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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

Discoprise pylons do not look good.
The laws of Physics in the PU seem the same for classical phenomena. General relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Standard(particle) Model not certain.
 
Agreed.



I don't really look at it as a finished design. I do think it needs considerable work. But I can see in my mind's eye what could be done if the artist kept at it.


Looked at as just an approximation, it's the Jefferies ship with curved pylons and some streamlines. Nothing there.
 
If either of you is genuinely interested in a detailed discussion of the debatable merits of ST09, nine years after the fact, by all means start a thread in the appropriate subforum and invite me to it, and I'll cheerfully get into the weeds of it. (Well, maybe not cheerfully, but at least only semi-grudgingly.) I'm still trying not to go off on that tangent here, however.
If you don't want to engage with it then I see no reason to carry it forward. I have had this discussion for nigh unto ten years and have heard from a variety of people, both for and against. It simply boiled down to how we engaged the material and enjoyed it. Which, hey, mileage will vary and all that.

Since Nero's ship is 132 years more advanced then the Starfleet vessels he's going up against in 2255 he probably didn't consider Starfleet an obstacle at all - and he was right considering the state of Vulcan now.
Indeed. Uhura supports as much stating that a number of Klingon ships were destroyed or in distress prior to the incident on Vulcan. Nero was clearly unconcerned about starships of the day causing an issue for him.
 
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Came across this image:

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It's interesting that Jefferies used the 1701A designation, without hyphen:

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Maybe the blue bussard thing on versions of Phase II was folks misinterpreting the coloring on this Mike Minor illustration?:

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Let's all be thankful that Discovery didn't use something like this:

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I really don't know what possessed Minor to come up with that, even as a rough work-in-progress. :ack:
 
Those pylons and engines are just horrible. What's wrong with people? This looks bad. No bendy pylons; just stop it!

While the nacelles aren't how I'd have designed them I could live with those. I wouldn't have the pylons curved, however, and would just make them straight like the original TOS pylons but thicker to give the impression they're supporting a much greater weight.
 
Unless you build them on Earth, of course. Or take them underwater. But why would someone do anything as silly as that with a starship?... :lol:
 
It's interesting that Jefferies used the 1701A designation, without hyphen:



Maybe the blue bussard thing on versions of Phase II was folks misinterpreting the coloring on this Mike Minor illustration?:

Minor3.jpg

In what way would it be a misinterpretation?
 
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