Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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But history matters, right? No one would like the stories of the USS AGEIS right?
It's late for me to be making confident predictions, but I think now more than ever based on these weird, contradictory bits of backstory that they want to have their cake and eat it, showing the never-before-seen Titan for the first time in Picard, but not entirely overwriting that we have, in fact, already seen the Titan. Throwing in the line about how "it's a new ship, but it has some mementos on it, so people pretend its a refit of the last one, a never-before-revealed Starfleet Tradition" is almost certainly some way to excuse lines where they talk about the Titan-A in ways that could only logically be about the Titan-nil. "We're not contradicting Lower Decks! When Riker talks about this being the captain's chair of his first command, that's literally the same chair as on the old ship! Neat, huh?"
I was talking with a friend of mine, yesterday, and we were wondering at, if they're just showing the -F as a cameo on its way to the scrapyard, why not make it the -E, which the audience and the characters both would have some affection for? (Answer: Netflix, watching seven seasons of TNG over and over again outweighs that the -E was the incumbent Enterprise on- and off-screen for longer than the -D by any metric). And then he asked, why not have the -E be the ship they use instead of an ersatz-Titan? Well, that part's obvious, at least, they'd have to actually use an old design, and God forbid we restrain the unbridled creative urges of people making our nostalgia-driven throwback science fiction by having them actually bring back something we recognize instead of constantly reinventing the wheel.
I don't think they care all that much about being in continuity with the other four concurrently running shows. And vice versa.
Pretty sure that was a reference to the the original Enterprise refit. She was essentially a new ship according to that movie, yet still referred to as a refit.
They'd also have to recreate old the bridge, which they clearly wouldn't have the time and/or budget to do, considering they didn't even make a new bridge for the Titan.
It's possible the Picard S3 team, made up of 90's Trek vets, have the old school mentality of Trek animation not being canon. And then there's a bit of damage control going on and it's all a bit of a mess.
Both seasons were filmed back-to-back, and I'm guessing that as far as the money is concerned, the starship sets were primarily a season 3 asset that they were able to slip in a little earlier. If they'd wanted to use a familiar ship for this season, the Stargazer bridge would've just looked different.
Doug has already said that the Stargazzer bridge is the one used, basically saying that "Bridge Moduale" is the flavor of the month for bridges.
From Riker's file, it was stated that he "lent his expertise on the new Titan refit". I can see him being a subject matter expert on his ship and being valuable to Starfleet for this project; this is one of the reasons I believe that the Titan-A is made of components from the previous Titan and not a ship over a hundred years old by that point.
It's possible that Star Fleet just broke down the original ships components and incorporated them into Riker's ship.
(perhaps the first Titan's hull was still in a Star Fleet storage area somewhere)
Replicating new framework from the materials of the original wouldn't be impossible.
It just becomes an "Obi-wan POV" kinda thing.
(perhaps the first Titan's hull was still in a Star Fleet storage area somewhere)
Replicating new framework from the materials of the original wouldn't be impossible.
It just becomes an "Obi-wan POV" kinda thing.
This is almost an entirely new Titan.
Should've named the damn thing Thesus but they already pinched that for one of the Comics.
Or the Argo, though that might be a misnaming by the philosophers who studied the story.
Does Titan have a history ?
In the art team sure, but I don't think in the writing team.
Either way STO will probably just ignore what Picard says about the Ent-F.
Yes. It was Riker's ship and that's all that's important is that it is connected to a legacy character.
Ours is not to ask why.
Concept art for the Titan-A
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Conk4-nJrba/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
