10 More Incredible Star Trek Concept Designs You Need To See
10 More incredible Star Trek concept designs you need to see
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00:00 Hello my friends, Sean Ferrick here for Trek Culture and today's video is brought to you
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00:07 We've already done a list of 10 concept arts you need to see and that link is in the description
00:12 of this video below. There's so much in Star Trek that we have another list for you today.
00:18 So with that being said, I am Sean Ferrick for Trek Culture and here are 10 more incredible
00:24 Star Trek concept designs you need to see.
00:28 Number 10, Picard's Lecture, Star Trek Picard.
00:31 There was originally going to be a scene in which Picard delivered a lecture to an assembled
00:36 group of delegates. Now, there was going to be beautiful artwork, there was going to be
00:40 a holographic representation of the Enterprise E, there was going to be Commander Data in
00:44 his Next Generation uniform. Now unfortunately, this scene didn't come to pass in Season 1,
00:50 although there was a scene quite like it in Season 2 when he delivers his address in Star
00:55 Fleet Academy.
00:56 Artist Laurent Ben Mimon designed this room. It was the Oxford Union. Now, that is a world
01:04 famous debating society that Patrick Stewart himself has actually already delivered an
01:10 address at. So what you would have had is Jean-Luc Picard in 2399 delivering an address
01:16 to the Oxford Union, which would be a parallel to Sir Patrick Stewart delivering an address
01:21 in 2013.
01:22 Now, as I said, we didn't get this scene even though you would have had all of these
01:26 different aliens, including a Klingon in Discovery-style makeup. And yes, I can hear a very large portion
01:34 of the audience crying bitter, bitter tears as I say that.
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02:48 Number 9. NX-01 Star Trek Enterprise. Now I know what you're thinking, you're like,
02:53 "We've seen the NX-01." It was in quite a few episodes, actually. And we've also, at
02:59 this stage, seen Doug Drexler's refit of the NX-01. While it hasn't been in several episodes
03:04 yet, it's literally had a model released of it. Sean, what are you on? No, I'm actually
03:10 referring to the designs that John Eves did when Star Trek Enterprise, or Enterprise as
03:16 it was known then, was just going into production. Now, Eves, of course, he had worked on Star
03:20 Trek First Contact, he had worked on Star Trek Insurrection as well, so he was no stranger
03:26 to the series. When he was brought on board, his designs, they were similar to what Doug
03:32 Drexler eventually ended up bringing to the show. But you can see in them what would become
03:39 inspirations for his take on the Enterprise in Star Trek Discovery. Although the NX-01
03:46 didn't unfortunately pan out for John Eves, he did get 1701, which is a bit of a back
03:53 of the net. But if you look at these designs, you can definitely see where the inspiration
03:57 crossed over between the two. And you can still see the general shape that was going
04:02 in, or would end up going in, to the NX-01 as well. So the idea is there. The execution,
04:09 obviously that never happened, but the idea is certainly there. And I like it.
04:14 Number 8, Starfleet uniforms, Star Trek Beyond. If you look at the uniforms that we got in
04:19 Star Trek Beyond, they're a little bit of a development from 2009 and Into Darkness,
04:24 in that the collar goes slightly higher up in the collar. I have to say, I'm a big fan
04:31 of these uniforms, but they were not the initial plan for this film. Costume designer Sonya
04:36 Hayes designed something that was a little bit more reminiscent of the wetsuits from
04:41 Into Darkness. You can definitely see that they are a bold choice. They also had a kind
04:46 of a ribbed undershirt, a bit like the Monster Maroons from Wrath of Khan. I get what they
04:51 were going for here. It was a bold look, it would immediately stand out. You would never
04:54 have to look at it and go, "Oh, what film's that from?" You would know straight away.
04:58 It does feel a little bit, I suppose, metallic and constrictive, which for a duty uniform,
05:04 I can see why they didn't go with this. But it's definitely a bold image. And yeah, what
05:13 the heck's the point of the future if you can't be bold?
05:15 Number seven, 26th Century Enterprise, Star Trek Final Frontier. No, no, no, no, I didn't
05:23 say THE Final Frontier, I said Final Frontier. Big difference. After the cancellation of
05:29 Star Trek Enterprise, there was almost another series greenlit named Star Trek Final Frontier.
