November 19, 2008
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Does it fit?
The Early Enterprises from NX-01 to NCC-1701 (prequel, Star Trek 2009) to NCC-1701 (TOS) to NCC-1701 (Refit, TMP) to NCC-1701-A.Does it fit?
Oddly enough, as much as I dislike this new take on the NCC-1701 and question how it could ever morph into the TOS version (now Refit 1?), there do seem to be odd design continuities with the NX-01. Viewing the NX first could explain the jarring nacelle pylons being attached at the back of the secondary hull. The warp field grille fairings as they appear on the NX, broken up into segments, seem continuous with the odd horizontal dashed emitter grilles on the 1701-prequel nacelles. Finally, the NX-01′s deflector glowed blue behind the gold dish, which fits with the glowing blue dish on the prequel (but not a recessed blue dish like the Refit) in transition towards simply the gold dish on the TOS 1701.
Rich Sternbach commented that it looked like the Pasteur, which in turn was based off the pre-TOS era Daedalus Class design – however, while the Olympic Class USS Pasteur and the Daedalus Class look similar, the new Prequel 1701 only shares a continuity of design with the idiosyncratic design elements of the Pasteur and not the Daedalus class (the Daedalus has no secondary hull undercut, its connecting ‘neck’ is cylindrical rather than flat, its nacelles and pylons look nothing like the prequel-1701).
[edit: 2009 March 04:
I still think it's ugly.]
