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Wow . . . she's beautiful. I'd thought of some tweaks on the 1701 to bring her more in line with the continuity between the pre-E and the A . . . a little bit of blue nacelle glow on the inboard sides, some blue glow behind the old dish . . . but damn . . . I never would've gone this far, and it was clearly my mistake to not do so.
That said, though, the side view needs some buildup aft of the bridge . . . the top view seems to show a superstructure which is not visible in the side view, and which (in my aesthetic opinion (ha!)) is needed to make the saucer flow better down to the impulse deck.
There's also a bit of an optical illusion in regards to the saucer, I think. The ventral side has the pre-E's little jag on the way down to the sensor array bubble . . . that sharp angle that cuts in before the round bottom section. In the pic, it looks like the part that should be horizontal isn't horizontal . . . I can't tell in looking at the pic if that's because it isn't horizontal, or whether it's because the connecting dorsal and the front of the secondary hull seem to make it all one big curve.
Anyway, if I were actually thinking this could be the 2260's Enterprise, I might've tweaked the engines a bit more to bring them further from the 2150's nacelle design.
But don't get me wrong. Even though I've mentioned all those little tweaks, I love this ship.
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I agree that this design could possibly serve in some sort of "reimagining" of TOS, were such a thing to occur. However, it would still be nothing but a pale shadow of the original, as are all ships that came after her.
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Not bad as an intermediate concept, although it could certainly do with having the details toned down somewhat, at the moment it's far too much of a literal re-jiggling of the NX-01.
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That's really a beautiful design, when viewed in line of the Star Trek: Enterprise style. It's quite realistic. Frankly, I can see that as a ship design circa 2200, a step between the NX class and the Constitution. Maybe halfway between in size too. That's really nice.
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Hmm, its a nice design for an alternate trek reality series like Enterprise
However, if this were an outgrowth of the NX-01, I would expect it to be catamaran style, NOT 1701 style with its distinctive primary/secondary/nacelles layout. From an evolutionary standpoint, there really isn't a connection from NX-01 to 1701. This design could work as an intermediary ship, perhaps 50 years before the 1701.
But, the original 1701 will always to me look better than any "re-imagined" version. (And the refit-1701 will just be as untouchable ) They got them right the first time.
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Maybe it's what the ISS Enterprise should have looked like.
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