Huh, and all this time I'd guessed that Starfleet technology was big-endian.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Nicer than I expected...she's a bit dirty though. I was always under the impression that the nacelle and eng-hull were fatter than they actually are. Probably the angle of the stills I've seen so far though.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Damn my second post didn't go through! Anyways, anyone looked at the ship's senior officers, one of them belongs to a new species. Also they have a image that gives you a glimpse of the shuttlebay's interior.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Oh man that nacelle is awesome. The ship looks so overpowered, I love it. Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Overpowered? Well maybe not. The longer nacelle may denote older technology which requires a substantial amount of power to produce the same output as the New E's relatively shorter bugle nacelles.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
It looks squished to me...
Posted by Vanguard (Member # 1780) on :
Actually, if it's older technology, then (assuming the writers/designers even thought of this) the assumption would likely be that the warp-engine components would be more 'Brute Force' (IE, Cold War Russian) in philosophy. Big, heavy, and functional, but extremly crude in design.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The elongated nacelle s cool for one-nacelled ships- A modeler friend offers a kit of a Ambassador variant decked out that way.
The rear of the secondary hull looks really odd- like it's not all there.
Does the bussard collector glow?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hmmmm - this doesn't look like the ship in the trailers to me. The bottom 'nacelle' seemed to be as 'thick' as the top part. You can see at one point a large round blue 'exhaust' at the back of it.
*shrug*
Sure these are 'official'?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
It cant be- the nacelle is waaay too big to rotate...
Posted by Doctor Jonas (Member # 481) on :
There's more to it. On the Intel "Boldly Go" Star Trek website they also have pictures and small captions from the 4 Kelvin officers, and some Treknology-101 about the main ship components.
It's on one of the submenus to the right, after the intro.
(I know Joshua already posted the link but it seemed like none of you went there...)
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: It looks squished to me...
Yeah, they've reduced the height of the image so it fits in the box better.
It makes a change to have this sort of detail for a ship, but it'd be nice if they showed the Enterprise or that starbase as well.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Some spoiler warnings, please. Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but I had no idea this was ST:XI, and no reasonable way to know before clicking links.
Posted by Joshua Bell (Member # 327) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Hmmmm - this doesn't look like the ship in the trailers to me. The bottom 'nacelle' seemed to be as 'thick' as the top part. You can see at one point a large round blue 'exhaust' at the back of it.
*shrug*
Sure these are 'official'?
I think the blue lighting at the end of the exhaust is an information overlay - if you look at the other images there are several other blue dots both on and off the ship.
At least, I hope.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
The blue glow at the end of the nacelle is shown in the trailer too. I believe it also shows the Enterprise having blue "exhausts" as well. There does seem to be a reflection of the exhaust in one of the views though, so that it seems to be coming from the shuttle bay, and the impulse engines.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
have they mentioned what class (and class of vessel) the Kelvin is?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Hopefully, we'll get an official one, but I wouldn't hold my breath. If not...hey, we can always come up with our own.
Posted by Vanguard (Member # 1780) on :
The USS Celsius class, NCC 0500!
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
The USS S.I. Unit?
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
bX: My bad. Sorry if I spoiled anything for you.
quote:The elongated nacelle s cool for one-nacelled ships- A modeler friend offers a kit of a Ambassador variant decked out that way.
Jason, could you give me a link to this, or show a pic? I'd like to possibly use the design as my Antares class for my conjectural ship class essay.
Posted by Brown_supahero (Member # 83) on :
Can anybody rip the model off of the flash file?
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
The model isn't contained in the file, it's just a video. There might be some way to extract the video to play and pause at your will, but I don't think you could even do that from the swf. file on the site. The closest I think you could get if you wanted a copy on your computer would be to download the file and keep it as it is. Might be as simple as saving the whole page to your hard drive, I'm not sure.
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