Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[Tuskin38]

Doug Drexler posted a bunch of renders of the final approved model of the Stargazer

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10159381058641104&type=3&mibextid=qC1gEa

this is the model the art team sends to the VFX team to do their magic, add more detail, textures and such. So while it’s not the final model you see on screen, it’s close.

 

[Tuskin38]

STO is getting the World Razer. Using Sean Tourangeau's original concept art as a basis for the parts you can't see in the painting

https://twitter.com/thomasthecat/status/1615530370241531904
https://twitter.com/SeanTourangeau/status/1615518595664203779

 

[wayoung]

The answer to the question "What if we took the Enterprise -D and somehow made it even uglier?"

 

[NCC-73515]

Does the registry mean all 'our' Enterprises were World Razers there?
Now I wanna see the A-C and E

 

[Tuskin38]

Sean's concept art says NCC-2101-D, but the final painting has no visible registry number, so I guess STO is allowed to do what they want.

 

[Richard Baker]

I sort of like the design but I can't unsee the BSG TOS Cylon Raider in the saucer...

Kind of ironic since the AGT Enterprise used the guns from that Raider SFX model to add to either dide of the bridge. I noticed in painting #2 those guns make a reappearance

 

[drt]

I sort of like the design but I can't unsee the BSG TOS Cylon Raider in the saucer

Same, lol

 

[Tuskin38]

I sort of like the design but I can't unsee the BSG TOS Cylon Raider in the saucer...

Intentional
https://twitter.com/SeanTourangeau/status/1615854123135676416/photo/1

 

[Markonian]

I sort of like the design but I can't unsee the BSG TOS Cylon Raider in the saucer...

Sean posted that this visual reference is intentional.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/seantourangeau/status/1615854123135676416?s=61&t=7mJNOVhK9mU-Hi9TdCJ0vQ

Also, STO identifies that starship type as the World Razer class.

 

[Tuskin38]

In Sean’s concept art, the registry is NCC-2101-D. Sean says he was given that number by Geoffrey Mandel.

There’s an old TOS Gold Key comic featuring an alternate timeline earth, their enterprise had the registry ‘2101’. I wonder if Geoffrey was a fan of that comic
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-2101)

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[Markonian]

In my headcanon, the Confederation's ship was the CSS World Razer NCC-2101-D. Picard-Prime couldn't make out the registry on the painting but recognized the ship as a counterpart to his 2360s-era USS Enterprise-D.
The replica built by Starfleet is the CSS World Razer NCC-1701-D.

 

[Tuskin38]

There's no visible registry on the painting, so STO going with 1701 doesn't contradict canon.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

I always forget thats not a Terran empire ship.

 

[Richard Baker]

In the book 'Dark Mirror' Picard encounters the Terran Empire Enterprise D. Same basic configuration but the saucer was deeper and the secondary hull was larger. A good amount of the interior was weapons and ordinance. Also the badges were not comm units but agonizors.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

In the book 'Dark Mirror' Picard encounters the Terram Empire Enterprise D. Same basic configuration but the saucer was deeper and the secondary hull was larger. A good amount of the interior was weapons and ordinance. Also the badges were not comm units but angonizors.

The one MU story we never got onscreen, but should have.

 

[Dukhat]

The literature predating the DS9 version of the MU was far better than what we saw on screen.

 

[fireproof78]

The DS9 version of the MU was garbage. Anything would be better.

 

[Richard Baker]

It actually made the MU boring.

Squandered opportunities - they could have reskinned the MU CGI Defiant to make it look like it was built in haste from whatever resources they could scrounge up instead of painting it to look identical ro the Starfleet version right down to a meaningless hull number. It was a ship being built in a hurry to protect the station, I would bee fine seeing dangling widesxand even a stepladder on the bridge instead of perfect fit and finish.

 

[Dukhat]

Not that I’m disagreeing with your logic, but the point was to use the production assets they already had, rather than making new sets and CGI models. But you make a valid point.

 

[Richard Baker]

I took that into consideration. The CGI mesh they had doesn't get changed, you just swap out the Star Fleet skin file with silver. You don't need to alter the bridge set, just dress it up with some cables and random junk. This would have sold the premise of the MU Defiant so much better.