Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[Unicron]

Another example is the B-52 where the oldest frames are expected to see a century of flight.

Yep, and the B-52 is an interesting example, because its service life has proven far longer than its actual production life (the time period where it was being actively manufactured). B-52s were only built for about a decade before newer designs were in favor and it became just a matter of upgrading the ones already constructed. But the service life has been multiple decades because it's a very good design.

 

[Tomalak]

It is really bad why we don't some some of the ships from TNG/DS9 era.

Maybe just wait and see?

 

[The Super Brando]

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

The nacelles on the Chaparral are much better than the official ones on all the PIC ships. Although I still really like the Intrepid design.

 

[Macintosh]

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

Oooof. I like that lineage!

 

[Macintosh]

Nah, it looked scary as it was.

Agreed. Just having a ship posturing aggressively while clearly being at least the tactical match of the Titan-A even when the Titan-A was having a good day made it threatening. Also, why would an outwardly regular Starfleet ship look evil?

 

[Dukhat]

It is really bad why we don't some some of the ships from TNG/DS9 era.

It is too bad. Rather than seeing STO ships that resemble other ships, I wouldn’t have minded seeing actual Ambassador class ships or variants of that class. The Ambassador design was the most underutilized type of ship in TNG.

 

[NCC-73515]

It is really bad why we don't some some of the ships from TNG/DS9 era.

There have to be some at the museum, we already know from the end credits

 

[Macintosh]

The Ambassador design was the most underutilized type of ship in TNG.

 

[Caeruleus]

USS Intrepid is beautiful. It is Dreadstadt class.

 

[Macintosh]

It is Dreadstadt class.

Duderstadt class. Named in part for Doug Drexler's wife Dorothy Duder, who died of cancer last year. (Duderstadt is also a city in Germany.)

 

[valkyrie013]

Huh.. I'm not a fan of tacked on, and the 4 torpedo launchers on the neck look,.. well tacked on...
Quit easy to make that better.. and this is the drawing, not the model. so maybe they fixed it??

 

[IRW Bloodwing]

I’m assuming you’re talking about Fuller and not the guy Davey was responding to

Correct.

 

[IRW Bloodwing]

Nah Picard did it better


we saw Sovereigns, Akiras and Lunas were still in service in Season 2.

True, but some of them were getting a bit long in the tooth.
Also keep in mind that the late 2370s represented the Federation's next great technological leap forward. The classes you mentioned were part of the "TNG era". Then came the Dominion War, and all the tech development associated with that, and the return of the Voyager, and all the tech it brought back as well. The 15 years between 2375 and 2390 saw the introduction of, among other things: the protostar drive, the slipstream drive, advanced isolinear/bioneural computing, holomatter-based interior transformation, and shuttlecraft replication in situ.

 

[fireproof78]

Agreed. Just having a ship posturing aggressively while clearly being at least the tactical match of the Titan-A even when the Titan-A was having a good day made it threatening. Also, why would an outwardly regular Starfleet ship look evil?

Have to be intimidating sometimes.

 

[IRW Bloodwing]

Yep, and the B-52 is an interesting example, because its service life has proven far longer than its actual production life (the time period where it was being actively manufactured). B-52s were only built for about a decade before newer designs were in favor and it became just a matter of upgrading the ones already constructed. But the service life has been multiple decades because it's a very good design.

Another thing to keep in mind is the so-called "technology deveopment cycle", very often, by the time a new ship or plane is actually put into service, it's obsolete, or at least no longer SOTA. That's why they're already talking about the end of the F-22 Raptor program. They're not even considering updates to them, but going straight to the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) program.

 

[Jayden Dersch]

U.S.S Titan NCC-80102-A Constitution III-class starship
What are your thoughts? How many Variants of the Constuion class are they trying to make?

 

[Dukhat]

I’ve already expressed my thoughts on the PIC starship design thread.

 

[fireproof78]

What are your thoughts? How many Variants of the Constuion class are they trying to make?

As many as needed.

It's one of the best designs for this period of Trek.

 

[Jayden Dersch]

I Agree, Kinda curious what happened to the First Titan?

 

[fireproof78]

I Agree, Kinda curious what happened to the First Titan?

Bad things.

But not terrible things.