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The 32nd Century Courage Command Science Destroyer [T6]
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Am I the only one who thinks this ship looks truly awful?
The design is hideous, the stats uninteresting...the Universal Console, Trait...it's the most unappealing ship that I've seen in the game and the least I'd ever be likely to gamble for.
I've never been one for the 1 in a billion chance with an R&D Pack, but at least there was some excitement in the ship you might be able to get.
I think it's, personally, another sign that the 32nd Century and Disco just aren't any fun in STO.
The design is hideous, the stats uninteresting...the Universal Console, Trait...it's the most unappealing ship that I've seen in the game and the least I'd ever be likely to gamble for.
I've never been one for the 1 in a billion chance with an R&D Pack, but at least there was some excitement in the ship you might be able to get.
I think it's, personally, another sign that the 32nd Century and Disco just aren't any fun in STO.
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And, of course, I wouldn't engage in the lockbox lottery for it, but I wouldn't do this for any kind of ship. If the choice is either 600€ Mudd-bundles or gambleboxes I'd choose not getting any new ships at all.
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Seriously, the ship looks like a toilet. Someone has been paying way too much attention to Modern "Art."
Spot on. USS Toilet reporting for...duty?
Does anyone know if Doug Drexler has been involved with the Abomination Trek ships? Because most of them (I'll admit the Janeway-class has promise) look like rejected drawings from parodies.
My personal opinion is... meh. Not a fan, but I'm not gonna drag it through the mud.
Would I have preferred to see evolutions of designs we saw in the past? Yea. But the key thing we need to remember is that most of these 32c ships probably weren't designed to be seen as much as the hero ship. They're pretty much background ships. And again we come across the problem of "How do we look more advanced than what we've seen before" when until DSC s3 the most advanced we saw was 29th Century, and need I remind everyone that the Relativity looked nothing like anything we saw in Starfleet.
Now... seeing this thing go against an Iconian Dread might be fun.
Back in the day, the main key ship designers. Matt Jeffries, Andy Probert, Ralph MacQuarrie, the ILM team etc were by and large Industrial Designers. They designed things to be functional. Form Follows Function was the underlying mantra to most ST ships up through Enterprise.
But starting with the JJ Abrams movies and following into Kurtzman Trek, it's now all done by Graphical Designers. Which are an entirely different breed of animal. If you read the interviews on how they created the 2009 Enterprise, you come to realize they are mainly bubbleheaded TRIBBLES who live to work the tint controls and particle effect sliders of their favorite programs. They give absolutely zero thought to how the designs are supposed to function because "Future!". This is why when you actually map out the USS Discovery as it appears on screen, you quickly realize based on the scale of the people standing at the windows, it is entirely hallways, with no rooms anywhere. These are the thought processes that give us "detachable nacelles make it go faster VROOOOM!".
I dig it a bit. If it won't be popular in game, I'll take one if offered cheap.
Why wouldn't you want to fly the USS Tidybowl? How about USS Porcelain Throne? USS John?
From what little I've seen it honestly just looks like a more modern version of the NX class refit that we never got.
Maybe the designer doesn't even realize he's doing it. There might be a subconscious fetish, OR he might have a pretty negative opinion of Discovery himself and is designing these to make a point, which no one is picking up on, until we tell people what they look like.
His pseudonym is Armitage Shanks.
And there is the real problem.. the ship will be horrifically expensive because no one wants it.
It's in a Promo Box, which means that if you win a promo ship, you have to select this ship.. which no one will because they have many far more attractive options to pick from. That means if you actually want this ship, the supply will be insanely low which of course, drives the price through the roof.
I'm actually with you on the design, I think it's ok.. I actually kinda like it. But I get that it's not going to be a popular design at all. Honestly, this ship should have been a Lobi ship.. even then it would be somewhat rare, putting it in a promo box is hilariously ridiculous.
It's the most typically Cryptic thing that they could have done.
I think all we can deduce from this is his favorite drink:
The Ori Warship being probably one of the more commonly known ones. And Rings aren't unknown in Star Trek, as the Vulcans had Warp Rings in the 22nd Century rather than nacelles.
And technically the Vengeance and Crossfield both have Rings rather than full Saucers for the saucer section.