Who said they were? It may just be a case of a shipbuilding policy by a society that can afford to do such a thing. Long-lived designs like the Oberth-, Miranda-, and Excelsior-classes may have been far more the exception than the rule and may even now have been a result of a bygone era. Starfleet updates a few of their designs, but it seems more common just to incorporate system improvements with new designs simply because they can, and 20-25 years for a single ship isn't that big of a deal to them. Conversely, Klingon shipbuilding policy could be the total opposite and is based on keeping ships around as long as possible. In the "All Good Things..." future timeline, the Enterprise-D was going to be decommissioned after less than 25 years of service until Admiral Riker intervened. So even if a ship is intended to last 100 years, it may fall far short of that depending on how much wear & tear it's actually subjected to during its operational lifetime. I know some may call it wasteful, but if you can swing it, do it, IMO.
We're also just seeing top of the line military Starships most of the time. In the civilian world we frequently see old ships flying around - Kasidy Yates' freighter has TOS-era graphics for example, and there were plenty of others in the TNG era with the old movie style blue/green LCARS.
There was nothing about the Intrepid that screamed ‘evil ship’ to me. Definitely not like the Vengeance. The Intrepid doesn’t even look all that different from the Titan. Now with that said, I do think they squandered the idea of having the other ship look more menacing.
All they needed to do was turn on all the lights on the Intrepid RED! Like what they did in the Prodigy finale. Because RED BAD!
Sickbay Titan on-screen: Sickbay Titan for real: Second photo much better. I don't know why they're using this dark filter up.
https://twitter.com/BuckAdmiral/status/1637840600824266752/photo/1 None of the designs outside of the Intrepid here are canon, it's just Bill's design lineage It's dramatic
I bet they were having issues with light reflection off the floors. All the more reason to bring back the carpets!
Phasers are very underused on this series it seems. I guess the idea is for more of a navy battle at sea feel.
How so? Who decided it's stupid? It was normal thing in golden era of Trek (1990s) even in hi budget movies such as First contact etc
Windows seem like a structural liability, and real world usefulness of a windiw in combat is likely very low.
How? It's not glass and repeatedly we are shown that once the shields are gone the hull is pretty much in danger of collapsing, window or no window. So, again, how? If the thin pylons are starships is not a structural liability I'm hard pressed to figure out how in the world a window is a liability? That 25% is 100% BS.
Problem is that almost none of the civilian ships sport any of the latest upgrades... and in the shows, we are told that this is how their captains like it. It would be good to see older designs that were refitted with state of the art technology... essentially making them 'brand new' because of that and keeping them up with the times.
If they wanted the Intrepid to look dangerous they should've turned it into a 3 nacelle ship like in All Good Things. In fact, how come we haven't seen any of those? We're way past the timeframe of AGT's future now.
Probably because they look silly. Maybe the creative team doesn't like them. Nah, it looked scary as it was.