• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

If we don't ignore the K't'inga-class battle cruiser model used in "Unexpected(ENT)" then the Empire used the same basic look for its frontline battle cruisers for a bare minimum of 224 years, from 2151 until 2375.

How many literal centuries have Klingons used ship designs that look generally identical? D-7/K'tnga and Birds of Prey, anyone?

To be fair the not-wes think most starships look the same. "It's a saucer with two engines. Why do you have so many models of the same thing?" FANRAGE :klingon:
 
Dude, how much do we fans complain about little details? Really, we are going to treat Berman poorly for something fans do on the regular? :wtf:
fbLMWC9.jpg

He wanted to be in charge, he should do things right. He did in the beginning (for the most part), but towards the end, he failed epically and the only thing that could have saved Enterprise was Manny Coto. When questioned about that, he very pettily and arrogantly whined "This is NOT the Manny Coto show!" and gave us the abomination that was TATV that he referred to as a "love letter to the fans".

"We are all very pleased". Feh...

Fuck him.
 
fbLMWC9.jpg

He wanted to be in charge, he should do things right. He did in the beginning (for the most part), but towards the end, he failed epically and the only thing that could have saved Enterprise was Manny Coto. When questioned about that, he very pettily and arrogantly whined "This is NOT the Manny Coto show!" and gave us the abomination that was TATV that he referred to as a "love letter to the fans".

"We are all very pleased". Feh...

Fuck him.
My heart bleeds.
 
I'm happy to ignore it, as it was meant to be an older ship but there were issues production-wise which necessitated the use of the model.
What are your thoughts on the ENT Bird of Prey, which is 95% indentical to the one in the classic movies, Next Gen and DS9?
 
With all due respect, I do not care. I do not go around saying "Fuck him" to people I do not know because they made some creative decision I don't agree with. I reserve my ire for other things. Berman doesn't rank amongst the top 100 issues I have with Star Trek.

And holding him to a double standard where fans will complain is a bussard is the wrong color but a producer can look at a model and go "I don't like the lights" is the quintessential reaction I have come to expect from fandom who puts more value on to technical details than people.

That is an attitude that I say "fuck it" to. People matter more.
 
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.
 
With all due respect, I do not care. I do not go around saying "Fuck him" to people I do not know because they made some creative decision I don't agree with. I reserve my ire for other things. Berman doesn't rank amongst the top 100 issues I have with Star Trek.

And holding him to a double standard where fans will complain is a bussard is the wrong color but a producer can look at a model and go "I don't like the lights" is the quintessential reaction I have come to expect from fandom who puts more value on to technical details than people.

That is an attitude that I say "fuck it" to. People matter more.
You really like getting in the last word, don't you? Quite an established pattern I've noticed from you since first arriving. Are you sure you're a therapist?
 
Okay 90%? It's literally just longer wings.

Like the Akira-class looks just like the NX-class but the nacelles go down instead of up :rolleyes:

The Watsonian explanation for why the BoP seems to be a relatively static design, as given in the officially licensed Haynes Klingon Bird-of-Prey manual, is that Klingons believe the BoP is literally the perfect starship design – versatile, powerful, capable – and so they see no reason to change it unless absolutely necessary. Hence why they also make them in multiple sizes.
 
Would they have admiral Picard at the commissioning of the E-F?
That might be a nice bookend for the series finale.

Question is: will they pick the STO version of the E-F or something else? Based on recent design choices for the ships used in PIC, likely the former.
 
I'm happy to ignore it, as it was meant to be an older ship but there were issues production-wise which necessitated the use of the model.

I read somewhere that the D4 CGI model was ready to be used but Rick Berman didn't like the lights. Really, that was the reason.

Memory alpha has the whole story. They built it for free, so when the producers wanted window modifications they had to refuse, on principal.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/D4_class_(concept)

Okay 90%? It's literally just longer wings.

Sorry, can't wrap my brain around this one.
 
Memory alpha has the whole story. They built it for free, so when the producers wanted window modifications they had to refuse, on principal.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/D4_class_(concept)



Sorry, can't wrap my brain around this one.
Well they added the red bit on top too...

Funniest thing of all, is that this D4 looks to me the same as the D7, but with a bit of scaffolding on the neck and shoulders. That's it.

It's meant to be 100 years before yet these Klingon ships look virtually identical, at best contemporary variants of the same ship let alone something from a prior century.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top