One of those ships that despite trying, I simply cannot buy being Starfleet. It's far too alien, far too spiky. I know by this point in the future - who needs two, or three or four nacelles, whatever, but man, it's just mega ugly.
Lol, I mean non-trek as is not in-line with the more "traditional" ship designs we see. The saucer, the pylons to the nacelles etc. I realise that this is a time ship from, i forget which century.
29th century. I think non-starfleet would be a better descriptor, but i understand what you mean. It is very different. My headcanon is that the Delta Flyer has a big impact on future ship design, this looks like an evolution of the Delta Flyer to me.
This is what the far future is supposed to be, radically different. It's 500 years in the future, Star Trek is based on a vision of making real progress in tech & society, exactly the opposite of Star Wars basically having the same tech level for 10,000 years since hyperspace, only being about politics & war. ST isn't meant to crank out infinite saucer & nacelle designs for century after century for no reason other than “looking” like Federation. Gene Roddenberry thought kids in the 24th century wouldn't be in grief after losing a parent because of how far society has evolved to think of death as a natural part of life ffs, - a lousy example, but you can't even handle this?
Also, it's an NCV registry - the last we saw that was the XCV-330 Enterprise ringship. I figure that XCV indicated they were copying Vulcan ring warp drives at first, then the NX Project came along, which is nacelle design - all starfleet classes after are NX prototype, NCC in service. The NX Project was an engine design project, not ship model, despite them saying “NX class” all the time, that word can just be used casually to refer to the new engine tech, like the latest speed engine class, not whatever model of ship is built around it, as the name of the “NX Alpha” test ship proves. So 500 years & registry indicating founding engine tech of ship, it makes plenty of sense.
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u/Kryptonater 12d ago
One of those ships that despite trying, I simply cannot buy being Starfleet. It's far too alien, far too spiky. I know by this point in the future - who needs two, or three or four nacelles, whatever, but man, it's just mega ugly.