The Kelvin Timeline Starship Thread

a month??? There's a no way they built a spaceship in a month. I mean I know the ship was along in the construction phase but damn that's dedication.

 

It's the future. They built Yorktown.

In the comics, it was longer, since the movie leaves it vague. There's a bunch of stories where the crew are split up and put on different ships and have adventures in the interim.

 

It's just the sequence in the movie that shows one month not the whole building process and there is a transition between that sequence and when we see the Enterprise in space.

There are many modules which were almost completed and had just to put into place. For the time lapse sequence I am sure they wanted to show as much activity as possible outside the ship. So every period in real time the workers would spend with work inside the ship would not be part of that sequence and would probably happen during the transition of the two scenes.

 

I'm sure "one month" was a production decision mostly dictated by balancing how quickly the lighting changed and how the camera moved, and not intended to be a hard-and-fast literal period of time from the beginning of the sequence to the launch.

 

I wonder what the Walker-class and Crossfield-class would look like adjusted to Kelvin staff tastes. I certainly enjoy the look of the 25th century skins as the Shenzhou-class and Glenn-class in STO.

 

Fascinating! The change to Kelvin-style nacelles and hull colouring feels like it fits the Crossfield more as a design shift.

Makes me wonder if one day we will ever see Georgiou, Lorca, Burnham, and Saru in Kelvin continuity. Or even any 2009 movie ship classes imported back into prime continuity series.

 

She's technically Prime Timeline since her disappearance into the Gagarin Radiation Belt happened 69 years before the Narada arrived and changed history but she shares design elements from both the Prime Timeline circa ENT and the Earth-Romulan War as well as Kelvin Timeline starships from later decades.

 

At least the shuttlepod launch bay doors are visible and obvious on the underside of the saucer.

 

I always had the thought that the writers intended for the ship to be a bit larger than it ended up on screen.

Enterprise’s crew must have been jammed in there like sardines after being liberated from Krall (even assuming they left the majority behind on Yorktown Starbase as unnecessary for the rescue mission to Altamid).

 

Well, fits with Spock's description from Balance of Terror:
SPOCK [OC]: By our standards today, with primitive atomic weapons and in primitive space vessels

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Which allowed no quarter, no captives.

 

Even the NX-class starships weren't brimming with lots of free space. 81 humans, a Vulcan and a Denobulan had to fit into a saucer section that also had that Enterprise's entire complement of cargo bays and storage including the shuttlepod launch bay.

 

I've always kinda loved this vision of the Romulan War. For every crisp and clean NX Class, there'd be a dozen of these rickety little ships. They'd be under powered and overworked. Picturing something akin to a WW2 era submarine.

 

Eh? The NX-01 had tons of free space.

https://ent.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/bluray/s4/4x10/daedalus-006.jpg

Compare that to actual submarine interiors, which the NX-01 has often been erroneously compared to:

https://www.shutterstock.com/shutte...artment-with-devices-of-control-723248707.jpg

https://previews.123rf.com/images/j...1-war-submarine-interior-sydney-australia.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/11...=dee8xLx4abOxCkAHZNc76u3Vg88fEcXE0UjniPNaDVg=

 

Aside from the bridge, which I like, I really dig the rest of the Franklin interior. The mess hall/crew lounge seems especially cozy and seems to double as a situation room, while the engine room seems appropriately cluttered.

 

I'm curious as to what the other Enterprises might look like in the Kelvinverse (the NX-01, the NCC-1701-D, etc.)

 

All of these are from madeinjapan1988/Galen82/@Josheua

Hypothetical Constitution Refit:








Excelsior:


Enterprise-C:


Enterprise-D:


Perception Class, which would make for a nice KT Sovereign: