Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[Dukhat]

He pretty much did. The starting point was a drawing he'd done during production of TMP for a future Enterprise. It evolved until it became the familiar Galaxy class.

You mean this?

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These drawings look nothing like a TMP Enterprise that was scaled up and minimally changed.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'noS]

Just the idea of taking a Luna class saucer and converting it into a Constitution inspired design felt so silly. That look sticks out so absurdly in the 25th century. I might have liked it more if they did a modern saucer like the Sagan class, but having any brand new looking ship be a refit of the Titan was a ridiculous plot point from the get-go. They wanted to eat way too many cakes.

 

[Tomalak]

You mean this?

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These drawings look nothing like a TMP Enterprise that was scaled up and minimally changed.

Yeah, the top one. It's elements of the TOS and TMP designs with a squashed secondary hull and nacelles. The evolution from 1964 to 1987 is obvious to me.

 

[David cgc]

Yeah, the top one. It's elements of the TOS and TMP designs with a squashed secondary hull and nacelles. The evolution from 1964 to 1987 is obvious to me.

I'd say the most obvious precedent for the Wasp to the Intrepid is the Excelsior to the Enterprise-E, but I know how a lot of people feel here about Eaves' ships, and we've got a design paper-trail for the -E that show it was more a case of parallel evolution and it didn't start out as a streamlined Excelsior.

 

[korblborp]

Wish they'd kept the unique nacelles. I got a little tired of all the classes having the exact same ones.

my biggest problem with the nacelles used is that they look like they couldn't decide on one design and stitched four together

 

[Dukhat]

Yeah, the top one. It's elements of the TOS and TMP designs with a squashed secondary hull and nacelles. The evolution from 1964 to 1987 is obvious to me.

There’s a big difference between starship evolution, and just scaling up a ship to four times its original size and making minor cosmetic changes.