05:37 This would have aired on the official Star Trek website, which would have made it the
05:41 first streaming-only Star Trek series. For several reasons, that didn't happen, but
05:49 there was a design for the ship that Captain Chase would command. Now, if you look at it,
05:55 it's obviously quite different from what we're used to. For example, your first thought would
05:58 be like, "Where's the saucer section?" The primary hull more closely resembles an
06:02 aircraft carrier than it does your traditional saucer section. And while I'm sort of hard-rooted
06:09 in "I like it when it's round," I will say I get it. I do get it. And it's different.
06:15 And you can't just keep repeating the same design over and over again. All right, I'm
06:21 sure I'm going to eat my own words now that I've said that. But you can see where there
06:26 is inspiration for Matt Jeffery's original design. And I mean inspiration. I mean, like,
06:31 lift and copy. But also, in a way, it's like they've gone to the observation lounge in
06:37 the Enterprise D when that gold aircraft carrier was there and said, "Boom, done. Stick some
06:42 nacelles on that. We can go home for lunch." It's funky.
06:47 Number six, the bridge, Star Trek Discovery. First glance, you're going to be like, "These
06:52 are the same picture," when you look at that and the bridge of Discovery. But actually,
06:57 what it is, is it's a little bit closer to what ended up appearing in Star Trek Online.
07:02 Now, if you look closely, you'll see that the Ops and Con consoles are actually sunken
07:06 into the deck. And there's a glass elevator that brings people above to the observation
07:10 deck as well, which means that, yes, this would be a two-story bridge as opposed to
07:15 your traditional one. Now, that is something that turns up on the Odyssey-class ships.
07:19 Prodigy more honors it than actually has it on the Proto Star, but you can see that the
07:24 inspiration is there. It gives the idea that the bridge is more of a command center. Then,
07:29 if you take, for example, the bridge of the Enterprise D, which is gorgeous, it's nice
07:34 and brightly lit, and I never for one second believed there was any work being done on
07:40 that bridge because it looked like a kind of a lounge where people went to hang out.
07:44 And look, I'm not giving out. It's a lovely design. It would be lovely to see it back
07:47 in Prodigy. Or something like this. I would believe that if I was in there, I'd better
07:50 have a damn good reason to be there. You know, I'm making a delivery of, like, I don't know,
07:56 a warp core or something, just so that I had a reason to be on this bridge. And that is
08:02 something that can be sometimes lacking from Star Trek a little bit. I will say that the
08:07 Apple Store Enterprise of the 2009, the J.J. Abrams era, at least that bridge, it looked
08:13 busy. There was stuff happening on that bridge. There's a little bit more in Discovery. Now,
08:19 what we saw over Riker's CGI shoulder in Picard, it looked like it was busy enough on the Zheng
08:25 He as well. I really want to bring it to the fact that the bridge is supposed to be a center
08:28 of operations, and a lot of the time, because of the nature of episodic television, it became
08:33 the hangout room. This does not look like the hangout room. This looks like decisions
08:39 are genuinely being made here. Number five, Discovery's Enterprise, Star Trek Discovery.
08:45 Again, I can hear people going, "We had a whole season of it." Strangely, Worlds is
08:50 also coming soon, of course. So, the one that was released in Discovery is actually a, well,
08:55 not a redesign, a final design of this initial concept that was designed by John Eaves and
09:01 his team. What they went for originally was to flatten it a little bit, to bring it closer
09:06 to say the design of Discovery. They had the pylons jutting straight out to the sides as
09:11 opposed to swept back, as we would eventually get in the show. Now, fins were more prominent
09:17 on the nacelles, which were similar to the Enterprise B from Generations, which actually
09:21 John Eaves had played a hand in designing as well. A more streamlined, much more Discovery-like
09:27 version of the Enterprise. Now, when it came to actually realizing this on screen, this
09:32 was refined and refined and brought closer to Matt Jeffery's original design, while also
09:38 bringing in some of Doug Drexler's additions to the NX-01 as well. So, it looked like more
09:43 of a middle ground, really, between the NX-01 and I think we'll say the movie refit of the
09:50 Constitution class. Because the general shape of the ship is closer to what we saw from
09:55 the motion picture onwards. The metallic design of the ship is obviously much closer to the
10:00 NX-01, but their proud and front for all to see is that deflector dish. But yes, the original
10:08 concept design was much flatter, much closer to the way the Discovery ended up looking,
10:13 and also by the looks of things, much bigger than Discovery ended up being, which of course
10:17 is not the case in the show.
