Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

[Tuskin38]

Yeah you can spot the same placeholder in Stargazer bridge concept art

 

[Enterprise1701]

Mark Rademaker skeeted some of the early concept art (not by him) of a Vesta class bridge MSD for the U.S.S. Hikaru Sulu from early planning for season 3.

Holland Space Yards (@yard2380.bsky.social)

Some concept art from Picard (not by me) showing a Vesta class starship on an MSD. I personally would have picked a very different bridge layout, but within the show this would have been a "quick" set redress. That Vesta, (USS Hikaru Sulu) + Captain Harry Kim part was dropped from the story.

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Some concept art from Picard (not by me) showing a Vesta class starship on an MSD. I personally would have picked a very different bridge layout, but within the show this would have been a "quick" set redress. That Vesta, (USS Hikaru Sulu) + Captain Harry Kim part was dropped from the story.

 

[Dukhat]

Also, that version of the ship has four nacelles. I don’t know if that was to get out of having to pay Rademaker any royalties because it wouldn’t have been 100% his design?

 

[David cgc]

Also, that version of the ship has four nacelles. I don’t know if that was to get out of having to pay Rademaker any royalties because it wouldn’t have been 100% his design?

I think that's a placeholder graphic (wasn't that or another weird four-nacelled version of an existing design in the photo of the bridge set Drexler posted before season 2 that he ended up redacting? I don't think it was the real Stargazer design, whatever it was). Rademaker also posted an test animation of the CG model of the Sulu, and aside from some color/texture changes (IIRC), it looked like the standard Vesta design.

I can't link to it, the original tweets were either deleted or are inaccessable because Twitter has been ruined. I think I saved it, but because I'm too lazy to rename the stupid random filenames everything on the internet has nowadays, I can't find it.