Best photos yet of the new Discoprise - Studio Model
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A TMP era set series would have been more fitting for Discovery. Uncharted territory, advanced looking ships. Color up the uniforms and you might have a winner on your hands.
They didn't ruin it at all, and they're still selling TOS merchandise.
If they started selling only DSC Enterprise merch I'd agree with you.
Ouch, the sarcasm is so dry that I need a drink...
Interesting. Minor inaccuracies notwithstanding, what the side-by-side comparison underscores for me is that the show took an approach practically guaranteed to please nobody. If you're in the camp that really thinks the original Enterprise design looks "dated" and somehow unfit for modern audiences, then the DSC version is so damn close to the original (deflector dish and all!) that it's not really an improvement. On the other hand, if you're in the camp that loves the original, there are enough differences (including the bulgy nacelles, shorter neck, bridge window, etc.) that it's obviously not the same ship.
So the "appease modern audiences" rationale become moot. Which leaves only the question of which design is more aesthetically pleasing. And that is an irreducibly subjective question, as some people will say...
...whereas I emphatically disagree. To my eye the original design is beautiful, a joy to look at. This one looks squat and unbalanced, as several other posters have been describing.
I'm firmly in the camp that thinks that the only ship design in Trek that ever improved on the original Enterprise was the TMP refit design. The people who did that one beat the odds. But that was a daunting task, and the folks behind DSC don't seem to have been up to it. If they couldn't improve it, they should have left it alone.
They were? I've heard him blamed for the redesigned Klingons and the squarish nacelles, but this is the first time I've heard the flatter ships pinned on him. What's your source? It always seemed to me like an obvious Eaves-ism.
It was from one of the Eaglemoss booklets. I don't remember which one.
Also why is it an Eaves-ism? He only designed one flat'ish ship for the canon before Discovery came along.
Edit: He also designed the 'Intrepid' from Enterprise.
I said BEFORE Discovery. Re-read my post.
And as I said the flat part was a Fuller directive.
It is more squashed, but I believe Eaves in that the differences in design were made purely for legal reasons. I think the bridge windows look nice and make for good effect when crew members are looking out over the hull at what's going on. A closed room with a viewscreen gives a more claustrophobic effect.
I knew it looked familiar:
I'll never argue that having the bridge on the very top of the saucer isn't a terrible idea.
Sometimes the original Enterprise did too.
