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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Here's a little history about this ship. It was the "winner" of a Design the Next Enterprise contest given by Cryptic, the creators of Star Trek Online (there's a reason "winner" is quoted...I'll get to that soon). CBS stated that the winning design was to be considered "canon," even though video games are not canon and the appearance of this ship in any future Trek series or movies is most likely never going to happen. IMHO, the entire contest was ineptly run. First, the website they set up for you to upload your artwork was filled with spam (i.e. people posting somebody else's artwork and claiming it was their own; idiots who couldn't follow directions and posted ships that already existed like the Enterprise-E and the Aventine from Pocket Books; or wiseass people who posted silly pics like Picard's head with nacelles attached to it). Second, the website was poorly made so that you couldn't see any more than a few of the contestant's ships at a time. But the worst thing they did was to enact a "popular vote" system so that people could vote for their favorite design. It gave the appearance that we everyday schmucks would actually be the ones to choose the next Enterprise in a democratic way. Sounds cool, right? Wrong. Turned out that the popular vote didn't mean shit, and the choice was always up to four or five guys who worked for Cryptic. So what happened? Well, first of all the ship with the most popular votes, which was [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/1701Ffuzzymodem.jpg]this one[/URL], didn't even get chosen for a runner-up (I happened to like that design, if not actually for the Enterprise-F), while [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/1701Foriginalsketch.jpg]this sketch[/URL] ultimately won. And as you can see, all Cryptic really wanted was a simple sketch as a starting point for their OWN ship design. So the "Design the Next Enterprise" contest was really a load of crap. The winner did get a free laptop, but the final design of the ship looks nothing like what he actually envisioned, which was [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/1701Fsecondsketch.jpg]this[/URL] and [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/1701Ffinalsketch.jpg]this[/URL]. And to add insult to injury, everybody pinged on this guy for winning the contest with his simple sketch while others worked really hard on their artwork, and the guy eventually washed his hands of the whole thing. I don't blame him one bit. BTW, more pics of the Enterprise-F can be found [URL=http://8of5.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-views-of-enterprise-f-and-aventine.html]here[/URL]. My opinion: it looks like an Intrepid and a Sovereign mated. There's very little originality to the design at all, except for the dual necks which I think looks stupid anyway. I remember when this contest was originally announced (I couldn't submit as design because I live in a state that was prohibited from the contest), I thought that most people's designs were going to look like the Sovereign, and that people needed to have more originality. Well, that didn't happen apparently. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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