USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

So was the straight nacelle pylon Enterprise. Yet, here we are.

 

Then it is canon that the Enterprise-D has a hamster running the Warp Drive?

 

Different screen, and we can infer from spoken dialogue that the Enterprise pre-dates at least 2250.

 

Not sure if that was ever visible, but there's nothing to say there isn't a Porsche and a DC-3 somewhere on the Enterprise-D.

 

I equated the phrase “most modern” with “more advanced.” I suppose the two terms don’t have to be mutually exclusive, but really, why wouldn’t they be?

 

here's another (blurry) piece of concept art from the paley center exhibit:

 

Ok but where did you get "most modern", then? On the show or in supplementary material?

 

The hamster was one of the many Assistant Chief Engineers before Geordi got promoted.

 

For once I like what we got much more than the concept art. The brighter lighting seen here would have been nice, but the color scheme feels much less like TOS than what showed up on screen. Too gray, too drab. And, worst of all, no Burke chairs!!

 

Huh? Those look like the ones used on the set to me.

 

The distinctive Burke base -- a single stem that tapers into four feet -- has been replaced with legs.

 

From this post quoting the TOS writer’ bible:

 

I think the floor needs to be a lot less shiny, but otherwise an absolutely beautiful re-imagining of the original.

 

Yeah, agree. I'd make the floor more matte and lose some of the neon trim, but those are minor complaints. They did a very nice job with a very difficult task.

 

The neon trim is OK, but maybe diffuse those big lights a little. They don't have to have that much glare to provide good lighting.

Unless of course you want lens flare

 

The deckplates should have been matte or at least a lot less shiny than that. The reflectiveness of the bridge is probably it's biggest detraction and something the TOS and Movie versions of the NCC-1701 didn't have.

 

Oh, ok. Well, production notes can be superseded by on-screen evidence all the time anyway.

Besides, I don't see any indication that Enterprise _isn't_ the most advanced.

 

Yes, I agree. Which is why writers' bibles shouldn't be used as evidence of anything (which was what the poster quoting that passage was trying to do.)

I would argue strongly that the Crossfield class is far more advanced than the Constitution class.

 

I'm not seeing any evidence of that.

 

Pike certainly is impressed, in "Brother". But the praise comes from him traipsing through the interiors, making it possible and even likely that the exterior is unremarkable and thus Starfleet "put its pennies" in massively redoing the interiors. As in, take this old shuttlecarrier, gut it, and install assorted high tech lab modules inside, connecting those with impromptu corridors and turbolift rails. Oh, and polish the shuttlebay floor.

Well, the Discovery had a tardigrade.

Timo Saloniemi