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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 sometimes lacking from Star Trek a
07:53little bit. I will say that the Apple Store Enterprise of the 2009 the J.J. Abrams era at least that bridge
08:01it looked busy there was stuff happening on that bridge there's a little bit more in discovery now what
08:07we saw over Riker's CGI shoulder in Picard it looked like it was busy enough on the the Zheng Hei as
08:14well. I really like to bring attention to the fact that the bridge supposed to be your center of
08:17operations and a lot of the time because of the nature of episodic television it became the hangout
08:22room. This does not look like the hangout room this looks like decisions are genuinely being made here.
08:29Number five Discovery's Enterprise Star Trek Discovery. Again I can hear people going we we had a whole
08:36season of it. Strange New Worlds is also coming soon of course. So the one that was released in
08:42Discovery is actually a well not a redesign a final design of this initial concept that was designed
08:48by John Eves and his team. What they went for originally was to flatten it a little bit to bring
08:54it closer to say the design of Discovery. They had the pylons jutting straight out to the sides as
08:59opposed to swept back as we would eventually get in the show. Now Finns were more prominent on the
09:06nacelles which were similar to the Enterprise B from Generations which actually John Eves had played a
09:10hand in designing as well. A more streamlined much more discovery like version of the Enterprise. Now
09:18when it came to actually realizing this on screen this was refined and refined and brought closer to
09:24Matt Jeffery's original design while also bringing in some of Doug Drexler's additions to the NX-01 as
09:30well. So it looked like more of a middle ground really between between the NX-01 and I think we'll
09:36say the movie refit of the Constitution class because the general shape of the ship is closer to what we
09:43saw from the motion picture onwards. The metallic design of the ship is obviously much closer to the NX-01
09:49but there proud and front for all to see is that deflector dish. But yes the original concept design
09:57was much flatter much closer to the way the Discovery ended up looking and also by the looks
10:02of things much bigger than Discovery ended up being which of course is not the case in the show.
10:07Number four. Klingons. Star Trek Into Darkness. In the J.J. Abrams universe we got to see the Klingons
10:14in Into Darkness when they are absolutely nobbled by Cannes. Now there is they are definitely beefed up
10:21and badass. Every one of these would be a bouncer I would not like to piss off on a night out. They
10:27remove their helmets and you get their piercing in their ridges and it's all a bit like kind of like
10:32cool and schlocky and whatever leading to the wonderful nickname Blingons. I love it. The original
10:38design however was slightly more alien than what we got. If you look at those kind of
10:44diamond pattern almost dreadlocks coming out the back of the head you can actually see two things
10:49here. One you can see the inspiration for Discovery's Klingons. Now it's not a direct
10:55correlation you wouldn't look at that and go oh all right that's Takuvma. But what it is is you can
11:00definitely see all right we we jumped off from here and they landed on Star Trek Discovery Klingons
11:05but also if you look at that and you kind of squint and turn your head to the side a little bit
11:13do you also see Gwyn and the Diviner? Number three the CSS world raiser Star Trek Picard.
11:23In the second episode of the second season of Star Trek Picard Penance Q whisks Jean-Luc away into a dark
11:31dystopian universe. On the wall where had been hanging that beautiful portrait of the Enterprise
11:37D from the next generation is a new portrait of the CSS world raiser. This design was very clearly
11:45based on Andrew Probert's design of the Enterprise D from the next generation but this was done by
11:51Sean P. Tarango who you might know as the designer of the USS Titan. He designs that ship for the cover
11:59of one of the novels Sword of Damocles. Showing that there was such a similar design crossing between
12:04universes says that somewhere in this dark dystopian universe I am 100% sure that Leah Brahms is existing
12:13in this universe. Now Leah Brahms of course was introduced in the next generation as one of the
12:19designers of the Enterprise D in universe. Then there was a slightly problematic storyline including
12:26Leah Brahms, Hologram and Geordi LaForge which to be very honest was as creepy then as it is now.
12:34So and that was in the good universe so you can only imagine what's in what's in this universe.
12:40Anyway the CSS world raiser now it hasn't been shown on screen it's just that painting in his office
12:45and some beautiful beautiful concept art that is available to see online as well. It's a bit of a
12:51badass ship. I mean the painting shows it carving its way through a Borg cube. I am I don't want
12:59to annoy this ship. Number two the USS Emmett Till what we left behind. The USS Emmett Till was designed
13:06to appear in the proposed DS9 season 8 that was put together during the breaking session on what we
13:13left behind. The design as you'll see it does look like what eventually became the Ibn Majid on Star
13:20Trek Picard which we've only seen a picture of to be fair and it looks a bit like the Concord class
13:25which I believe is available in Star Trek Online. The name Emmett Till was chosen to honour a horrific
13:31crime of the of the past in keeping with Star Trek trying to honour history and not let it be forgotten.
13:39I do believe it would be a crime if we don't see the Emmett Till appear in some form or another even
13:45even if it becomes say the Ibn Majid. There's so much of Rios's story that we have yet to hear. So
13:51we may yet see this design on screen. I love this ship. I love the way the nacelles sit one atop the
13:58other. Captain Esri Dax, yes please. And I think it would be a crime if we don't see this on screen.
14:04So many great ship designs are just sitting in you know hypothetical space dock. Let's get this one out
14:10there. Number one, the Enterprise A, Star Trek Beyond. We had a blink and you'll miss it cameo
14:18really from the Enterprise A in Star Trek Beyond. Designer Sean Hargreaves was given the job of
14:23creating the next Enterprise in the series after the destruction of the Enterprise at the hands of
14:29Crawl and the Swarm. It's to take in an awful lot of inspiration for what went before in terms of
14:34what happened to the ship. For example, the pylons and the neck of the Enterprise A are much beefier,
14:40much stockier because they had become weak points. Commercial model makers have not done one of the
14:45Enterprise A because it was never really intended to be the final design. We may not see this ship
14:52again or we may not see an expansion of it. There is always talk of more films, of more series,
14:58who knows? Who knows? And it's said with hope that maybe we will see it again because
15:01I'm always on board for another Enterprise. Always. It would be great to see, you know,
15:06like we've already had a confirmation that the Kelvin universe exists in Discovery. We'd love to see
15:11maybe a crossover. Stranger things have happened. You know, Neelix was in a show for seven seasons.
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