Completely ignoring Dukhat here, but here's a pic of the new old new cloaking effect.
And a funny shot from the promo here.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
You guys would NOT want to read Masao's reaction when I e-mailed him a screencap of the that ship. I know we never expected for the ENT Romulan ships to be anything similar... but this looks thing looks like a destroyer counterpart to the D'deridex rather than a classic BOP predecessor.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Ok, I HAD to click on this spoiler!
and I said "oh no" then I thought - YEAH! It's simplistic enough and has the old config and it nicely brings in the 'Romulan-ness' we have known (yeah it's not the white and blue and orange of TOS) but hey...
the only think I'm NOT keen about - what is it with them (Eaves?) and those BLOODY nacelle shapes... Dominion, Valdore, 1/2 a dozen generic Delta Quadrant ships.
Cool though. AND PLEASE not let us see them.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Why not? We're not the ones who never saw the Romulans. I say bring them on!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Maybe Archer is the one that starts the Earth-Romulan War....
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hmmm, maybe each series' Captain can be responsible for starting a war.
Maybe Captain Harriman started the Cardassian Wars!?!
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Kirk ended (or at least set things on a path towards peace) hostilities with the Klingons, which had been going on long before he was a starship captain.
Posted by J (Member # 608) on :
Hostilities had lulled during TOS between the Federation and the Klingons until I think the Organia incident then things steadily went down hill dispite the Organians interference, or lack there of.
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
And Picard, Sisko and Janeway generally just committed formal "acts of war" against folks who were going to have a war (or assimilation spree) anyway. Kirk is something of an exception in that he never actually pushed the Klingons over the brink or anything - the Klingons were well over that brink to begin with!
I somehow think Archer is going to fit the first category. The Romulans will be the ones to start the war, with Archer just providing a crucial excuse.
What I like the most about that retro BoP is the impulse engine, a single bright Flash Gordon nozzle at the stern of a teardrop-style Flash Gordon hull. The nacelles I could live without...
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
yeah, i definitely think tubular nacelles would have been called for.. those Eavesish things look way too Dominion and way too 24th century.
i think its far too early in Romulan history for the ship to be looking so stylized.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: far too early in Romulan history
They may have had warp drive for 2000 years by this point...
Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
im just saying that the ship would look better if it had less in common with its 24th century counterparts and more in common with the 23rd century version. everything looks allright, except the nacelles.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
It makes me wonder if the ship in "Balance of Terror" was sporting engines reverse-engineered from human designs. (Which obviously must have some advantage, once everyone puts their heads together, since Starfleet isn't tooling around in Vulcanesque ring ships.)
Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
OK, now Eaves has gone too far. I don't mind the nacelles on the Valdore, but the ones on this new BoP are way too similar to the ones on the Jemmy Battle Cruiser. The pylons are just like the JBC ones upside down too (although they're likely meant to look similar to the bottom half of the D'deridex). At least the nacelles kind of show a retroactive homage for the Valdore's, I suppose.
Other than the nacelle thing, I really like this new Bird.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Gotta agree with the Nacelle assessment. I built a Jem'Hadar battlecruiser and I can tell you that those nacelles are extremely simmular!
I have to say that I liked this ship alot in spite of the nacelles....but then, I never liked the TOS 'bird anyway and never thought they'd pull off a cool version of the old design.
Anybody else think the bridge structure looks like the one from the Akira design sketches? Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
Hey, don't criticize the "new" Romulan ship. A guy who works in the Enterprise art department sent me Berman's and Braga's suggestion for the new Romulan design. I'm glad that Eaves convinced them to use his design.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
*chuckle*
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
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I know we never expected for the ENT Romulan ships to be anything similar... but this looks thing looks like a destroyer counterpart to the D'deridex rather than a classic BOP predecessor.
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