Agreed - buttt that logic applies to the model. Not the design.
The design is as futuristic as it ever was. That’s why DSC didn’t do more of a radical change. I don’t think they needed to change it as much as they did, but it is what it is.
USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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The design is as futuristic as it ever was. That’s why DSC didn’t do more of a radical change. I don’t think they needed to change it as much as they did, but it is what it is.
Yep. They'll throw in retro details, but still aren't trying to convince me it is something it clearly isn't. Putting the little boomerang on the side of the Discovery version doesn't make it the original Enterprise.
But there is some solace in that, like @Serveaux said, no one will remember this version ten minutes after Discovery is over.
Like the car, they only want to evoke the nostalgia to get the money from aging individuals, exploiting their emotional connection before buyers remorse sets in. The go faster stripes/arrow head are the selling point.
But you're right, once the new Kelvinverse movie hits theatres and a new 4K ultra detailed Enterprise-A appears on the big screen, people won't care about anything else, especially a washed out 720p version.
But there is some solace in that, like @Serveaux said, no one will remember this version ten minutes after Discovery is over.
I am suspicious that they are going to spin off a Pike/Spock series....
You must be wearing out your tap shoes!
Spock says nothing about a perfect cloak...
The Klingons obviously had a "practical" invisibility screen, as the plot point of one of the Discovery episodes was figuring out how to detect them.
You and me both. But, they'll change it again. Gotta sell some merchandise!
Then if it was as advantageous to have a window as has been suggested then Kirk was negligent or incompetent... HeheWhat if the Original Series Enterprise DID have a Bridge Window/VIewscreen and Kirk just preferred to never use it as one?
If we're going to make grand assumptions about Spock's Intelligence in TWoK, then this would easily explain why he didn't suggest it.
I'd imagine there will be some small alternations between the Season 1 finale and Season 2 since the model in season 1 only had to be shown once.
Who is saying it is advantageous?
Then if it was as advantageous to have a window as has been suggested then Kirk was negligent or incompetent... Hehe
Who is saying it is advantageous?
Exactly.It's almost as if Wrath of Khan/TOS exist in a different version of the continuity where the Enterprise looked different, never encountered a cloaking device prior to "Balance of Terror" and didn't have a window.
Who'd a thunk it?
How perfect was that cloak that it took all that to bust it?
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A several thousand year old ship belonging to the 'black fleet' of the Hur'q, ask them, and the Klingons that killed them to take it.
Nothing in the show said that ship had anything to do with the Hur'q.
Plinkett does at one point - I think it’s in his “Star Trek: the Star Trek” review.
So we're ignoring that Kahless was only 1500 years ago, that from DS9 it's heavily implied Klingons made major leap through "killing their gods" which is likely them having murdered a Beta Quadrant invader that wanted to conquer them, and that the Black Fleet in no way resembles any known Klingon design in 50 years and could easily belong to another race?
It would all add up very nicely...
All of that is speculation.
Also the Black Fleet is the afterlife, not an actual fleet. A variant on Sto'vo'kor.
Maybe it wasn't humor!
I just want interesting Klingons. It would have been a good twist, maybe one that made the finale make sense. Rob them of the last Hur'q superweapons and they go home.
Fun fact the Black Fleet is also mentioned in DS9 in the lyrics of a Klingon song
https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Warrior's_Anthem
https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Warrior's_Anthem
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