Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription
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His exact quote was that there are more ships in the 1st and 2nd episode of DSC than the 7 seasons of TNG!
Jeeze, I'm pretty much already out of room for these things. it's hard being a dirty completist.
In that photo, it looks like a separate unfinished piece.
You mean, like the Discovery overall?
(Just kidding, defo gonna subscribe for this must-have).
It looks like a separate/unfinished/photoshopped piece in the photo below as well:
I’m guessing TPTB made last minute changes to the bridge/ship size/design (it wouldn’t be the first time) and Eaglemoss had to make changes at the last minute as well.
I’m guessing TPTB made last minute changes to the bridge/ship size/design (it wouldn’t be the first time) and Eaglemoss had to make changes at the last minute as well.
Looks like a plastic piece in a die-cast saucer - possibly there are translucent segments on the bridge done.
The more I see Discovery, the more I like her. The concentric rings of the saucer are really growing on me, and she fits right into a pre-TOS era for me. Can't wait to see her in action.
Imagine if they tried to tackle Yorktown
Or even the translucent, multi-levelled Starbase One from Earth orbit in the Kelvin movies.
Or even the translucent, multi-levelled Starbase One from Earth orbit in the Kelvin movies.
I have the feeling Star Trek is still stuck in the 90s regarding the producers. "You liked it everytime we had a new starship model? Here are dozen new ones!" "You loved every episode that had a battle in it? We're going to have battles EVERY week!". Not really realizing that time has moved on, and what was once fresh and expensive is now "old news" in an era of CGI and wall-to-wall blockbusters.
I like that they're using new starship models. But honestly, none of those look really special or noteworthy, just every possibly variation of disc-nacelles combination. I'd actually prefer it, if they had at least a few ships of the same class, but with different variations like different coloring or different pods for each single ship. That would be more realistic (although harder for the model makers).
Considering all we've seen thus far of those ships is either blurry in-motion shots or from far far away, I'd say let's wait before we judge them so harshly, okay?
Agreed, but thats not 90s Trek but JJ Abrams' ST2009. "Here's the Kelvin parts, now make the Mayflower, Armstrong, Newton, Kobayashi Maru filler ships we need with exactly the same parts in every possible configuration: full or half saucer, 1/2/3 nacelles, 0/1/2 secondary hulls..."
In TNG, even with the limitations of having to build actual physical models, they gave us some very unique looking (and beautiful) ships such as the Nebula, New Orleans, Springfield, Cheyenne, Centaur, etc, classes. And then, when the same 90s producers used CGI, look how many different and beautiful ships they gave us in First Contact: the Sovereign, Akira, Saber, Norway, Steamrunner classes. All the above are some of the best Eaglemoss collection models!
Now, with DSC, it seems the producers are again in ST09 mode: "Here's the Shenzhou saucer and the Shenzhou's pair of nacelles, mix and match the same parts, add and subtract them, copy and paste, to come up with a fleet".
I actually think ST09 did reasonably well with their "filler ships". They gave us a Kelvin-variant of the miranda class (which was reasonaly, since we've seen a miranda-variant of almost all enterprises), and the other ships had some unique configurations (three nacelles! Two secondary hulls!), but a distinct style, coming from using the same parts. For simply background ships, that was good enough.
With the Discovery-fleet (as far as I can tell from those snippets, which is admittedly not much), it looks like they were stuck in the middle of "just throw different configurations together" and "don't make them too elaborate, they all must look simple because it's pre-TOS". I can't make out either a specific style connecting them, or one or two uniquely, new types yet. The one we saw in close-up (which looked like an upside-down Shenzhou) was pretty symptomatic for the rest of the fleet. I think ENT did it quite well with the Warp-delta and the Intrepid-type as background ships - one another mesh version, but an interesting configuration, the other a super unique, simple delta shape.
Don't get me wrong, I like new ship designs! This is much better than if they would have reused some old, existing models! But I think it would have been even better if they had one or two really good background ship designs, then copy and pasted them (with slight variations), and filled the rest up with more generic background ship. As it is, all ships are in this weird spot between unique und generic. There aren't some "hero ships" designed to take the attention of the viewer (as for example the Akira in the First Contact fleet) and some "simple shape" background ships that let you easily recognize their form without the need to put attention to them. It's a valid creative choice. Just one I think deserves to be pointed out.
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