weyoun-five:

Ok but does anyone else just… hate that they renamed the Titan? I feel like by doing that they’re sweeping everything the Titan and its crew achieved and went through under the rug. This whole ordeal wouldn’t have been possible without the Titan, and now they’re renaming it Enterprise to honor someone else??? ok

spockvarietyhour:

William T. Riker’s command, the U.S.S. Titan, as seen in Star Trek: Lower Decks. First mentioned in Star Trek: Nemesis, the Titan became a spinoff series of Star Trek Novels, where this design debut. From Memory Beta:

When Pocket Books launched the Star Trek: Titan book series, they held a competition to design the new Luna class. The winning design by Sean Tourangeau was announced on October 6, 2005. Tourangeau then worked with artist Ellery O'Connell to develop a 3D model of the Titan, which debuted on the cover of the fourth Titan novel, Sword of Damocles.

I’d say they stayed pretty faithful to the model:

Here’s the design they submitted, which iirc was a fold out insert: