Absolute rubbish. The saucer is the best part of the E-D, and even that wasn't that good. The Enterprise-D is the second-worst Enterprise design, though at least it isn't flat-out ugly like the B Enterprise.
Crashing the Saucer on a Planet
- Thread starter Tallguy
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I'm impressed with the "WWI looks" of the E-B - what a regal piece of machinery! Probably my favorite Enterprise overall.
The Defiant was originally going to be much, much smaller than she ended up being. The designers took the original "badass raider" concept they had created for Bajorans or Mirror Sisko but never used for either, Starfleetized it, and put the Bridge in that bow section; the cheeks were lifepods. All those three elements with clear seams separating them from the main hull were supposed to be jettisonable in an emergency.
Then the ship grew bigger, and the Bridge went elsewhere. But the exterior had already been finalized, and while the cheeks became cowlings for torpedo launchers, the bow retained the backstage "rationale" of being separable, now as a former anti-Borg warhead or whatnot. This never got an onscreen mention, though, and various onscreen graphics showed docking tubes/airlocks rather than warheads in the bow.
Here's some art on the "small Defiant" interior concept:
http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xds91FS01ruox2ao1_1280.jpg
Timo Saloniemi
The Defiant was originally going to be much, much smaller than she ended up being. The designers took the original "badass raider" concept they had created for Bajorans or Mirror Sisko but never used for either, Starfleetized it, and put the Bridge in that bow section; the cheeks were lifepods. All those three elements with clear seams separating them from the main hull were supposed to be jettisonable in an emergency.
Then the ship grew bigger, and the Bridge went elsewhere. But the exterior had already been finalized, and while the cheeks became cowlings for torpedo launchers, the bow retained the backstage "rationale" of being separable, now as a former anti-Borg warhead or whatnot. This never got an onscreen mention, though, and various onscreen graphics showed docking tubes/airlocks rather than warheads in the bow.
Here's some art on the "small Defiant" interior concept:
http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xds91FS01ruox2ao1_1280.jpg
Timo Saloniemi
Now I don't think it was supposed to look like this
http://dragonpyper.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-1-5-Emergency-Saucer-Separation-287443767
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Saucer_separation
But this:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11606/did-the-original-enterprise-have-landing-gear
I've even seen a wireframe video
http://dragonpyper.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-1-5-Emergency-Saucer-Separation-287443767
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Saucer_separation
But this:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11606/did-the-original-enterprise-have-landing-gear
I've even seen a wireframe video
About the original Enterprise (TOS), it must have been The Making Of where it was said that the saucer is meant to separate. That's the only Trek behind-the-scenes book I ever read. And I knew from childhood that the saucer specifically was supposed to separate. Years later when Next Gen premiered, I wasn't at all surprised about the saucer separating, only that we got to see it this time.
I recall they were originally going to crash the D in the Season 6 finale that was titled "All Good Things" but the budget wouldn't allow it.
Yes indeed. It mentions several times in the description of the ship that the saucer could operate independently, and makes it sound somewhat ordinary, as opposed to an emergency situation as mentioned in "The Apple."
I think even today the 1701 D is quite a cool design. Sadly, not possible in the real world.
I think the saucer is the most attractive part of the D.
Utter rubbish, as long as the B Enterprise exists the D Enterprise will never be the ugliest.
All these declaratives about what's ugliest or best or worst. It's all subjective to the individual anyway. who gives a shit what anyone else thinks, like what you like.
Well YOU would.I like that.
(JOKE! THAT WAS A JOKE!)
Flipping the topic on it's head: Since we started talking about landing gear, we've never seen a saucer LAND have we? As stated in the thread title they always suffer from uncontrolled intersection with terrain.
Voyager landed once, but that wasn't its saucer, also Voyager isn't that big to begin with.
Voyager is about the same size as the Starship class Enterprise.
They they not specifically say that Intrepids were designed for landings?
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