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Doesn't matter. It's still too big, too disc-shaped, and too 'TOS'-y. We may not necessarily be looking for something that looks like Masao's designs, but something between FASA's Romulan War-era ships and the Daedalus class should be managable... *grump*
--Jonah
P.S. No one listened to me when I decried the Enterprise-E as derivitive either. Haven't we learned anything about Eaves yet?
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Hmmm... Looking at the bigger scan of the ship it may still be possible for the warp core to be in teh pod. Maybe n those days the thing was much smaller.
Also, take a good look at this picture taken from the Best of Both Worlds scrapheap:
IIRC this is the New Orleans class... But it look a hell of a lot like the pre-Enterprise.
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Goodness, you'd think the bits were already final.
Why is everyone assuming that Eaves is done with the design? The Enterprise-E underwent redesigns up until the last minute. Merchandise - like the Playmates starship toy - didn't match the design seen on film.
The fact that the design is *so* close to the Akira leads me to suspect it's just a drawing board version. I'd wager it's only as close to the final ship as Sternbach's dangling-nacelles design was for Voyager - the pieces are in the right place but there's still lots of tweaking to do.
The tweaking will be important to us fanatics but unnoticable to the masses - replace phaser strips with laser turrets; replace the organic saucer with something more classical; similarly de-organify the catamarans. Tah-dah, something that has a nearly identical silhouette but placates us geeks.
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