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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

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The first two have somewhat of a resemblance to Species-8472 Ships.

The third seems Romulan in nature.
(especially compared to some of the STO Romulan ships)
 
Having lived in a smaller space with 3 other people I would say it sounds appropriately sized.
I did some rough napkin math, the first floor of the Eleos has internal floor area of ~1 Acre.

That's not bad for a personal StarShip and the 1st floor.

There's ALOT of empty space behind the catamarn arms that holds the engineering section between the Warp Nacelle & pylons.

That's not counting any of the extra floor space on the 2nd/3rd/4th floors
 
I did some rough napkin math, the first floor of the Eleos has internal floor area of ~1 Acre.

That's not bad for a personal StarShip and the 1st floor.

There's ALOT of empty space behind the catamarn arms that holds the engineering section between the Warp Nacelle & pylons.

That's not counting any of the extra floor space on the 2nd/3rd/4th floors
If I could have a personal ship that sounds about right. And it would just be for me.
 
So is the Shangri La Class canon now with the introduction of the Titan-A? It makes zero sense that it's a "refit" Luna class ship. I would see it as a rebuilding of a Shangri La class with possibly components or space frame elements from the original Titan.
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Actually, only the Shangri-La Mk II class is canon. The pic above is the Mk I. And while the class might be canon, that registry number isn’t. Because the Shangri-La class Titan’s registry is only NCC-1777.

Dave Blass just released new information on ships seen around and in Earth Spacedock.
Gagarin-class:
Cunningham, U.S.S. (NCC-97949)
Resnik, U.S.S. (NCC-97945)
Inquiry-class:
Varian Fry, U.S.S. (NCC-87883)
Sovereign-class:
Musashi, U.S.S. (NCC-74660)
Reliant-class:
Azetbur, U.S.S. (NCC-90232)
Shras, U.S.S. (NCC-90211)
Shallash, U.S.S. (NCC-90235)
Thy'lek Shran, U.S.S. (NCC-90225)
Sutherland-class:
Chandrasekhar, U.S.S. (NCC-91816)
Hypatia, U.S.S. (NCC-91825)

Huh. That's different information than what the VFX guy posted:

 
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The greatest problem with potential spin-off Star Trek Titan is that hero ship Titan-A looks so similiar to hero ship Enterprise in SNW. We would have two shows with ship that actually has no real difference, especially when we talk about 150 years of difference. Up is Titan, down is Enterprise. Where is design imagination of producers? In 1980s they created master peace Enteprise D. Titan-A is just an small upgrade to original Constitution.

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They look different enough

That completely glosses over the point @Caeruleus was making, and which I've mentioned in the past as well. Ask anyone who has never seen a single episode or movie of Star Trek to watch an episode of SNW and an episode of PIC, and I bet they'd be hard pressed to tell the difference as to what time period those shows are set in. The technology level and overall look of the shows are too similar to say that one show takes place 150 years after the other.
 
Doug Drexler said this about the Elos on Facebook

“the Eleos, which is Starfleet surplus. It is a small EMS (Expeditionary Medical Ship). Beverly pulled strings at starfleet medical to procure it.”
 
Ask anyone who has never seen a single episode or movie of Star Trek to watch an episode of SNW and an episode of PIC, and I bet they'd be hard pressed to tell the difference as to what time period those shows are set in.
I doubt it, there’s enough visual differences like interiors, computer interfaces and uniforms
 
The greatest problem with potential spin-off Star Trek Titan is that hero ship Titan-A looks so similiar to hero ship Enterprise in SNW. We would have two shows with ship that actually has no real difference, especially when we talk about 150 years of difference. Up is Titan, down is Enterprise. Where is design imagination of producers? In 1980s they created master peace Enteprise D. Titan-A is just an small upgrade to original Constitution.

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Isn't that exactly the idea...
It's supposed to be a callback to the Constitution Class ships, according to the Producers of the show.
Like it or not, that is their intention.

It's along the same lines as the Akira being a callback to the NX-01, though of course in actuality, that wasn't the original intention at the time.

One would have to be pretty dense not to be able to tell the differences between SNW and this season of PICARD.
 
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I doubt it, there’s enough visual differences like interiors, computer interfaces and uniforms

You cannot empirically make that judgement, being a Star Trek fan already. You are too biased.

One would have to be pretty dense not to be able to tell the differences between SNW and this season of PICARD.

Again, you only say that because you have the foreknowledge about it, being a Star Trek fan. I wouldn't call someone 'dense' if they didn't know one zombie apocalypse TV show from a completely different zombie apocalypse TV show, if they don't watch shows about zombie apocalypses.
 
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It's along the same lines as the Akira being a callback to the NX-01, though of course, in actuality that wasn't the original intention at the time.

With the NX-01 at least some effort was made to make it era-appropriate. It's especially evident (at least to me) that little effort was made to translate the Shangri-La class into the 25th century if you look at the golden models. It would've been way better to A) use the Stargazer or B) steal a Shangri-La from the Starfleet Museum.
 
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