It looks VERY close to the Akira design... I love it!
(please note that this may be a hoax)
I'd like to add that the designer(s) have made an excelent choice to make the ship look like (arguably?) the best looking official Federation ship ever to be seen on screen. IF this is indeed the top view of the pre-Enterprise I'm more convinced now the see this series than before.
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[ June 30, 2001: Message edited by: The_Evil_Lord ]
Don't know what this means. Don't really care. An Akira-looking ship would be cool aslong as it doesn't look too modern for its time...
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...the primary/secondary hull configuration hasn't been adopted yet
Really? When was that ever said?
And you're wrong, anyway.
Daedalus-class starship (Italics mine):
"These ships were amoung the first to demonstrate the primary/secondary hull and warp nacelle designs that would become characteristic of Starfleet vessels".
Not "The first". "Amoung the first". Which is a world of difference. Especially since we're talking about ships which are only around ten years older than whatever the Enterprise will be.
).Btw (1), anything that's in the encyclopedia is about as canon as canon can get (you dig?). Pretty damn close to a holy tablet from God if you ask me.
Btw (2), it's among the first. 
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Btw (1), anything that's in the encyclopedia is about as canon as canon can get (you dig?). Pretty damn close to a holy tablet from God if you ask me.
I think that the Okudas make it pretty damn clear that anything in the Ency that is not "material from finished aired episodes" are their conjectures and are not official/canon. They usually identify most conjectures.
Okuda conjectures aren't bad. They generally aren't like (some) novels (comic books, RPGs, video games, etc.) where people are pulling stuff out of their asses just to explain something that hasn't been explained onscreen. They generally base them off of: (1) the episode writer's intention (2) scenes that were cut (3) material that was in the script but not stated onscreen, such as character names (4) information that was heavily implied but not directly stated onscreen, or (5) a logical extrapolation of the facts stated onscreen.
One would hope that an episode writer tries to stick with the facts that have been stated onscreen, but should they be expected to interpret them the same way that the Okuda's do? Hell while the Daedalus class is canon and the design is canon, they have never been canonically tied together (as stated previously in this thread). All we really know about the Daedalus class is that it was in service in 2167 and retired in 2196. We don't even know if it did have the primary/secondary hull configuration, let alone that it was one of the first ship designs to have it. They either pulled that little nugget from their anal cavities or perhaps based it upon a kind of general agreement between the people on the Star Trek staff that this was the case (behind the scenes lore). It probably was a tip of the hat to the fact that it was the real life prototype for the whole primary/secondary hull configuration that has pretty much dominated Trek ship designs for 35 years.
Bottom line: The writers seems to have a hard time considering facts that have been restated 1000 times over onscreen as "a holy tablet from god." They obviously don't consider the Okuda's conjectures to be and neither do I.
But they are interesting to read.
[ July 01, 2001: Message edited by: Obi Juan ]
Introduction to one of the references...