I’m personally a big fan of the late TMP designs like the Excelsior and Centaur, what do you guys like?

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I’m going to get crucified for this, but I really dig Discovery’s design language (both the show in general and the ship herself). In particular (I’m ready for those nails), I like their take on the Enterprise in season 2 (and subsequently SNW). In my mind it’s tied with late-TNG era stuff which is what I grew up watching. I have mad respect for the older designs, but I find that modernizing the classics isn’t diminishing my enjoyment even though I’m very acutely aware of the canon issues.

    • lxskllr
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      81 year ago

      @Betazed @Digital_Cam

      I *really* hate the transparent consoles they use in new Trek. I would be so angry being forced to work on one those ~8 hours per day. How can you see anything with zero contrast and background disruptions?! Like trying to read a web page with a movie going on behind it.

      My computer terminal is at 75% opacity just for the novelty and visuals, but it makes it harder to work with. I wouldn’t have it if I were working in the terminal all day.

    • HobbitFoot
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      61 year ago

      My only problem with Discovery era is that the areas are made to be more spacious than TNG, which was supposed to be cruise ship quality. The design language is modern, but it feels way too spacious.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            I’m just saying, our definition of luxury has moved since they built those sets in 1987.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              That’s really my point as well. The modern updates of ships are because our expectations have definitely shifted. I feel like disparate design languages of the shows don’t necessarily have to detract from the shared universe. Though, don’t get me wrong, Star Trek is many things but one thing it isn’t, and has never purported to be, is a documentary. By that I mean that the set dressing, the costumes, our “presence” as the audience, everything about the way the shows are produced tells me we’re watching a dramatization of the “real” events. Contrast that with something like the 2000s era Battlestar Galactica which had a lot of elements in its filming that were designed to make it feel more like a documentary and we, the audience, were watching footage captured of “real” events.

      • treed
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        41 year ago

        I agree with this. It looks really good, but it was weirdly huge.

        Discovery S3+

        Especially in later seasons. Where did all that space come from? Or was all that extra space we see later specifically added during the retrofit?

        I guess you can blame it being a platform for experimentation. They wanted it to be able to produce the stuff they’d need even away from stations? Still feels weird though.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I found myself quite taken with the post burn fleet in Dis, just because it pushed the boundaries of the designs seen in the past. Shame we’ll probably never see any of them explored further.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    No one’s shown any love for my favourite ship design yet, so I’m gonna speak up about my love for the Intrepid class. Voyager just looked so sleek and graceful compared to other ships of the era — the comparatively lumbering Galaxy glass, the oddly square shaped Defiant class, or the cold and sterile Sovereign class.

  • Steve Sparrow
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    81 year ago

    Probably the TNG films… or maybe call it “post Wolf-359?”

    Defiant, Steamrunner, Luna, Akira, and my dear, sweet, beloved, gorgeous Sovereign; everything produced in response to The Borg just looked so fuckin’ good.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    81 year ago

    I love the late TNG / Dominion War era, but less for the designs themselves and more for how many different ship types we see from all over the Alpha and Delta quadrants.

  • Brett Flippin
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    @Digital_Cam The II - VI OG movie era. Harder lines but upgraded from the series. There was a harshness and realness to the ships, almost armored looking which fits the more conflict oriented tone of those movies.

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    1 year ago

    The Dominion/Borg/DS9 era of ships. The Akira, Steamrunner, Defiant, Prometheus, Sabre, and Sovereign are awesome (and the Galaxy even though that came earlier). It represented a reality check when Starfleet finally snapped out of complacency.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Honestly? Probably the ‘Lost Era’ between TOS and TNG.

    Excelsior and Ambassador classes were excellent.

  • sarcasticsunrise
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    51 year ago

    Agree with ye OP. I’m even a fan of the Miranda and the Oberth, I feel like nobody likes those classes. There’s just something special about the TOS film ships. Those sexy nacelles 🥰

  • circuitfarmer
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    Connie Refit. Mmmhm those are gorgeous lines. 80s swagger on top of that classic chassis.

    Sometimes I watch TMP just for the Enterprise porn (yes, some is also in TWOK, but sometimes the slow pacing is warranted).

    Edit: and speaking of TWOK, Reliant/Miranda Class was nice too. Same parts mostly, different configuration. Exactly what I would expect from a vessel serving a research group; no nonsense.

  • @[email protected]
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    ENT era.

    Externally speaking Starfleet ships march to the beats of NACA/NASA X-planes, Klingon embrace a very soviet yet alien look in contrast, Vulcans look advanced and sleek yet ancient and mythical with the biggest pointiest toys on the block.

    Internally speaking construction is depicted as having limits, tech and interfaces are familiar to real world, cramped ship like rooms are the norm, and there’s no handwaving over how everything might fit inside the ships.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Dominion War/TNG film era for me, and further stuff that’s extrapolated from that. I prefer ships to be flatter, having a neck just seems to scream “weakpoint”.

    • Basilisk
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      61 year ago

      It’s hard to watch The Wrath of Khan where the Reliant fires and hits the Enterprise’s neck and not think “Gee, if Khan had got a bit more of a shot in, that would’ve been the end of the movie right there.” Beyond even followed through on that. I love the Enterprise’s design and love the way that it shows that it’s in space by not being constrained by the rules you need to follow in gravity but it’s definitely not a tactically sound design.

      But then my favourite ship design is the Steamrunner which is equally impractical so sometimes tactics can go out the window for a pretty ship.

  • Acid
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    41 year ago

    TMP Era is just the best looking classic Star Trek experience some of the designs in my opinion were in things like Starfleet Command the video game like the Akula class, but I have a soft spot for the DS9/First Contact/Star Trek Armada period.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      The TMP nacelles are very 70s (lol), but the rest of the ship looks so good that it makes you overlook it.