The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D appreciation thread

[Search4]

They were definitely thinking about keeping the E a galaxy class. ILM stuck the letter on, and as late as when they prepared the enhanced Cd soundtrack for first contact, the 'tour' was showing the galaxy class with the Sovereign interiors.
They had obviously gone with the new design before filming proper kicked off though, because of MSD on set and the spacewalk scenes.....but it is sort of a shame, as that ship was as much part of the identity of the show as the cast.
And God knows, with the amount of design and work that had gone into it, that model and to am extent, the sets, wouldn't have needed much of a refurbish to be film ready.
I guess with voyager needing the standing sets space, and wanting to make the films more resemble their Tos counterparts though it was all change. (there were the hybrid uniforms they dropped from generations, and the E itself shares quite a few features with the Connie refit...black cowling on the nacelles and bussard collectors, the wing stanchions, the return to a circular navigation deflector with no immediately discernable emitter. It's a cathedral of a ship.)

The galaxy side on looked pretty good too, very much like it was doing warp 6 even sitting still.
In some ways, much like Wrath Of Khan took the TOS films back a step technologically and made it more military, the Tng stuff also went back a bit for the films. But not as much.

Well, I think fans would have had "a lot to say" if they brought back an "E" identical to the "D", just like the "A" was identical to the Refit. Boo! Can't they come up with a new ship!

The glass is half empty and half full.

 

[jaime]

Well, I think fans would have had "a lot to say" if they brought back an "E" identical to the "D", just like the "A" was identical to the Refit. Boo! Can't they come up with a new ship!

The glass is half empty and half full.

Spiffy up the paint job stick a couple of new doodles on (not galaxy dreadnought. I never liked that monstrosity) and new camera shots I think it would have worked. They had that whole 'sovereign not on TV Trek' thing though.

 

[TheSubCommander]

 

[Galileo7]

1701-D Galaxy class looks excellent with the 1701-Refit/1701-A.

 

[Mytran]

Those lifeboats look way too elevated though

 

[Avro Arrow]

Despite what I said about the D earlier... this is now my current desktop wallpaper!

 

[TheSubCommander]

Controversial, you either love it or not! I love the original, but I love the Galaxy-X design, too,

 

[tomalak301]

Love the D. Beautiful ship.

 

[BillJ]

I thought the Galaxy-X destroyed the clean lines of the basic Galaxy.

My opinion is that the technology should be advanced enough to hide those types of upgrades within the structural framework of the Galaxy. I remember reading in the Technical Manual that 40% of the interior volume of the Galaxy class was unused.

 

[jaime]

The third nacelle would look like an added on afterthought even if we had never seen the straight galaxy. Third nacelles are fiddly to implement in a cleanly designed way on the starfleet pattern. I suppose slung underneath maybe...but no. Still looks at best like the spare wheel on the back of a 4x4. Can you imagine getting a custom weather cover on that thing?

 

[RAMA]

When I saw the early artwork I knew they had a winner.

This is still my favorite ST shuttle craft, even if they couldn't actually build it.

 

[Seven of Five]

I love the Enterprise D. So much more attractive than the E.

 

[BillJ]

When I saw the early artwork I knew they had a winner.

The first clean shot I saw was from the front in black and white, it was in People magazine.

I was in love.

 

[publiusr]

When I saw the early artwork I knew they had a winner.

I like this early, less detailed version. Probert smooth.

 

[shapeshifter]

When I first saw the E-D I nearly fell over. In my wildest dreams I didn't see this beauty coming. Nothing could ever top the graceful lines of the refit, or so I thought.

The Cheerios promotion poster! I had three of them but have somehow lost them all over the years. I kept them in their shipping tubes, so they would have been easy pickings for any of my ex, sticky fingered 'friends' to lift.

 

[jaime]

When I first saw the E-D I nearly fell over. In my wildest dreams I didn't see this beauty coming. Nothing could ever top the graceful lines of the refit, or so I thought.



The Cheerios promotion poster! I had three of them but have somehow lost them all over the years. I kept them in their shipping tubes, so they would have been easy pickings for any of my ex, sticky fingered 'friends' to lift.

That would be an awesome poster. Even Picard has one. So I guess we know he's all about the multi-grain at breakfast.

 

[TheSubCommander]

 

[RAMA]

The first clean shot I saw was from the front in black and white, it was in People magazine.

I was in love.

I was following along with David Gerrold in Starlog and also the Star Trek fan club magazine, back in the day when they were digest sized.

 

[JesterFace]

I'm not into paintings that much, but that is something I'd gladly put on my wall.

 

[NigellaDeanna20]

1701-D Galaxy class looks excellent with the 1701-Refit/1701-A.

Agreed! Also just shows you the comparison in scale as well! My two favourite Enterprises!