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Starship Freak
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Wow, star trek.com has posted pics of the gorn ship, go to this link and check it out. Fairly ugly I would say, but I really like the fact that it�s a drasticly new design!

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Weird. I'm getting something of an Oberth vibe from the overhead view here...

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Oh man, you�re right, now why didn�t I see that. Even the dome is vagely oberth-esque..

But I stand by my statement, it looks fairly unique and alien. (at least it�s not green..)

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But is that because they chose not to make it green, or because it appears to lack anything but default materials?
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Actually, it was a joke in response to someone�s comment on trekbbs where the poster said that every alien ship on Star Trek was green. And obviously that�s not the case, but the artists do seem to like green, romulans, klingons, orions, many aliens from "Enterprise" and so on.

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I'm probably not the first person to say it, but I said that over here.

As for the Gorn ship, I'm trying to work out that secondary hull in my head. It looks like a fifth nacelle to me.

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Oh, did I say trekBBS? I meant Flare of course, I mean trekBBS, seriously? ;-)

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Hey, I post at TrekBBS as well. But only in the Art and Tech forums. I stay away from the rest of them.
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Oooh, and there's K-7 as well(although obviously not a new design, thank goodness).

The Gorn design is fairly good. I mean, it's quite a basic model, so there's not an awful lot to go on. The nacelles on the top are very similar to the 1701 and Romulan BoP's ones, I think I actually like that though. It seems like a TOS thing to do.

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Fucking WHOA.

That is some nice alien shit, man, & it TOTALLY assfucks the 40 years of prevailing fandom concept that the Gorn philosophy is "push hard until it moves--who cares what it looks like?" Nice as shit.

Also, I see that on Miri's world, the island of Hainan is actually connected to the mainland.

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I guess the Gorn don't like to look out of windows.

Also hurray new K-7!

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Baddass design- I agree with Shik here- it rocks.
No other race is more maligned by games and fandom than the Gorn- both FASA and SFB use them as third-rate bozos with inferior tech- despite the Gorn in Arena clearly being tough and having cutting edge ships.

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quote:
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... So with nothing to compare it to, we can only marvel in this design that reinforces the concept that to achieve warp speed capabilities, nacelle-type structures are required and that a dorsal command center/bridge is also standard.

I have to disagree with the second part about the bridge, but I think the design is pretty neat. Of course, seeing it with textures would help.

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Why does the screen cap from "Arena" look all blurry, but this image is so much better?

Are they going to go back and change episodes they've already tweaked once?

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quote:
Originally posted by Starship Freak:
Actually, it was a joke in response to someone�s comment on trekbbs where the poster said that every alien ship on Star Trek was green. And obviously that�s not the case, but the artists do seem to like green, romulans, klingons, orions, many aliens from "Enterprise" and so on.

I think it started with green working better for cloaking effects and spiralled out of control from there.
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