10:19 Number four, Klingons. Star Trek Into Darkness. In the J.J. Abrams universe, we got to see
10:25 the Klingons in Into Darkness when they are absolutely nobbled by Kan. Now, they're definitely
10:32 beefed up and badass. Every one of these would be a bouncer I would not like to piss off
10:38 on a night out. They remove their helmets and you get their piercing in their ridges,
10:42 and it's all a bit cool and schlocky and whatever, leading to the wonderful nickname,
10:48 "Blingons". I love it.
10:50 The original design, however, was slightly more alien than what we got. If you look at
10:55 those kind of diamond pattern, almost dreadlocks coming out the back of the head, you can actually
10:59 see two things here. One, you can see the inspiration for Discovery's Klingons. Now,
11:06 it's not a direct correlation. You wouldn't look at that and go, "Oh, all right, that's
11:10 Takuvman." But what it is, is you can definitely see, "All right, we jumped off from here and
11:14 they landed on Star Trek Discovery Klingons." But also, you look at that and you kind of
11:23 squint and turn your head to the side a little bit, do you also see Gwyn and the Diviner?
11:30 Number three, the CSS world-raiser, Star Trek Picard. In the second episode of the second
11:37 season of Star Trek Picard, "Penance", Q whisks Jean-Luc away into a dark, dystopian
11:44 universe. On the wall, where had been hanging that beautiful portrait of the Enterprise
11:49 D from the next generation, is a new portrait of the CSS world-raiser. This design was very
11:57 clearly based on Andrew Probert's design of the Enterprise D from the next generation,
12:02 but this was done by Sean P. Tarango, who you might know as the designer of the USS
12:08 Titan. He designed that ship for the cover of one of the novels, Sword of Damocles. Showing
12:13 that there was such a similar design crossing between universes, says that somewhere in
12:19 this dark, dystopian universe, I am 100% sure that Lea Brahms is existing in this universe.
12:27 Now, Lea Brahms, of course, was introduced in the next generation as one of the designers
12:31 of the Enterprise D in-universe. Then there was a slightly problematic storyline, including
12:39 Lea Brahms, Hologram and Geordi La Forge, which, to be very honest, was as creepy then
12:45 as it is now. So, and that was in the good universe. So you can only imagine what's
12:50 in this universe. Anyway, the CSS world-raiser, now it hasn't been shown on screen, it's
12:55 just that painting in his office and some beautiful, beautiful concept art that is available
13:00 to see online as well. It's a bit of a badass ship. I mean, the painting shows it carving
13:06 its way through a Borg cube. I am, I don't want to annoy this ship.
13:12 Number two, the USS Emmett Till, what we left behind. The USS Emmett Till was designed to
13:18 appear in the proposed DS9 Season 8 that was put together during the breaking session on
13:25 what we left behind. The design, as you'll see, it does look like what eventually became
13:31 the Ibn Majid on Star Trek Picard, which we've only seen a picture of, to be fair, and it
13:35 looks a bit like the Concord class, which I believe is available in Star Trek Online.
13:39 The name Emmett Till was chosen to honour a horrific crime of the past, in keeping with
13:48 Star Trek trying to honour history and not let it be forgotten. I do believe it would
13:53 be a crime if we don't see the Emmett Till appear in some form or another, even if it
13:58 becomes, say, the Ibn Majid. There's so much of Rios' story that we have yet to
14:03 hear, so we may yet see this design on screen. I love this ship. I love the way the nacelles
14:09 sit one atop the other. Captain Esri Dax, yes please. And I think it would be a crime
14:14 if we don't see this on screen. So many great ship designs are just sitting in hypothetical
14:20 space dock. Let's get this one out there. Number one, the Enterprise A, Star Trek Beyond.
14:27 We had a blink and you'll miss it cameo, really, from the Enterprise A in Star Trek
14:32 Beyond. Designer Sean Hargreaves was given the job of creating the next Enterprise in
14:38 the series after the destruction of the Enterprise at the hands of Kroll and the Swarm. It's
14:43 to take in an awful lot of inspiration for what went before in terms of what happened
14:47 to the ship. For example, the pylons and the neck of the Enterprise A are much beefier,
14:52 much stockier because they had become weak points. Commercial model makers have not done
14:57 one of the Enterprise A because it was never really intended to be the final design. We
15:02 may not see this ship again or we may not see an expansion of it. There is always talk
15:07 of more films, of more series. Who knows? Who knows? It is said with hope that maybe
15:12 we will see it again because I'm always on board for another Enterprise. Always. It would
15:16 be great to see, you know, like we've already had a confirmation that the Kelvin universe
15:21 exists in Discovery. We'd love to see maybe a crossover. Stranger things have happened.
15:26 You know, Neelix was in a show for seven seasons.