Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[publiusr]

That is lovely!

 

[Tuskin38]

The Sagan really isn't that big. Assuming STO went with the scale they used in the show. They use canon/BTS/technical manual scales 95% of the time.

Seems about right based on the scale chart Dave Blass posted

 

[Dukhat]

I don’t think the Inquiry class is supposed to be that big either. Seeing the ship at the end of season one, the bridge dome and windows make it look about as large as an Intrepid class.

 

[Tuskin38]

It's a probably a case of the designer making it one scale, then someone else higher up enlarging it. The size on that chart is the same size CBS gave Eaglemoss.

When STO was given the model, CBS didn't provide a scale, so they made it around the same size as their Avenger class. Which I'm not sure the size of, but it's smaller than that.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

It's a probably a case of the designer making it one scale, then someone else higher up enlarging it. The size on that chart is the same size CBS gave Eaglemoss.

When STO was given the model, CBS didn't provide a scale, so they made it around the same size as their Avenger class. Which I'm not sure the size of, but it's smaller than that.

Though I thought it was around 350 meters based on my own in-game observations, the Avenger-class is around 415-425 meters in length, based on the wiki.

 

[Tuskin38]

Don’t link wiki images they don’t work.

 

[Mage]

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/fleet-pic-s2.htm

I know Bernd isn't always appreciated here, considering the way he sometimes voices his opinions. But I thought this was a neat little article and a handy oversight of all the ships we see in the fleet in season 2 of Picard.

*EDIT* Just saw that someone already posted this. Mae culpa.

 

[Tuskin38]

Dave Blass has removed everything Star Trek from his Twitter account, all the images and that. Odd.

 

[Tomalak]

Dave Blass has removed everything Star Trek from his Twitter account, all the images and that. Odd.

Hmm. Hope that doesn't mean he's not been picked up to work on one of the other shows. He's been fantastic.

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/fleet-pic-s2.htm

I know Bernd isn't always appreciated here, considering the way he sometimes voices his opinions. But I thought this was a neat little article and a handy oversight of all the ships we see in the fleet in season 2 of Picard.

*EDIT* Just saw that someone already posted this. Mae culpa.

He notes this about the Inquiry-class:

What the promo images don't show is that the model was reportedly modified, replacing the "grille" with a new deflector and reshaping the bottom of the engineering hull not to be so flat any more.

Is there a source for this? I don't remember seeing that before.

 

[Tuskin38]

Is there a source for this? I don't remember seeing that before.

It's from the twitter account of one of the show's VFX supervisors. I posted them in the article comments, guess he decided to add that tidbit to the article.

https://twitter.com/virtualbri/status/1529158055144738816
https://twitter.com/virtualbri/status/1529158653919436800

You can't see hull shape changes very clearly in the episode, but you can see the deflector glows here.

If they used the STO model (which I assume because it has some of the changes), then STO's model had a deflector behind the grill already.

 

[Mage]

He notes this about the Inquiry-class:

What the promo images don't show is that the model was reportedly modified, replacing the "grille" with a new deflector and reshaping the bottom of the engineering hull not to be so flat any more.

Is there a source for this? I don't remember seeing that before.

I didn't notice it either.

It's from the twitter account of one of the show's VFX supervisors. I posted them in the article comments, guess he decided to add that tidbit to the article.

https://twitter.com/virtualbri/status/1529158055144738816
https://twitter.com/virtualbri/status/1529158653919436800

You can't see hull shape changes very clearly in the episode, but you can see the deflector glows here.

If they used the STO model (which I assume because it has some of the changes), then STO's model had a deflector behind the grill already.

The glow is definitely new.

 

[Tomalak]

Nice, thanks for that. The basking shark look was never my favourite, so just adding a normal deflector goes a long way.

 

[Tuskin38]

we never got a head on render of the Inquiry's deflector/bottom, so the glow could have been there in Season 1

There was a glow in STO, but they also added things like phaser arrays and more visible escape pods, so they could have done that themselves.

 

[Vale]

Don’t link wiki images they don’t work.

The forum should have a bot to automatically detect this and flag it. I wonder if such a thing would even be possible...

 

[dantini]

Dave Blass has removed everything Star Trek from his Twitter account, all the images and that. Odd.

John Eaves also seems to have removed the huge collection of PIC concept art from his website that he had added just recently.

 

[Tuskin38]

maybe they're making an art book

 

[137th Gebirg]

That would be great if they did. I miss seeing those - with all the different series out these days, one would think such books would appear more frequently.

 

[Tuskin38]

Dave wanted to make one and was doing an outline of one after his work on S3 finished, he was pitching it around but got no bites.

 

[Vale]

That would be great if they did. I miss seeing those - with all the different series out these days, one would think such books would appear more frequently.

Oh, I do hope so. I'm a sucker for concept art.

 

[F. King Daniel]

maybe they're making an art book

My thoughts too. Good thing I saved it all, no need to buy this one