Nonsense. The post-Space Shuttle Enterprise shown during Decker's guided tour with Ilia on the Rec Deck ("All of these ships were named 'Enterprise'") in ST The Motionless Picture certainly didn't look 1950-ish. And it was only a poorly-seen silhouette in one fleeting scene - you could slap all the bells, whistles, and gimcrackery you wanted to on the basic outline. This was cleverly done in the otherwise horrible movie version of "Lost in Space" - you see the familiar saucer shape of the Jupiter II being launched from Earth, then *BANG* - the shell separates to reveal a cool-looking ship inside.
You just have to pretend that the original Trek did, in fact, look like it took place in the 23rd century. Oh yeah, and Klingons ALWAYS had big forheads. Ya gotta deal with it.
The viewing public apparently agrees with me - they're staying away in droves if the Neilsens for this excrescence are any indication.
And a show explaining how the Klingons got the lobsterheads would be fun. Do a story arc dealing with the "genetic experiment gone awry" that Worf alluded to in STTNG.
OK, I'll pull in my geek horns now ...
There is a (pre-Enterprise) Trek book out called "History of the Future" which shows models for supposed 21st century ships that had globes instead of saucers. Those were cool looking. I don't know why they didn't use that design for Enterprise NX 01
And a show explaining how the Klingons got the lobsterheads would be fun. Do a story arc dealing with the "genetic experiment gone awry" that Worf alluded to in STTNG.
That was on DS9, and I thought is was dumb. How could 24th century humans not know that there was a compleatly different race of Klingons only a hundred years earlier? Duh!