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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

I think the 8 blue ones you posted are the only ones that made it.
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Here's a direct link to the album, there's close ups of all the final plaques
https://www.facebook.com/dave.blass/posts/10166209650385174

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Is there any reason it couldn't have been?

Considering that the only noteworthy piece of information on the Reliant's plaque is that it was stolen by Khan and destroyed, I'd say no.

I mean, like it or not, DIS S1-2 makes it clear that certain design aesthetics that were previously associated with the mid-to-late 2370s are now elements that were present in another form in the 2250s. So it's not at all implausible that Picard had his first warp flight aboard a ship from the 2250s when he was a cadet in the 2320s.

I'm well aware of John Eaves's design aesthetic where all his ship designs look the same no matter what race, organization, or time period the ship is from. That doesn't mean that I have to be happy with the design choice of the Leondegrance. Although I can't fully blame him without knowing all the facts. It's entirely possible that the person who made Picard's Speed of Light Club award just randomly picked the design off the internet as generic ship art, and Eaves had nothing to do with it. But it doesn't change my opinion that the design is anachronistic to the time period.
 
Weird how they have the nacelle struts straight in the plans below and a different deflector. I believe it's the concept art for the 25% different design.

I really do love the fact that the people in charge of putting these models & scenes together are publishing exactly what everything is, within a week of being shown on-screen, as opposed to making us wait 20-30 years, long after the show aired and ended, while we painstakingly analyze tiny little blurs on a screen cap like an endless Rorschach test. The Wolf 359 ships and DS9 Frankenfleet come to mind here. They really do finally get it! :)
Those analyzes were fun. People came out with some great ideas and designs based on what little we saw.
 
The Magellanic Clouds thing is utter nonsense. They're 150,000-200,000 LY from Earth. That ship ain't getting there and back in five years, especially in the year 2301.
Maybe they have some classified hyperdrives in the show now...who knows? Either way I really think the speeds in Star Trek are woefully slow compared to other shows, and maybe it IS time to make the ships go faster to really expand the universe.
 
Maybe they have some classified hyperdrives in the show now...who knows?

So, like the spore drive, Starfleet had yet another way to travel long distances in a short time, a century before Voyager was lost, and they didn't utilize it? Not buying it. It's just nonsensical information on a plaque that should be logically ignored.
 
So, like the spore drive, Starfleet had yet another way to travel long distances in a short time, a century before Voyager was lost, and they didn't utilize it? Not buying it. It's just nonsensical information on a plaque that should be logically ignored.
Could be a subspace vortex like the Xindi used.
 
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