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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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One is (now) flagship and unique even in its era.
The other is a basic exploration shift.
Why compare?
The other is a basic exploration shift.
Why compare?
It doesn't make much sense to compare the interior of a luxury passenger liner, regardless of it's era, to the interior of a warship.Wait until you compare the corridors aboard the RMS Titanic (launched 1912) with those on the HMS Queen Elizabeth (launched 2014)...
We're nerds who think that gives us a Master's degree in Nitpicking. I should know, I have one and use it.
I have a Master's degree...just not in that.We're nerds who think that gives us a Master's degree in Nitpicking. I should know, I have one and use it.
Yes, I know, I asked a reasonable question of an unreasonable fan group. It's Friday and St. Patrick's Day. Blame it on the leprechauns.
Green beer also works...
Prefer Guiness...but it's only 1:30...
To be fair the TOS corridors always felt warmer and more inviting to me than TNG Era ones. The overhead lighting in purples, greens and other colors. The soft hum of the ship's machinery. It all looked warm and cozy.
TNG Era corridors always feel more clinical and industrial. Less inviting.
TNG Era corridors always feel more clinical and industrial. Less inviting.
You should make an ambiance video.
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The SNW sets are just stunning. Gorgeous mid-century futurist aesthetic, everything in that show is absolutely on-point showing the pride and joy of that young, optimistic, expanding Federation. It perfectly captures that early sixties, atomic age sci-fi positivity.
Picard is a completely different era. It's more resonant of our own world, browbeaten by conflict and a sense of perma-crisis.
They're telling different stories and that's reflected in the sets, the design, the costumes etc.
Picard is a completely different era. It's more resonant of our own world, browbeaten by conflict and a sense of perma-crisis.
They're telling different stories and that's reflected in the sets, the design, the costumes etc.
I wasn't aware that you were comparing a New Warship to an Old Luxury Liner.Isn't it? The HMS Queen Elizabeth's definitely finished corridors look like this:
Whereas the Titanic's largest crew-only corridor, "Scotland Road", looked like this:
The point you're missing is that a more advanced ship does not automatically equate to a more luxurious ship. The Enterprise was the pride of the mid-23rd century fleet; the Titan-A is a second-rate exploratory vessel made out of leftover parts.
(I had the Queen Mary Liner in my head by mistake)
Isn't that an Apple and Grenade kind of comparison?
Doesn't seem very apropos in this instance.
Neither does any other comparison between the two.
Can someone tell me on this Frontier day poster on the top is that Enterprise from TOS movies or Enterprise from Strange New Worlds?
I'm more curious about why there are three Enterprises, and then for no reason the Voyager.
Expanded quite a few frontiers and made first contact with more species than any other ship.
The Titan has a bridge window on the concept model
https://twitter.com/daveblass/status/1636104176697503746?s=46&t=GJ4lIGndtLwuph_LJO2AJw
I wonder how late into production it was decided to remove it.
https://twitter.com/daveblass/status/1636104176697503746?s=46&t=GJ4lIGndtLwuph_LJO2AJw
I wonder how late into production it was decided to remove it.
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They have Hangar Bays 1 & 2 Elevators in front of the impulse engines. Something like DS9 had? I hope we actually see one of those in action.
Bingo. Someone's comparing Starfleet's flagship, first among equals, best-of-the-best, with a second-rate ship made out of second hand parts, and wondering why the former ship has a larger, more elaborate sickbay than the latter. It surprises me that this needs explaining.
