Is it wrong that I love this ship? It's utterly ridiculous, but it's something that a wealthy person with a starship would absolutely do. It's gaudy, it's hideous...it's a delightful piece of world-building.
Starship design history in light of Discovery
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Is it wrong that I love this ship? It's utterly ridiculous, but it's something that a wealthy person with a starship would absolutely do. It's gaudy, it's hideous...it's a delightful piece of world-building.
'bout freaking time.a clearer render of Baron Grimes' ship. Saw it on Facebook, apparently comes from one of the Eaglemoss booklets.
I like it. It looks like something a 23rd century interstellar arms baron might own. One of DSC's best one-shot spaceships.
So yeah, I got the EM Qoj Klingon Starship model today and this pic is included now, in the "Coming Soon" section at the back of the booklet.a clearer render of Baron Grimes' ship. Saw it on Facebook, apparently comes from one of the Eaglemoss booklets.
I'm heading off to work for the evening in a bit, so I'll post pics tomorrow sometime.
I think they're supposed to look huge and bulky, to be tacky. Big ass nacelles could be the rich space-guy equivalent of gold rims or a lift kit. I think they look ugly too, but that's actually why I feel like they totally work for the design overall.
Yeah this doesn’t look like his art style at all.
Who designed the Emperor's ship? Because this has those vibes.
It was a joint venture between Eaves and one of the production designers IIRC.
STO is doing a Excelsior inspired redesign of what I assume is the Walker Class (It's called the USS Georgiou), this is the only image released so far. I'd expect more tomorrow, if not than next week.
They're also doing 25th Century redesigns of the Magee and Shepard, but in their style which is fine but not amazing.
I suddenly don't hate this design as much as I used to.
Cut this pod off the main hull on its starboard side, recreate the little saucer winglet over there, make that upper area the bridge and voila, tiny single nacelle ship.
The winglets and stubby projections work on 22nd century Earth Starfleet vessels but not so much on Federation ships from the 24th century and beyond. The fewer "fins" that Starfleet vessels have the better for the most part.
Heretic.
Take two Faiths of the Heart and call me tomorrow.
Take two Faiths of the Heart and call me tomorrow.
I fundamentally disagree with John Eaves' understanding of Starfleet vessels. They are ocean-going ships, from the age of sail and steam. They are not something Chuck Yeager would fly.
Doesn't make him a bad designer, but it does make him a designer who produces work that annoys me.
Doesn't make him a bad designer, but it does make him a designer who produces work that annoys me.
I like Doug Drexler's designs more than I do Eaves' but enjoy both.
i like a lot of what eaves did for discovery, at least a lot of what he did has grown on me over the past year. but i can't help but wish they got somebody new to do something completely fresh. discovery deviates so much from what we expected ships to look like in this era, they might as well have gone further outside the box.