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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

EJD1984 said:
Going on the record - I'm just not liking the Titan A design at all. Looks awkward and clunky.
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I kind of like that. Starship design has been all sleek and pointy since John Eaves became the predominant starship designer. And that's great, but I also like a bit of variety.

It's nice to get something that looks a bit more chunky and modular. I can easily imagine a Reliant-style counterpart to this ship. Or versions with four nacelles, or just one.
 
Tomalak said:
I kind of like that. Starship design has been all sleek and pointy since John Eaves became the predominant starship designer.
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Eh? what Fed designs has he done that are pointy?

Only pointy Fed designs I can think of are the Prometheus and Wells, neither were designed by Eaves. All his Discovery designs had round saucers.
 
Dauntless, Equinox and Rhode Island were pretty pointy too. If we're adding Timeships, don't forget the Aeon; that was super-pointy. Those and the other two you mentioned ALL came out of the VOY crop of ships, with a generally Sternbach- and Probert-esque pedigree, not Eaves. Prodigy follows along that same (pointy) design language established in Voyager with the Protostar, especially since that show has basically set itself up to be VOY's sequel series.
 
Yeah IIRC Eaves said he was inspired by Voyager’s move to a more streamlined design when making the Enterprise-E streamlined.

He didn’t design the Steamrunner, Sabre, Norway or Akira before someone brings them up.
 
Tuskin38 said:
Eh? what Fed designs has he done that are pointy?

Only pointy Fed designs I can think of are the Prometheus and Wells, neither were designed by Eaves. All his Discovery designs had round saucers.
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Sorry, "pointy" probably wasn't the right word. Thinking of the combination of compound curves and sharp angles that have appeared on the Ent-E, Son'a ships, Scimitar, Dominion battleship, Breen ship and a lot of the Disco ships.

I love all those designs, but I also like the more modular and "functional" ships that Andrew Probert and Rick Sternbach designed.

Basically variety is good, and I like how the new Titan doesn't really look like anything we've seen in recent Trek series. It's part throwback, but also something new.
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned but the ship at the start of the trailer resembles an Eaves design he put forward for STO back in the day, albeit with an adjusted deflector and new NX style connecting bar.

Ugh linking images is hard...sigh. Well if you do a John Eaves google image search the ship is literally in the third line called the Phoenix.
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As a new ship - maybe something that is harkening back to the old exploration days of Pike/Kirk era? It's not a bad design.

As the Titan? It's a bit disappointing that it looks like a kitbash. I wouldn't have minded an "upgrade" or refit of Riker's old ship as it's decades old by now. My only issue is making it look so much like Pike's Enterprise in SNW. I want to see new ships, not variations of one we already have and one in in ongoing show.

To me, it'd be like if the Defiant or Voyager were refits of the ENT-D with different pylons or nacelles but mostly the same saucer section. Seems like a missed opportunity.

The good thing is seeing Seven in a Starfleet uniform. :D
 
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Tuskin38 said:
Well the rogue one trailers weren’t intentionally misleading.
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Not generally, but they do feature a significant number of scenes that were either cut from the final version or altered significantly, like Baze's dialogue seemingly to imply he was a former clone trooper or stormtrooper who was actively fighting the Empire. And perhaps the most famous altered scene - Jyn seemingly facing off with a TIE fighter on the tower - was a deliberate lie on the part of the director, as he himself finally admitted. The phantom TIE was never intended to be in the final film and only used for the trailer, despite it initially being teased by the production staff as one of the cut elements. And it's too bad really, because it would have been awesome. ;)
 
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