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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00:00Hello my friends, Sean Ferrick here for Trek Culture and today's video is brought to you by
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00:19I am Sean Ferrick for Trek Culture and here are 10 more incredible Star Trek concept designs
00:26you need to see. Number 10, Picard's Lecture, Star Trek Picard. There was originally going to
00:32be a scene in which Picard delivered a lecture to an assembled group of delegates. Now there
00:38was going to be beautiful artwork, there was going to be a holographic representation of
00:41the Enterprise-E, there was going to be Commander Data in his Next Generation uniform. Now unfortunately
00:47this scene didn't come to pass in season one, although there was a scene quite like it in season
00:53two when he delivers his address in Starfleet Academy. Concept artist Laurent Ben Mimon designed
00:58this room. It was the Oxford Union. Now that is a world famous debating society that Patrick
01:07Stewart himself has actually already delivered an address at. So what you would have had is Jean-Luc
01:13Picard in 2399 delivering an address to the Oxford Union, which would be a parallel to Sir Patrick
01:19Stewart delivering an address in 2013. Now as I said, we didn't get this scene even though you
01:25would have had all of these different aliens, including a Klingon in Discovery-style makeup,
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02:47Number 9. NX-01 Star Trek Enterprise. Now I know what you're thinking, you're like,
02:53we've seen the NX-01. It was in quite a few episodes actually, and we've also at this stage
02:59seen Doug Drexler's refit of the NX-01. While it hasn't been in several episodes yet,
03:05it's literally had a model released of it. Sean, what are you on? No, I'm actually referring to the
03:11designs that John Eves did when Star Trek Enterprise, or Enterprise as it was known then,
03:17was just going into production. Now Eves, of course, he had worked on Star Trek First Contact,
03:21he had worked on Star Trek Insurrection as well, so he was no stranger to the series. When he was
03:28brought on board, his designs, they were similar to what Doug Drexler eventually ended up bringing
03:34to the show, but you can see in them what would become inspirations for his take on the Enterprise
03:42in Star Trek Discovery. Although the NX-01 didn't unfortunately pan out for John Eves,
03:49he did get 1701, which is a bit of a bit of a back of the net. But if you look at these designs,
03:55you can definitely see where the inspiration crossed over between the two, and you can still
03:59see the general shape that was going in, or would end up going in, to the NX-01 as well. So the idea
04:07is there. The execution, obviously that never happened, but the idea is certainly there,
04:12and I like it. Number eight, Starfleet uniforms, Star Trek Beyond. If you look at the uniforms that
04:18we got in Star Trek Beyond, they're a little bit of a development from 2009 and into darkness,
04:24in that the collar goes slightly higher up in the collar. I have to say, I do, I'm a big fan
04:31of these uniforms, but they were not the initial plan for this film. Costume designer Sonya Hayes
04:37designed something that was a little bit more reminiscent of the wetsuits from Into Darkness.
04:42You can definitely see that they are a bold choice. They also had a kind of a ribbed undershirt, a bit
04:48like the Monster Maroons from Wrath of Khan. I get what they were going for here, it was a bold look,
04:52it would immediately stand out. You would never have to look at it and go, oh, what film is that
04:56from? You would know straight away. It does feel a little bit, I suppose, metallic and constrictive,
05:02which for a duty uniform, I can see why they didn't go with this, but it's definitely a bold
05:09image. And yeah, what the heck's the point of the future if you can't be bold? Number seven,
05:1626th Century Enterprise, Star Trek Final Frontier. No, no, no, no, I didn't say the Final Frontier,
05:25I said Final Frontier. Big difference. After the cancellation of Star Trek Enterprise, there was
05:31almost another series greenlit named Star Trek Final Frontier. This would have aired on the
05:38official Star Trek website, which would have made it the first streaming only Star Trek series. For
05:46several reasons, that didn't happen, but there was a design for the ship that Captain Chase would
05:53command. Now, if you look at it, it's obviously quite different from what we're used to. For example,
05:57your first thought would be like, where's the saucer section? The primary hull more closely
06:01resembles an aircraft carrier than it does your traditional saucer section. And while I'm sort of
06:08hard-rooted in, I like it when it's round, I will say I get it. I do get it. And it's different, you know,
06:15and you can't just keep repeating the same design over and over again. All right, I'm sure I'm going
06:22to eat my own words now that I've said that, but you can see where there is inspiration for Matt
06:27Jeffrey's original design, and I mean inspiration, I mean like lift and copy, but also in a way it's
06:34like they've gone to the observation lounge in the Enterprise D when that gold aircraft carrier was
06:40there and said, boom, done, stick some nacelles on that where we can go home for lunch. It's funky.
