Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Absolutely loved the design of the Enterprise D at the time. And still do.
Loved the Enterprise E when it came out in the movies.
Also quite fond of pre-Burn Discovery’s almost Art Deco style.
And DS9.
Also quite fond of pre-Burn Discovery’s “retro Art Deco” style.
I almost added “retro Art Deco of the Crossfield class” to my examples but wasn’t 100% sure that was right. Thanks for confirming lol.
And yeah, I’m still warming up to the detached nacelles of the 31st century ships. I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.
I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.
In “Scavengers”, right after Discovery gets her refit, Saru says, “even her nacelles are now detached, improving maneuverability and enabling us to be more efficient in flight.”
I found this pretty puzzling, but it eventually dawned on me that the explanation is probably seen most clearly with Book’s ship. There are a few times when we see his ship rearrange itself on the fly to navigate the many, many debris fields present in the post-Burn galaxy - it looks like the detached bits let them dodge debris without actually changing their course or speed.
We do get a glimpse of Discovery doing something similar late in season 5, when they ram their way into the Breen dreadnaught - the nacelles tuck themselves up and behind the saucer, reducing the ship’s profile.
Good catch. I knew Book’s ship did the fancy, in-flight reconfiguration but never caught the Discovery refit using similar capabilities. Guess it was a subtle thing I just missed.
I don’t have a satisfying answer for that one - wireless power transfer is NBD in the TNG era, so maybe it’s just an extreme version of that?
Reno once had a line about replacing the warp plasma conduits with “polaric” ones, so maybe they don’t use plasma at all?
But the Athena seems to, so 🤷
retro art deco
I’m no expert though that’s how it appears to me, though I just realized I should have written: “retro-futuristic art deco”…
The detached nacelles, I can somehow live with it, but those curves and lack of windows on most new ships are just too off for my brain… it’s like they were made only in CGI with no physical models were ever made, which feels kinda “wrong” and unpractical… as an example, comparing the Enterprise D in Picard season 3, vs in the series and movies. As much as they try, it’s just not the same.
I’m not versed in the arts, but going by this definition of art deco:
the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements.
That closely fits within the definition.
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