Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™

Kelvin Enterprise exterior with SNW Enterprise interior would be elite, I tell you. ELITE.

 

Some nice beauty shots from episode 2
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1525926993325346822

 

Lovely

 

there's a glass painting of the NX-01 in Pike's ready room, and a glass model of the Enterprise
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1525206999222190080
https://twitter.com/_Pundus_/status/1525425029173116928

There's also another ship that can't be identified and one of the artists is teasing.
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1525554466497478661

I was looking at that first promo image of the Enterprise we got, and I think the sensor dome on the bottom of the saucer has an anteanne or something coming off it?


The The Enterprise in TOS did have something like that on it

 

The saucer shape resembles the Kelvinverse 1701-A

 

Not that much. It's a slightly compressed version of the TOS/TMP saucer. If it takes any inspiration from later Trek, it's from the Enterprise-D's closer blending of the "bubbles" on top of the saucer with the main hull.

 

Talking about the Archer, not the Enterprise.

 

Makes me wish thats how the Defiant bridge should've looked in Enterprise's mirror universe.

 

Did the "Ghosts of Ilyria" version of Deck 14 seem oversized to anyone else?

Awaiting the inboard profile/MSD cross-section art with no small degree of interest.

(Also still wondering about those secondary hull airlocks implied by the docking with Discovery 1031 in "Such Sweet Sorrow"...)

 

Sigh.

I am absolutely delighted with everything about SNW except the Enterprise. The sets are definitely spiffy, but the TARDIS sizing of the interiors is driving me batty. Hemmer's engineering section looks like it would completely fill the secondary hull, leaving no room for the hangar deck (which I'm sure will also be cavernous whenever they get around to showing it).

But what really bothers me is the Enterprise exterior. It just looks... bad. I am not a fan of the redesign, but what I can't forgive is the poor quality of the CGI--the E is (to my eye) utterly unconvincing. I don't like the Kelvin universe Enterprise either, but the movies had excellent, photorealistic CGI. Ugly ship, but convincing. SNW has a meh ship, and it's a faaaaaaake.

Judging from the comments in this thread I sense I'm in the overwhelming minority, and that's fine. I still eagerly wake up on Thursday mornings and watch SNW with my Wheaties, and I am tickled pink by the quality of the writing, direction, and acting. I just wanted to get the previous two paragraphs off my chest, and that's that.

 

The saucer reminds me a little bit of the Franklin (a prime ship). Didn't the Franklin have orange bussards?

The nacelle is shaped more like a DiscoPrise nacelle, but even the Disco had blue nacelle "caps".

 

I don't think so at all. Remember this enterprise is 442 meters long.

 

This song pretty much summarizes my feelings about this Enterprise ...



(I just wish They would occasionally light her brighter from the outside like it was done on TOS, I know it isn't realistic, but the nostalgia in me misses it)

 

I don't love the redesign, either, but I really don't get the "bad CGI" responses. The CGI looks just fine - it's just going for a different style.

Generally, the new E looks too busy to me - particularly the nacelles. The extremely "tiled"/"Aztec-ed" surface is really annoying. IMO, that design feature has never looked better than it did in TMP.

There are redesigns by folks here in our very own "Fan Art" forum that I like much better and think would've worked beautifully in the show.

That said, I don't outright hate the SNW version. It just seems like a mediocre fan re-imagining to me.

 

The CGI, whilst not of the same quality as the JJ movies - is still better than what was done on Enterprise

 

Yeah, the squashing is the worst new feature.

I'm OK with the idea of the more extensive impulse rockets.

I'm not thrilled with the hangar deck, but I guess the ship can have plank?

 

I probably agree the compressed proportions are probably the element I like least. It makes the ship look more muscular and sturdy, but also less graceful.

But that's pretty minor criticisms, I generally think it's a great redesign and I prefer it to the Kelvin on the whole. Although the Kelvin ship definitely got the graceful looks, it was much more of a departure from the original design.

 

Though on the flip side, not that much from the refit. The saucer was clearly inspired by the refit.

 

It's been almost 20 years since ENT. The CGI better be better, even if it's not movie quality.

 

I always thought that ENT did a damn fine job with the TOS Defiant. Even on the HD BRD's it looked great. It always demonstrated to me that Jefferies' original design could still have a place in a contemporary production with minimal tweaking.