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I was going through papers at my parents' house in Minnesota and found these drawings I did when I was in junior high school. Just for laughs, I thought I'd share. I figure they're circa 1974, about when the Franz Joseph stuff was published and TAS aired.
For some reason, I was interested in cargo ships. I apparently never drew cruisers, other than USS Enterprise.
I probably drew this from memory after watching the TAS episodes.
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Hey, those pencil drawings are still better than any of the stuff I sketched in my high school notebooks! Talent is relative.
I just have one silly question to ask about that first cargo ship... how does a shuttlecraft get through the aft bay doors?
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I like how massive that one ship is next to the Enterprise. Many current-day cargo ships are *much* larger than a military cruiser.
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A bit too massive, though. That things' damn near a starbase at that scale. Remember, the Enterprise is considered a very big ship at the time, so ships larger than she, even freighters, should be considered fairly rare.
Still, it's interesting enough that I may have to play with it later.. even if Masao DID trace the hell out of the Technical Manual to make it.
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@ Jason Abaddon and Vanguard: I suggest that neither I nor anyone else should try to do anything with these designs. It would be like "polishing a turd," as they say in the VFX business. They were posted for historical purposes only! I am quite proud of Huron, though, as it's pretty close to the onscreen appearance.
@ HerbShrump: I'm as old as Flint. Most of the older guys have already died or become senile. I'm only able to post because I've transferred my consciousness to an advanced android body.
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But we like making you work! The massive boxlike thing might be a portable repair facility- from the rear it woud be all open. It could also be a spaceborne foundry for refining metals mined in a system's asteroid belt and the ship tows it from location to location: the refined metals would be picked up by other starships/freighters. You'd need a large starship in a case wherein the miners have no place for leave and make their life out in the darkness of space...kinda like people living for extended periods on oil rigs far out at sea.
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quote:Originally posted by Masao: [QB] @ Jason Abaddon and Vanguard: I suggest that neither I nor anyone else should try to do anything with these designs. It would be like "polishing a turd," as they say in the VFX business. They were posted for historical purposes only! I am quite proud of Huron, though, as it's pretty close to the onscreen appearance.
Have you not SEEN my gallery posted? Polishing turds is what I do, since 90 percent of the fandom and official Trek designs are just that. I just thought it might be fun to play with, and with some surprisingly minor tweaking, it could easily be an early TOS freighter.
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Yeah I wouldn't touch that with a rolled up turk's slipper. If anyone got a look at my starship drawings from when I were a nipper and decided they were worth "polishing" I'd likewise conclude they have far to much time on their hands, feet, elbows and other miscellaneous extremities.
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