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[VIDEO] USS DISCOVERY & USS SHENZHOU HAVE ARRIVED!

Hi All,

Check out my preview video on these 2 new ships in STO.


https://youtu.be/NBvF6QH9NeQ


Regards,

Snipey47a

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  • snipey47asnipey47a Member Posts: 485 Media Corps
    I had to get used to the styling of the disco...

    didn't really mind the shenzhou from the get go.
  • shinku#4469 shinku Member Posts: 164 Arc User
    Does the saucer spin around?
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  • jrdobbsjr#3264 jrdobbsjr Member Posts: 431 Arc User
    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @colonelmarik said:
    > Not my cup of tea. The visuals from Discovery are not really appropriate to the time it's supposedly set, so I can't get very excited about these ships. Also, don't care for the name of the ship being on the sides of the saucer, I prefer it on the bow. Still, the workmanship appears to be good.

    Except it is a visual reboot. Anyone expecting a ship that looked like a low budget 1960s tv show was deluding themselves.

    Never mind that that "low budget 1960s TV show" look was validated as Canon on both DS9 (they actually inserted Sisko & Co into a actual TOS episode with the original cast, for Christ's sake...I thought it was well done, for the record) and ENT. They could have modernized it a bit but chose not to. Barring some sort of major temporal TRIBBLE-up in the future that alters the TRIBBLE Timeline into the canon prime universe...I'm sure Burnham could make a decision that epicly catastrophic...they are aiming to retcon TOS away entirely. Whatever you Millenials think, that won't bode well for the long term prospects of the franchise.
  • redeyedravenredeyedraven Member Posts: 1,297 Arc User
    Myth busters proved that you can polish **** and it remains ****. Just gets shinier and still smells like ****.

    We get it. You don't like DIS. Some people however do like it, oddly enough.
  • spacecatz#6038 spacecatz Member Posts: 69 Arc User
    The games graphical engine has managed to make the Crossfield class look even fuglier.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,331 Arc User
    The games graphical engine has managed to make the Crossfield class look even fuglier.

    How!? It looks an accurate representation to me.
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  • snipey47asnipey47a Member Posts: 485 Media Corps
    leemwatson wrote: »
    The games graphical engine has managed to make the Crossfield class look even fuglier.

    How!? It looks an accurate representation to me.

    Haters gonna hate, mate.
  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    Very nice video, I had a good time watching it.

    It is even harder now to resist the urge to get the Crossfield for one of my scis. :)
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  • snipey47asnipey47a Member Posts: 485 Media Corps
    Very nice video, I had a good time watching it.

    It is even harder now to resist the urge to get the Crossfield for one of my scis. :)

    Thank you for your kind feedback :)

    Just admit you were always going to get it anyway lol
  • redeyedravenredeyedraven Member Posts: 1,297 Arc User
    edited February 2018
    The visuals from Discovery are not really appropriate to the time it's supposedly set

    They reimagined the visual language of Star Trek through DIS. Inappropriate? No. Inappropriate would be to try to simulate the visuals of TOS as faithfully as possible. Why? Because TOS was an ultra-low-budget production with very cheap sets made from as-cheap-as-possible materials. DIS has a huge budget though, and audiences nowadays wouldn't "buy" TOS-style sci-fi anymore, except for the laughs at the cheap sets and the lousy costumes. We're almost in 2020, so even a sorta-pre-quel HAS to go with the times.

    DIS is meant to be enjoyable by people who didn't necessarily watch TOS beforehand.
  • snipey47asnipey47a Member Posts: 485 Media Corps
    The visuals from Discovery are not really appropriate to the time it's supposedly set

    They reimagined the visual language of Star Trek through DIS. Inappropriate? No. Inappropriate would be to try to simulate the visuals of TOS as faithfully as possible. Why? Because TOS was an ultra-low-budget production with very cheap sets made from as-cheap-as-possible materials. DIS has a huge budget though, and audiences nowadays wouldn't "buy" TOS-style sci-fi anymore, except for the laughs at the cheap sets and the lousy costumes. We're almost in 2020, so even a sorta-pre-quel HAS to go with the times.

    DIS is meant to be enjoyable by people who didn't necessarily watch TOS beforehand.

    Very well stated.
  • commanderkassycommanderkassy Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    The visuals from Discovery are not really appropriate to the time it's supposedly set

    They reimagined the visual language of Star Trek through DIS. Inappropriate? No. Inappropriate would be to try to simulate the visuals of TOS as faithfully as possible. Why? Because TOS was an ultra-low-budget production with very cheap sets made from as-cheap-as-possible materials. DIS has a huge budget though, and audiences nowadays wouldn't "buy" TOS-style sci-fi anymore, except for the laughs at the cheap sets and the lousy costumes. We're almost in 2020, so even a sorta-pre-quel HAS to go with the times.

    DIS is meant to be enjoyable by people who didn't necessarily watch TOS beforehand.

    Yes, Star Trek TOS is the future through the lense of the 1960s. DIS is the future through the lense of the 2010s. There's nothing wrong about that.

    Also very true on the old sets being cheap... a bunch of those buttons were jelly beans... jelly beans!
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