I do understand your logic here but they're so thin and flimsy that something that's ostensibly an advantage can become a liability very quickly...
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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I do understand your logic here but they're so thin and flimsy that something that's ostensibly an advantage can become a liability very quickly...
The two necks of the Odyssey still make more design sense than the tacked-on bulges on the stardrive of the Enterprise B.
But they're not, they're shaped just like the D's neck, they get thicker as your go back.
"Aerodynamic" hull geometry is a necessary component for quantum slipstream drive. That's why the Dauntless-A in "Hope and Fear" looked like a sea animal. Voyager already had an aerodynamic shape for unspecified reasons (variable warp geometry?). At least in STO, quantum slipstream drive is a standard feature of Starfleet ships, so the Enterprise-F's shape would have to comply with QSD.
Still it's not Canon that the Odyssey Class as seen in Picard would be equipped with such a drive as the ship was evidently already in service for years before ~2401, enough time for the technology to be tested, and a QSD is never mentioned or hinted at. It's tough having to remind people that STO isn't canon.
If the QSD or in fact even the Protowarp Drive seen in prodigy were both successful experiments then by 2401 the whole of Starfleet would be using these Propulsion Systems as they are simply far more convenient and efficient than regular warp drive.
100% agree; those greeblies ruined a beautifully sleek but stately Excelsior design.
Well, the Intrepid Class canonically had a use case that included non-crashing in-atmosphere functions so an aerodynamic design makes sense here!
I just remembered that the JJ-prise was totally submerged at one point, haha!!
Got to love those shields!
I thought that the Dauntless in Prodigy had a QSD, which is how they were able to go after Protostar.
Both QSD and the protowarp used their own forms of unobtanium, which is maybe why neither is very widespread in Picard. Regular warp drive seems to be plenty fast for zipping around the Federation, I could see the superfast drives only being used on a few ships for deep space missions outside of the Federation.
Only for the faster vevrsion of QSD.
Remember, originally the USS Voyager was able to use the QSD using the slower variant of QSD.
Love handles.
Not a fan of the Ent-F, but at least it looks like it has design lineage with the Ent-E, and to a lesser extent the Ent-D. Unlike the Titanprise, which is literally a design which is in-universe about 150 years out-of-date. (And IMO the Titanprise only makes sense in a timeline where the Federation experiences a Space Dark Ages where its technology stagnates or regresses.)
I feel the same way about the C and the D as large and clunky and primitive.
The Constitution III would have made a great Enterprise-B. After all, it would have been introduced right after the Constitution II Enterprise-A was decommissioned
New moniker Titanprise?
You don't need a Dark Age to explain it. Starfleet was just feeling nostalgic, or decided on a retro twist for that ship.
It resembles an old design, but it's built using modern 25th century materials and technology (minus the stuff they borrowed from the Luna Titan).
The bridge is identical to the brand new USS Stargazer from Season 2. So it's not using old tech.
Seriously, with how advanced the Federation is, they could rebuild the NX-01 using modern technology but keep it looking retro.
