As most of us know, Ralph McQuarrie roughly designed two similar ships for the aborted Star Trek: Planet of the Titans film in the mid-1970s. His paintings of these ships look fairly non-Trek, aside from having nacelles and a saucer.
Just to see something more like what one of thse ships would "really" look like in the Trek universe, I used PSP to edit two of the paintings. Here's the result.
Whaddaya think?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Neat pictures. Terrible ship. Scale seems a bit off in that second one, too, or else the neck is really, really skinny. Or, more likely, I just am stupid when it comes to visual things.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
The neck is just too narrow to begin with. I didn't try to really change any of the existing physical details, just added new ones (lights, pennants, etc.). And the coloring, of course.
Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :
This ship looks a little bit Star Wars like. Ralph McQuarrie did design some(or all? i don't know exactly) star wars ships, didn't he?
Lobo
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
My criticisms were directed towards the original design, incidently, Ryan, and not your...reimagining? Well, recoloring.
Of course, these were just preliminary sketches anyway. I mean, look at the lack of detail. So I'm sure, if they had decided to use one, it would have been fleshed out a bit as the design process progressed. As it is, it looks like two people could just about stand side to side in the neck, if it was totally devoid of anything else.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: My criticisms were directed towards the original design, incidently, Ryan, and not your...reimagining? Well, recoloring.
Recoloring is it. I'm not going to try to pretend this took even a modicum of talent.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
This design tries to unify two entirely seperate philosophies, it seems. The secondary hull is rather monolithic in shape, which reflects an emphasis on functionality, whereas the primary fuselage and connecting dorsal indicate a larger focus on aesthetics - indicative of a more technologically advanced civilisation that has moved beyond the "purpose dictates form" principle.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lobo: This ship looks a little bit Star Wars like. Ralph McQuarrie did design some(or all? i don't know exactly) star wars ships, didn't he?
He designed the Imperial Star Destroyers, and their hull shapes and textures were obvious influences on his proposed Phase II Enterprise. I really like the look of this design.
-MMoM Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Nice pic editing!
Though the McQuarrie Enterprise is an intriguing departure, I've never been able to figure out a good reason for the ship to look this way. The space that would be available in the two-or-three deck engineering section wouldn't actually be too much more than you'd get within a multi-deck cylinder like she'd usually have, and yet you'd have spent way, way more on external hull materials.
His design philosophy worked well for the gun-covered hull of an ISD -- almost all of the guns have forward line-of-sight -- but the stardrive section of a Federation starship need not bother with such things.
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