USS Discovery ship design PROS & CONS

[137th Gebirg]

Must have an Olympic-regulation swimming pool.

And toilets.

 

[RAMA]

It looks fine, don't worry about.

RAMA

I personally don't like the ship design, but I could live with it. I guess they're going for a more rugged, industrial look.
The Nacelles look like superchargers from a hot rod, however, they bear some resemblance to the Cochrane nacelle design, seen in Star Trek: First Contact and in Star Trek: Enterprise, I don't know, it being set before the original series, perhaps it's some hybrid design of the Cochrane nacelle and the TOS nacelle. The pylons are a tad too much for me, they just seem... bleh...
Also, the color. I'm not a big fan of parting from the usual light gray color of the ship, but I do like the kind of brass color the Discovery has. Like the NX-01' color scheme of unpainted metal, I really liked that.
One final thing that does bother me is the main deflector. The original USS Enterprise had the radar dish type deflector, and the discovery the glowing one. Of course, so did the NX-01 and, if you consider it good enough to mention, the fan film Prelude to Axanar. The main deflector for the Aries class starship was similar to the Discovery, the Aries also having preceded the constitution class.

Tell me what you think.

 

[RAMA]

Listening to fans is almost always a mistake.

TrekYard says that the producers of Discovery are changing the ship design to "give fans what they want." I think doing so can be bad. If producers read websites (like this one) or Twitter, they might often see the most vocal fans giving the strongest opinions, but these opinions are not necessarily the most logical and are probably not the most common. The ship might be betting worse. We should let the producers do their job while we hope for the best.

 

[galad2003]

That ship design was a travesty. I'm pretty sure my eight year old could have come up with something better than that. It just didn't fit the aesthetic of Starfleet ships, with that round saucer and triangular body. Plus going to a 70's styple design in the year 2016 was idiotic. I hope they change it to something more like Federation ships we have seen over the years with the saucer, pylons and rounded/conical hull while making it look modern for 2016.

 

[RAMA]

I rest my case...

That ship design was a travesty. I'm pretty sure my eight year old could have come up with something better than that. It just didn't fit the aesthetic of Starfleet ships, with that round saucer and triangular body. Plus going to a 70's styple design in the year 2016 was idiotic. I hope they change it to something more like Federation ships we have seen over the years with the saucer, pylons and rounded/conical hull while making it look modern for 2016.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

while making it look modern for 2016

If they make look modern for 2016, won't that make it look dated for 2255?

 

[Masao]

If they make look modern for 2016, won't that make it look dated for 2255?

Nope! 1967 was dated for 2265; therefore, 2016 is extremely advanced for 2255! Wait. Scratch that... How about... 2016 is dated for 1967; therefore, 2265 is clearly dated for 2255!

 

[Tenacity]

Listening to fans is almost always a mistake.

Like when the fans said they really liked Spock, and Nimoy started getting more lines and screen time.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Like when the fans said they really liked Spock, and Nimoy started getting more lines and screen time.

And look what that got us!

 

[jaime]

Productions that actually understand Star Trek, but usually have inferior costumes.

I dunno, that's a fifty fifty shot. And Continues, if squinted at (especially Larry, god bless him) is visually spot on. Axanar understood what a certain group of fans think Star Trek is....

 

[jaime]

It's not a proper Discovery design discussion thread, until someone says it will be fine… "as long as the writing is good".

We can write it getting blown up at the end of episode one....