So that's how it looks when the lights are on XD
Given all the TOS era feature film ship models/designs actually used/shown in the original TNG TV series itself, (Excelsior Class, Miranda Class, Obereth Class among others) from 1987 - 1994, I fail to understand your argument that call backs to the TOS feature films 'don't fit' a TNG era production.
I asked the same question of Bill Krause - Titan-A / Shang designer. He said that it was not the original Titan space frame. That made the most sense to me especially after the Dominion War. It would make sense to pull mothballed space frames out and refit the heck out of them. Who knows. Sean - designer or Riker's Titan - did an illustration flipping the nacelles to show how it was feasible to reuse parts of the space frame from Riker's Titan.
It would be FJ's Estate (he died in 1994) and CBS/Paramount has already had a few copyright mistakes with them.
I"ve got to believe that there's some confusion by what refit actually means. The writers seem to be using it as a "complete rework / redesign of a ship type or class".
... and that has been the Trek Standard since The Motion Picture.
The refit Enterprise could have had a fair amount of internal structure remaining from the original (framework, corridors, etc). There's been a few fan vids showing a process where they strip the hull plating and "add on" to the saucer & secondary hull, then replace the nacelles and bridge module. Similar to the old straight deck carriers being converted to angled deck.
We shouldn't.
Where?
They put it back up this morning
Or they felt it was fine because Terry posted that picture.Heh .. the Lawyers are done.
Monies have been exchanged.
True but this is not TNG. Those ships were used to save money. Plus ~40 years later and how many TOS movie ships are still in service?
Hey it happened in Universe. Whatever the reason all those ships served in the 23rd and 24th century. It was all on screen. Live with it.
