The D'Deridex is a classic design. The Valdore is as generic as it gets. Anyone could come up with that design if the brief is "Romulan warbird". The Xindi Aquatic ship is just a mess, there's no design there. The Insectoid ship is similarly generic. Nimitz Class (I had to look that up), is ok, probably the only decent Discovery era ship design, but it's heavily inspired by the beautiful Miranda Class.
I didn't have any problems with Starfleet ship design in Discovery or Picard, its just the Klingon ships that looked off in Discovery but they have sorted that with the new D7, hoping they will do the same with the BoP. Would be great if we get to see shots of the Enterprise and a new D7 together at some point on SNW, harking back (forward) to the days of TOS. I have always been a fan of the D'Deridex and the Valdore is solid too. The Nimitz is indeed inspired by the Miranda class.
I would love to have seen Probert's original Aelignne (AKA "Vertibird") Warbird concept in action on-screen, but I understand why they shied away from that idea, and taking TV's aspect ratio into account for the final design.
I'm with you about 99% here. A little disappointed they had basically one ship class, but the scene, series and overall story were excellent so I'm not too arsed about it. After all, it is Picard and sorta not Star Trek per se.
When we get Lower Decks, we'll get to see Starfleet from the inside again. In either case, it's still Star Trek to me.
The Enterprise-E was my next door neighbor for a few years. Sometimes we would hangout together. I have fond memories.
Nobody is right, and nobody is wrong. Now, let those who don't think the original 1701 looks all that great. Speak up, you will not be thrown in the agony booth. We're better than that.
I'll bet we can get a proper Haynes-style book out of the Kaplan F17. We just have to not need Haynes' name on the book.
Eaves put on his website that he's working on Seasons 2 and 3. https://www.atomicjohnnyspinups.com/about-me
He really does beautiful work. I just wish his starship concept sketches went more in those kinds of different directions.
How is this not generic? It's literally the top half of a D'Deridex. Eaves' usual ultra dark, ultra metallic, ultra angular, loads of greebles and bumps everywhere... and a generic silhouette.
What? It's pretty obvious that eaves based the design of the aquatics ship on oceanic animals like whales and manta rays. Not sure how you can't see that. The insectoid ship is equally unique with its pincer like design. All of the xindi designs barring maybe the arboreal ship, are among the least generic designs in trek because they're evocative of the species they represent. Most of Rick sternbachs designs barring the galor class starship were relatively generic imho
That doesn't mean it's well designed. You can have a grand plan to make it based on oceanic life but end up making it look terrible, and that's what happened. The man just overdesigns everything, so much superfluous stuff. Like putting his favourite, cutouts, in the STD Enterprise pylons. Why??
He gave a reason why he put those in the DSC Enterprise pylons, they're heat vents. Also you say favourite, but that's the only Federation design of his that has them.