Nacelle Obsession & Secondary Hull Sleekness

[Chrisisall]

DOWN WITH THE J.J.PRISE

So, no continuence is better is better than irritating re-design issues.
Huh.

 

[Middle Earther]

DOWN WITH THE J.J.PRISE

So, no continuence is better is better than irritating re-design issues.
Huh.

Yeah, that's really the issue.

 

[Chrisisall]

And then, you get to the flattened nacelles which would look more at home on a Klingon cruiser

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

 

[JarodRussell]

The refit has just never really looked like a unified design whole to me-- not in the theaters in 1979 and not now. It's very nicely modeled, it's beautifully photographed... and the various parts don't seem all to belong to the same ship. The saucer's okay, sort of, and the secondary hull's okay (if a bit plump-looking) and the torpedo launcher is okay. Sort of. But mostly okay, so far.

And then, you get to the flattened nacelles which would look more at home on a Klingon cruiser, and the nacelle struts arrayed at a wider angle, swept and reverse-tapered for reasons not intuitively obvious, and the "why?" factor starts to kick in for me, even now. Those parts seem to belong to another ship altogether. The whole does not look to me to be all of a piece -- a problem I don't have with the JJ-prise, design-wise.

What you say makes no sense to me. Sounds like you're just reaching for straws to defend the new design by trying to talk bad about the old design.

There are dozens of "why?" factors kicking in when I look at the new re-design. And certainly doesn't look like it was made of one piece.

You call the secondary hull of the TMP refit plump looking. The hull of the nuTrek refit is even more plump looking, if you ask me. And it has been pushed forward, resulting in a short, thick, plump neck, making the entire ship look like it had an accident that rammed the neck into the saucer.

and the nacelle struts arrayed at a wider angle, swept and reverse-tapered for reasons not intuitively obvious,

Yeah, like the new nacelles. What's with those strange wings, or that WWII propeller plane nose? Are those intuitively obvious to you?

 

[shapeshifter]

For the first time, after studying the OP's picture of her I finally get the sense of front to back balance they probably meant for her to display but it's still ugly.

I prefer my nacelles circumcised.