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This video can be summarized by the statement: when Discovery makes a mistake, it's because the writers weren't being thorough and missed stuff, whereas when Prodigy makes a mistake it's because the writers are thorough but are making a joke about the shows that aren't. Sorry, but no, the Discovery team makes mistakes, and so does the Prodigy team, we're all humans here, and no one is going to remember every bit of the 500+ hours of Star Trek there are. I know I'm not the first one to say this, but there is no problem in not liking, or being critical about a new show. What I have a problem with is that a certain subset of haters seem to have a fanatical determinism to prove that their opinions are somehow more informed, or legitimate than others. Of the many disingenuous remarks that these people can levy against the new show, many can be said about other shows as well. The default response of these people when someone brings this to their attention seems to be to come up with a convoluted (and often very broken) reason why their favorite show is somehow off the hook, and that is exactly what's happening here. If you want to criticize Discovery for being inconsistent about the size of the ship, then you need to stick to your guns and call out this show when it does the same. I really like Star Trek Prodigy, and I'm on record for not really caring about continuity issues, but I won't stand for people defending one series while tearing others apart for doing the same thing.
This ship helps me realize I actually dig the Disco ship aesthetic! (minus the bronze-y color they did on Discovery herself in the early days, for whatever reason)
If the 32nd century spaceports has more near-earth orbit stations or underwater tunnel transportation system, these ships could be more wonderful space tourism ships to crew members.
Love the show guys, I did play the game and I loved it. I do have a copy. If you want it your welcome to it, I don’t think I would ever play it again because I believe in doing all my gaming on Xbox.
i am not a fan of the design i frankly forgot it was a thing i did used it in sto a while back also it would be nice to see season 1 disco ships in strange new world wich would be strange if the federation decided to scrap them all
I think these sorts of videos would be helped with a real time look at the model using the in-game STO ship viewer in the store (you can look at all of the non-gambling ships). I've noted over the years times when you wished you had a better angle on pictures you made earlier/were provided to you by another source because you noticed a detail during recording of the episode.
Like a Miranda class but sleeker. Looks nicer without the torpedo bay on top of the saucer with them struts with the phaser cannons on each side. Impulse deck, main and aux engineering on one deck also makes better sense. Putting the shuttle bay in the saucer section will provide a huge floorspace to park plenty of vehicles like on the Enterprise D which one could call a light carrier instead of a heavy cruiser.
I really like this design -- but it also perfectly illustrates everything wrong with Disco aesthetic. This vessel (being designed _long after_ the Anton/Miranda/Reliant classes) looks sleeker and more "modern" in the 2250's than the refitted versions will in the 2280's & 90's! _Because_ of production order, and the lack of care/respect the Disco designers had for the "period" design paradigms, this ship TAKES FROM those movie designs rather than LEADS TO them. As with all of the "long sleek and vaguely hexagonal cross-section" designs, I could see them as emerging in the 2290's and being in wide use at the turn of the century, 2300. Beginning Lost Period, in other words. If they'd done that to begin with, they wouldn't have needed the ridiculous time-skip to the 32nd Century.
I honestly really dislike the DISCO aesthetic for their starships, with the sole exception being the Constitution. They generally look like they took something that belongs in the 25th or 26th centuries, then "dumbed it down" by removing windows and light-up parts to make them look more slab-like and primitive. They don't fit with the ENT aesthetic any more than they do with the TOS look. They are just a bizarre anachronism that gives zero sense of continuity in either direction. This particular ship is only a partial exception in that it looks enough like a TOS Miranda to get the point across, but those nacelles and the lack of viewports keeps it firmly in the "wtf am I even looking at?" category. DISCO ships typically look like they belong in the post-STO time period, where literal decades of "and then it got worse" have lead to more aggressively angled ships with heavier armor covering both viewports and most of the nacelles. It just boggles my mind that ENT went to all this effort to show that they were just a hop, skip and a jump away from the TOS aesthetic, only for them to pull this random nonsense out of nowhere, while trying to claim that this is somehow an intermediate step between the two.
I like some of the discovery ships, but they are very brutalist. I would understand if they were built in canon DURING the war and they would have to bust out ships fast, but they don't seem as thought out as the rest of the ships in older productions. I guess im saying it would make more sense if they were a response to the Klingon war as opposed to before it.... unless, of course, the in-universe designer was Andorian. Then it makes sense. Love the Buran, though. Edit: and the Vulcan ships are cool too.
The DIsco starships never felt right to me.. say what you want about Axanar Productions.. but they totally nailed what the Pre-TOS ships SHOULD have looked like.
7 years and 5 seasons. Get used to that format, folks. They did it to Lower Decks, the Lizard People are Parasite+ did it to Discovery, they're GOING to do it again with Academy and Strange New Worlds. This is the new format, ya'll. If it isn't new and shiny by the time a kindergartener goes to middle school, then its cancelled.
it looks like a toilet seat cover. but it looks ok, bit to advanced for tos era ships. but i do lie the elongated bridge module on top, it gives it bit of a cruse ship look and feel.
The thickness and shape of the pilons, as well as the absolute unit-ness of the nacelles, makes this class kinda seem like its a body builder lifting two heavy nacelles or something like that
There's a basic code with Fed ships: nacelles up = true explorer, nacelles down = fighting ship (even if innocuously named). I like _this_ ship better nacelles down. Want to see an "explorer" variant on the Reliant motif? Check out "Chasing the Infinite Sky" fan film by @/ALVISION100
Is the title music intro really discordant and tinny and distorted to anyone else ? It sounds a bit well broken like the sound has been stripped of its base and stretched.
It kind of shows why the Miranda is such a great design in that this ship is missing something without having that step on the rear half of the saucer..
Disco-verse started with some decent, if out-of-place, ship designs. Then it went not quite a thousand years into the future and crapped the bed with some really DUMB looking ships. *brought to you by the shot of the Discovery A in the opening of the video
I think those are closed armoured shutters on the hangar control room windows since they are a bit darker than the hull. In essence the ship is i cruise mode ...ready for a surprise attack by someone who does not like Starfleet going into the area that they decided is their proprety.
1:31:40 its always funny when you analyse a scene and justify this or that decision was made because "they know its confederation tech" - when in reality there is 0 evidence the writers even remember the confederation plotpoint and its most likely just bad writing. like when was it EVER mentioned after episode 2?
