They didn't have to. FJ isn't the be-all-and-end-all of TOS starship variants.
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They didn't have to. FJ isn't the be-all-and-end-all of TOS starship variants.
Should have added a winky face to that one. It was meant to be sarcastic.
I love FJ's work and it is definitely one of my go tos for light Trek reading, but the whole limited TOS designs in the ships was not the best for me. Reminded me of when I would play Star Trek on PC and would build my own ships kitbash style by screenshot and then cut the saucer, cut the nacelles and swap them around.
Why should he do that if Old Trek never did?
I'm sensing some bias towards Old Trek here, and against New Trek.
Also, in Eaves concept art the bussard collectors were wither a consistent colour, or the art is black and white. The inconsistency in colour is from the show's CG artists, not him.
Like the Malachowski concept art has orange bussards
Yet the CG model has blue
Same with the Discovery, orange bussards in the concept art, but the final show it has blue. You're blaming Eaves for something he didn't do.
I can't find any in colour concept art for the Nimitz Class that shows the bussards, but there is an early CG model that has orange bussards instead of blue:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5AY3P
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They all would look better with orange Bussard collectors.
Fair enough on the concept art having red bussards in some cases. At least that's something.
Old Trek...
...did it frequently
So no, not "never". It's the foundation for all Trek ships. I'm not saying every single class of ship have a common language, but there are plenty more examples. The Centaur class and DS9 kitbashes using parts of old Trek ships for instance.
Eaves had the opportunity to make a new design language for a new era, and just gave us 6 wildly different looks, that may as well have come from 6 different designers.
No bias. I'm just not impressed with a lot of the work on Discovery and Picard. I've sat through 3 seasons of CBSTrek and if the characters aren't awful (in Discovery's case), then the writing is (in both series' case). I thought maybe I could at least fall back on the visual effects and ship porn, but no, the space visual effects are terrible and the ship are either ugly (subjective) or badly designed (objective), or both.
Old Trek...
...did it frequently
So no, not "never". It's the foundation for all Trek ships. I'm not saying every single class of ship have a common language, but there are plenty more examples. The Centaur class and DS9 kitbashes using parts of old Trek ships for instance.
Eaves had the opportunity to make a new design language for a new era, and just gave us 6 wildly different looks, that may as well have come from 6 different designers.
No bias. I'm just not impressed with a lot of the work on Discovery and Picard. I've sat through 3 seasons of CBSTrek and if the characters aren't awful (in Discovery's case), then the writing is (in both series' case). I thought maybe I could at least fall back on the visual effects and ship porn, but no, the space visual effects are terrible and the ship are either ugly (subjective) or badly designed (objective), or both.
Badly designed is also a subjective opinion, because I think they look fine.
I disagree, they all look similar enough to me to be from roughly the same era.
Except the Shezhou, but the Shenzhou herself was described as an old ship in Season 1, so it probably came from a different design era.
'Never' was the wrong word, but look at the examples I posted last page. It hasn't been always consistent design language.
While I'm not a big fan of Eaves's design aesthetic, I'd much rather have design variations instead of just kitbashing one design into several (which was the case for the older Starfleet ships in the Abrams films, being kitbashes of the Kelvin.)
However, these are just background ships. It's not a huge deal what they look like; I'm far more concerned with what the hero ships (like whatever new Enterprise PIC will eventually show) will look like.
Better to me than many TNG era ships.
Everything would look better with orange bussards including the Kelvin Enterprise.
I'm soooooooooooooooo sick of neon blue. Not long ago a beautiful bridge near my home which was originally painted sky blue and lit up at night with white lights has been done up, but now they have neon blue lights lighting up a sky blue bridge. So now when I look at the bridge at night it's just a blue blur that I can't see clearly anymore. What the hell is wrong with people.
I like blue...
Can't stand orange for the most part.
Can't stand orange for the most part.
Yeah, I know.Uhhhh...
I liked the Kelvin-era kitbashes.
They were pretty neat.I liked the Kelvin-era kitbashes.
I liked the Kelvin-era kitbashes.
They did look a lot more like TOS starships than most of what we've seen in DSC!
I liked the Kelvin-era kitbashes.
I liked them too. I wasn’t trying to infer that I didn’t. My point was that I’d prefer newer designs over kitbashes.
I prefer my Bussard Collectors to be Orange
=D
I like both Blue and orange - and it’s a nice visual way to differentiate the Kelvin timeline from the Prime.
Works for me!
Works for me!
Yeah but Discovery is not in the Kelvin timeline, it's "supposed" to be Prime.
