Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

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  1. Markonian

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    El’nor.
     
  2. Ar-Pharazon

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    That's the first thing I thought.

    But then, Picard is so awesome, they'll eventually rename "USS Teh Awesome" to "USS Picard"
     
  3. Tuskin38

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    It's just 'Elnor' there's no apostrophe in his name.
     
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    I mix up Elnor and Dr. Sal all the time. It's amusing that the alien looking spelling is actually the human's name.
     
  6. Markonian

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    Omg I’m not the only one!
     
  7. David cgc

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    Warmed my heart to see a ship named for Fabio Passaro.

    According to Thomas Marrone, it's a bug and the ship will display at the correct size soon.

    Also, the updated Odyssey model used in PIC has debuted, there are some screenshots elsewhere on his account.
     
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    And, we have a name for Crusher/Picard's shuttle - the Hermes.
     
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    Let's see how much vertical scrolling this will take on the forum.
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  10. JamesRye

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    An unusually interesting and informative video all about the Titan from Junkball Media. I always find this You Tuber to be insightful and quite amusing.



    Also worth checking out is Dave Blass on Inglorious Treksperts, who says that the modus operandi on Picard Season 3 was very different to the one on Picard Season 1. Some interesting discussion about starships on there too.
     
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    Looks like they are using the First Contact version of the Enterprise E instead of the Nemesis version with the extended nacelle pylons and "hump". Fair enough.
     
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    That hump :techman:
     
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    Ab'Normel is my favorite of the new aliens from Season 3.
     
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    Isn't that Nick Nack from Lower Decks?? :guffaw:
     
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    I AM NICK NACK.
     
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    It's not really a hump as such, it's additional fairings to blend the saucer into the secondary hull more.

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    And they're a bit too large in that drawing. On the actual model they're barely visible in side view.

    I like them. The Nemesis model seems to have been used for Lower Decks, I wish they'd used it in Picard as well.
     
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    The connie-III in STO is getting a new texture that matches the show colours better
    https://twitter.com/thomasthecat/status/1668703827024035841

    Sounds like the original was made at a very busy time, which is why they reused the Sagan texture initially.

    People with the Excelsior-II and Sagan will get access to it too.
     
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    It's a little tough to tell. I'd been using the nacelle-pylon phasers as my giveaway, since they're easiest to be sure of from a distance, but on closer inspection it looks like the stock STO version just added the phasers, but is otherwise based on the FC/INS version. I'd had it in my head STO had FC and NEM skins for the ship as well as the post-NEM version, but I guess I had heard someone talking about applying the FC skin to the post-NEM model (which wouldn't quite be accurate, it'd have that extra reinforcement along the engineering section that wasn't in the movie).

    For my own records/future art purposes, I've been splitting them out into FC, NEM, and Post-NEM variants based on the art used on the "trading cards," which, I now realize, just means that the NEM versions are all ones that used 3D renders of the model used on the show, while the FC (Gilgamesh and Venture) and Post-NEM (Valkyrie) ships were using old illustrations of the -E that Eaves had on-hand that were Photoshopped to have different names.

    And, checking closer again, it looks like the Van Citters (and, presumably, the Wayfairer) have the opposite situation to the PIC Sovereigns; it was the NEM mods except the extra phasers, but the fairings and the aft torpedo tubes are there. If anyone cares, the Prodigy Sovereign is (more or less) the Digital Muse model built for, but not used in, INS, that was on various book covers, SotL images, and Eaglemoss illustrations.
     
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