I wonder why they didn't use the cgi model created for the TOS remastered?
There's also the wireframe model made for the TOS Defiant in "In a Mirror Darkly."
Or they could've just stolen Marc Bell's ship! 
It's really not hard to find a more accurate mesh of the Constitution class, as every sci-fi fan who ever opened 3D modelling software has made one. Half the people on the VFX team probably has one lying around in a folder they've forgotten about.
In fact they can have mine next time if they don't mind giving it some proper textures.
It's really not hard to find a more accurate mesh of the Constitution class, as every sci-fi fan who ever opened 3D modelling software has made one. Half the people on the VFX team probably has one lying around in a folder they've forgotten about.
In fact they can have mine next time if they don't mind giving it some proper textures.
That’s actually probably the best theory for what happened, someone on the team donated one they made when they were a kid or something rather than going to the trouble to source one.
The Voyager model also looked weird, but that was mostly in the texturing.
While it was nice to see a good collection of historical ships, a couple of seconds to pan the NX-91 refit on the day which was supposed to honor it would have been great.
One thing I did like is that while there were ships we have seen before doing important things, there were also ships which apparently did important things off screen as well. Not every great thing has to be from released movies & series, there is an unseen history too.
The 'unseen history of the Federation' was the original premise for the 'Ships of the Line' calendar series, which had been planned as a large coffee table book. When the printing industry declined it became just a set of calendars and a sadly undersized book (which I do have but way too small for the images to look as good as they could)
Trek is a mixed bag of showing fans what they always wanted to see (the Saucer separation in Farpoint) and missing golden opportunities (not even a matte shop of the 1701-D's Main Shuttlebay, just a glimpse of a door corner) The Fleet Museum is a perfect example of this
One thing I did like is that while there were ships we have seen before doing important things, there were also ships which apparently did important things off screen as well. Not every great thing has to be from released movies & series, there is an unseen history too.
The 'unseen history of the Federation' was the original premise for the 'Ships of the Line' calendar series, which had been planned as a large coffee table book. When the printing industry declined it became just a set of calendars and a sadly undersized book (which I do have but way too small for the images to look as good as they could)
Trek is a mixed bag of showing fans what they always wanted to see (the Saucer separation in Farpoint) and missing golden opportunities (not even a matte shop of the 1701-D's Main Shuttlebay, just a glimpse of a door corner) The Fleet Museum is a perfect example of this
I honestly quite liked the Sabre class ship - it was nice to think it was a plucky little ship that performed some heroics at one time or another. Not all ships worthy of preservation have to the the top of the line capital ships.
I also assume that inside the mushroom there are dozens more ships from the Federation and beyond.
I also assume that inside the mushroom there are dozens more ships from the Federation and beyond.
Ships might also tour around the Federation. It's probable that not all the rings are permanent exhibits, but ships rotate in and out. Actually, that was in the supplementary material, one of the Akiras (the Annie Wersching tribute, IIRC) was a temporary exhibit that was taking a spot that was normally an STO TOS ship.
We also know member worlds have their own museums - such as the Smithsonian.
They probably weren’t compatible with whatever software they used in PIC. That was like 20 years ago.
Ships like the Enterprise-A, NX-01 and Gorkon's flagship get to be outside because they're so critical to both Federation and galactic history, while others sit indoors undergoing either repairs and renovation or waiting their turn on the outer ring cycle so they can be seen in space itself.
IIRC someone from the production confirmed that. They have access to a bunch of the old CG models, but the format is so old it wasn't worth the time to convert them to their rendering software. It was a lot easier to ask for models from Eaglemoss and STO or just make their own.
Though it's funny, the Nova Class model they used in Season 2 was the original model from Voyager that eaglemoss themselves had already converted to a newer model format.
Yeah, the hull panels were away too pronounced.
And the NCC-74656 registration was missing.
Discovery season 2 used co-ordinates from FASA's The Federation booklet for Talos IV.
and funnily enough, they were also in the opening title sequence the entire season.
So if some how someone recognized those numbers...
The STO models were touched up for on-screen presentation.
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This is correct, and they more or less mentioned this with the discussion of the Inquiry fleet from Season 1. They have the original First Contact, Enterprise, DS9/VOY, etc. models. The problem is that they were all made in software incompatible with Maya.
STO/Eaglemoss's models of course come with their own can of worms, but they are largely faithful to what we saw on-screen. They do cause some errors though, such as the First Contact Sovereign configuration having the extra four pylon phaser strips, or the Nemesis refit configuration lacking some of the torpedo tubes and its secondary hull shape isn't altered like it was with the Nemesis CGI model. Then you have things like their faithfulness to trying to replicate the first contact models means the Norway and Saber are missing features like Torpedo Tubes (which they lacked in First Contact as well), while the Nebula from TNG actually has extra Torpedo Tubes on the triangle pod not present in TNG! Etc. etc.
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Shouldn't Eaglemoss be grouped with DS9/VOY/ENT? Their models are not as old, but I believe they still used Lightwave. Some of these were converted for PIC (VOY Nova, Eaglemoss Akira, possibly Eaglemoss Steamrunner), but apparently using the STO models was less time-consuming.
not to the quality of made for TV models.
Thomas Sasser got three different official files for the Akira- they adjusted the design slightly from Nemesis for Voyager & DS-9, mostly around the engine nacelles. He was prototyping for Diamond Select at the time and I wish the Akira would have been released, it would have been 1:1400 in scale with the Enterprise D they produced
