It's the far future, it shouldn't make sense to us.
Starfleet Academy Starship Thread
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The Glass Dome is from ST:2009/Kelvin design, which for a 31st century ship kind of makes since since the Kelvin ships allegedly are supposed to be more advanced from "reverse engineering" the scans of the Narada (which isn't how any of that works... but it's what we're stuck with).
It also shouldn't look like generic "super advance space tech" from every Sci-Fi franchise that came to be after 2010.
I swear to god not everything needs to look like Halo 4.
It definitely doesn't look like that.
I'm not seeing the resemblance.
How should it look, exactly? It's a case of damned if they do, damned if they don't with 32nd century starship designs. If all the ships looked like spheres or were drones or whatever, it would be called out as 'not star trek'. If they went for traditional designs and no floating parts people would say that the ships don't look advanced enough.
So, I'm just curious as to what 32nd century ships should look like.
The vast atrium on the Athena with the dome above... they're brining 2013 back and Into Darkness
Star Trek Online managed to do it 9 years ago with their 31st century Starfleet ships.
Yeah that doesn't look like a Starfleet ship to me. Reminds me more of the Mimbari or Vorlons or something closer to that.
Particularly the flying Dumbo-class elephants with their big floaty ears. 
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So they took a ship designed by Rick Sternbach and made it curvier and also nothing like a Federation Starship. They look like Xindi Aquatic Carriers and the last temporal raider or whatever it is, looks vidiian or like a random villain of the week ship. You didn't make the point you were thinking you made, chief.
And why should they look like an obsidian arrowhead from the stone age?
Their design is based on a literal Starfleet ship from the 29th century.
Which never looked like STARFLEET ships to me so whether or not that was the intent the designs do not work.
And it looks less like a Starfleet ship than some of the 32nd century designs? Can you explain why a federation starship from the 29th century that doesn't look like a federation starship is more valid than a federation starship from the 32nd century that does look like a federation starship?
Forerunner architecture changes, although by all means the art direction that consumed modern sci-fi of "floating bits, negative space, and turquoise glowing lights" started well before then.
I don't hate the 32nd century designs, my issue is just they're generic. It's what I expect if the Federation was a faction created for a 4X strategy game. While I have my issues with the so-called "nacelle rules," keeping necks and pylons in the ship designs would have made them better.
I do appreciate they went back to white paintjobs. The gunmetal was fine for the NX-01 and that's about it.
I was thinking 2009 and Star Trek Beyond actually. But I see that too.The vast atrium on the Athena with the dome above... they're brining 2013 back and Into Darkness
Then SFA is right on track I guess.
But it still feels very Federation rather than Forerunner
See, that's the biggest issue when creating scifi. People want to be able to relate to the world they are reading about or watching on the screen. But you also want something that seems absolutely futuristic and out there. And that is going to clash.
If you told people 40 years ago there would be a time that you would pay for everything you need by holding 17 by 9 by 0.8 cm large device to a gadget that all shops have. With that gadget, you can watch movies and series any were you want. You can send messages to people across the globe. You can look up any question that you have, and a piece of software that has limited abilities to think for itself will answer it for you. It will help you navigate your travels by car, telling you exactly where to go, where there are traffic jams and will help you figure out where to go if you're lost. And even more.
They would laugh and call it scifi.
People from a 100 years ago would not recognize or be able to relate to 2025.
So..... how do you write a show that is both relatable but also shows a world that is most likely nothing like ours now? And here's the best part.....
Every jackass on the internet will write essays on how they would be able to do it better.
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