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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
00:04Star Trek Fleet Command. Hooray! More on that now in a second. We've already done a list of 10
00:09concept arts you need to see and that link is in the description of this video below.
00:14There's so much in Star Trek that we have another list for you today. So with that being said I am
00:20Sean Ferrick for Trek Culture and here are 10 more incredible Star Trek concept designs you need to
00:27see. Number 10. Picard's lecture Star Trek Picard. There was originally going to be a scene in which
00:33Picard delivered a lecture to an assembled group of delegates. Now there was going to be beautiful
00:39artwork, there was going to be a holographic representation of the Enterprise E, there was
00:43going to be Commander Data in his next generation uniform. Now unfortunately this scene didn't come
00:48to pass in season one although there was a scene quite like it in season two when he delivers his
00:54address in Starfleet Academy. Concept artist Laurent Ben-Mimon designed this room. It was the Oxford
01:01Union. Now that is a world famous debating society that Patrick Stewart himself has actually already
01:09delivered an address at. So what you would have had is Jean-Luc Picard in 2399 delivering an address
01:16to the Oxford Union which would be a parallel to Sir Patrick Stewart delivering an address in 2013.
01:22Now as I said we didn't get this scene even though you would have had all of these different aliens
01:27including a Klingon in Discovery style makeup and yes I can hear a very large portion of the audience
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02:47Number 9. NX-01 Star Trek Enterprise. Now I know what you're thinking. You're like we've seen the NX-01.
02:55It was in quite a few episodes actually and we've also at this stage seen Doug Drexler's refit of the
03:02NX-01. While it hasn't been in several episodes yet it's literally had a model released of it.
03:07Sean what are you on? No I'm actually referring to the designs that John Eves did when Star Trek
03:15Enterprise or Enterprise as was known then was just going into production. Now Eves of course he had
03:20worked on Star Trek First Contact. He had worked on Star Trek Insurrection as well. So he was no stranger
03:26to the series. When he was brought on board his designs they were similar to what Doug Drexler
03:32eventually ended up bringing to the show. But you can see in them what would become inspirations for
03:41his take on the Enterprise in Star Trek Discovery. Although the NX-01 didn't unfortunately pan out for
03:47John Eves. He did get 1-7-01 which is a bit of a bit of a back of the net. But if you look at these
03:54designs you can definitely see where the inspiration crossed over between the two and you can still see
04:00the general shape that was going in or would end up going in to the NX-01 as well. So the idea is
04:07there. The execution obviously that never happened but the idea is certainly there and I like it.
04:13Number eight Starfleet uniforms Star Trek Beyond. If you look at the uniforms that we got in Star
04:19Trek Beyond they're a little bit of a development from 2009 and Into Darkness in that the collar goes
04:25slightly higher up in the collar. I have to say I do I'm a big fan of these uniforms but they were not
04:33the initial plan for this film. Costume designer Sonia Hayes designed something that was a little bit
04:39more reminiscent of the wetsuits from Into Darkness. You can definitely see that they are a bold choice.
04:45They also had a kind of a ribbed undershirt a bit like the Monster Maroons from Wrath of Cannes.
04:50I get what they were going for here. It was a bold look. It would immediately stand out. You would
04:54never have to look at it and go oh what film is that from? You would know straight away. It does feel
04:58a little bit I suppose metallic and constrictive which for a duty uniform I can see why they didn't go
05:06with this but it's definitely a bold image and yeah the heck's the point to the future if you
05:14can't be bold. Number seven 26th century Enterprise Star Trek Final Frontier. No no no no no I didn't
05:23say the Final Frontier I said Final Frontier. Big difference. After the cancellation of Star Trek
05:29Enterprise there was almost another series green lit named Star Trek Final Frontier. This would have
05:38aired on the official Star Trek website which would have made it the first streaming only Star Trek
05:45series. For several reasons that didn't happen but there was a design for the ship that Captain Chase
05:52would command. 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 resembles an
06:02aircraft carrier than it does your traditional saucer section and while I'm sort of hard-rooted in
06:09I like it when it's round I will say I get it. I do get it and it's different you know and you can't
06:15just keep repeating the same design over and over again. All right I'm sure I'm gonna eat my own words
06:23now that I've said that but you can see where there is inspiration for Matt Jeffery's original design
06:29I mean inspiration I mean like lift and copy but but also in a way it's like they've gone to the
06:36observation lounge in the Enterprise D when that gold aircraft carrier was there and said boom done
06:41stick some nacelles on that where we can go home for lunch. It's funky. Number six the bridge Star Trek
06:49Discovery. First glance you're going to be like these are the same picture when you look at that
06:54and the bridge of discovery but actually what it is is it's a little bit closer to what ended up
07:00appearing in Star Trek Online. Now if you look closely you'll see that the Ops and Con consoles
07:05are actually sunken into the deck and there's a glass elevator that brings people above to the
07:10observation deck as well which means that yes this would be a two-story bridge as opposed to your
07:15traditional one. Now that is something that turns up on the Odyssey class ships. Prodigy more honours
07:20it than actually has it on the Protostar but you can see that the inspiration is there. It gives the
07:26idea that the bridge is more of a command center than if you take for example the bridge of the
07:31Enterprise D which is gorgeous it's nice and brightly lit and I never for one second believed there was any
07:39work being done on that bridge because it looked like a kind of a lounge where people went to hang out
07:44and look I'm not giving it it's a lovely design lovely to see it back in Prodigy where something
07:48like this I would believe that if I was in there I'd better have a damn good reason to be there
07:52you know I'm making a delivery of like I don't know a warp core or something just so that I had a reason
07:59to be on this bridge and that is something that could be sometimes lacking from Star Trek a little bit
