>the quality of the CGI didn't
>look like it was nicked from a late-90s video game.

... because no one has ever rushed out a sketchy preliminary trailer in order to hit a major con before.

Honestly, people, kvetching about the quality of the CG in this trailer is like watching one of the pencil test teasers for a Disney animated film and saying, "Man, Disney's animation quality has gone massively downhill, this isn't even in fucking color." :)

As for the design itself, as others have noted here and elsewhere, it's pretty obviously rooted in the Ralph McQuarrie concept sketches for the Enterprise in Star Trek: Phase II, the canceled 1970s revival TV series that ultimately, tortuously led to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. And, well, I have a hard time saying anything bad about a Ralph McQuarrie design.

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