Spoilers The new (massive spoiler) ship!

[HotRod]

The Enterprise-F looks like it was designed by that "kid" we all knew at one point...

"Yeah, my Enterprise is twice as big as your Enterprise! And it has Super Mega Phasers, and 27 Quantum Torpedo tubes, and it can go warp 9.9999999999 with multi vector attack mode! And my dad could beat up your dad"!

 

[Captain_Amasov]

I just remembered, this technically means the Aquarius-class is canon now too. :P

 

[Lord Garth]

The Enterprise-F looks like it was designed by that "kid" we all knew at one point...

Technically, it was.

I like the Enterprise-F from every angle, whereas I only like the Enterprise-E from top-view angle and profile.

It looks like what I'd expect an early-25th Century ship to look like. That's more than I can say about the Titan-A, which is one area where I agree with @Dukhat.

 

[Dukhat]

I just remembered, this technically means the Aquarius-class is canon now too. :P

I guess if it's stuck to the end of that ship when it flies by, it is.

And why does that above pic of the F look better than what I just saw on screen? (not the design, mind you, which I hate. I mean the surface detailing.)

I dunno. Maybe the F gets destroyed in the first episode and they build an Enterprise-G that gets debuted in the final seconds of the last episode? Oh, who am I kidding?

 

[HotRod]

Technically, it was.

I like the Enterprise-F from every angle, whereas I only like the Enterprise-E from top-view angle and profile.

It looks like what I'd expect an early-25th Century ship to look like. That's more than I can say about the Titan-A, which is one area where I agree with @Dukhat.

I mean, to each their own. Personally, I can't find a single angle that I like. It looks fat and bulbous in some places, and overly skinny and frail in others.

 

[Dukhat]

It looks like what I'd expect an early-25th Century ship to look like. That's more than I can say about the Titan-A, which is one area where I agree with @Dukhat.

Yes, that is its one saving grace.

I simply can't wrap my head around these ship design decisions. First we get a new ship that looks like an old ship (Titan-A), an old ship that looks like a new ship (Aleos) and an 11-year-old design from a video game as the new Enterprise. And for what? Some fanwank for the 0.01% of Star Trek fans who play STO? Did they not see the marketing potential for a new design? Or do they simply not care about the Enterprise and resorted to using some low-poly crap for a 5-second flyby scene, and that's all we're going to see of the ship?

 

[HotRod]

Yes, that is its one saving grace.

I simply can't wrap my head around these ship design decisions. First we get a new ship that looks like an old ship (Titan-A), an old ship that looks like a new ship (Aleos) and an 11-year-old design from a video game as the new Enterprise. And for what? Some fanwank for the 0.01% of Star Trek fans who play STO? Did they not see the marketing potential for a new design? Or do they simply not care about the Enterprise and resorted to using some low-poly crap for a 5-second flyby scene, and that's all we're going to see of the ship?

I Feel like you and I have disagreed over many things over in SNW, but in this subject, I find that I couldn't have said it better myself. 100% in agreement.

 

[The Knappos]

Did they not see the marketing potential for a new design?

Plenty more letters in the alphabet - Jean Luc Picard.

I like the F, and there’s always G, H and I before we get to the awful awful J.

 

[Lord Garth]

Just to be clear: the Enterprise-F isn't my favorite Enterprise (that's the TMP Refit). It's not even in my Top 3. It's somewhere in the middle. I don't dislike any of the angles and I think it gets the job done. My least favorites are the B, C, and the Enterprise from the Abrams Films.

 

[Tomalak]

Or do they simply not care about the Enterprise and resorted to using some low-poly crap for a 5-second flyby scene, and that's all we're going to see of the ship?

I suspect it's this. I don't think it's going to have a starring role with that CGI model.

But the cast have said they visit the "old" Enterprise, so I'm still not ruling out the E.

 

[Dukhat]

Plenty more letters in the alphabet - Jean Luc Picard.

I like the F, and there’s always G, H and I before we get to the awful awful J.

Except this was the most logical place and time to show a new Enterprise with a new design. Who cares what the letter is? Right now my only saving grace to see a new Enterprise design is in DSC, if they show the Enterprise-M or whatnot.

