Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™

[Tuskin38]

Latest SNW listed the size in its most recent episode.

Technically twice, as we also got a close up of the specification plaque in one shot heh. It's also barely legible in a season 2 episode, but this is the best she we've gotten in an actual episode so far.

 

[Gepard]

Something overlooked in all the ship size debates: we're back to the angular neck this week.

 

[HauntRod]

Technically twice, as we also got a close up of the specification plaque in one shot heh. It's also barely legible in a season 2 episode, but this is the best she we've gotten in an actual episode so far.

Very true, though I don't think the new size got much traction until this week when they put it up in big bright letters.

 

[Tuskin38]

Something overlooked in all the ship size debates: we're back to the angular neck this week.

the glows behind the deflector are also missing, looks like they may have accidentally used the older model.

 

[valkyrie013]

Ran out of time? or just done the tried and True star trek way ... Reuse, Reuse, Reuse.

Rendering new shots cost money..

 

[David cgc]

the glows behind the deflector are also missing, looks like they may have accidentally used the older model.

Maybe they'd animated the "startup sequence" for the opening titles or an earlier episode, and it was possible to reuse the old setup.

How annoying must that have been for the crew? "The pilot's dipshit kid brother who's been hanging around wants a cool reveal shot, so we're going to shut down the sensors, engines, and everyone's lights in their quarters, and turn them all back on in sequence. Please try not to be asleep at that time."

 

[Firebird]

Daniel j Burns (@djb-art.bsky.social)

A closer look at the Battle Cruiser I did the Concept for from SNWep07 'What is Starfleet'.🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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That design has a real Rick Sternbach feel to it!

 

[137th Gebirg]

It’s got some Eaves elements to it as well, particularly the warp nacelles. At least, I think that’s what they are.

 

[No Grave Dug]

Ya'll are really obsessed with the length and size of things......

Well...Size does matter...

 

[DaveyNY]

Well...Size does matter...

Heh.. Something I've been more than aware of for most of my adult life.

 

[Ronald Held]

Scale up the TOS 1701. Then the refit/A needs a rescale. Excelsior and the A were in ST VI, so it gets scaled up. Wasn't the Hood an excelsior class? If so it was seen with the D, so the D gets scaled up. The C and D were seen in yesterday's Enterprise. Ditto for the C.

 

[David cgc]

Wasn't the Hood an excelsior class? If so it was seen with the D, so the D gets scaled up.

The standard Excelsior-and-Enterprise shots already made the Excelsior look bigger than its official size, so that's not necessary.

 

[Tuskin38]

Trying to figure out the size of a ship based off models that were shot separately and built at different scales is a fool’s errand.

Even in purely CG productions sizes will be cheated to make a shot match the director’s vision or to make something show up well on screen.

 

[HauntRod]

The standard Excelsior-and-Enterprise shots already made the Excelsior look bigger than its official size, so that's not necessary.

Indeed. There's nothing in these images that makes an Excelsior look any shorter than a Galaxy.

 

[Tuskin38]

Didn't have a regular Galaxy claimed, but Dreadnaught is the same length

Indeed. There's nothing in these images that makes an Excelsior look any shorter than a Galaxy.

It's also hard to tell how far apart the two ships are.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Something overlooked in all the ship size debates: we're back to the angular neck this week.

The ship design changing slightly between scenes only makes it more authentic to TOS.

 

[Tuskin38]

and it's not like each Enterprise needs to be massively bigger than the last.
Look at the Ent-D vs the Ent-E. The -E may be longer, but the -D is still bigger every other way.

 

[Sketcher]

And then the G is even smaller

 

[fireproof78]

And then the G is even smaller

Maybe it's the g then?

 

[Donald G]

Trying to figure out the size of a ship based off models that were shot separately and built at different scales is a fool’s errand.

Even in purely CG productions sizes will be cheated to make a shot match the director’s vision or to make something show up well on screen.

And no story has ever revolved around the TOS Enterprise being precisely 947 feet long (per Matt Jefferies in the pre-metric days, scaled up between 1964 and 1966 from an initial 500-odd feet). Starships are as big (or as small) as they need to be to look good onscreen. While a ship model may be built to one intended scale representing a specific size, in practice that frequently changes in accordance to the needs of a particular shot. Effects people cheat and fudge things so they look aesthetically right, not mathematically correct in all particulars.

Narratively, it makes no difference whether the TOS-Enterprise if 289 meters long or 442.6 meters long. For purposes of film and television, it just needs to appear big enough and well-proportioned enough to look good onscreen and sell the illusion of being a mighty starship. The specific numbers don't matter as long as they aren't insanely out-of-whack and spoil the illusion. The numbers are to give a patina of verisimilitude to what is, ultimately, an exercise of the imagination.