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Sorry, I love the old girl, but she looks dated as hell in that video.
Why does the Connie/Enterprise always get called out on looking dated, but I never see such a comment on the Klingon D7, Eymorg ship, Class F shuttle, T’liss class, Fesarius, etc.? In ENT, STO and various comics the Connie looks perfectly fine alongside ships from the 21st to the 32nd century.
We've seen one of these far more that the rest of those?
Probably because we see it the most.
They also look dated. Which is why most of them have been updated.
It really doesn't.
IMO
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Maybe there is.
I think Picards ship the stargazer was supposed to be but it was changed to a constellation class for some reason
IIRC, they had to loop in "Constellation" over "Constitution" in post. Or may that's an urban myth.
I read that one on memory alpha
Not a myth. They also put a smudge on the bridge plaque to cover the word Constitution.
Lol
Oh yeah!
The Spaceshipper has just posted an interview with William Cheng, VFX Art Director for SNW season two. Some new images in there, and a insight into the design process.
It's also the only episode where Picard doesn't have a model of a Constellation class in his ready room, it was updated to a Constitution for that episode.
^^^ I always thought that very strange. Is it possible that the modeling team temporarily borrowed that desktop model to use as a reference to make the big one and didn't get it back in time for filming?
Half-right. Since the studio filming would be well in advance of the visual effects, they would've shot the episode with the understanding that the Stargazer was a Constitution-refit, as-scripted, so quietly replacing the Ready Room model and pretending that it had always been that way would just be part of that plan. The silver Constitution stuck a bit longer after they decided to build a new miniature based on the initial yellow Ready Room model, since it was being used for reference for the new one. The information in the MA articles isn't super-specific, so you'd probably need a shooting schedule and Greg Jein's diary to figure out which of the four episodes with the silver model were shot with the understanding that that was the Stargazer, and which ones were shot with it because the yellow model hadn't been returned to the set yet.
(Hm, somebody needs to update the Constellation-class Studio Model article to take into account PIC, where there was a realistically-painted Stargazer model in his Starfleet Storage Unit, and a gold one in his home, which is probably intended to be a slightly retconned version of the TNG Ready Room model. Though I haven't seen any actual BTS information on them, which would explain why nothing's been added yet. It's possible they're both the same model, and it was just plated over for the second season.)
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