Doug Drexler's Enterprise-J (with underside view!)

[Praetor]

^Right! Which is why I felt they went into the wrong direction with the Enterprise-E.

Because of less separation between the two hulls, then?

I think the final version was rather silly - trying to make it look exactly like the NX but 800 years later was a silly idea on the producers' part.

Or maybe they did it on purpose.

Consider this: The only time we ever saw the Enterprise-J was in an alternate future, where the Sphere Builders still existed and the Expanse took up 1/4 of the galaxy. In a timeline like that, with war dragging on for generations, it makes sense that starship technology and design would have stagnated a bit. Thus, the Ent-J - even after all those centuries - still looked like little more than an uprated NX-01.

The *real* J, or whichever Enterprise happens to exist in the actual 26th century, will no doubt look quite different than what we saw. Because there will have been a lot more 'room' for technology to advance, in a universe where there are no more Sphere Builders or Expanse.

Nice. It could also explain why there was a Prometheus present. I'm not sure about the Dauntless, though.

The 'real' J could be the version with the secondary hull.

Interesting. I'm a bit intrigued now about the nature of the J's mission as a multi-generational ship and what that says about the Federation of this era. Perhaps we've now reached out to other galaxies? Its also rather interesting to imagine a ship like that in combat. That's a lot to risk in a fight.

Especially since they list it as having full size parks, communities, and even a university aboard ship.

It's a mobile starbase! 'Have base, will travel!'

(I'm getting surprising mileage from that pun. )

 

[Maurice]

Another flat ship with windows on the floor. Oy.

 

[Praetor]

For watching where you're going.

 

[miraclefan]

^Really? I thought those were there for enemy ships to better target ''Federation'' ships! sorta like 'light up dart boards'!

 

[JustKate]

Hmmm, I took a long-exposure shot of a ferris wheel a few year ago - it looks a LOT like this.

I think it looks kind of cool, but "pizza cutter" did make me laugh. Heck, it still does.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

This ship better have reliable shields (unlike Voyager, whose shields were down to 20% after the first shot, then slooooowly drained after that) or be made of some very strong composite, because it looks very fragile.

 

[miraclefan]

^I'm pretty sure by the ''25 century'' shilds have advanced to a point we can't imagine. Especialy if this class of ship has the abillity to ''jump'' from one galaxy to the next!

 

[Nerroth]

Sounds like the J is intended to give the likes of a Voth city ship a run for its money...

...or maybe there was some Voth influence in the ship's design and construction?

 

[Myasishchev]

Interesting. I'm a bit intrigued now about the nature of the J's mission as a multi-generational ship and what that says about the Federation of this era. Perhaps we've now reached out to other galaxies? Its also rather interesting to imagine a ship like that in combat. That's a lot to risk in a fight.

I still say that a family is safer on any given ship than on a planet when the cloaked warbirds start raining pho-torps from orbit.

 

[Praetor]

^And I'd say you'd be right.

 

[LutherSloan]

Sounds like the J is intended to give the likes of a Voth city ship a run for its money...

...or maybe there was some Voth influence in the ship's design and construction?

I doubt it, the Voth ships are really large and bulky, even able to store entire starships inside them.

 

[Nerroth]

Perhaps not a direct influence - more of a series of indirect studies of the odd city ship or two that Starfleet may encounter, should it gradually develop a more notable presence in the Delta Quadrant...


...or if the Voth decide to see if that Distant Origin malarkey isn't worth investigating personally, after all.

 

[miraclefan]

Do we know if the ''J'' can jump in to other ''dimensions''?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Do we know if the ''J'' can jump in to other ''dimensions''?

No. We actually learned extremely little about this ship, except for its general physical appearance. We don't know anything else about it at all.