per episode to spend and you light starships like a guy with a candle walking into a cave.
I guess "dimly-lit and evocative of the darkness of both space and our inner souls" is what the cool kids want to see these days.
Eaves isn't on Discovery anymore, he only worked on Season 1. He's over on Picard and Prodigy now.
And that is not a 'trademark' of his. Eaves designs make sense, they're not non-sensical.
The giant shuttlebay and enormous impulse engines on the Inquiry Class?
The cutouts on the 1701 nacelle pylons?
The paper thin Romulan ships on Picard?
Those weird knives sticking out of the Klingon raider in Discovery?
The cutouts on the Discovery saucer?
To be fair I didn't realise he didn't design those 31st century ships. In hindsight, they don't look like his work at all. Light hull colouring + smooth lines is as far away from his style as possible, so it should have been obvious.
He didn’t design the Klingon raider either. But I agree on such points as pointless fins & spikes, huge holes in saucer sections, and gaps in nacelle pylons, all of which seem more to make the ship look cool than for any kind of practical reason.
I can see it just fine.
Okay, so lotsa people find them ugly. Let's move on.
I'm stoked about getting more details about the ships and their classes in the upcoming 2nd edition Star Trek: Shipyards book.
And on having them as Eaglemoss models. When I'm swooshing around thru the house, the Courage class will fly the right way round, that's STO been telt!
I'm stoked about getting more details about the ships and their classes in the upcoming 2nd edition Star Trek: Shipyards book.
And on having them as Eaglemoss models. When I'm swooshing around thru the house, the Courage class will fly the right way round, that's STO been telt!
The final inquiry we got in the episode doesn't look much like his concept art. That isn't a shuttlebay under the saucer, that's the deflector. Which isn't shown in any of his concept art (at least the stuff released) so that might not be his fault.
There is a shuttle bay on top of the saucer, the ship was originally designed as a background ship that would be sending and receiving a bunch of shuttles, it was probably being used in the evacuation.
The cutouts in the Connie pylons are heat sinks/vents according to him. That could easily be removed to make the pylons look more like the TOS ones.
I don't see what's wrong with the romulan ships. They're small, not large.
He didn't design any of the Discovery Klingon ships
He designed versions of the Crossfield without the saucer cutouts, but the producers preferred the saucer holes.
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