Crosfield class origin

I'm not saying that Discovery is a good design, in fact it's ugly as sin, but have wondered where such a stark design appears from.

Didn't know that it was a Enterprise study design from TOS Motion Picture and TNG era. Waswatching Unification last night and saw a eerily similar ship in the Qualor2 scrap yard

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B-24-CLN

AMKC

Well spotted. Not pretty do is it. One thing I will say about both the TOS, Enterprise DSC and Sometimes DS9 is they show the sense of scale for the ships really really good. I watched the DS9 Episode ''Soldiers of the Empire'' the other day and there was a nice view of a B.O.P in that. That is one thing I always wished TNG would have done better. Anytime there was a zoom out from the D it was a quick pull back. Voyager done it fairly good at time's but other times just terrible. When Voyager lands for the first time for instance it just seemed smaller than it should be. The shuttle bay is another that always bugged me about Voyager. Some of the ships just about fit in but yet it was at least two decks high.
Sorry for rambling on just saying.

pixelburp

I think the design was from Ralph McQuarries concept work for Phase II, which did evolve into the Motion Picture true.

There is a behemoth of a saucer section floating around there too, no idea what it came from and the concept Excelsior

AMKC

Here is a couple of links to pictures of it,

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/qualor.htm


https://www.google.com/search?q=star+trek+Qualor2+scrap+yard&rlz=1C1CHBD_enIE772IE772&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=myzD_u_FGY2vmM%253A%252Ct_meFaZVR03J9M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRw55Q08uvCNw1O3J1Oz8SKppZtXA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf1K6Vt4DjAhULHcAKHcr-ARYQ9QEwAXoECAUQBg#imgrc=_&vet=1

Stark

This memory alpha page shows it very clearly https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Planet_of_the_Titans

Looks like the version of Discovery from the original teaser trailer.