La Sirena, Stargazer, Titan-A

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

Unlike most Star Trek shows, Picard kind of jumps around with its main setting. For the first two seasons, we got the La Sirena along with a few appearances in S3, but I forget what happened to the ship. S2 is bookended with the new Stargazer and S3 features the Titan-A. Finally, we bowed out the series with the Enterprise-D. Which was your favorite?

EDIT: I voted for the La Sirena. It was the first ship the show focused on, spanning 2 of 3 seasons. I loved Picard and friends operating out of this little cargo ship that no one in their right mind would take seriously. Crashed it in S1, crashed it again in S2. Whish it got a better send-off in S3. If I remember right, Worf and Raffi beam over to the Titan-A, and... the ship just got forgotten about.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

La Sirena had a nice distinctive design and was a good fit for the series. I liked that it had a Van Halen paint job instead of just being grey like most Federation ships in the series.

Or Confederation ships, it turned out, as Evil La Sirena was pretty dull. So dull that it didn't even make the poll.

The Stargazer I never had much of a fondness for, but I appreciated the effort that went into making its bridge look like a logical progression of what we'd seen in the Next Gen era. It also had a bit of Star Trek Online influence, in how the room was cavernously huge, with seats far enough apart for social distancing.

The Titan reused the Stargazer sets, but kept the lights on low to conserve power. Because it was a weak little underdog, built to explore the unknown and run away really fast if anything looked scary. I felt like the interiors were on the right track but fell short of being entirely convincing (maybe it's the lack of carpets), and the exterior... I don't like it much. It's deliberately anachronistic in a way that draws attention to itself but never comes up in dialogue, and I feel like there's a lack of harmony to its design. No disrespect intended to the designers, that's just my personal taste.

The Enterprise D is my favourite space hotel and the reveal that it's still intact and doing well brought a smile to my face. Especially as it looked the exact same (they even restored it to the TV show look without the Generations upgrades). I was less keen on it swooping around like the Millennium Falcon, which was especially weird after how grounded the rest of the effects had been in season 3, but I'm not going to subtract points for that.

Final winner: Enterprise D, with La Sirena as the runner up.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm going with the Titan-A/Enterprise-G.

La Sirena is the runner-up.

 

[FredH]

Final winner: Enterprise D, with La Sirena as the runner up.

I’d agree: Enterprise-D, because it’s comfortable (in-universe, why switch to all those uncomfortable hard dark metal sets?); La Sirena as runner-up because it’s also comfortable, in a different way.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I’d agree: Enterprise-D, because it’s comfortable (in-universe, why switch to all those uncomfortable hard dark metal sets?); La Sirena as runner-up because it’s also comfortable, in a different way.

I know what you mean. When I see elaborate metal corridors in a sci-fi show I think "That's cool and everything, but people are supposed to live and work here for months at a time."

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

La Sirena had a nice distinctive design and was a good fit for the series. I liked that it had a Van Halen paint job instead of just being grey like most Federation ships in the series.

Or Confederation ships, it turned out, as Evil La Sirena was pretty dull. So dull that it didn't even make the poll.

The Stargazer I never had much of a fondness for, but I appreciated the effort that went into making its bridge look like a logical progression of what we'd seen in the Next Gen era. It also had a bit of Star Trek Online influence, in how the room was cavernously huge, with seats far enough apart for social distancing.

The Titan reused the Stargazer sets, but kept the lights on low to conserve power. Because it was a weak little underdog, built to explore the unknown and run away really fast if anything looked scary. I felt like the interiors were on the right track but fell short of being entirely convincing (maybe it's the lack of carpets), and the exterior... I don't like it much. It's deliberately anachronistic in a way that draws attention to itself but never comes up in dialogue, and I feel like there's a lack of harmony to its design. No disrespect intended to the designers, that's just my personal taste.

The Enterprise D is my favourite space hotel and the reveal that it's still intact and doing well brought a smile to my face. Especially as it looked the exact same (they even restored it to the TV show look without the Generations upgrades). I was less keen on it swooping around like the Millennium Falcon, which was especially weird after how grounded the rest of the effects had been in season 3, but I'm not going to subtract points for that.

Final winner: Enterprise D, with La Sirena as the runner up.

Evil La Sirena being so dull it didn't make the poll. I guess I could have included it, but I figured the La Sirena would cover both S1 and S2. Love the Stargazer, wish it had more than 2 episodes of screentime. Did you know the whole Covid social distancing was just made up? That's what I hear in the news anyway. Yeah, the starship sets for the Stargazer were likely built to double for both the Stargazer and the Titan-A. The two ships share similar external design too, both ships have the same nacelles for example. The Titan-A was OK, but I feel like the "neck" going down to the engineering hull could have been longer. The two hulls just felt too bunched up together. I love the Ent-D, one of my all-time favorite Trek ships, but it just felt out of place here. It would have had a stronger impact (for me) if Picard and friends ditch the Titan-A as we saw, and the Ent-E had appeared instead of the Ent-F and been destroyed as the TNG gang look on. This would give the retreat to the Ent-D a greater emotional impact.

I just assume that Ent-D flying around like a fighter had more to do with Data flying the ship more than anything else.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I really liked La Sirena's unique-among-Treks setting, but I wasn't ever really a fan of the massive open space. So I went with the Titan-A, ugly as hell on the outside but a nice blend of TNG movies and the modern movie-inspired look on the inside.

Yes I know it's the exact same sets as the Stargazer, but season two just kind of doesn't feel substantial at all.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Damn, all four ships are currently neck and neck. I've never seen a poll here so balanced before. Still early days though.

 

[Daedalus]

I'll say the Titan. I have issues with the interior, but I'm not going to flog a dead horse by going over it again.

Although, I did like the curved LCARS.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

Damn, all four ships are currently neck and neck. I've never seen a poll here so balanced before. Still early days though.

I think this just shows how much time and attention the show put into all four of it's hero ships. A lot of time got put into set design and CGI exterior for all four ships.

 

[FederationHistorian]

I rank them:

1. La Sirena – original and innovative. And comfortable in a new way.
2. Stargazer – fit the vibes of a 25th century ship and a believable evolution from the starships from the 2370s.
3. Enterprise-D – glad to see it revert to pre-GEN refit. Plus, comfortable in the classic way.
4. Titan-A/Enterprise-G – was just a redressed Stargazer. And the Stargazer was the first to wow me.

 

[BillJ]

All three were garbage.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

All three were garbage.

Four ships: 1 of the 4 did you like?

 

[BillJ]

Four ships: 1 of the 4 did you like?

The Syracuse.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Damning with faint praise here, but I went with La Sirena just because it was different and non-starfleet. Although FAR from perfect, there were a lot of elements of PIC S1 that I liked, and this ship was sort of one of them. Far better than the 2 25th Century starfleet ships, and the Ent-D will NEVER be on any 'favorite ship' list of mine. It's just ugly as sin on the outside, and I've felt that way since the first time I ever laid eyes on a black and white pre-show photo of it waaay back in the 80's. That said, if I was looking at spending 7-10 years on deep space assignment, the D was the 'resort in space.'

 

[BillJ]

It's just ugly as sin on the outside, and I've felt that way since the first time I ever laid eyes on a black and white pre-show photo of it waaay back in the 80's.

Same way I saw it, for the first time. It was in an article from People magazine.

 

[The Old Mixer]

If it was that one publicity shot that was being used everywhere, that was literally the ship's absolute worst angle.

 

[BillJ]

If it was that one publicity shot that was being used everywhere, that was literally the ship's absolute worst angle.

I fell in love, instantly.

 

[Kilana2]

La Sirena, that's easy. It was something different.