06:46Number six, the bridge Star Trek Discovery. First glance, you're going to be like,
06:52these are the same picture when you look at that and the bridge of Discovery, but actually what it
06:57is, is it's a little bit closer to what ended up appearing in Star Trek Online. Now, if you look
07:03closely, you'll see that the Ops and Con consoles are actually sunken into the deck, and there's a
07:07glass elevator that brings people above to the observation deck as well, which means that, yes,
07:12this would be a two-story bridge as opposed to your traditional one. Now, that is something that
07:17turns up on the Odyssey class ships. Prodigy more honors it than actually has it on the protostar,
07:23but you can see that the inspiration is there. It gives the idea that the bridge is more of a
07:27command center. Then if you take, for example, the bridge of the Enterprise D, which is gorgeous,
07:34nice and brightly lit, and I never for one second believed there was any work being done on that
07:40bridge because it looked like a kind of a lounge where people went to hang out. And look, I'm not
07:44giving it. It's a lovely design. It would be lovely to see it back in Prodigy or something like this.
07:48I would believe that if I was in there, I'd better have a damn good reason to be there.
07:53You know, I'm making a delivery of like, I don't know, a warp core or something just so that I had
07:58a reason to be on this bridge, and that is something that can be sometimes lacking from
08:04Star Trek a little bit. I will say that the Apple Store Enterprise of the 2009, the J.J. Abrams era,
08:12at least that bridge, it looked busy. There was stuff happening on that bridge. There's a little
08:17bit more in Discovery. Now, what we saw over Riker's CGI shoulder in Picard, it looked like
08:23it was busy enough on the Zheng He as well. I really like to bring attention to the fact that
08:27the bridge is supposed to be a center of operations. And a lot of the time, because of the
08:31nature of episodic television, it became the hangout room. This does not look like the hangout
08:36room. This looks like decisions are genuinely being made here. Number five, Discovery's Enterprise
08:44Star Trek Discovery. Again, I can hear people going, we had a whole season of it. Strange
08:49New Worlds is also coming soon, of course. So the one that was released in Discovery is actually
08:56well, not a redesign, a final design of this initial concept that was designed by John
09:01Eves and his team. What they went for originally was to flatten it a little bit, to bring it closer
09:06to, say, the design of Discovery. They had the pylons jutting straight out to the sides as
09:11opposed to swept back, as we would eventually get in the show. Now, fins were more prominent on the
09:17nacelles, which were similar to the Enterprise B from Generations, which actually John Eves had
09:22played a hand in designing as well. A more streamlined, much more Discovery-like version
09:28of the Enterprise. Now, when it came to actually realising this on screen,
09:32this was refined and refined and brought closer to Matt Jeffrey's original design,
09:37while also bringing in some of Doug Drexler's additions to the NX-01 as well. So it looked
09:43like more of a middle ground, really, between the NX-01 and I think we'll say the movie refit
09:49of the Constitution class, because the general shape of the ship is closer to what we saw from
09:55the motion picture onwards. The metallic design of the ship is obviously much closer to the NX-01,
10:01but their proud and front for all to see is that deflector dish. But yes, the original concept
10:08design was much flatter, much closer to the way the Discovery ended up looking, and also by the
10:13looks of things, much bigger than Discovery ended up being, which of course is not the case in the
10:19show. Number four. Klingons. Star Trek Into Darkness. In the J.J. Abrams universe, we got
10:25to see the Klingons in Into Darkness when they are absolutely nobbled by Kan. Now, there is,
10:31they're definitely beefed up and badass. Every one of these would be a bouncer I would not like
10:37to piss off on a night out. They remove their helmets and you get their piercing in their
10:42ridges, and it's all a bit like kind of like cool and schlocky and whatever, leading to the
10:46wonderful nickname Blingons. I love it. The original design, however, was slightly more
10:52alien than what we got. If you look at those kind of diamond pattern, almost dreadlocks coming out
10:58the back of the head, you can actually see two things here. One, you can see the inspiration
11:03for Discovery's Klingons. Now, it's not a direct correlation. You wouldn't look at that and go,
11:08oh, all right, that's T'Kuvma. But what it is, is you can definitely see, all right, we jumped off
11:13from here and they landed on Star Trek Discovery Klingons. But also, if you look at that
11:22and you kind of squint and turn your head to the side a little bit,
11:26do you also see Gwyn and the Diviner? Number three, the CSS World Razor, Star Trek Picard.