08:05I will say that the Apple Store Enterprise of the 2009 the J.J. Abrams era at least that bridge it
08:13looked busy there was stuff happening on that bridge there's a little bit more in Discovery
08:18now what we saw over Riker's CGI shoulder in Picard it looked like it was busy enough on the
08:25the Zheng He as well I really want to bring attention to the fact that the bridge supposed
08:28to be your center of operations and a lot of the time because of the nature of episodic television it
08:32became the hangout room this does not look like the hangout room this looks like decisions are
08:39genuinely being made here number five Discovery's Enterprise Star Trek Discovery again I can hear
08:46people going we we had a whole season of it Strange New Worlds is also coming soon of course so the one
08:52that was released in Discovery is actually a well not a redesign a final design of this initial concept
08:59that was designed by John Eves and his team what they went for originally was to flatten it a little
09:05bit to bring it closer to say the design of Discovery they had the pylons jutting straight
09:10out to the sides as opposed to swept back as we would eventually get in the show now fins were more
09:17prominent on the nacelles which were similar to the Enterprise B from Generations which actually John
09:22Eves had played a hand in designing as well a more streamlined much more Discovery-like version
09:28of the Enterprise now when it came to actually realizing this on screen this was refined and refined and
09:34brought closer to Matt Jeffery's original design while also bringing in some of Doug Drexler's
09:40additions to the NX-01 as well so it looked like more of a middle ground really between between
09:46the NX-01 and I think we'll say the movie refit of the Constitution class because the general shape
09:53of the ship is closer to what we saw from the motion picture onwards the metallic design of the ship is
09:59obviously much closer to the NX-01 but they're proud and front for all to see is that deflector dish
10:06but yes the original concept design was much flatter much closer to the way the Discovery ended up
10:12looking and also by the looks of things much bigger than Discovery ended up being which of course is not
10:17the case in the show number four Klingons Star Trek Into Darkness in the J.J. Abrams universe we got to
10:25see the Klingons in Into Darkness when they are absolutely nobbled by Khan now there is they are
10:31definitely beefed up and badass every one of these would be a bouncer I would not like to piss off on a
10:38night out they remove their helmets and you get their piercing in their ridges it's all a bit like kind of
10:44like cool and schlocky and whatever leading to the wonderful nickname Blingons I love it the original
10:50design however was slightly more alien than what we got if you look at those kind of diamond pattern
10:56almost dreadlocks coming out the back of the head you can actually see two things here one you can see
11:02the inspiration for Discovery's Klingons now it's not a direct correlation you wouldn't look at that
11:08and go oh all right that's Tecuvma but what it is is you can definitely see all right we we jumped off
11:13from here and they landed on Star Trek Discovery Klingons but also if you look at that
11:21and you kind of squint and turn your head to the side a little bit
11:25do you also see Gwyn and the Diviner? Number three the CSS world raiser Star Trek Picard
11:34In the second episode of the second season of Star Trek Picard Penance Q whisks Jean-Luc away into a dark
11:43dystopian universe on the wall where had been hanging that beautiful portrait of the Enterprise D from the
11:50next generation is a new portrait of the CSS world raiser this design was very clearly based on Andrew
11:59Probert's design of the Enterprise D from the next generation but this was done by Sean P. Tarango
12:04who you might know as the designer of the USS Titan he designs that ship for the cover of one of the
12:11novels Sword of Damocles showing that there was such a similar design crossing between universes
12:17says that somewhere in this dark dystopian universe I am 100% sure that Leah Brahms is existing in this
12:26universe now Leah Brahms 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 Brahms
12:39hologram and Geordi LaForge which to be very honest was as creepy then as it is now so and that was in
12:48the good universe so you can only imagine what's in what's in this universe anyway the CSS world raiser
12:54now it hasn't been shown on screen it's just that painting in his office and some beautiful beautiful
12:59concept art that is available to see online as well it's a bit of a badass ship I mean the painting
13:05shows it carving its way through a Borg cube I am I don't want to annoy this ship number two the USS
13:14Emmett Till what we left behind the USS Emmett Till was designed to appear in the proposed DS9 season 8
13:22that was put together during the breaking session on what we left behind the design as you'll see it
13:28does look like what eventually became the Ibn Majid on Star Trek Picard which we've only seen a picture
13:33of to be fair and it looks a bit like the Concord class which I believe is available in Star Trek
13:38online the name Emmett Till was chosen to honor a horrific crime of the of the past in keeping with
13:48Star Trek trying to honor history and not let it be forgotten I do believe it'd be a crime if we
13:54don't see the Emmett Till appear in some form or another even 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 I
14:07love this ship I love the way the nacelles sit one atop the other Captain Esri Dax yes please and I think
14:13it would be a crime if we don't see this on screen so many great ship designs are just sitting in you
14:19know hypothetical space dock let's get this one out there number one the Enterprise A Star Trek Beyond
14:26we had a blink and you'll miss it cameo really from the Enterprise A in Star Trek Beyond designer
14:33Sean Hargreaves was given the job of creating the next Enterprise in the series after the destruction of
14:40the Enterprise at the hands of Kroll and the Swarm it's to take in an awful lot of inspiration for
14:45what went before in terms of what happened to the ship for example the pylons and the neck of the
14:51Enterprise A are much beefier much stockier because they had become weak points commercial model makers
14:56have not done one of the Enterprise A because it was never really intended to be the final design
15:02we may not see this ship again or we may not see an expansion of it there is always talk of more
15:08films of more series who knows who knows it is said with hope that maybe we will see it again because
15:13I'm always on board for another Enterprise always it would be great to see you know like we've already
15:19had a 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 thank you so much
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