As noted in my "Hello" post, I have some starship designs I want to work on. They are PRE-TOS and somewhat 'alternate universe' in concept.
They disregard Enterprise, not because I dislike the show, but because I have a certain ethos for these ships.
At any rate, these are Earth ships (UES). These are the ones I would eventually like to get a program to do some graphics rendering on.
Masao has seen them before, over on the TREK BBS, but for those of you who haven't, here are the links (I assume I don't have the posts to put an image in my message)!
Hmmm... interesting. I kind of like the second one, but something about the nacelle struts bothers me. Maybe they're not long enough?
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that Earth ships probably shouldn't have NCC registries. I know you're discounting Enterprise, but NCC is Federation, not Earth registry.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The second one is cool: looks a bit (to me) like a TOS version of the EXcelsior study model. Could be a good backstory in that somewhere.
What are the red boxlike structures in the third design for? Cargo? I dig it as a deep-space explorer that would need a lot of cargo space for supplies of all kinds: no replicators back then.
The first ship's nacelle pylons are really thick (wide) for the TOS era (though it's your own Trek universe, of course). Mabye those are solar cells instead of flush vents? Have you made side views for any of these yet?
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
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