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Ships of the Line 2019

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The images of the 2019 Ships of the Line calendar have been released:
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Sh...ie-20&linkId=811c72de4a4a68431c7d9e4510db2911

The basic rundown as follows:
January: Enterprise 1701 and rocket from Assignment Earth
February: Enterprise NX-01 and a Vulcan ship
March: Voyager docked at DS9
April: Pretty much most of the alien ships from the franchise
May: Movie refit Enterprise (A?)
June: A damaged Oberth class, with movie Enterprise in the distance
Centrefold: Looks like a life-sized mock-up of a TOS shuttle
July: Discovery and Enterprise 1701 as depicted in Disco finale
August: Shuttles escaping the burning Stargazer
September: Ambassador class ship?
October: Kelvin timeline Enterprise
November: Movie era Enterprise and Klingon BoPs
December: TV series Enterprise with V'Ger?
 
Discovery universe Enterprise is nice looking but it’s wrong. Should have used the proper Enterprise there.
That other Enterprise pic I have already as a wallpaper.
Wish they did more lit verse ships.
 
Wow, lots of TOS movie-era love in this one (three different pieces/months), including some interesting new original designs.
 
thribs said:
Discovery universe Enterprise is nice looking but it’s wrong. Should have used the proper Enterprise there.
That other Enterprise pic I have already as a wallpaper.
Wish they did more lit verse ships.
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If that’s what the TOS Enterprise looks like in Discovery, no wonder people are screaming alternate universe!
 
tomswift2002 said:
If that’s what the TOS Enterprise looks like in Discovery, no wonder people are screaming alternate universe!
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While I don't mind the design they came up with, it just looks totally out of place when compared to all the other Starfleet ships shown in DSC so far.
 
True. What’s even weirder is that Discovery is a newer ship than the Enterprise.
 
DEWLine said:
No. Registry numbers are in chronological order. Chronological.
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That’s true in most cases but not all. Maybe the Discovery design is older than the Constitution But was built later on. Registry numbers could be assigned from the early stages and not when it’s fully complete.
 
DEWLine said:
No. Registry numbers are in chronological order. Chronological.
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Not in DSC they're not. The Shenzhou, while being older than the Discovery, has a higher registry.

thribs said:
True. What’s even weirder is that Discovery is a newer ship than the Enterprise.
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It's my opinion that the Constitution class as seen on TOS (and now DSC) was an older design in the process of being phased out.
 
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Dukhat said:
Well, we have no idea how many people were complaining when TMP came out because the internet didn't exist for them to use to bitch about it.
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Media magazines like Starlog and Cinefantastique existed. Those were our Internet back then, and their letter columns were our discussion boards.
 
Dukhat said:
While I don't mind the design they came up with, it just looks totally out of place when compared to all the other Starfleet ships shown in DSC so far.
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This is my first time seeing the ship, and it looks like it got flattened—-of course the viewing angle isn’t that great.

But it leaves the question, if the show takes place in the same universe as “The Cage” and WNMHGB, why did they alter the design? The lowered neck was a dead give away that this was not the TOS Enterprise—and the NX style nacelles remind me of the 2009 Enterprise.
 
tomswift2002 said:
But it leaves the question, if the show takes place in the same universe as “The Cage” and WNMHGB, why did they alter the design? The lowered neck was a dead give away that this was not the TOS Enterprise—and the NX style nacelles remind me of the 2009 Enterprise.
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Visual reboot. The simple looking 1960s designs would not hold up today as a futuristic spaceship
Same universe, different look.
 
tomswift2002 said:
But it leaves the question, if the show takes place in the same universe as “The Cage” and WNMHGB, why did they alter the design?
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For the same reason that comic book characters' faces change appearance when a new artist takes over. For the same reason that a cover of a song sounds different from the original, or that a symphony will sound different depending on who conducts the orchestra. Because this isn't a documentary, it's a work of creativity, and production design is a form of artistic expression. This is hardly unprecedented -- the Klingons, Romulans, Andorians, Tellarites, etc. have been redesigned by every new makeup artist, and the transporter and warp drive effects have been redesigned by every new production team. They're the same underlying idea filtered through the individual creative styles of the designers.

As artistic reinterpretations go, the new version of the Enterprise is actually pretty close to the original. It basically looks like an attempt to reconcile the broad strokes of the original design with what later productions have established about Starfleet design before and after this timeframe, to make it fit better into the modern version of Trek continuity.
 
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