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I would pose the counter-question of how you are going to maintain the look of the TOS Enterprise as believable without something in that style leading up to it...
Oh and the Xindi aren't supposed to be the Kzin, I don't think. They would have come a bit earlier than ENT's timeframe and, as Jason pointed out, they've received mentions on DS9 as the Tzenkethi. That being said, however, I rather like Mike's idea...
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I don't think maintaining the look of the TOS Enterprise is even an issue here, and I'll tell you why.
I remember in the extra material of the ST:TMP DVD a mention that the producers of the film were very much looking forward to creating a model that allowed you as the viewer to see much more of the Enterprise than did the TOS. So, whereas some elements of the TMP Enterprise can be seen as design evolution within the framework of the Trek universe (i.e. a number of years after TOS), much of the visual elements of the TMP Enterprise are simply elements that we can assume were present in the TOS Enterprise, but which we could not see on television due to visual production limitations.
These include, nacelle glows, greebles, visible docking ports, deck plating joints, a frikkin GANGWAY hatch!!! etc, etc.
I mean, hell, if we took what we could see in the TOS as visual proof of everything, then we'd have to conclude that all the lit portholes had very bright white lights shining directly outward. Therefore, all plans of Starfleet ships from the TOS period should respect that and include VERY bright lamps in all the windows.
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It's like the Bridge consoles... dont' think of them as being 23rd century technology, think of them as being 60's representation of the same 23rd century technology that we see in TMP.
In Dr WHO, we see the Tardis 'grow' a new control room every few years to help explain the change, as the show producers could make better sets.
I just thank God that TOS wasn't black and white. Can you imagine the flame wars over colors of things?
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Personally, I still prefer the lack of undercut. And I like the one right under the E (with the sphere higher) better than the one below that. And I think I'd like to see the pylons a little thinner, and maybe not angled from front to back.
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Bottom one for me. But yeah, the pylons are a little soggy around the midsection. B)
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I don't really like the look of the one with the undercut, I prefer the one under the E.
I don't really think the Daedalus design is all that bad, although I like the attepts to make it look more like the Enterprise.
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