11:35In the second episode of the second season of Star Trek Picard, Penance, Q whisks Jean-Luc
11:42away into a dark dystopian universe. On the wall, where had been hanging that beautiful portrait of
11:49the Enterprise D from the next generation, is a new portrait of the CSS World Razor. This design
11:57was very clearly based on Andrew Probert's design of the Enterprise D from the next generation,
12:02but this was done by Sean P. Tarango, who you might know as the designer of the USS Titan.
12:09He designed that ship for the cover of one of the novels, Sword of Damocles.
12:13Showing that there was such a similar design crossing between universes, says that somewhere
12:19in this dark dystopian universe, I am 100% sure that Leah Brams is existing in this universe. Now,
12:27Leah Brams, of course, was introduced in the next generation as one of the designers of the
12:32Enterprise D in-universe. Then there was a slightly problematic storyline, including Leah Brams,
12:39Hologram, and Geordi La Forge, which, to be very honest, was as creepy then as it is now.
12:47And that was in the good universe, so you can only imagine what's in this universe. Anyway,
12:52the CSS World Razor, now it hasn't been shown on screen, it's just that painting in his office,
12:57and some beautiful, beautiful concept art that is available to see online as well. It's a bit
13:03of a badass ship, I mean, the painting shows it carving its way through a Borg cube. I don't want
13:11to annoy this ship. Number two, the USS Emmett Till, what we left behind. The USS Emmett Till
13:17was designed to appear in the proposed DS9 Season 8, that was put together during the
13:23breaking session on what we left behind. The design, as you'll see, it does look like what
13:29eventually became the Ibn Majid on Star Trek Picard, which we've only seen a picture of, to be
13:34fair, and it looks a bit like the Concorde class, which I believe is available in Star Trek Online.
13:39The name Emmett Till was chosen to honour a horrific crime of the past, in keeping with
13:48Star Trek trying to honour history and not let it be forgotten. I do believe it would be a crime if
13:53we don't see the Emmett Till appear in some form or another, even if it becomes, say, the Ibn Majid.
14:00There's so much of Rios's story that we have yet to hear, so we may yet see this design on screen.
14:06I love this ship. I love the way the nacelles sit one atop the other. Captain Esmere Dax,
14:11yes please. And I think it would be a crime if we don't see this on screen. So many great ship
14:18designs are just sitting in, you know, hypothetical space dock. Let's get this one out there.
14:22Number one, the Enterprise A, Star Trek Beyond. We had a blink and you'll miss it cameo, really,
14:30from the Enterprise A in Star Trek Beyond. Designer Sean Hargreaves was given the job of creating the
14:36next Enterprise in the series after the destruction of the Enterprise at the hands of Krull and the
14:42Swarm. It's to take in an awful lot of inspiration for what went before in terms of what happened to
14:47the ship. For example, the pylons and the neck of the Enterprise A are much beefier, much stockier,
14:53because they had become weak points. Commercial model makers have not done one of the Enterprise
14:58A because it was never really intended to be the final design. We may not see this ship again,
15:04or we may not see an expansion of it. There is always talk of more films, of more series. Who
15:10knows? Who knows? And it's said with hope that maybe we will see it again, because I'm always
15:14on board for another Enterprise. Always. It would be great to see, you know, like we've already had
15:19a confirmation that the Kelvin universe exists in Discovery. We'd love to see maybe a crossover.
15:24Stranger things have happened, you know. Neelix was in a show for seven seasons.
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