The design side of things of the new Star Trek film has come across as a bit of a mixed bag so far. I love the fact that the uniforms are very true to the 60s original, but I’m not sure about the bridge of the Enterprise seen in the same promo shots (although unlike some, I don’t have a hard-and-fast “hate it” opinion yet. I need to see more of it).
With the advent of the new Enterprise hitting the net last night, it seems to capture this “mixed bag” concept well. There’s a lot to like in the new design. Its recognisably the Enterprise, and the saucer seems to be lifted from the motion picture refit (Ent-A) which is a good thing. I like how it seems to have retained the turbine-type-things in the nacelles from the original, and the deflector looks like its a raised dish (again, like the original) but with the blow lighting of the refit, which I think looks quite neat.
However, the mammoth vent-things on the nacelles (which meet the pylons) really ruin the look of it for me. Granted, this is just one shot, and it’ll probably look better in motion, and in other promo shots, but they look too much like something added to make it look different. Changing the slope of the neck joining the saucer and engineering sections doesn’t bother me as much, and the pylons now sit right at the back of engineering as a result. To me, the whole engineering section doesn’t quite work in terms of its lines.
Of course, for me, they never bettered the movie refit design anyway 
I imagine though, that following the first trailer and seeing shots of the new Enterprise in action, I’ll decide it looks really cool afterall
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