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yuki109
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can we PLEEEEASE get this as a ship or at least an option ingame? it's my favorite ship but in the style of my favorite series, plus i'm a sci officer and i need a ship i can use when my friends are all rolling with their NX's, i mean i ude the daedalus for that anyway but it isn't the same.
at least add nx style nacelles and let us use the NX and NX refit skins on the daedalus if making the whole ship is too much work
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According to the graphic you posted the Daedalus came out about a decade after the NX-01 did.
https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Nautilus_Temporal_Science_Vessel
https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Daedalus_Temporal_Science_Vessel
I suppose it is a TOS skin, though.
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I kinda feel like its a gray area because it is a Canon design, but its also a variant that was seen in another game.
Pic from a mod aside, the ship class WAS seen in base Legacy as NPCs during the Enterprise era, showcased in a mission where you had to defend three of them delivering medical aid to planets afflicted by a plague from Romulan attack. Basically the Earth-Romulan War. It took modders to make the ship actually playable.
So again... canon design, but a variant. Gray area as far as I know.
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Why would it be a "primitive design"? Perhaps the early Federation was not incredibly well funded or else wanted an efficient and easy to quickly build and maintain design. Spheres are very tough and efficient, standardized sectioned cylinders are more versatile as an outer casing than custom monolithic armored housings for the nacelles and necks, etc. The outside of the ships may look klunky but the insides probably had state of the art equipment, and that is the important thing operationally.
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Could be primitive visually compared to the NX class, due to having been designed LONG before the NX class established the 22nd Centruy look. Back then the oldest design known was the TOS Connie, so they had to make her look less advanced than that.
Its one of the minor issues that sometimes comes up with prequels. There's always something that doesn't quite fit. However there are designs that do alter the asthetics of the Daedelus to fit the Ent asthetics while maintaining the core design elements that make her recognizable, as seen above in the pictures. While not official, they are very well done.
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The Daedalus was never anything but an early "napkin sketch" level drawing that was rejected as being too conventional so Jefferies never developed it any further, that clunky seamed tube look comes from later artists interpretations of that sketch. If it was ever actually built for the show it would no doubt have had a smoother, less crude look to it more like the Aftermath version than the Kuehn. Jefferies was adamant that by that time all maintenance was done from inside the ship and the hulls were to be mostly smooth and featureless.
The Kuehn one has a distinctly DSC look to it despite having the glowing warp baffles on the wrong side of the nacelles, (those are the things that were supposed to be able to "see" each other, the TOS Enterprise had the grills but they were not lit).
Why primitive? To me, LESS is MORE. I always felt TOS had some of the most advanced designs. Something covered in mega detail and greebles and kibble does not make something look advanced. Look at the average phone now.....ONE BUTTON, and the phone is all smooth.
I personally hate that, I've never understood the war on bezels and buttons.
Fewer moving parts.
I prefer the tactile feedback provided by real buttons, and the extra grip area provided by bezels.
Not entirely accurate.
Sisko had a model of one in his office. So I'd say it went beyond the "napkin sketch" stage.
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Yes, someone went back and looked at the quick sketches and made the Daedalus using their own interpretations of it, I said that later on in the line you quoted in the part ". . . that clunky seamed tube look comes from later artists interpretations of that sketch".
The original sketches had curved lines indicating that the tubes were round instead of flat surfaces and the later designer apparently decided they would make good seam points to give it a sort of welded or bolted together look. Jefferies would have made it smooth because of the design philosophy of having everything serviceable from the inside, and the ceramic coating (the "paint" that makes Federation ships white instead of greenish bronze like Klingon ships) would have covered up any seams.
Personally I don't mind the homely seamed look, it makes it look like something quickly and easily put together out of standardized pieces, and the design is more practical overall than the stuff in DSC and PIC though it shares the art deco style with them to some extent.