Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[valkyrie013]

"Open the Hanger Bay doors Doug"

@Gepard
They can port over, he can do the work in Lightwave and send it over to Maya, quite easily as well with the textures as well, usually.
Guy doing the ship renders for Eaglemoss used lightwave, converted over maya files from paramount when available.

 

[Ronald Held]

I understand not wanting to switch from LW.

 

[Spike730]

There labeled, but I don't honestly see any "doors" there.

I don't see the labeled aft phaser turret or forward torpedo launcher either.

 

[Magistos]

I don't see the labeled aft phaser turret or forward torpedo launcher either.

If he had the small margarita I just had, I understand.
Clearly this place I'm at goes for quality, not quantity. Damn.

Okay, seriously, though, that picture was already kind of packed. I took it to be highlighting major points and things we might not know, not what's obvious.

 

[DaveyNY]

I don't see the labeled aft phaser turret or forward torpedo launcher either.

The line pointing to the upper aft phaser turrets isn't really pointing at them.
It's pointing between them, the two rectangles on either side are the turrets.
They aren't finished on the model. (nor is the forward photon torpedo tube)

Obviously, they won't be completed till the next Tuesday the ship actually gets to a drydock.

 

[IRW Bloodwing]

Yeah, it’s fine for a fun, goofy nostalgia episode where it’s part of the joke, but not something that would work weekly.

I would watch it. So would a lot of people.

 

[KennyB]

Gosh. That’s nice.

Welcome sir.

 

[NCC-73515]

Daystrom looks like Jupiter station with additional stuff

Shields are displayed like in WoK

 

[The Super Brando]

Hot DAMN that's a beautiful ship

 

[Gepard]

You know, if the new Titan had that saucer, I wouldn't have any issue with it as a 25th century design.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Daystrom looks like Jupiter station with additional stuff

Shields are displayed like in WoK

When I saw the top photo I was just about to say it was the most beautiful ship in years.

Then I saw the secondary hull now it think it's one of the worst.

 

[NCC-73515]

 

[Markonian]

Daystrom looks like Jupiter station with additional stuff

The Intrepid looks sooo good from this perspective. It could be a standard saucer-neck-hull-pylons-nacelle configuration like the old Constitution class.

Instead the secondary hull is attached in a weird way. Ship looks like an electric rabbit from my nightstand.

 

[Blip]

The Intrepid looks sooo good from this perspective. It could be a standard saucer-neck-hull-pylons-nacelle configuration like the old Constitution class.

Instead the secondary hull is attached in a weird way. Ship looks like an electric rabbit from my nightstand.

It's based on another of Bill Krause's designs, but as with the Shangri La I much prefer his original TMP-based aesthetic rather than the f*ck-ugly nacelle and hull texturing they've slapped on it. I do quite like the TNG-esque deflector dish though.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Great to see they still can't think up any new names for ships

 

[Tomalak]

Loved the Intrepid, she looked beautiful on screen. It's increasingly hard to give Starfleet ships a new look, but the big underslung sensor pod is a departure. I liked it.

 

[Macintosh]

Honestly, I'd rather they'd used the Intrepid design for the Titan-A... she's an interesting-looking ship.

 

[Blip]

Just give us a bloody series set in the 2290s already so that we can enjoy Bill's awesome designs properly!!

 

[AdmiralBuck]

The Intrepid is indeed another update of another one of my ship designs, in the case - the Wasp. Unlike Titan, I was able to create this from the ground up before handing it off to Doug and the VFX team. Originally named the Chaparral-class, it was briefly called the Datin-class before this week’s reveal as the Duderstadt, in honor of Doug’s wife. The original concept did not include the now standard Picard era engines or B/C deck module.

 

[Spike730]

in honor of Doug’s wife.

Do you know why "stadt" was added to her surname?