Spoilers Terry Matalas is doing a Reddit Q&A
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Why do people ALWAYS go back to Star Trek IV as an example (in this case an exception) when they later corrected that mistake and made the B an advanced Excelsior design newly built for flagship status? The Enterprise A issue is honestly a bad example of what not to do. It should've been an Excelsior class, but because the fandom LOVED the Enterprise refit design, so they chose to keep it. In this instance, it seemed like the NeoConnie was chosen because TERRY loved the design and wanted it that way. That's contrary to what the people want.
Well, he and I were bound to agree on something.
Do you realize the amount of inane questions they probably got??? Lol
Assuming the Enterprise-A wasn't a factory-fresh ship with all the bells-and-whistles is a fairly revisionist understanding. In the movies, the Excelsior bordered on being a joke. Scotty sabotaged it, they couldn't even get it out the doors in TVH, and in TUC, after the Enterprise spent ten minutes getting the shit kicked out of it, the Excelsior shows up, takes one glancing hit, and everyone on the -A stops and stares as if they're afraid it's made of glass and it's going to fall apart then and there.
Besides, everything is only new until it's not. They've got to make these next four Enterprises last an average of 25 to 50 years, if we're going to be on -J at some point in the 26th century (not guaranteed to take place in this timeline, but most Toyotas last longer than the last three Enterprises, at some point they're going to have to stop burning through starships), so if the -G is decommissioned after a long a storied career, it'll still end up being a mid-sized cruiser compared to the newest ships.
Wasn't the Galaxy class ALSO considered a joke in the early seasons? Yet look how over the years they perfected the design and its problems and became the working horse for Starfleet for some time. This is like a K-Car being repurposed as a Corvette, even though its still got a K-Car body. The Enterprise needs to be state of the art and sleek, like how the design progression has happened with prior Enterprises It makes no sense to go from a sleek looking ship like the F to be succeeded by a hand me down clunker like the Titan-A renamed Enterprise G.
Titan-A/Enterprise-G looks way better than C, D, E and F.
SO basically you're just a 23rd century design guy...that's fine. But that's the past. We're trying to look to the future here, and progressive designs is one of the fundamentals of new Enterprise designs. This is taking a step back to the turn of the 23rd century and trying to make something old new again. I mean, should they also go back to using duotronic computers too? Make it make sense as an in universe reasoning for backtracking to older designs instead of making new ones?
Nothing about newer designs felt progressive or futuristic to me. Ugly, ungainly, and forgettable.
Didn't answer my question though. I get it...you are a TOS guy. That's perfectly fine. You don't like anything past the Enterprise A and that era of designs. Whatever. It doesn't answer the question in regards to why they would intentionally regress the designs back to that era if they were pushing for more sleeker and advanced designs meant for the 25th Century. Do you see us going back to using Model-T cars here in the real world? No. So if we follow a real world example, then regressing back to an older design and calling it new is detrimental to the future of starship design and technological achievement.
HOWEVER, I WILL say that if they were smart and wanted to go a bit retro, they could've used Andrew Probert's Ambassador concept and use that as the Enterprise G. That would've been completely fine because that was a design never used or realized in universe.
Not what I said at all. Twisting my words is not cool, thanks.
6: Titan-B is likely a proper Luna class ship again..
What The F%&$^... Like realy.. WTF&*.. You just took the titan name for a ride around the block and then threw it out the window like a used cigarette.. then like.. Hey, a luna class can have it back.. as he's riding down the road in the G..
No respect..
What The F%&$^... Like realy.. WTF&*.. You just took the titan name for a ride around the block and then threw it out the window like a used cigarette.. then like.. Hey, a luna class can have it back.. as he's riding down the road in the G..
No respect..
Ok but those ships you listed are all 24th century designs.
Ships need respect?
Don't like the B or NX-01 or Dadelus either.
Is this a new concept to you?Ships need respect?
Terry said Starfleet was just going for a nostalgic twist to inspire. The ship is still all 25th Century tech.
They're inanimate objects. They don't care.
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