To each his own. I personally thought the 1701 looked sleeker/faster/newer than the NX-01.
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Agreed.
I have the same view regarding the Enterprise-C bridge. What little we saw of it in "Yesterday's Enterprise" just doesn't cut it. It's simply not worthy of the name Enterprise. Enterprise bridges are supposed to be majestic, and that...wasn't.
Although they have an excuse, as the Ent-C (by the time we first see its bridge) has just come through a major battle with the Romulans and its real bridge was probably knocked out of commission.
I promise you the 1701 will look different if it shows up. Still unmistakably the Enterprise, but it won't look like the 1960s. I'm fine with that if it's a beautiful redesign. Change isn't bad. Bad changes are bad.
Yep.
Agreed. The NX-01 is cluttered with surface junk. It obviously preceded the more smooth and advanced 1701.
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The designers of the NX don't agree. They purposely made the NX look more primitive then the Connie with those details Kor mentioned.
That was the entire thought behind the NX-01 when they designed it, less smooth = less advanced.
Doesn't matter what the designers intended. The TOS Enterprise looks laughable as a piece of future tech. The NX-01 not as much.
And he failed and failed hard. Take away the texture as that is what you are talking about and look at the basic design shapes, without hull detail and texture. The NX is clearly the more advanced design, the Connie is simple shapes. Its like looking at a corvette and then claiming the model T is more advanced as this is the design difference
The NX gets compared to a p-38. And if that is so then design wise the Connie is a Sopwith. You can't get around the more primitive and simplistic design. No way is the NX not decades newer and sleeker.
Cars of the fifties typically used more complex shapes than cars of the eighties, but the cars of the eighties are still newer and more advanced. That's just how styles change over time.
Do you think the NX looks more advanced then the Galaxy? Sovereign? It has more detailing then those ships.
You can still tell which is more advanced however. The 80's cars are less curvy but they are still from a design point of view more advanced in many ways.
They share many of the same design forms.
Yep.
It does.
It's a saucer stuck to a stick stuck to a cylinder and so on - it's something like an old steam locomotive.
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Let's face it. None of the ships in any iteration of Trek have looked anything like the conceptual designs that actual space agencies have proposed for interstellar travel. Everything in Trek is laughable as future tech. It all boils down to space opera fantasy and what looks "cool" to the general viewing audience of laypersons. Even so, the original 1701 had the virtue of being grounded in real-world aeronautical engineering design concepts and breaking the mold of being just another rocket ship.
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You try to explain this to folks and they simply do not get it. You simply can not change the design forms by dressing it up with textures. The connie is the design they are all based off of and its just so obverse with its primitive and simplistic shapes.
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