Spoilers Visual continuity - Does Discovery strictly need to show past designs... at all?
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Yep. Starfleet never moved away from that design aesthetic. Nor did the Klingons with those long-necked ships, all the way through over 200 years of design lineage.
The base of the refit-Connie nacelle pylons are pretty thin as well.
Barely. The Enterprise D pylons are wider but they are thinner than the standard Constitution.
The Galaxy-class pylons are also really thin. As is the base of the neck.
There's nothing wrong with how the Connie looks. As a fictional starship, all it needs to do is look cool. It does that, it has captured and held my imagination for forty-plus years.
Sure. That must have been a hella expensive wireframe... I mean it must have required at least 80's level computers to render it...
Obviously wasn't referring to just the wire frame. When we see the final product it would.
I guess I should confess my love for the original Constitution-class. I have an Eaglemoss version on my desk (next to "The Tholian Web" spacesuit Kirk from Playmates), the Diamond Select version on my bookshelf and the Eaglemoss Defiant upstairs on my dresser. 
I have that one as well, I also have a pewter one.
+1 for the DST Enterprise.
I find it amusing that some folks feel the TOS Connie shouldn't really be focused on or re-used because it looks like "something from the 60's", which it most certainly doesn't. In fact, Matt Jefferies (at Roddenberry's request) specifically designed it to be like nothing that has come before it, the majority of which were Flash Gordon-like dildo rockets with a sparkler hanging out its ass or a Lost in Space-like flying saucer. It was (and arguably still is) a groundbreaking design like no other and, while the interior sets may admittedly appear a bit more dated, the exterior of the vessel is, IMO, timeless and should have no trouble fitting in with any era.
Exactly! 
Done!
What are those rings on the hull and nacelles?
but that isn't enough either.
Not sure really. This was a QMX version that never saw the light of day.
I suspect that it's supposed to give the impression that those components were laid out in segments (like modern-day naval vessels), with the connecting seams being slightly off-flush with each other. As the ship travels through space, it collects dust and other particulates that get stuck in those seams.
I can see that.
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