It's been dead slow at work so I was doodling and came up with this.
Enjoy!
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Well, let's see it, man.
Never mind. It showed up after I posted the first time.
Uh, a starbase numbered in the 1300s? And "The" was never put in front of "United Federation Of Planets" on any hull.
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Well they do now.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
It looks really small to tug any starship: mabye it pulls a cargo train of some sort?
What's the wire attached to the blur glowy sphere?
I like it-really- but I'd probably scale it up about 50% by making the lettering, hatchway and window smaller. I just think it would look much nicer to see a tug as something (considerably) larger than a Runabout.
[ September 24, 2004, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: Jason Abbadon ]
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Really? I know there was a tug on DS9 at one point, but have no clue what it looked like. I thought it was pretty small.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
It's not real clear how large that tug is though: it's an extremely forced perspective of it towing an excelsior. Most sources (for some reason) place it as being Starfleet (despite it being among klingon ships with a green hull and red nacelle glow) and at about 50-80 meters long.
It's a horrible kitbash of parts though- mostly a circut board clamp and (red glowing) romulan nacelles. It's got no windows to scale off of so ...who knows?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Heh, "The UFP" reminds me of the jets in Hot Shots that said "The Navy" on them instead of simply "Navy".
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
This baby looks more like an updated version of those two-crew "harbor tugs" that premiered in ST3:TSfS... We never learned if those really were used for towing, or if they simply emptied the bilge tanks of starships or something. But as long as the exact properties of tractor beams remain magical, it's possible that small craft like these could be used for towing large starships (although preferably only at very low speeds).
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Mabye it's a tug ued for positioning starships into those tight drydocks at Utopia Planetia. It certainly looks plausable in that respect.
I just cant see it towing anything as large as a starship at warp.
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
Great artwork. I agree with Timo that it's much like an updated version of the spacedock shuttle and that it should serve a similar purpose (whatever this could be). towing at warp would require the small ship to extend its warp field around the big one. I doubt this would be possible or practical.
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Thats what I based it off of. Those yellow squarish looking tugs flying around in the TMP-era.
Thanks for your comments!
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Thanks for the artwork!
Umm, would you let me use this design in the starship guide I'm working on? There aren't all that many canonical designs for such small "working boats", so I'll have to flesh out the guide with some fan stuff in this respect anyway. And this one would be a real beauty.
