Well, that second one didn't seem to change any in the final episode.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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In the episode, it was gray, super-spindly, and you could barely make out the bird paneling on the hull. And the bird wings certainly weren’t red.
Lighting in both series leaves a whole lot to be desired.
Dear John, please stop it with the pontoons. Thx.The show model is green, the lighting was just terrible
The most obvious use of pontoons I can think of are the NX, Akira and Steamrunner classes and wasn't Doug Drexler responsible for all three of those between 1996 and 2001?
Steamrunner and Akira were designed by Alex Jaeger, while NX was Doug Drexler (but as an Akira derivative it probably shouldn't be counted again). None of them were Eaves, though.
Thanks for clarifying.
The main issues with his Romulan ships are that they have these huge wingspans and tail fins that don't seem to serve any kind of purpose other than to resemble the jet planes that he's so fond of. Unless the ships have atmospheric capability, but that was not evident in the show.
IIRC the Haynes Klingon bird-of-prey book suggested the wings are integral to the warp system, so could be something similar with Romulan ships.
^^^ This might lend credence to the apocryphal notion that the BOP design was stolen from the Romulans by the Klingons prior to the events in TSFS (a fan retcon to account for the change between Romulans and Klingons in the TSFS script rewrites).
I don't know about that, there are other ships that have warp drives contained within winglets rather than nacelles - Cardassian ships for example. Most Romulan ships do have nacelles, but they also have wings, so I guess they could be a hybrid system rather than the pure "warp wing" of the BoP.
I loved that explanation for the BoP in the book - I think it was Rich Sternbach's idea.
I loved that explanation for the BoP in the book - I think it was Rich Sternbach's idea.
And the Tholians can achieve warp without nacelles.
Personally I like the FASA explanation that the design originated with the Romulans, who shared it with the Klingons (hulls only) as part of the basic technology exchange. The Klingons also got a limited supply of cloaks and plasma weapons in return for D7 hulls and a few other ship classes.
The Klingons were expressly forbidden to actually do any of their own engineering with the BOP, outside of the hulls they were granted, but they did that anyway because they liked the design (leading to several scaled variants of the basic hull). The Romulans retaliated by copying the scaled up frigate variant for their own fleet.
Continuity!
Yes, that was extremely annoying.
I didn't mind ENT confirming the KBoP was specifically Klingon. I never liked the theory that it was the movie-ized version of the RBoP. The color, the head, the downward-canted wingtips all seemed distinctively Klingon-y. It looks more like a squashed and stretched D7 than a lumpier RBoP.
