Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[137th Gebirg]

All they needed to do was turn on all the lights on the Intrepid RED! Like what they did in the Prodigy finale.

Because RED BAD!

 

[Caeruleus]

Sickbay Titan on-screen:

Sickbay Titan for real:

Second photo much better. I don't know why they're using this dark filter up.

 

[Tuskin38]

https://twitter.com/BuckAdmiral/status/1637840600824266752/photo/1

For fun, I've drawn up this Intrepid development chart which began originally from the 23rd century Wasp. I created two earlier TOS incarnations before the Chaparral concept was developed and eventually became the Intrepid. Scales should be close.

None of the designs outside of the Intrepid here are canon, it's just Bill's design lineage

I don't know why they're using this dark filter up.

It's dramatic

 

[Airmandan]

Sickbay Titan on-screen:

Second photo much better. I don't know why they're using this dark filter up.

I bet they were having issues with light reflection off the floors. All the more reason to bring back the carpets!

 

[Saul]

Phasers are very underused on this series it seems. I guess the idea is for more of a navy battle at sea feel.

 

[Caeruleus]

I bet they were having issues with light reflection off the floors. All the more reason to bring back the carpets!

They don't use carpets bcs it needs to be 25% different.

 

[Tuskin38]

They don't use carpets bcs it needs to be 25% different.

No it's because carpets on a starship is stupid.

 

[Caeruleus]

No it's because carpets on a starship is stupid.

How so? Who decided it's stupid? It was normal thing in golden era of Trek (1990s) even in hi budget movies such as First contact etc

 

[Ronald Held]

Windows seem like a structural liability, and real world usefulness of a windiw in combat is likely very low.

 

[Tuskin38]

Windows seem like a structural liability, and real world usefulness of a windiw in combat is likely very low.

They're not made of glass, and the entire ship is already covered in windows, what is one more?

 

[fireproof78]

Windows seem like a structural liability, and real world usefulness of a windiw in combat is likely very low.

How? It's not glass and repeatedly we are shown that once the shields are gone the hull is pretty much in danger of collapsing, window or no window. So, again, how?

If the thin pylons are starships is not a structural liability I'm hard pressed to figure out how in the world a window is a liability?

They don't use carpets bcs it needs to be 25% different.

That 25% is 100% BS.

 

[Deks]

We're also just seeing top of the line military Starships most of the time.

In the civilian world we frequently see old ships flying around - Kasidy Yates' freighter has TOS-era graphics for example, and there were plenty of others in the TNG era with the old movie style blue/green LCARS.

Problem is that almost none of the civilian ships sport any of the latest upgrades... and in the shows, we are told that this is how their captains like it.
It would be good to see older designs that were refitted with state of the art technology... essentially making them 'brand new' because of that and keeping them up with the times.

 

[Caeruleus]

It is really bad why we don't some some of the ships from TNG/DS9 era.

 

[fireproof78]

So bad...why?

New ships are new Trek shows bread and butter.

 

[Tuskin38]

It is really bad why we don't some some of the ships from TNG/DS9 era.

It's not bad at all.

Plus we probably will at Frontier day based off the trailers.

 

[Yistaan]

If they wanted the Intrepid to look dangerous they should've turned it into a 3 nacelle ship like in All Good Things. In fact, how come we haven't seen any of those? We're way past the timeframe of AGT's future now.

 

[Tuskin38]

how come we haven't seen any of those?

Probably because they look silly. Maybe the creative team doesn't like them.

If they wanted the Intrepid to look dangerous they should've turned it into a 3 nacelle ship like in All Good Things.

Nah, it looked scary as it was.

 

[HotRod]

If they wanted the Intrepid to look dangerous they should've turned it into a 3 nacelle ship like in All Good Things. In fact, how come we haven't seen any of those? We're way past the timeframe of AGT's future now.

Cuz they're ugly.

 

[cooleddie74]

If they wanted the Intrepid to look dangerous they should've turned it into a 3 nacelle ship like in All Good Things. In fact, how come we haven't seen any of those? We're way past the timeframe of AGT's future now.

Well, six years past. Hardly "way past" but we are indeed later in the timeline than that future was based.

 

[Yistaan]

It just occurred to me as Romulus is outright stated to still exist in AGT's future, the destruction of Mars' shipyards never happened in AGT and they had resources to waste on stuff like refitting ships with 3 nacelles, something that probably wasn't feasible after the synth attack in the Prime timeline.