What exactly is his "distinct design style"?
Overly-designed negative-space finny boxy-nacelly.
So kinda like how modern Super Cars are designed?
If you say so. I have no idea what Super Cars look like.
Those cars look far better than anything Eaves has designed.
Lol, IRL designs are complex in their own right.
John Eaves has tight deadlines to abide by, so he can only go so far.
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Every designer has tight deadlines. That’s not an excuse to be derivative. And he’s designing a completely fictitious spacecraft, not a car.
Fair enough.
Using the logic I layed out in my original post, I could make an even stronger argument that the Enterprise G (Titan) looks significantly less advanced / futuristic than the Enterprise D. I believe its design is trying to evoke the Kirk era Constitution class. From a nostalgia standpoint that makes sense -- everyone loved the Constitution class. But it suggests technology and design stagnated for 100 years, which I don't like. The visual style of Star Trek is moving backwards instead of moving forwards.
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Tell us something we didn’t already know.
Starfleet took the Titan and gave it such a thorough refit that it doesn't look anything like it did, but does look a lot like a 100+ year old ship scaled up to twice the size. Then they changed the registry, even though it's supposed to be the same vessel (with old warp engines and Riker's music still on the hard drive). But they didn't give it a different number, instead they went with Starfleet's tradition for the most historically important and legendary vessels, and gave it a -A, showing that the Titan NCC-80102 will be remembered and respected for generations.
Then they changed the name and number to Enterprise NCC-1701-G.
Honestly, I think Starfleet was drunk.
Then they changed the name and number to Enterprise NCC-1701-G.
Honestly, I think Starfleet was drunk.
Let's call him Vice Admiral T'Rima Talas.
I bet every time he gets a new iPhone he says it's a "refit" because it's got the same phone number and contacts.
How dare you mock Lord Terry’s convoluted master plan!
I didn't mean to kick off this 'Lord Terry' thing people have going on, I actually like season 3. Some choices baffle me though.
I like it too! It's just quite amusing that your whole schtick is nostalgia, callbacks and visual canon, but you also make a load of elementary errors about those things.
Don't forget the stepped saucer undercuts! I see them and know it's John Eaves.
Not saying it as a bad thing, BTW. Just distinctive.
And pointy nacelles! Usually with a straight interior edge and an arced outer edge. If you take the nacelles off most of his designs, I can't tell what era they come from, or even what race/faction they belong to.
To be fair, I do like the Enterprise-E design. But I think I like it more because it was such a radical departure from the Enterprise which preceded it, which would make sense based on the advances in technology from the Galaxy family of ships, which then influenced other newer classes such as the Nova, Prometheus, and Intrepid. This is also why I don't like the STO/now-canon Enterprise-F, because there's just minimal differences between it and the Sovereign class that came before it. I was hoping that a future show would have depicted the Enterprise-F as a completely different design instead of the STO version, but not only did I get the exact opposite of what I wanted, I ended up getting an even worse design for the ship that came after it. Oh, well. Maybe the Enterprise-H will make me happier.
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