USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

[Belz...]

Such as?

EDIT: Yeah, I saw those just after I posted that. Strange. Maybe it's just a lower-resolution version because it otherwise looks pretty damn accurate. Why make a new model when you'd have access to the actual model from the show? Isn't that the whole point of CGI?

 

[Tuskin38]

Such as?

I edited my post

 

[Belz...]

So did I!

 

[Tuskin38]

EDIT: Yeah, I saw those just after I posted that. Strange. Maybe it's just a lower-resolution version because it otherwise looks pretty damn accurate. Why make a new model when you'd have access to the actual model from the show? Isn't that the whole point of CGI?

They probably made the background themselves using the in-game assets for consistancy

They can't use the actual show models, they're too high quality for real time rendering.

Star Trek Online does the same thing, they were given all the CG assets of everything that appeared before the second half of the season to use as reference.

 

[Belz...]

Well, regardless it's not a bad view of what it more-or-less looks like.

 

[Tuskin38]

It's the cloest thing we have as an official render, outside of those Eaglemoss ones.

I hope we get some new views with Comic-Con/STLV

 

[Belz...]

Yeah, throw us a bone, folks.

 

[TrickyDickie]

My take on the vent / door:

Sometimes when a change is made, something that was incorporated before is no longer, but the ability to bring it back at a later date is allowed within the elements of the updated design.

Example: In 1972, Toro started selling lawn mowers that featured a deck that was modified from the previous design. The older mowers were powered by Tecumseh engines that had a muffler that went down through the deck, with the exhaust exiting underneath. The new mowers featured Briggs & Stratton engines with more conventional side-exiting exhaust that did not require a hole in the deck. Toro retained the raised rim of the hole in the new deck castings, but plugged the hole itself. This made it very easy to ream out the hole for special applications. That is, in fact, what the company did in certain cases. For certain special models, of limited production, the hole was reamed out and a Tecumseh engine was once again installed.

What could be called the 'blanking plate' on the rear of the Enterprise nacelles could be there to allow for future contingencies.

 

[Belz...]

We're really over-thinking what's just a rectangle they originally put there so that it had more detail, now.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

What could be called the 'blanking plate' on the rear of the Enterprise nacelles could be there to allow for future contingencies.

Like a chute for a grass catcher, right?

 

[TrickyDickie]

Just a little exercise taking engineering and design here and applying it in-universe to explain things.

 

[Tuskin38]

here is that render again at higher res

https://i.imgur.com/VctWeZQ.png

 

[TrickyDickie]

here is that render again at higher res

https://i.imgur.com/VctWeZQ.png

Well....if they go larger and larger with ship size, pretty soon they will be the size of a space station / dock, so that can be the door.

 

[ITDUDE]

My take on the vent / door:

Sometimes when a change is made, something that was incorporated before is no longer, but the ability to bring it back at a later date is allowed within the elements of the updated design.

Example: In 1972, Toro started selling lawn mowers that featured a deck that was modified from the previous design. The older mowers were powered by Tecumseh engines that had a muffler that went down through the deck, with the exhaust exiting underneath. The new mowers featured Briggs & Stratton engines with more conventional side-exiting exhaust that did not require a hole in the deck. Toro retained the raised rim of the hole in the new deck castings, but plugged the hole itself. This made it very easy to ream out the hole for special applications. That is, in fact, what the company did in certain cases. For certain special models, of limited production, the hole was reamed out and a Tecumseh engine was once again installed.

What could be called the 'blanking plate' on the rear of the Enterprise nacelles could be there to allow for future contingencies.

Epic mower knowledge!

 

[TrickyDickie]

Epic mower knowledge!

Thanks....I restore them.

Here are a few pics to show the change. The first is a 1968, with the black muffler going down through the deck. The other two are a 1976, with the hole plugged because of the side-exit exhaust, but still available to be reamed out if desired for other applications:

 

[F. King Daniel]

The ISS Constellation showed up in the latest Discovery mirror comic, looks nothing like the Enterprise

Linked for spoilers

https://imgur.com/a/WJLwQUX

In one shot its saucer looks like it came from the USS Kelvin, but in the next shot it's just a TOS Connie.

Although it does look like the artist tried to add the gaps in the pylons seen on the DSC Enterprise.

I'm pretty sure the bottom one is based on a Kelvinized Enterprise fanart I once saw.

But it's IDW. The artists aren't big fans, and to them a Google search is all they need for references. They've had fanart alternate versions of the Kelvin Enterprise replace the actual Kelvin Enterprise for a few panels, they've had Next Gen LCARS graphics all over every black surface of the classic TOS Enterprise bridge and tonnes more.

Sad truth is, it's just laziness.

 

[F. King Daniel]

they are the same ship. It's just artist inconstancy.

The Imgur album is out of the order, the bottom image appears on the page before the top image.

It looks like the artist traced/based the forward shot off this actually.

And there it is. IDW keep doing this. Pretty sure @MadMan1701A art has been used by IDW before.

 

[cooleddie74]

I like that font a lot better than I do the one for the actual DSC Enterprise, but other than that that ship is even further from the TOS ship than the DSC version is. If it weren't the Enterprise or a Constitution-class starship it'd be just fine, but since it's supposed to be then I'll take a pass.

Nice work, though.

 

[Belz...]

here is that render again at higher res

https://i.imgur.com/VctWeZQ.png

Definitely a chute for a grasscatcher, then?

 

[Groppler Zorn]

Re: the differences in the nacelle vent/door/advent calendar window -

Starfleet intelligence captured a romulan holoship at some point after 2154.

Post TCW, the holo skin technology was incorporated into starfleet ships meaning that their external configuration can be changed at will/to adapt to the needs of the mission.

So the vent under consideration is the same vent as in other versions of the Enterprise (even as previously observed in DSC) it just looks different and is in a slightly different place. But it’s exactly the same vent as on the TOS ship, the DSC ship, and on the TMP refit probably.