You know, the whole canon/timeline thing would go away if they’d commit to the old very-early-TOS thing of: ship visits new worlds weekly, each story is set there, and we never bring up history, the year, or even the galaxy at large — just this story in this place. But that’s sort of not allowed anymore (and presumably doesn’t bring in the money of “Earth/the galaxy is threatened!”, even more so if it’s a procedural where it’s only occasionally specifically about the leads, beyond their actions in this particular story).
What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?
the starship equivalent of the Thunderscreech. But I kind of like the idea of early human startships being kludges where they just hadn't figured out what worked best. The closest we got in ENT were maybe the ECS ships.
Reminds me of how much I love the Protostar!
See, I saw the NXes themselves as kind of kludges — big chunks of metal shoved together. (Which is why the more flowy Sarajevo-class looked so weird, next to it.)
the starship equivalent of the Thunderscreech. But I kind of like the idea of early human startships being kludges where they just hadn't figured out what worked best. The closest we got in ENT were maybe the ECS ships.
The NX does look like an evolutionary step forward from the Intrepid-class starship of that same era, with the wedge-shaped half-saucer of that class widened and expanded to a full saucer to accommodate more crew and more organically flow into the Warp 5 engine section near the new, slimmer and smaller nacelles. Now that we know the Franklin is also part of the NX evolutionary chart that smaller ship also fits into the progression.
Maybe Sarajevo ships were designed for in-atmosphere flight whereas the NX really wasn't.
Nope. Everything must be interconnected and honestly I think part of that short changes audiences and their imagination.
Generally, I like it better than most post-TNG "Federation ships."
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