Just to be clear: the Enterprise-F isn't my favorite Enterprise (that's the TMP Refit). It's not even in my Top 3. It's somewhere in the middle. I don't dislike any of the angles and I think it gets the job done. My least favorites are the B, C, and the Enterprise from the Abrams Films.

My fav Enterprise is also the TMP refit, followed by the original, followed by the D.

I suspect it's this. I don't think it's going to have a starring role with that CGI model.

But the cast have said they visit the "old" Enterprise, so I'm still not ruling out the E.

I always figured the "old" Enterprise (from the point of view of the TNG cast) would be the D, whose saucer still exists and is in a museum. However, despite my earlier enthusiasm, I think it's less and less likely that we'll see it on screen.

 

[Markonian]

We live in exciting times, where so many new Enterprises have been introduced to canon in the span of just a few years.

Recounting the intros from top of my head:
USS Enterprise NCC-1701, TOS - 1965
* Constitution class, Pilot Version
* Constitution class, 2265 refit
(ISS Enterprise NCC-1701, TOS)
NCC-1701, TMP - 1979
* Constitution class, Enterprise class refit
NCC-1701-A, TVH - 1985
NCC-1701-D, TNG - 1986
* Galaxy class
* Galaxy X class refit, AGT - 1990s
NCC-1701-B - 1980s
* Excelsior class, TNG (wall panel)
* Excelsior class refit, GEN - 1994
NCC-1701-C - 1980s
* Ambassador class, Narendra class/prototype version, TNG (wall panel)
* Ambassador class, 2330s refit, TNG (Yesterday’s Enterprise)
NCC-1701-E - 1996
* Sovereign class, FC
* refits, NEM - 2002
Enterprise NX-01 - 2001
* NX class, ENT
* NX, Columbia class refit, PIC - 2022
(ISS Enterprise NX-01, ENT)
NCC-1701 (Kelvin timeline) - 2009
* Constitution class, ST1
* refit, ST3 - 2016
NCC-1701-A (Kelvin timeline) - 2016
* Constitution class refit, ST3
NCC-1701
* Constitution class, 2255 refit, DSC - 2017
* 2259 refit, SNW - 2022
NCC-1701-F - 2023
* Odyssey class, PIC

 

[Qonundrum]

After ~20 years, the "E" was mothballed or disassembled or the critter from "Galaxy Child" slobbered all over it and it dissolved, only this time - unlike that (dirty words)'ingly dumb season 5 TNG episode where space goo was not dissolving the ship like what "Blake's 7" did far, far, far better in "Terminal" BTW... - it worked.

The "F" looks fairly good. Maybe a little too art noveau with the nacelles, but it's by no means bad by any measure. They're more visually interesting than the "D"'s nacelles that look like "hot dog buns freshly stepped on by the audience as they left the theater, having just heard some total dork yell 'Fire!!' as a cheap thrill..."* The fact that it doesn't have such garish reflectiveness is a big plus too. It reminds me of the "E" plus USS Voyager plus one of the Kelvin movies. It's growing on me rather fast...

* I adored the "D" as well, but comparing the two and it's clearly 35 years on and such... the nacelle glow is a continued leftover from the "D", which started many design trends as well... so as much as I'll make sardonic comments, it's not a direct correlation that I hated the thing...

 

[Tuskin38]

it's those front saucer edge windows. They're all front facing instead of following the curve of the saucer

It's the motion blur on the frame.
Here is a shot of the model without blur.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

It's the motion blur on the frame.
Here is a shot of the model without blur.

Thomas changed his twitter header to this, I'm guessing it's the new version too:

 

[Tuskin38]

Yep. The old version doesn't use those windows.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

Also, is that a shuttle bay recessed into the secondary hull above the deflector array? If so, that's another new detail.

 

[Tuskin38]

Also, is that a shuttle bay recessed into the secondary hull above the deflector array? If so, that's another new detail.

Oh, good eye. I think it might be.

 

[fireproof78]

Oh, good eye. I think it might be.

Now the deflector looks like the all seeing eye.

 

[Paul755]

I mean, to each their own. Personally, I can't find a single angle that I like. It looks fat and bulbous in some places, and overly skinny and frail in others.

it looks fine from above but I’m just not a fan of the other views. Especially the side view.