USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

[CaptainMurdock]

Touch screens can be unreliable sometimes. if a ship is in a fight and the screen is broken or glitches out and keeps you from having to perform it's function then you're SOL. Buttons can be more reliable in a crisis. There's a reason airplanes and spacecraft and many large vehicles today still use buttons.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The shenzhou and discovery still have buttons, but most control surfaces are touch. Makes me wonder what the buttons are for

Snacks

 

[Jesse1066]

Why would they go from touch screens to buttons and then back to touch screens?

I didn't say no touchscreens, only less. Buttons can be used by touch alone. A screen requires you to look at it to see what you're doing. Anyway, the Enterprise A switched from all touchscreens to buttons and switches for helm and navigation in Star Trek 6.

 

[Saul]

No, they are round, but they don't tend to look like that. Nor does any other ship we saw, it sure as heck looks older than the NX dish.

So let's disregard 'Enterprise' as canon then.
Or imagine that the design that has endured for 50 years takes precedence over one that has been around for less than 20.

 

[cooleddie74]

The shenzhou and discovery still have buttons, but most control surfaces are touch. Makes me wonder what the buttons are for

Continuity. And for the bridge's wacky trapdoor and ceiling balloons.

 

[lawman]

It's not like a computer reboot. It's a series reboot you're talking about. We commonly use "reboot" to mean "start over" as in "start from scratch" (see : Casino Royale), not just "make more movies after a hiatus".

Truth. We have a word for the latter; it's a "relaunch" (like Doctor Who did in 2005, for example).

It has a set retro look that IRL has not been used in decades

C'mon. You seriously don't see how saying it looks older because "it has a retro look" is begging the question? Using a synonym doesn't stop an argument from being circular.

Also, I'm honestly not sure what you mean by "IRL" here. There are no starship deflector dishes in real life. What we do have are satellite dishes, and FWIW, as has already been demonstrated in this thread, the "modern" ones actually look more like the dish on the Enterprise.

 

[fireproof78]

The shenzhou and discovery still have buttons, but most control surfaces are touch. Makes me wonder what the buttons are for

Ask O'Brien and his secondary back-up protocol.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even the TOS Enterprise had at least one touchscreen control on the bridge. Gary Mitchell swipes the edge of his hand across one of the navigator's display screens to open the ship's commsystem. I don't know why the navigator would control the intercom for speaking to the rest of the crew and not the communications officer sitting directly behind the Captain, but nevertheless...a smooth touchscreen control of some kind.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Even the TOS Enterprise had at least one touchscreen control on the bridge. Gary Mitchell swipes the edge of his hand across one of the navigator's display screens to open the ship's commsystem. I don't know why the navigator would control the intercom for speaking to the rest of the crew and not the communications officer sitting directly behind the Captain, but nevertheless...a smooth touchscreen control of some kind.

(Opens can of worms)
Maybe because he's the XO
(runs away)

 

[cooleddie74]

Nerd.

For that, you have to listen to Spock shout.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nerd.

For that, you have to listen to Spock shout.

 

[cooleddie74]

I just plomeeked myself.

 

[Belz...]

This is a false argument.

First of all, that doesn't even make sense.

Second of all, the point is that designs change over time, and sometimes you could say they look more primitive than their predecessors but that doesn't mean anything.

C'mon. You seriously don't see how saying it looks older because "it has a retro look" is begging the question? Using a synonym doesn't stop an argument from being circular.

Not only that, but "retro" implies that it's more advanced _but_ looks older, which is exactly what they're complaining about. The 1701-E has a retro look.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Truth. We have a word for the latter; it's a "relaunch" (like Doctor Who did in 2005, for example).

"Continuation" also works.

 

[Tuskin38]

Touch screens can be unreliable sometimes. if a ship is in a fight and the screen is broken or glitches out and keeps you from having to perform it's function then you're SOL. Buttons can be more reliable in a crisis. There's a reason airplanes and spacecraft and many large vehicles today still use buttons.

Wrath of Khan (I think, or maybe it was ST6) onwards is almost exclusively touchscreens

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Wrath of Khan (I think, or maybe it was ST6) onwards is almost exclusively touchscreens

It was ST6. WoK had buttons, toggles, and even rotary switches.

 

[Ronald Held]

Why did it take 7 months to alter the Cage Enterprise? I am not on FB.

 

[Hatter76]

Why did it take 7 months to alter the Cage Enterprise? I am not on FB.

Why did it take 2-1/2 yeas to refit the TOS Enterprise for The Motion Picture?

 

[Prax]

It's not a relaunch or a reboot in terms of Star Trek as a product. Star Trek never really ceased being produced. As soon as Enterprise ended, work began on the JJ films, which were still going as work began on Discovery.

Let's just call it "a new rollout."

Why did it take 2-1/2 yeas to refit the TOS Enterprise for The Motion Picture?

I thought it took a year.

 

[Hatter76]

I thought it took a year.

Oh hell it doesn't matter whether it took a year or two and a half, the point is it takes time to build things, as to why it took 7 months for the 3D model of the new Discovery version of the Enterprise, again, it takes time, especially when they are trying to be careful about who the piss off with the design, because someones gonna get pissed, never the less the Job is coming up with a contemporary depiction of The Starship Enterprise, as seen through the eyes and aesthetics of Star Trek Discovery in 2017-2018.

And who knows, they may have had a locked down design of their Enterprise, and seen the feedback on the Klingon's and said "Oh F**k, We need to re-think this shit" or they might just have been spending a long time trying to find a proper balance that everyone calling the shots would be happy or satisfied with