The New USS Discovery....

[Jesse1066]

The Corvette, although it does look better of the two. However, the TOs looks more like a Studebaker than a vet.

One of the designers of the Class F Shuttlecraft, Tom Kellogg, was also involved in the design of the Studebaker Avanti, which shares some design elements with the shuttle.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

One of the designers of the Class F Shuttlecraft, Tom Kellogg, was also involved in the design of the Studebaker Avanti, which shares some design elements with the shuttle.

Sweet, I did not know this. Nice bit of triva

 

[cultcross]

^ Personal sniping is not appropriate for this forum. I would point to your own signature for a lesson; please treat other posters with respect.

 

[JoeP]

Came across this fan art on Twitter. Looks great! And looks like the bridge is inside R2D2's dome...
https://twitter.com/DangerousDac/status/880231178225283072

 

[Saul]

The NX looks at lest 80 years more advanced. The TOS ship there looks rather primitive.

Doug Drexler supposes that the primitive look is because the technology is more advanced and needs less pointy bits on it. The NX has the look of a Starship based on our current idea of what a Starship would be in the future thanks to the far more primitive space shuttles, rockets and space stations that have formed that view.

 

[Galaxy]

Doug Drexler supposes that the primitive look is because the technology is more advanced and needs less pointy bits on it. The NX has the look of a Starship based on our current idea of what a Starship would be in the future thanks to the far more primitive space shuttles, rockets and space stations that have formed that view.

Our current view of what a Starship would look like would be a ring ship.

 

[UssGlenn]

The NX looks at lest 80 years more advanced. The TOS ship there looks rather primitive.

here's 70 years of US Navy advancement, does the one with more detail look more advanced to you?

Doug Drexler supposes that the primitive look is because the technology is more advanced and needs less pointy bits on it.

 

[Jedman67]

Of course the TOS ship looks more primitive - the resources didn't exist to build it with the detail and complexity of the other ships even had all that occurred to the designer.

It's kind of beside the point, isn't it?

I'd change resources to budget. Star Wars came out barely a decade later, and while it was made on a shoestring budget, it was a shoestring movie budget. A serial TV show couldn't cough up the money needed for the kind of detail were talking about - not that it was needed, since tv screens had a total resolution much smaller than we can do today. And the style itself is classic 60's.

 

[KennyB]

here's 70 years of US Navy advancement, does the one with more detail look more advanced to you?

I like what you did there........How about these? They are about 70 years apart.

Wasp

Ford

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Yeah. My argument when "Enterprise" came out was that its look is due to people in 2001 imagining what the future would be like 150 years from then, not people in 2266 imagining what the past was like 100 years ago. Same thing here.

Mark

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I like what you did there........How about these? They are about 70 years apart.
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Wasp
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Ford

The modern Wasp class of LHA's look pretty much like the straight deck carriers of old, they're just in color.

USS America (LHA-6)


USS Enterprise (CV-6)

 

[dahj]

That first boat looks like it should be upside down.
It's Akiraprise all over again!

 

[KirkusOveractus]

That first boat looks like it should be upside down.
It's Akiraprise all over again!

To me, that top one reminds me of the Civil War period Ironclads!

 

[KennyB]

The modern Wasp class of LHA's look pretty much like the straight deck carriers of old, they're just in color.

USS America (LHA-6)

GATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jesse1066]

I'd change resources to budget. Star Wars came out barely a decade later, and while it was made on a shoestring budget, it was a shoestring movie budget. A serial TV show couldn't cough up the money needed for the kind of detail were talking about - not that it was needed, since tv screens had a total resolution much smaller than we can do today. And the style itself is classic 60's.

It's not entirely a matter of resolution or budget. From Memory Alpha:

Theorizing that space was too hazardous for important machinery being on the outside of the hull, Jefferies decided that the hull had to be smooth (which had the added benefit of reflecting light in subsequent shoots). He had to fight off several production team members, who wanted to keep adding detail to the surface.

It probably never could have been as intricate as, say, the Discovery from 2001, but it was largely undetailed because Matt Jefferies wanted it that way.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Came across this fan art on Twitter. Looks great! And looks like the bridge is inside R2D2's dome...
https://twitter.com/DangerousDac/status/880231178225283072

These fan renders are becoming very impressive. But I'm still not sold on the primary hull being concentric rings.

 

[Mudd]

It couldn't have been as intricately detailed as the 2001 ship, because of the budget on which it was built.

The kind of detailing being talked about there is panel lines.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

Doug Drexler supposes that the primitive look is because the technology is more advanced and needs less pointy bits on it. The NX has the look of a Starship based on our current idea of what a Starship would be in the future thanks to the far more primitive space shuttles, rockets and space stations that have formed that view.

And the TOS ship just looks primitive to a modern eye. It is the first ST ship and so it makes sense it looks the most primative. They did try to spice the TOS ship up on ENT but it just did not work.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

here's 70 years of US Navy advancement, does the one with more detail look more advanced to you?

The top ship is not lacking in detail man, not at all.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

This is supposed to be a highly advanced aircraft? Why is it so... smooth? Who are they kidding? It needs more hull details. Pronounced hull plating. An aztec pattern to simulate stamped metal plates. Throw in some greebles as well. Only then it can look state-of-the-art!