Guess I’m not following.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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It’s ok. It’s not a requirement for you to follow.
Yup.
You don’t have to follow it either.
Just trying to understand your comment.
It's simple enough. An on screen explanation doesn't somehow make it a great idea.
Even Star Trek can do things that some people might find silly.
Still not following the relationship to my comment. Which was just a dig at nostalgia element.
Seriously don't know what you're on about.
You usually don’t. What else is new?
Starfleet being "nostalgic" for older starship designs is a sh*tty explanation for the Titan A's appearance. The original Shangri La must have been a decent enough design to warrant a close copy of its design configuration, setting aside it's up-scaling for now. It has big impulse drives for presumably high maneuverability sup light speed and the "Constitution" style structure of saucer, hull and warp engines must be a good one otherwise it wouldn't have been replicated on starships more than a hundred years after. We know that the Titan A has warp nacelle components taken directly from the Luna Class so it's tech is evidently contemporaneous with other designs of the same era. And since the same nacelles are present on the Intrepid Sagan and Titan A it also must presumably be a great design to be mass-produced and implemented across the modern fleet. Keeping a starships design structure is only proof of it being a great ship design in the first place, not because "old ship look cool, make new!"
Out of universe we all know why the Titan A looks the way it does. The configuration is similar enough to the Constitution to induce at least partial nostalgia for the Enterprise A and to a lesser extent the original 1701, whilst definitively being a newer design that fits with the rest of the fleet, no matter what anyone else want so say about it. The excelsior and Miranda class stuck around for roughly 100 years just because of time constraints, budget constraints and perhaps some laziness. The time it takes to design a star trek ship class that could please every star trek fan would extent long beyond the heat death of the universe and the second big bang. Maybe in this new universe we could all learn to play nice and get along.
Starfleet being "nostalgic" for older starship designs has never once been mentioned on-screen as justification for the Titan-A's appearance. What has been mentioned off-screen by production personnel are various pulled-out-of-their-ass explanations, such as needing a circular saucer for better emergency separation-and-landing situations, or Starfleet wanting to return to exploration and inexplicably needing to produce older designs in order to do this. The average viewer doesn't give a crap what the ship looks like, which is why there isn't an on-screen reason for why the Titan looks the way it does.
It was just joke.
Surely having the gold Shangri La Class model in the Titan A's conference room is an onscreen justification. It's clearly mean to be a linear design evolution of Said Shangri La class. When I said 'Starfleet being "nostalgic"', I was referring to previous comments on the thread, not as an in-universe explanation.
I wasn't arguing with you; I was agreeing with you.
It doesn't mean it's not silly
Oh. That's where being tired gets me on the Internet... Bed time for me it seems.
