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Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

The more toned-down nacelles are a plus to me. They sit and lean farther back on the stardrive section so there's more of a gap between the Bussard collectors and the saucer section so that's a little annoying but on balance the 1701-A is just easier on my eyes.
 
Did everyone forget "Ephraim and Dot"? The Discovery version of the design overwrote the TOS one in that episode, leading into the unchanged classic movie design.

They recast the ship just like they did Pike and Spock. If you're gonna come up with diagrams to explain refits, I'd like some to show exactly what plastic surgery Ethan Peck has to look exactly like Leonard Nimoy.
I thought the one thing that's clear is that things are not overwritten. Have you seen the inside of the E&Dprise? It was also the wrong Enterprise refit, IIRC (the A was not in SFS). A recast is necessary for actors who don't make sense age-wise anymore or aren't available. No recast of sets, props, or ships is necessary.

Seriously, I wouldn't even know the differences unless I knew what to look for.
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Even canon purist extraordinaire Bernd Schneider had to admit that the TOS-to-TMP refit itself only works if the neck and the pylons were completely removed and replaced.
see, that explains everything. some don't see things, others do, some pay more attention to things that others don't even notice, and then the non-seeing tell the seeing how wrong they are XD

why wouldn't the refit as shown and addressed in TMP have major replacements? who disputes that?
 
see, that explains everything. some don't see things, others do, some pay more attention to things that others don't even notice, and then the non-seeing tell the seeing how wrong they are XD
And some people can have an attention to detail and still accept a close enough updated redesign of a production asset as representing the same starship in a different production because their suspension of disbelief doesn't hinge on it looking exactly like its original design with HD textures, and consequently, they don't require an in-universe explanation for every redesign, continuity or VFX error, even if they acknowledge them.
 
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I don't dislike any of them, but the Enterprise in TMP, to me, isn't just an Enterprise but The Enterprise. That's the ship that deserves the five (hundred) minute tour it received.
 
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It just doesn't work for a modern 21st century TV series.

I disagree. I think the design looked just fine when it was used in its two appearances on Enterprise. First as the Defiant in the mirror verse 2-parter and then in the Enterprise montage at the end of the finale. Like that photoshop shows, if you do the lighting, etc…to match the darkness of Discovery it would fit in just fine.

and then of course TOS-R and Trials and Tribbleations.

Like I said before, I can more easily see the DSC Enterprise becoming the TMP Enterprise.

of course, because they clearly took design cues from the refit and retroactively added them to the original design. Stuff like the swept back pylons and external docking hatches.

Outside of the super huge landing pad for the shuttle bay I like the Kurtzman-Trek Enterprise design. To me it’s like the “new” Dodge Charger/Challenger. Where they took the design of the car from the 60’s/70’s and updated for the 2010/20’s with bigger wheels, slightly rounded lines, etc… They are very good looking updates to the original designs. But you aren’t going to go back to a movie like Bullitt, insert a modern Charger to that classic car chase and say that’s how the car always looked.
 
Trials and Tribbleations.
Glorified fan service, nothing more.

SNW is an entire TV series, not a single episode.


No recast of sets, props, or ships is necessary.
It is if you want new fans to take it seriously.

They’re not making this show for old fans, they’re also making it for the new fans that came on with DSC, and to attract new fans.

But you aren’t going to go back to a movie like Bullitt, insert a modern Charger to that classic car chase and say that’s how the car always looked.
Well Star Trek isn’t real life. That isn’t comparable.


But I doubt they’ll do another TOS-R and replace the enterprise
 
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I see the DSC/SNW Enterprise as what it is: something designed to retroactively fit between the NX-01 and the TMP Refit while still looking like it can fit in on DSC.

Is it my favorite version of the ship? No.
But do I dislike it? No.

So, at least for me as a viewer, they accomplished what they set out to do.

If you want to get into something I don't like, it's the SNW Uniforms. But I don't feel too strongly about it.

And yeah, they're not going to do another TOS-R. At least not anytime soon. They haven't even upgraded DS9 and VOY yet. I think when they upgraded TOS to HD, they considered it a box ticked off and moved on. Maybe one day they'll want to have a 4K or 8K TOS but, as of 2022, regular HD is still considered "good enough". By the time that changes, Alex Kurtzman will be long gone.
 
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Glorified fan service, nothing more.
SNW is an entire TV series, not a single episode.
It is if you want new fans to take it seriously.
They’re not making this show for old fans, they’re also making it for the new fans that came on with DSC, and to attract new fans.
I have two friends considering watching Star Trek for the first time with Strange New Worlds and I reckon they'd have dismissed it pretty quickly if it looked like something made in the 1960s.
What exactly makes this one difficult to take seriously, what about it would repel new fans, and why would your friends dismiss this?

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I really love it as well. It only looked 'cheap' or whatever in TOS because it was lit so brightly and uniformly. IIRC, they did improve that in Trials and in Mirror Darkly.
 
Yeah, give it the DSC starship metallic sheen but other than that and lighting her chiller bars on the insides of her warp nacelles she's good the way Matt designed her.
 
To glance at it briefly, the struts don't look "right" to my eyes, i.e. kind of plastic looking. So, I think a metallic sheen might need necessary.

Overall, I think it could work, but I can see the rejection of just being too fake looking. Which, honestly has nothing to do with the producers and everything to do with audience perception. You can't argue the audience in to perceiving it differently. My wife rejected Trek for decades because it looked plastic and cheap.
 
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That's our first look at the new corridor set right? They look similar to the redressed Discovery corridors, but I miss all the red.
 
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