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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

the first thing I hear is the declaration that this proves SNW is an alternate timeline, this is fixing the mistake of the Discoprise

Well, it does raise the question why a 23rd century Constitution class starship in Picard looks so different to the 23rd century Enterprise depicted in Strange New Worlds if they're supposed to exist in the same timeline...
 
Well, it does raise the question why a 23rd century Constitution class starship in Picard looks so different to the 23rd century Enterprise depicted in Strange New Worlds if they're supposed to exist in the same timeline...
Dramatic presentation of logs, vs. archival footage or literal history.

Or just recasting, if that's easier to parse.
 
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Except that younger actor isn’t going to look like the older actor once 2265 hits.
Who cares?

Well, it does raise the question why a 23rd century Constitution class starship in Picard looks so different to the 23rd century Enterprise depicted in Strange New Worlds if they're supposed to exist in the same timeline...

It's unimportant. If one must have a rationalization, all that's required is to note that the ship shown in Picard is not any version of the Enterprise, but a vessel identified as the U.S.S. New Jersey.

Nor, for that matter, was the TOS-style ship shown as a model in Marcus's office in an outtake from STID the Enterprise. It was the Biddeford.
 
Who cares?

Thanks for your valuable input to the conversation.

Neither would Chris Pine's Kirk.

I'm about as TOS-centric and warm and fuzzy about visual continuity as anyone on this board and even I know where to draw my limits. Just let some of it go.

I have nothing to ‘let go.’ Sometimes a response to a post is just a response to a post.
 
I'm about as TOS-centric and warm and fuzzy about visual continuity as anyone on this board and even I know where to draw my limits.
Indeed. If it's that important the events occurred but didn't look exactly right, just like Abraham Lincoln didn't sound like Daniel Day Lewis.
 
Five different actors who looked different played THE EXACT SAME James Bond in one continuity. In-universe the other important characters knew it was the same man from year to year even if the audience saw different people.

Just take the James Bond approach from 1962 to 2002. If and when we get another new timeline announced by Paramount then it'll be time for the Daniel Craig approach.
 
Starship continuity in response to Picard in light of the larger Star Trek universe and it's various parts was too long of a thread title.
 
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