Thank you. I don't have many people I can talk about these with, apart from the store folk.
Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription
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Thank you. I don't have many people I can talk about these with, apart from the store folk.
I just looked the Salcombe up and oh goodness, it looks very much like the DISC Sheppard Class. My Andorian antennae are perking up big time
https://twitter.com/BenCSRobinson/status/1001074672706969601
Whorfin class SS Lakul basically confirmed to be a future issue.
Whorfin class SS Lakul basically confirmed to be a future issue.
Bernd posted his Ex Astris Scientia database entry on Klingon ships of DSC:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/discovery_klingon.htm
I always thought that STO’s idea of Feds, KDF and Romulan Republic building a starship class type (e.g. pilot escorts) and then having 3 individual named classes rolled out for the type is a bit...wasteful? Impractical?
But with some of the DSC Klingon ships forming design lineages/classes, that’s either now having a canon precedent. Or, it’s like in the Kelvin timeline, where the Connie got upgraded noticeably and several times within a few years (original, 2259/60 refit, 2263 refit, A-type).
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/discovery_klingon.htm
I always thought that STO’s idea of Feds, KDF and Romulan Republic building a starship class type (e.g. pilot escorts) and then having 3 individual named classes rolled out for the type is a bit...wasteful? Impractical?
But with some of the DSC Klingon ships forming design lineages/classes, that’s either now having a canon precedent. Or, it’s like in the Kelvin timeline, where the Connie got upgraded noticeably and several times within a few years (original, 2259/60 refit, 2263 refit, A-type).
I’m not really sure why the Nerada needs to be off the table when Hot Wheels did a reasonable one. Is it that much harder than the Romulan drone which had numerous bits sticking off of it? (Although now I’m wondering if it’s off the table because it’s too expensive too make because of the labor of gluing a zillion spikes to it.)
interesting read, had no idea the veqlargh (my favorite discovery klingon design) was just one of a few ships with very similar configurations.
i'm just as baffled by the choices made for discovery's starships as everyone else, but bernd's closed-mindedness is hilarious. "discovery reboot"? such shade.
I’ve only watched the first episode of DIS, however, since my understanding from that episode was the Klingon houses weren’t yet united, so maybe that’s a reason why there are multiple classes per ship type.
Also, I think we are supposed to pretend the 2263 changes are part of a single post Info Darkness refit.
He’s been bent out of shape since ST2009, and really needs to tell himself it’s just a show and to relax.
you may think that. and i may think that. but the producers don't agree, so it's not.
The art department thinks it is, and the producers are signing off on them deliberately contradicting everything from Klingon anatomy to Pike's Enterprise, so I'm thinking it's more a case of them just saying whatever they think will get them the most subscriptions on the belief their fanbase will swallow anything with "prime universe" slapped on it.
And I say that as a fan of the show, albeit one who watches it as a Gotham/Smallville/Batman Begins-style reboot-prequel.
#131: Arctic One
#132: Warship U.S.S.Voyager
#133: Irina's Ship
#134: Vulcan Survey Ship
https://www.herocollector.com/en-gb/Article/star-trek-starships-extension-news
#132: Warship U.S.S.Voyager
#133: Irina's Ship
#134: Vulcan Survey Ship
https://www.herocollector.com/en-gb/Article/star-trek-starships-extension-news
It's cool that they are doing the un-Borgified version of the Arctic One, although on that preview pic it looks kinda bland.
The Vulcan Survey Ship is also a nice addition to the growing Vulcan fleet. I wonder why they haven't done the Vulcan shuttle from TMP yet, though.
The Vulcan Survey Ship is also a nice addition to the growing Vulcan fleet. I wonder why they haven't done the Vulcan shuttle from TMP yet, though.
Nope, but this isn't that thread for this.
no totally and i'm one of them.
he also does this with every new incarnation of the franchise: he considered enterprise inconsistent with the franchise for being too advanced before coming to accept it. still calls the kelvin timeline "abramsverse" and refused to acknowledge its prime timeline elements as canonical (way before simon pegg's comments about it being a wholly new universe in 2016). and now he has deemed discovery a reboot, despite the stated intention of the producers.
i think a website dedicated to the minutiae and continuity of starship design should try to account for new designs, not immediately dismiss them. even if they're ugly. which they are.
i love his site, read and reread his articles frequently. he's just an example of the kind of intransigence and resistance to change i hate in certain fandoms.
but hey, expecting the klingon warbird any day now.
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That's pretty much where I've been at for a while now. CBS and the producers can say whatever they like, all I do is look at my Eaglemoss D-7 sitting on my desk.
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