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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

At this point, I don't care much what it looks like. It's not good enough to matter.

And yet you keep talking about it. Over and over and over. Seems like it matters to you quite a bit.

As for STD - fighting about whether something is "Prime" or not is fighting over angels on the head of a pin. There was no such thing as a "Prime Timeline" in 2007...or an "Alternate Timeline," for that matter.

The people who own the franchise seem to disagree with you, and I don't need to tell you who's word I will value more.
 
A coworker of mine and myself theorised that this happens because the competent ones are exactly those whom you _don't_ want to move away from what they're good at. Hence the other ones get promoted, if they have the right "attitude".
That would be a deliberate inversion of the Peter Principal, and I've seen some companies do this deliberately as a protective measure. This is one reason why some school districts, for example, refuse to consider internal candidates for administrative positions, because they're trying to prevent their top performing teachers from moving out of the classroom and into offices where the skill set that made them very good teachers would be less than useless. IIRC, non-commissioned officers in many military organizations also don't have to live by the "up or out" doctrine of commissioned officers, because it's recognized that the skill set that might make you an incredibly successful sergeant might not translate into being a good master sergeant.
 
So John and Scott were asked to make changes. They assumed it may be for legal reasons, as changing things by 25% is a common way to work around rights etc.

But I guess the 25% was to ensure it was recognisable as the Enterprise, but modified to fit the new aesthetic.
 
They sill attempted to make it practicle to refit the ship to look more like she did in the existing footage from the late 2260s (1960s).
 
They sill attempted to make it practicle to refit the ship to look more like she did in the existing footage from the late 2260s (1960s).
Further proof of my conspiracy theory that TOS is really a dramatic recreation of Kirk's 5 Year Mission!

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But in turn ignored how it looked in 2254

Which, while odd, is at least a possibility. She was only seen once in 2254, and it was in the until the 1990s, unaired pilot, and reused footage for "The Menagerie", which if I recall only had the opening shot of the Enterprise (the zoom into the bridge with Captain Pike). So the ship could be different then, compared to the more well known version under Captain Kirk that was seen a lot more often (even though that too had variations). Kirk's mid-late 2260s version was seen in other shows as well as TOS, so there is that crossover factor to consider as well, verses Pike's ship in the mid-2250s.
 
Made when? Star Trek's world has the production values to make TOS look even more amazing than that "boring" real TMP-onward footage!:p
True, but the developers for the "Star Trek" holonovel were probably some sort of low-budget indie studio using twenty-year-old rendering software for their holographic sandbox, and even then were mainly putting the novels together for kids. I would guess this is the same studio that did that cheesy Lost in Space interactive adventure based loosely on that real-world UESPA expedition from 2089.

It wasn't until years later, after the V'ger incident that made the Enterprise famous, that a more faithful recreation of Earth's favorite starship was published for a more mature audience.
 
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