When was the NX-01 most likely refitted?

[Yistaan]

I would go with whatever the intentions people like Manny Coto and Mike Sussman intended the ship to look like beyond the fourth season. So say if they said the ship was going to be upgraded from the beginning of Season 5 then that's what I would go with. That's what I think it looked like in the Romulan War.
I don't particularly like the upgrade. I think for me it feels like the equivalent to how the Enterprise-D looked in the future of "All Good Things..." and if that version of the ship went to live in the Starfleet Museum. It's a little odd to me that it existed to us for 4 years in one form in adventures we saw but then existed in over 200 years in a form we never really saw. But maybe if it had actually appeared onscreen for Seasons 5, 6, and 7 I would have a different opinion. And I'm not fond of the offscreen stasis/status quo of people or objects, so maybe it's fitting.

Yep. And if people say that the holodeck wouldn't get the ship blueprints wrong in TATV, I'd argue the holodeck ALSO very likely got the ranks of the crew wrong as I doubt they'd go without promotion for 10 years.

 

[Takeru]

I would go with whatever the intentions people like Manny Coto and Mike Sussman intended the ship to look like beyond the fourth season.

It's easy then, the ship would have looked the same, there would have been no refit.

 

[somebuddyX]

It's easy then, the ship would have looked the same, there would have been no refit.

Ah okay cool. I looked it up and saw Drexler came up with it himself. I thought it was something Manny wanted. I was just starting to make some fanart of that version of it and the Franklin together.

 

[HotRod]

Ah okay cool. I looked it up and saw Drexler came up with it himself. I thought it was something Manny wanted. I was just starting to make some fanart of that version of it and the Franklin together.

Yeah, it's always been Drexler's baby. I think fans took what he said on the matter a little too seriously. But hey, he managed get the design onscreen. Took almost 20 years, but he did it.

Please do continue to make the fanart. I always love seeing the Franklin.