Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

He also has a Proton Pack

 

I have those same graphic novels and prose novels in almost identically arranged stacks, lol.

 

The more I see, the more I really am starting to dig this new ship.

 

This ship is truely a beauty. It looks so much better than in the trailers. I like it. I want this replica.

 

I think it’s a beautiful ship as well! It’s just taken me some time to get over the feeling that it belongs to a different era lol

 

Well I like the ship that it was based off of, Bill Krause's Shangri-la. So I suppose I like this ship too, since it's basically the exact same ship only with updated nacelles.

 

I'm getting used to it. In a way similar to how the NX and Akira classes are more than 200 years apart but share similar design echoes or even the same hull features I just look at this as the 2390s/2400s design homage to the Constitution class Refit of over a century earlier.

 

Plus phaser strips.

 

History has deep meaning to Starfleet.

 

And most Federation starships take their design cues from the NX-class. A full saucer as a primary hull. Two warp nacelles.

 

Well, that makes all the difference.

Until the next showrunner says it doesn't.

 

And? That's been the case for every series.

 

My point is that making a statement like "history has deep meaning to Starfleet" is ultimately meaningless, because Starfleet is a fictional organization whose values are prone to change at a whim by whatever writer, producer, showrunner, etc. decides to make them.

 

As it always is and will be. It only has meaning because we give it meaning.

 

And as I mentioned above, your meaning is meaningless, because you are not the one in control of the values of Starfleet.

 

Indeed. Yet we keep trying to give it meaning. Fascinating aspect of humanity.

 

We can infer meaning based on certain clues, especially clues that tend to happen rather frequently. But in the end it's ultimately pointless, because this is all fake and some new person can come along and completely invalidate it all if they wanted to.

 

That's the fun of it. Even if it is invalidated that doesn't change its meaning to you, to me, or various other fans. The purpose isn't change just because meaning is changed.

 

I'm not saying it can't be fun. Or that fans shouldn't find meaning in certain aspects of the Star Trek universe. I'm saying that absolute statements are not quite absolute.

 

Then I guess every episode of the franchise is meaningless because someone can just come in and wipe it away. Might as well just stop watching.