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

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[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TNG movie era - Sovereign, Sabre, Steamrunner, all of it!

[–] theothersparrow@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

A user of taste and discernment, I see.

[–] bflipp@vmst.io 10 points 1 year ago

@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.

[–] Betazed@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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@mastodon.world 9 points 1 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@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Tired8281@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet if you sailed on a late-80s unrefurbished cruise ship, it'd feel dinky and small.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably, but that isn't the feel.

[–] Tired8281@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Betazed@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 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@lemmy.zenithia.net 4 points 1 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.

[–] theothersparrow@lemmy.one 8 points 1 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.

[–] Voyager763@startrek.website 8 points 1 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.

[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 7 points 1 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.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Honestly? Probably the 'Lost Era' between TOS and TNG.

Excelsior and Ambassador classes were excellent.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 1 year ago

Era: TNG

Specific ship: NX-01

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] JayDurst@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Hell yes! The constitution refit is my all time favorite! I watch TMP all the time just to watch that beauty grace her way across the screen.

[–] specialneedz@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It peaked with the Excelsior.

The Enterprise F we briefly saw was also an absolute beaut.

[–] treed@lemmy.zenithia.net 2 points 1 year ago

The Excelsior was definitely a good-looking ship. VI remains my favorite of the movies. (Slightly controversial, I know.)

The long line ships of STO are beauties, I agree.

I wish Terry Matalas hadn’t been so keen to push them out of use in Picard.

The Vesta class is also a favourite of mine. Mark Rademaker’s designs are very compelling.

[–] kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

TOS or OG movies for me. They are just too iconic and cool. I am also a sucker for retro-futurism so I love to see those chunky computers paired with unbelievably high tech spaceships. Plus Kirk's charisma somehow improves the ships too, at least in TOS.

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The fat one

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 🥰

[–] jimmyjazx@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

TNG but SNW is really nice even if I don't understand it chronologically

[–] passinglurker@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Acid@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kargarocP4@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] AuthorInkwell@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I agree with OP, TMP ships are beautiful and graceful and yet still have some nice angles... and while TMP uniforms must be as uncomfortable as all get-out, I also think they look the best. Excelsior is one of my favorite classes, and a lot of the ships they introduced for the first two Starfleet Command games, extrapolating outward to other classes, are also really fun.

[–] skellener@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Kelvin timeline Enterprise. It’s like the muscle car of Enterprises IMHO.

[–] eva_sieve@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The DS9-Prodigy (~2370-2385) era gave us several lovely ship classes-- the Sovereign, Intrepid, Parliment, Obena, and Protostar classes come to mind for me

[–] MechKit@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have seen almost all the Star Trek content, and never developed a love of the ship structure. I like the Defiant because it doesn't look like it will snap in pieces when it turns a corner. It also proves you don't need to put the propulsion on sticks.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The manual for a licensed video game I once played claimed that the nacelles are mounted on pylons to separate them from the rest of the ship because they emit hazardous radiation when in use.

According to Memory Alpha, however, each of the Galaxy class' unusually large nacelles contains a control room for monitoring the warp drive's operation up close. This implies that it is safe to be not only near but inside the nacelle while the warp drive is running, which nixes the hazardous radiation theory.

[–] theothersparrow@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think Roddenberry's initial vision, the nacelles were set apart from the living areas because constant close contact with the source of the warp field was hazardous (and who knows, in time the Alcubierre drive may prove him right).

I think over time there's just been this implication that the risk was reduced/eliminated thanks to advances in technology (spurred mostly by the narrative), and they stuck with the look basically out of Aesthetic^TM^.

[–] VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, the Klingons put the nacelle inside their BoP. I guess they just YOLO it.

Design notes for the shows have said that nacelles usually work best in pairs and with at least 50% line of sight with each other, but they're not hard requirements. The nacelles in TOS were supposed to be detachable in an emergency but it never happened on the show, similarly to the saucer section.

I think the explanation for nacelle positioning they ultimately settled on during TNG was something about the shape of the warp bubble, but I'm not sure.

[–] theothersparrow@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, the Klingons put the nacelle inside their BoP. I guess they just YOLO it.

Which honestly fits for the Klingons, who probably consider safety as an afterthought.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The Defiant had a lot of issues due to it's "lack of sticks" though.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

DS9, Defiant & Kelvin Timeline Enterprise versions (bonus points for the Vengeance)

Loved some of the TNG ships as well, but in terms of uniqueness the above still stands.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm partial to the Galaxy class. It's big, sleek, and luxurious, which is great for when you need to be diplomatic. “Join the Federation! We have abundant resources and advanced technology, like this cool starship.”

For when you don't need to be diplomatic, it's also got plenty of firepower (enough to melt 20% of an unadapted Borg cube in one phaser blast) and speed (it can soundly outrun a D'deridex).

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[–] PixelOfLife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

ENT era, and specifically the Andorian Kumari-class.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For ST, the Voyager looked good, but I didn't like the moving nacelles. The updated Enterprise from the first movie was my favorite iteration of the Big-E.

But, my favorite ship is the Omega class destroyer from Babylon 5. (sue me)

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

But, my favorite ship is the Omega class destroyer from Babylon 5. (sue me)

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