Could that design be trolling? It looks like minimum-polygons and crude texture for some game cut-scene out of the 90s. Very ugly, childish even, not to mention the clear resemblance to klingon ships from various series and movies.
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The new design looks horrible, there is no way that can be real.
Babylon 5 cgi looks better.
Shrug. Who cares how the ship looks. Star Trek is about the characters and the stories with the crew. It’s never been about the space porn. (Well, except that one scene you guys linked to above from Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
Says you. I’ve always loved the ships.
What? Just about everyone who watches Trek cares about the ships. There’s always endless nerd debates about which ship looks better, which could win in a fight, etc.
As for the new ship, I think it looks bad. Like a fan-designed ship. I appreciate that it comes from a McQuarrie design, but that saucer plopped on top of a wedge looks goofy.
Yeah, the ship is important. But that particular image is apparently from Star Trek Phase II, not from any current or even 21st century series.
+1. Agreed. This. Etc.
That image is actually a design McQuarrie drew for Star Trek: Planet of the Titans. Thank the Gods that was never made: it would have been horrible.
Not sure what to think about the ship. I like it as a nod to Trek history, but it doesn’t match the established design ethics of any previous Trek series.
It actually does feel like it could be an “exploration” ship, though, if they want this series to be one about seeking out strange new worlds… Three shuttlecraft bays (for planetary surveys), and the redundancy in the warp nacelles (since you don’t want to lose warp drive when you’re many Kessel Runs from home).
It’s definitely a ship that’s going to need some ‘splainin’. Looks to be pre-TOS, post-Enterprise in technology.
That ship is god awful.
I don’t know if it’s THAT bad, but it does look like the Voyager and a Klingon D7 went on a date. Nine months later…
No, it is that awful.
I concur. Shitty CGI aside, the design, as shown, is god awful and hugely disappointing.
However, I can’t describe how excited I am for a serialized Trek with Bryan Fuller at the helm.
Oh, I may have missed this, but did anyone here mention that it’s now confirmed that this show is set in the “Prime” timeline and not the “Kelvin” timeline?
I read that somewhere. But I’m less concerned about the timeline than I am about the stardate.
In my opinion Prime has a lot of baggage in later time periods I’d rather not see them have to deal with (again). So if I had any concerns about the timeline it would mostly be that.
Worth mentioning that none of this is final, from an interview with the producers at Trekmovie.com:
“When Trekmovie.com asked Kadin if the teaser for Star Trek: Discovery featured the final design of the ship, music, and logo, she laughed and said “NO! I was surprised Bryan didn’t say that, actually. I mean, we had three weeks to throw that together. We wanted to show fans…we’re super-excited by the score that this amazing composer, Fil Eisner, threw together as an audition and he did an incredible job. The concepts of the ship are totally what we’re going for and they’ll be honed up until, I think, the day we deliver.””
Sure, I think we all know it’s not final since they haven’t even started filming yet, but I also don’t expect a massive ship redesign either. Barring some legal or production trouble, that’s it. They might fiddle with some details like the greebling or maybe a color pass, but The Discovery is going to be an awkward wedge regardless.
Well, I think the whole “three weeks to throw that together” thing indicates this might be a rough draft of something that at least looks like it fits in visually with the Star Trek universe. I’m pretty hard to please myself, I don’t even like the design of the Next Generation Enterprise. But I’ll wait and see.
I remember watching the premiere of TNG with friends and seeing the NCC-1701-D for the first time.
“It looks like a flying office building.”
I’ve never liked that one. The oval saucer, the flattened engineering hull, the forward-swept nacelle struts… IMHO the worst Enterprise, followed by 1701-B.
Here’s my Enterprise ranking from best to worst:
- NCC-1701 (Original Series)
- NCC-1701/1701-A (Movie refit)
- NCC-1701-C (Love this one!)
- NX-01 (Retro cool. Even cooler as the NX-01 Refit which would have been seen next season)
- NCC-1701-E (Looks like it’s moving standing still)
- NCC-1701 (Kelvin Universe. Oversized nacelles too close together and the resizing of the ship is stupid)
- NCC-1701-B (I always thought the Excelsior Class was intentionally designed so you’d hate it)
- NCC-1701-D (Though I do like the All Good Things future refit)
I’d put the Reliant up there right below 1701-A, and Voyager, the flying upside-down-shoehorn, at the very bottom of the list.