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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

Actually one problem with the new shows imho is that there are no apparent differences anymore between the new 23rd/24th/25th century starfleet vessels.

You can't really look at the ship design anymore to identify the time a vessel was built.

The only exception for this is now the 32rd century.
 
I mean, I didn't use starships as my barometer any way. Uniforms were more helpful.

But, if I'm blunt the time frame is less my concern when it comes to Star Trek stories. Star Trek has reused so many assets over the years that the idea that some forms are static (corridors being the same in the 23rd and 24th century for example) or ship classes lasting 80+ years are kind of par for the course in my Trek world.

The story is my biggest hook. Tell me that in a good way and the rest are secondary quibbles at best, annyoning at worst. A problem they are not.
 
Whatever happened to Quantum Torpedoes? "Angry Blue Torpedo Launcher"
Probably not nostalgic enough.

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.
They're already planning the next generation of the F-35 as well.
 
I do like the idea of a new class being intentionally made as an homage to an old one.

In fact, I *think* the novelverse did something like this with the Akira class (supposedly designed as a tribute to the old NX).
 
The ships are nice and pretty, and seeing their technical details is fun. But the characters and story are all that really matter.

If you're watching it for LCARS, NCC numbers and whatnot you're watching it wrong.
I've been watching for the uniforms. I've been doing it wrong this whole time... *shakes head in disgust at himself*
 
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