Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed

[Dukhat]

True, but wasn't that done because the producers wanted to change ships?

Sort of. Matalas wanted to show the Enterprise-F as a tribute to people who play STO, despite the fact that it’s on screen for a total of only one minute and then he didn’t even bother to mention what happened to it other than that it’s gone a year later. Not to mention that he catered to like 1% of the Star Trek fandom who actually play STO, rather than the 100% of fandom who saw the TNG films and would have liked to have known the fate of the Enterprise-E other than some lame joke about it. He said that he probably should have just shown the Ent-E instead. Duh, Terry.

 

[MikHutch]

Sort of. Matalas wanted to show the Enterprise-F as a tribute to people who play STO, despite the fact that it’s on screen for a total of only one minute and then he didn’t even bother to mention what happened to it other than that it’s gone a year later. Not to mention that he catered to like 1% of the Star Trek fandom who actually play STO, rather than the 100% of fandom who saw the TNG films and would have liked to have known the fate of the Enterprise-E other than some lame joke about it. He said that he probably should have just shown the Ent-E instead. Duh, Terry.

Oh, wow

Tbh that's a bit of a misstep IMO. I appreciate the callout to fans of the game, like myself, but it foewnr jive well with ST history

 

[Tuskin38]

He said that he probably should have just shown the Ent-E instead. Duh, Terry.

only because people were attacking him over it. It sounded like he was making a snide remark based on the context.

 

[Dukhat]

Attacking him? With what, their Twitter weaponry? Terry needs to develop a thicker skin if that’s what gets his goat.

But in all seriousness, I don’t think he was attacked at all. And his response didn’t come off as snide to me.

 

[David cgc]

Not to mention that he catered to like 1% of the Star Trek fandom who actually play STO, rather than the 100% of fandom who saw the TNG films and would have liked to have known the fate of the Enterprise-E other than some lame joke about it. He said that he probably should have just shown the Ent-E instead. Duh, Terry.

Spoiler: Picard Season 3 Finale

I get that, and in this alternate world, it’s possible there would’ve been a little more time and attention given to the -E, but as things turned out, if the choice was having the ship appear for thirty seconds to MC an air show, with the wrong bridge, and then not even seeing happened to it beyond some BTS statements that it was being retired anyway, I’d rather keep the -E in the bank to give it a more dramatically satisfying final mission.

And I don’t even want to think about what giving the -E more focus than the -F got in the final episode would look like. See it carving up other Federation ships, carpet-bombing spacedock? Make it the Borg flagship, so the Titan-A or the -D has to shoot it down specifically? The last thing I’d want is the mean fanart meme of “cool old ship destroys lame new ship because new stuff sucks” happening in an actual production.

ETA: Oh, crap, this is the Discovery forum! Spoiler code added.

 

[Dukhat]

ETA: Oh, crap, this is the Discovery forum! Spoiler code added.

Yeah, I think the conversation segued a page back.

Anyway, not to belabor it further, I'll just reply to you and then let it drop:

Spoiler

I get your angle about not wanting the Enterprise-E to go out like the F did, but I think it would still have been a vastly superior reveal about what happened to the ship than the lame 'That was not my fault' joke that they absolutely have no intention of following up on.

 

[Tuskin38]

Technically not a 31st century ship, but we've got a clear render of one of the scrap yard Federation ships from Season 3.
https://twitter.com/shawnvfx/status/1678508912511705093

This was a “Kit bash” done for that episode done by our vendor Ghost VFX. The model looks like this.

This is where it appeared in DSC

 

[JoseNoodles]

Technically not a 31st century ship, but we've got a clear render of one of the scrap yard Federation ships from Season 3.
https://twitter.com/shawnvfx/status/1678508912511705093

This is where it appeared in DSC

Sensor pods from the Soyuz class. Nice find.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Huh... Intriguing design. Wish we saw more of it.

 

[penguin44]

Not to be confused with KITT Bashing

 

[137th Gebirg]

Seeing that... actually makes me a little sad.

 

[penguin44]

Ditto

 

[Tuskin38]

Friendship Class in STO

 

[MikHutch]

I haven't played STO in several months. When did this class appear?

 

[Markonian]

I haven't played STO in several months. When did this class appear?

Revealed in yesterday’s livestream.
Upcoming lockbox ship.
Tier-6 Friendship-class command flight-deck carrier.

 

[Saul]

Not to be confused with KITT Bashing

Junkball media

 

[penguin44]

Junkball media

Was waiting for someone to pick up on that

 

[Dukhat]

Technically not a 31st century ship, but we've got a clear render of one of the scrap yard Federation ships from Season 3.
https://twitter.com/shawnvfx/status/1678508912511705093

This is where it appeared in DSC

Awesome, I’ve been waiting to see this ship for years. Definitely a Miranda precursor.

 

[Markonian]

Awesome, I’ve been waiting to see this ship for years. Definitely a Miranda precursor.

I hadn't considered that - it makes sense to be Miranda precursor.
Is it a reasonable alternative that this ship could be, for instance, from the 28th century instead of the 2250s?

 

[Dukhat]

I hadn't considered that - it makes sense to be Miranda precursor.
Is it a reasonable alternative that this ship could be, for instance, from the 28th century instead of the 2250s?

Well, it’s in the same configuration as a Miranda/Soyuz, and with the lack of any identifiable parts save the Soyuz sensor pod (and possibly an Oberth bridge module) I speculate that it’s from the 2250’s era. Not to mention that every other wreck is a 2250’s era starship, however inexplicable that ought to be. There’s also the problem of comparing it to a 28th century ship, as we have never seen any 28th century ships to make that comparison.