Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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I like tweet from that 1 guy.. It's all shiney and refective. Nowhere for the eye to rest, a visual firehose.
I agree... In the past it was very flat/matt paint, lights etc. Barely anything reflective. Guess I'll call it comfortable.
Now it's quite harsh. Plus.. If there was a liquid spill in the hall.. Everybody would slip and fall! Wheres Federation OSHA!
I agree... In the past it was very flat/matt paint, lights etc. Barely anything reflective. Guess I'll call it comfortable.
Now it's quite harsh. Plus.. If there was a liquid spill in the hall.. Everybody would slip and fall! Wheres Federation OSHA!
Lol Dave tweeted that spilling something on carpet would be a pain to clean out.
25th century dont have roombas?
Disco had DOTs 140 years earlier
Did the NX have carpet? Hmm
Looks like more of a matte metal floor.
NX-01 got a blue carpet for the last season, IIRC. I don't blame them for getting away from the hotel aesthetic. Stargazer looks like a blend between Nemesis and Disco, pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
Been gone for a long long time.
Ok, so then Disco type ships entered service relatively soon (2250s) after the TOS Constitution class did (2240s) and were all but phased out by the beginning of the 2270s as the 'art deco' types appeared. This suggests they were a relatively unsuccessful generation of ships (I'm good with that BTW) that never exceeded the Constitution class in terms of overall capability, also explaining the latter's prominence in major space battles during TOS, despite being older ships. Of course, then we see all these 'Yard 39 Project' refits of Disco ships heading into the 25th century. That's maybe a shot at redemption and/or trying to make silk purses out of sow's ears.
Just because we didn't see them in the films? Not necessarily, they could have been refitted or mothballed*, or just elsewhere. The whole thing in the films is that the Enterprise is always the Only Ship in the Quadrant so we rarely see other ships anyway.
But we never see any TOS ships later on, so I would guess they would have been phased out by the late 23rd century anyway.
* And later reactivated for the desperate evacuation of Romulus.
Yeah, there was obviously something particularly special about the Constitution that justified giving them complete overhauls.
I guess we have a pretty good, established reason for the later lack of prominence of the Disco ships - they may have been on the front lines of the Klingon war and suffered heavy losses.
Stamets seems very impressed by and pretty much in awe of the Enterprise when she first appears and in an earlier episode Burnham tells Tilly how special a posting to a Constitution-class starship is. It's obvious that the NCC-1701 and the sister ships in her class are given very high regard by Starfleet in the 2250s.
Additionally, Excelsior has slanted pylons like the Obena class. Looks like the artwork for Eureka shows the final design, with no extra impulse engines, straight angled pylons from the front, and the finalised nacelles.
Thanks for the great counterpoints on the Disco vs TOS ship issue. A lot of thinking outside the box here.
Been tooling on the Emmett Till for awhile now. Does look like Rio's ship from the top 
Dave Blass on Twitter: "On the shelf in the Observation Lounge of the Stargazer sits the ORIGINAL dedication plaque from TNG "The Battle". Note the "Constitution Class" which was changed in Voice Over to be Constellation Class when they went with a different design for the ship. #StarTrekPicardBTS https://t.co/QfzokUGhKz" / Twitter
The ‘usual’ TNG way of stardate calculation would translate 38197.5 as 2361, which is obviously wrong. But again, the new information making the Stargazer’s launch date of 2326 seems wrong to me too, considering its ‘sister’ ship the Hathaway was launched in 2285.
Edit: Kudos for finding that plaque after 35 years! Now they need to find the ship list Okudagrams from ‘Measure of a Man’ and ‘Conspiracy!’
Edit: Kudos for finding that plaque after 35 years! Now they need to find the ship list Okudagrams from ‘Measure of a Man’ and ‘Conspiracy!’
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The ‘usual’ TNG way of stardate calculation would translate 38197.5 as 2361, which is obviously wrong. But again, the new information making the Stargazer’s launch date of 2326 seems wrong to me too, considering its ‘sister’ ship the Hathaway was launched in 2285.
Edit: Kudos for finding that plaque after 35 years! Now they need to find the ship list Okudagrams from ‘Measure of a Man’ and ‘Conspiracy!’
Maybe they're using whatever time system allowed Data to graduate in the "class of '78"
