quote:Why does the screen cap from "Arena" look all blurry, but this image is so much better?
I'm guessing because they had to adhere to the scripted episode, which clearly stated that the Gorn ship was far away from them. I'm also guessing that even though that was the case, TPTB always intended to post the actual design on the internet anyway, to please us dorks. Keep in mind (now that I've seen the episode) that that blurry 'cap looks the way it does because the ship was only a speck on the viewscreen, and someone blew up the cap about 300% to make out the details. The ship looked as clear as day when it was the size of my pinky fingernail.
I hope the unfinished look of the model was because they knew it wasn't going to be seen up close, because I certainly hope the Antares & the Woden don't look that way.
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It's sufficiently alien-looking and different to make me believe it, and make me look it over and ask "how does that son of a bitch work anyway?"
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: I don't like how the top set of nacelles looks different from the bottom set.
Maybe the bottom set are back-ups while the top set are the main nacelles. As for the model being untextured, maybe it's supposed to be all white. Personally, I think it would look nice with a chrome finish!
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Gorn vessel seen before?? Hmm I'd LIKE to think that the creators of this ship are referencing a ship that could POSSIBLY be Gorn in "The Time Trap" TAS. There is a Gorn in the episode - so why not a Gorn ship:
Looks sorta like a TOS version of the Tamarian vessel from "Darmok" also reused as a vessel in DS9's season 1 can't remember who though.
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It is also known as the Hopi class survey cruiser, at least if you ask Mark Wilson. Meet the Aliquippa.
And the Tamarian vessel, itself a modification of a Talarian design, was taken for a joyride by the Klaestron, the T'Lani, the Bothans and the Drayans at least... Bernd knows.
Seriously, the TAS artists had a sick fixation with Federation-style nacelles in that episode. Which is a bit surprising, seeing how nacelles are less of a fixture in other alien starship designs in that show. But the Gorn connection... Wow. Who in the remastering team was Trekkie enough to come up with that?
Oh and - Just because they have Federation-esque nacelles doesn't mean they are Federation ships - or at least Starfleet ships!! Why'd that guy draw all those blueprints thinking they were Starfleet? There was only two Starfleet ships in that ep wasn't there? The Enterprise and the Bonaventure?
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That pink/purple thing lower right has got to be one of the most realistic looking Trek style designs yet! Two warp nacelles, a central hub which could contain a deflector and three spherical pressure hulls. Impulse drive is mounted behind the deflector. Marvelous. If real life FTL is achievable and uses two sled shaped generators mounted externally on scaffolds, we could be looking at the first starship.
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