Enterprise G

colonelmarik · June 2023

You know, maybe it's me... but I don't care for the design of the Enterprise G (Formerly the Titan). It looks like a kitbash to me... The front half of the saucer and bridge dome are more or less copied straight from Enterprise A. That's ok, but the back half of the saucer has been chopped off haphazardly... it lacks the graceful flow of the other Enterprises. Then there's no neck (an issue I had with Enterprise E, too), and a blocky secondary hull that doesn't match the design aesthetic of the saucer. That is, the saucer is round (more or less). Previous Enterprises had rounded secondary hulls (though Enterprise D's was flattened somewhat), but this one is just too squared off. Rounded primary hull calls for a rounded secondary hull.

Probably just me, I know.

jcsww · June 2023

I like the Titan-A better than the Odyssey. The Lexington is nice but the Odyssey in my opinion, is the second ugliest ship to be an Enterprise, only surpassed by the Excelsior class Enterprise-B.

Unknown · June 2023

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duncanidaho11 · June 2023

"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in proportion"

Take it as you will for the Oddy and/or C3.

lianthelia · June 2023

Could care less about it...it's just another easter egg in a season that probably racked close to if not exceeded a 1000 of them...was multiple episodes that had over a 100

Design is okay, maybe if it wasn't a blatant rip in a season defined by blatant rips and even retconning its own canon from just the season before so almost every moment could have a "Remember this? Remember that? moment

phoenixc · June 2023

colonelmarik wrote: »

You know, maybe it's me... but I don't care for the design of the Enterprise G (Formerly the Titan). It looks like a kitbash to me... The front half of the saucer and bridge dome are more or less copied straight from Enterprise A. That's ok, but the back half of the saucer has been chopped off haphazardly... it lacks the graceful flow of the other Enterprises. Then there's no neck (an issue I had with Enterprise E, too), and a blocky secondary hull that doesn't match the design aesthetic of the saucer. That is, the saucer is round (more or less). Previous Enterprises had rounded secondary hulls (though Enterprise D's was flattened somewhat), but this one is just too squared off. Rounded primary hull calls for a rounded secondary hull.

Probably just me, I know.

I have not had a chance to really take a close look at it, but depending on where exactly the cuts are in the saucer it could make sense.

According to Jefferies the TOS saucer was set up kind of like a full orange slice, it had sort of wedge shaped internal pressurized sections made of duranium (arranged around a cylindrical core) that could be sealed off in the case of a major hull breach (that is what those A-shaped arches in the corridors are for, though the show's budget didn't allow for the sets actually have moving doors in them, so they were never shown closed) inside of a heavy armored outer hull of tritanium. The cuts could be where they left a few wedges out and other, smaller and flatter, structures put in their place.

rattler2 · June 2023

Well... I heard that the Connie III was based on the Shangri-La class, which was designed as TMP era ship. The original designer of the Shangri-La used that as the basis for the Connie III, bringing the design into the 25th Century. And the Shangri-La class was backdoor canonized as well, as we see a gold model of the first USS Titan, which was said to have been commanded by Saavik.

jslyn · June 2023

rattler2 wrote: »

And the Shangri-La class was backdoor canonized as well, as we see a gold model of the first USS Titan, which was said to have been commanded by Saavik.

Ah, but was it Ms. Alley or Ms. Curtis?

rattler2 · June 2023

jslyn wrote: »

Ah, but was it Ms. Alley or Ms. Curtis?

I believe the correct answer is "Yes".

Enterprise G

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