These two are what sprang to mind first seeing the top 2 - the first looks Vorlon and the second like a Shadow ship.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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These two are what sprang to mind first seeing the top 2 - the first looks Vorlon and the second like a Shadow ship.
Yer right! I forgot about the Vorlons.
The STO Okhala Tactical Pilot Warbird is similar as well ...
I'd love to see that as a Romulan ship!
It is birdlike, has graceful lines of swoop and evilicious forward-facing spikes.
The head section (and ship name) remind me a little bit of the Shrike-class scout from Star Trek: Armada.
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After combing through the promotional photos of the Titan A and re-watching the space Dock scene many times over, I am now on the fence about the redesigned Shangri La. If we ignore what Riker says about it being a "refit" of the Luna. Bill Krause is the original designer of the Shangri La, and he must have been hired by Picard to make a 25th Century version. The thing I most have a problem with is the up scaling, from 295m to 560m! The saucer has not been changed much from the original Shangri La model so as such the windows are at least 1.5X bigger. BUT... Those saucer windows similar to the Enterprise were tiny as per the 305m length so I have no problem being kept similar. There are several views aft of the bridge and there are several instances of "tiny" windows in keeping with its 560m size. I have no issue with the resuse of the Stargazer nacelles either, even if they don't really suit the retro look of the ship. Any excuse to get to warp 9.99 I guess. Yes they could have put more effort into the up-scaling but it's fine.
Yes, the Neo-Connie was co-designed by Bill Krause and Doug Drexler, I'm guessing Doug helped integrate the parts carried over from the Sagan class. Bill also built the gold models for the Stargazer and Titan conference rooms, and designed the Radiant Class USS Stargazer that appears in the Stargazer's conference room.
Terry saw the original Shangri-La online and fell in love with it, that's how it came to be the Titan.
Eleos can be run my only one person under nominal conditions?
We don't know.
It's kind of an issue with this season of Picard. It's meant to be a TNG tribute but the look, the music, even whole scenes like the spacedock launch are taken straight from the TOS movies. The movie themes goes a lot better with big sweeping shots of the sets and ship than the rather static camerawork of Picard.
Today's Star Trek production personnel don't really care about the inherent issues with upscaling ships. Just like they didn't during the Berman era. They really are giving us a TNG tribute!
No, it's not density. It's annoyance at Trek ships being charged for reasons not agreed with.
especially when they had a good model of the Luna class already available..
I am now picturing the scenes from the ep and the trailers with the Luna-class Titan. Movie-level rendering, perhaps with a bit of pearlescent refit Enterprise paint job…oof UwU
No they don't. They have a game quality model of the Luna, not cinematic TV quality.
I mean...maybe? Maybe they didn't like the model. "Good" is subjective after all. Or it wasn't to the quality they wanted.
Terry just really liked the Shangri-La Class, that's it. There's no secret hearted against the Luna class or anything.
https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1628093006447517696/photo/1
https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1628093006447517696/photo/1
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Now, Tuskin38, you know that every decision made by Star Trek producers is motivated by great apathy towards past Trek, if not outright hatred.
Who said that Matalas isn't using the Luna class ship because he hates it?
