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Probably. They shifted hard after the feedback from the Inquiry fleet incident at the end of season one.
 
I think it was already shown or mentioned, but STO's Titan Class also showed up in Picard S3 concept art, probably as placeholder.

It was one of the ships on the master table the crew would be sitting around. There were a few other designs on that table as well, but so far there haven’t been good closeup pics of the table.
 
Probably. They shifted hard after the feedback from the Inquiry fleet incident at the end of season one.
Season 2 and 3 had a completely different art and VFX team iirc

Dave Blass saw the fan response to that fleet and acted on it.

Funnily enough, the inquiry model in S2 and S3 is actually the STO model, though slightly modified.
 
In the commentary for Star Trek: Generations, Ron Moore and Brannon Braga claim part of the reason for destroying the Enterprise-D was they were told ILM didn't like the Galaxy Class design and felt it didn't work well on film.
Given that ILM also hated the refit Enterprise from the TOS movies, I tend to think the design preferences of the ILM team were garbage. 😆
 
The Sovereign Class is trash. No offense to Eaves, but it's his worst design (and he has several poor designs) and does not do the name "Enterprise" justice.

I think the best way forward would have been to refit the Galaxy Class for Star Trek VIII. Change the nacelles, refit the saucer by making it smaller and add a new bridge.
 
The Sovereign Class is trash. No offense to Eaves, but it's his worst design (and he has several poor designs) and does not do the name "Enterprise" justice.

Actually, I think the Sovereign class is one of his best designs. And this is coming from someone who finds Eaves’s work to be mostly boring and derivative.

I think the best way forward would have been to refit the Galaxy Class for Star Trek VIII. Change the nacelles, refit the saucer by making it smaller and add a new bridge.

Kinda hard to refit a ship whose secondary hull was blown to bits and its primary hull crashed on an alien planet.
 
I’m not so sure that sticking a saucer onto the secondary hull of a completely different ship would constitute a ‘refit,’ unless it’s Terry Matalas’s definition of a refit.
 
I do like the Obena-class in LD, which is essentially just an Excelsior-class starship with Sovereign-class warp nacelles. But it's also rendered in animated form, and a live action version might not look so nice.
 
I do like the Obena-class in LD, which is essentially just an Excelsior-class starship with Sovereign-class warp nacelles. But it's also rendered in animated form, and a live action version might not look so nice.

Respectfully, I don't like it at all. An animated show, which has the ability to come up with completely unique designs without worrying about budget, makes a ship that is essentially just an Excelsior with Sovereign nacelles. :rolleyes:
 
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