Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[Macintosh]

I quite like the updated Inquiry-class with the proper navigational deflector. It has both a solidity and a flow to it. It looks like a proper evolution of the post-TNG era designs (post-post-TNG era?). It also looks like a double-hard bastard of a starship that can take and deal a lot of punishment. There's something almost aggressive about those nacelles.

I do agree though that her being around 630m long per Eaglemoss feels a bit too big and ungainly for the design language. I'd have scaled it as somewhat intermediate between the Intrepid-class and the Sovereign-class, around 450-500m in length.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, at most she'd be a 350-meter ship if I were scaling her. But her appearance is just fine and I can easily see that class coming from a post-Dominion War shipbuilding program to rebuild Starfleet.

 

[fireproof78]

That deflector definitely smooths out the lines better, I agree. Still a fun looking ship.

 

[Dukhat]

I quite like the updated Inquiry-class with the proper navigational deflector. It has both a solidity and a flow to it. It looks like a proper evolution of the post-TNG era designs (post-post-TNG era?). It also looks like a double-hard bastard of a starship that can take and deal a lot of punishment. There's something almost aggressive about those nacelles.

I do agree though that her being around 630m long per Eaglemoss feels a bit too big and ungainly for the design language. I'd have scaled it as somewhat intermediate between the Intrepid-class and the Sovereign-class, around 450-500m in length.

I don’t think that deflector is canon, is it? I thought they were still using the unchanged model from the first season, just with the grille illuminated, not completely changed.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I could have sworn they fixed the Inquiry deflector grille thing back in S2 for the final Jurati Borg/SF fleet scene, but I could easily be wrong. Don't recall clearly. Probably screen cap somewhere to answer that definitively.

 

[Macintosh]

I don’t think that deflector is canon, is it? I thought they were still using the unchanged model from the first season, just with the grille illuminated, not completely changed.

According to Brian Tatosky:

"Starting with the #StarTrekOnline version from Season 1, which already had more texture details, we lightened the hull to match the regular fleet color, contoured the secondary hull so it didn't have a flat bottom, adjusted the shape of the nacelles, and put a proper main deflector on it rather than that air conditioning grate it had before. It fits in better now."

It's might not be clearly visible, but according to the visual effects associate supervisor for PIC S2 that's what was used.

 

[Tuskin38]

I don’t think that deflector is canon, is it? I thought they were still using the unchanged model from the first season, just with the grille illuminated, not completely changed.

This modified STO model was used in Season 2 as well. You can see the curved hull and deflector here.

 

[Mudd]

Because they look amazing. Sorry but the D bridge purs me to sleep.

Nope.

 

[fireproof78]

Nope.

Maybe amazing is too strong a word.

But, yes the D bridge with the begie puts me right to sleep.

 

[Sketcher]

It's interesting how much an outlier the D is compared to even other ships of its era, with its minimal bridge consoles and warm colors. A sign of simpler, peaceful times I suppose. I wonder if Starfleet went back to more utilitarian bridges after realizing how easily and often the Enterprise could be commandeered by a small crew.

 

[cooleddie74]

Once the Klingons and Romulans were both no longer threats the period from about 2345 to 2365 was a Golden Age for Starfleet taking it relatively easy. Then the Borg and later the Dominion show up and, well, that's all she wrote for the rest of the century.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

It's interesting how much an outlier the D is compared to even other ships of its era, with its minimal bridge consoles and warm colors. A sign of simpler, peaceful times I suppose. I wonder if Starfleet went back to more utilitarian bridges after realizing how easily and often the Enterprise could be commandeered by a small crew.

...from Ten Forward.

 

[Markonian]

Okay, so for Star Trek: Legacy, we got Captain Seven of Nine and a bridge crew (T'Veen needs reviving à la Shaxs) in place.
Let's blow up Titan-A in season 1 and bring in Titan-B (STO's Titan class) with a lit interior.

 

[Tuskin38]

Let's blow up Titan-A in season 1 and bring in Titan-B (STO's Titan class)

No. Make it an original design, stop reusing existing designs.

 

[fireproof78]

Let's blow up Titan-A in season 1

Oh, hell no! Finally a 25th century ship that I actually like (rather than like as "good enough" in the Stargazer) and you want to blow it up!

Why not just replace all the ships with STO ships while you're at it!

 

[Happenstance]

I'd be happy enough just having the first scene of Star Trek Legacy being Seven on a little stepladder on the bridge changing the light bulbs, mumbling to herself how dark Shaw liked to keep it.

 

[fireproof78]

I'd be happy enough just having the first scene of Star Trek Legacy being Seven on a little stepladder on the bridge changing the light bulbs, mumbling to herself how dark Shaw liked to keep it.

Finally answering the question of "How many Starfleet officers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

 

[DaveyNY]

Seven on a little stepladder on the bridge changing the light bulbs...

I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before ...

 

[fireproof78]

I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before ...

Wrong century.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

It's interesting how much an outlier the D is compared to even other ships of its era, with its minimal bridge consoles and warm colors. A sign of simpler, peaceful times I suppose. I wonder if Starfleet went back to more utilitarian bridges after realizing how easily and often the Enterprise could be commandeered by a small crew.

...from Ten Forward.

Or one android...or the Duras sisters