"Warp 7 beauties" = the Daedalus class?

[BillJ]

And yet so many people seem to lose their shit at the idea of Starships being built on the ground.

There were holy wars waged around 2008/09 over the Enterprise being built on the ground.

 

[Praetor]

I can still hear the sombreros echoing in the night...

 

[evilchumlee]

And yet so many people seem to lose their shit at the idea of Starships being built on the ground.

Yeah I never saw it as an issue. It seems... easier to just build a ship in space, but there's no real issue with it being constructed on the ground.

 

[Praetor]

I think a lot of people reacted negatively to it because "The Making of Star Trek" said it was built in space. It may have also been seen as problematic that the Enterprise was struggling in flying in an atmosphere in "Tomorrow is Yesterday." You can easily write this off to the ship's state post time travel.

TNG showed Galaxy class ship pieces being built on the Mars surface in "Parallels" but I think that was less of an issue because they were pieces, not the fully finished ship.

 

[fireproof78]

I mean, if it's automated and using robots then in space makes sense, or manned pods.

But, initially, safer for the workers to be in an atmosphere. I know, I know, humans needing to breath shocked me too...

 

[Lord Hierarch]

And yet so many people seem to lose their shit at the idea of Starships being built on the ground.

Because its unnatural!

Like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! They don't make sense!!!

 

[Jack Wolfe]

I'll just leave this here...

 

[Macintosh]

I'm at least 50% sure that the scene of the Enterprise under water in Star Trek Into Darkness was put there just to stop people complaining about the Enterprise being on the ground in Star Trek (2009). God knows there's no other logical explanation for it...

 

[at Quark's]

I'm at least 50% sure that the scene of the Enterprise under water in Star Trek Into Darkness was put there just to stop people complaining about the Enterprise being on the ground in Star Trek (2009). God knows there's no other logical explanation for it...

So, what's next? The Enterprise shown underground?

Oh, wait, we already got that (TNG: Pegasus).

 

[BK613]

I think a lot of people reacted negatively to it because "The Making of Star Trek" said it was built in space.

From The Making of Star Trek, Part II, Chapter 2, page 171:
"The unit components were built at the Star Fleet Division of what is still called the San Francisco Navy Yards, and the vessel was assembled in space."
So just like the Galaxies on Mars.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I always liked the Daedalus-class as a concept. Okay, so aesthetically it's... challenging... but I like the more primitive starship designs. Maybe it's because it looks like the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of my favourite fictional starships of all time. It has a certain charm.

Big fan of the EC Henry version from the Pacific 201 fan film.

As a long lime "hater" of the basic design, I have to say that's pretty good.