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Do you know where my Marina Sirtis action figure is

I lost it.

You type funny thing.

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TNG had to essentially build the foundations of modern Trek as it went along. All the following shows had the advantage of being able to use TNG as a baseline to bounce against. That makes TNG the de facto "vanilla" flavored Trek show compared to the other shows that could take some exotic approach to differentiate themselves from it.

SNW threads the needle well for the costumes, sick bay, and bridge. I do think engineering looks preposterous and should have been much more compact.

It's a difficult thing to make a setting that still looks futuristic but also ties back to the 1960s. If you do it one-for-one it will be distractingly campy. Fun for a one off episode like that time in ENT where they found a TOS era ship, but for a whole show trying to be serious it would be distracting. The other extreme is whatever the heck Discovery did with its designs, which are just eye watering.

ENT had a really nice engineering set that harkened back to TOS while vibing as more low tech. SNW should have used ENT as a guide I think for engineering.

There is no correct way to be a fan of something.

Just because somebody likes more of a franchise by volume does not make them more of a true fan. Equally, just because people like new entries that you reject does not make you more of a true fan.

Critiquing and discussing the content of a franchise is something to be encouraged. Making personal judgements about other people and posing your view of a franchise as the true one is completely petty, stupid, and unproductive.

The Galaxy class is a monument to Starfleet's hubris.

In TOS design logic, ships need two warp nacelles spaced left and right

nacelles arranged like this has mostly been followed for the rest of Trek.

I'm aware. There has never been a requirement for a saucer, even in TOS, and I did not say that. But the nacelles are arranged at the extremes of the ships, even in compact designs in later Trek, which does follow the established logic. Vulcan rings are a rare exception to the left and right nacelles - covered under the word "mostly".

Of all the main show ships, Voyager always seemed the most comfortable to me.

I know a lot of people say the Enterprise-D is their comfy choice, but that ship seems so massive that actually imagining living in it is anxiety inducing. It's like being trapped inside a cruise ship or something. Voyager has the amenities but is not so massive and I like the interior color palette better.

There have been tons and tons of diagrams, but in the show itself I think it communicates decently that most of what happens is in the saucer section. The bridge is clearly on top of the ship. The hallway sets tend to be curved to give the impression they are inside the saucer.

I don't know if it was ever stated, but I never questioned that engineering was down near the deflector dish, which is where it is in the diagrams. The warp nacelles are just giant engines. The shuttle bay is is the rear of the ship; I'm not sure if that was shown in the original footage, it's been a while since I've watched anything but the "touched up " version with CGI.

In TOS design logic, ships need two warp nacelles spaced left and right and they tend to be placed far away from the crew. This is a design consideration that is pretty consistent throughout TOS, so it is a design trying to communicate a logic of the technology. Thus, the Enterpise is a flying saucer with a giant external engine bolted on, more or less.

The logic of needing warp nacelles arranged like this has mostly been followed for the rest of Trek.

Perhaps not exactly 60s style, but I am a fan of big chunky space technology. It always stood out to me in Battlestar Galactic that they used old, chunky military field radio handsets.