Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed

Funny how it was so essential that they clutter up the original Enterprise to make it look “realistic,” but when they want to show “futuristic,” as the Enterprise design originally intended, it’s right back to the smooth, minimalist hulls.

 

That's the way it should've been to begin with.

The original Connie was relatively Smooth & Minimalist for it's time.

 

It's funny to me because these hulls don't look futuristic so much as organic.

Give me the Connie, any variation, over these.

 

Honestly, they look like they were 3D printed with cheap plastic.

 

And if they looked more like Star Trek ships, someone, possibly even you(?), would be saying "too Star Trek looking" or "they have no imagination"? There's just no pleasing you

 

To each their own. I think they look just fine. Nice to see more variety of shapes in Starfleet than just nacelles and saucers.

 

I like nacelles and saucers too. But there is more to ships than that.

 

I always go with the idea that 1960's TV was too low-res to be capable of accurately showing "greeblies" all that well. TV and movies got better with that in later years, so the textures and whatnot that really make sense on a starship were added. If for nothing else than to spice up the visuals.

Now, we're in the HD age and a smooth hull (which might make more sense on a 32nd century ship designed to use slipstream, transwarp or some newer version of warp) is able to be rendered well on-screen.

I don't feel like it's a big deal whatever the explanation.

 

*groan*

 

I was always fond of the Wells-Class. STO also has some ships inspired by it

Verne-class (I had this one 3D printed because I liked it so much)


Klein-Class (Mirror Universe variant of the Verne)


Mobius-Class (Mirror Variant of the Wells)


Paradox-Class (from the Mirror Universe, has no Prime equivalent.)

 

you kind of see briefly, but not that well.

 

Just got to say how awesome it is that the forest ship is named after Wangari Maathai, who started the Green Belt Movement. Quite a fitting name.

 

The Ni'Var ships are called Razors and we see them briefly.
New ships:
* Foresight (civilian evacuation transport)
* Coloma (mining vessel)
New registry:
* NCC-325002 (first ship on the left when Discovery returns) - no name as we see the underside of the ship

 

We got to see a LOT of ships in the finale, but what's with all the blue hue? Where is the color? All these ships kinda blended into the background. Kinda miss DS9 fleet scenes, where you can see all kinds of different colors and you can freaking tell all the ship apart without "zoom and enhance"

 

Maybe next season we'll actually get to see 32nd century Starfleet vessels that aren't just moored in drydock....