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I like it. Not tops on any list (need to see it in 3D, which I'm sure someone will tackle before long), but the lines and the silhouettes look fine. If anything, it resembles Sternbach's "Mount Olympus" designs for Voyager, with a larger Sovereign slant to them. Not what I'd have come up with, but I can see this as the Titan. Makes me shudder to think what Pocket must have recieved from some of the hopefuls, though. I guess we'll see some of the runners-up next week.
But I still don't think that Riker would have accepted anything less than a Galaxy-class (freakin' SHELBY has one, for crying out loud), but that's not the designer's fault.
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OK - but what the hell is this thing for? I mean a new ship class would (in theory) need to bring something the old classes don't. I don't see it in this design.
Not that I'm really sure what "it" would be.
Can we see some of the Flare originated entries now?
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My design would have had variable-profile nacelles - a nacelle that doesn't change position as on Voyager, but actual SHAPE, expanding the cowling mostly lengthwise as the nacelle coils inside change their positions into a more efficient high warp configuration Ahh, that would have been great.
And does Titan LOOK like a long-range, deep space explorer? Maybe, maybe not. But then again, what SHOULD a long-range, deep space explorer look like? Constellations and Galaxies are conjectured to be both, and they look completely different.
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I don't like it, BUT, it kinda makes me think of something that a decadent society would make, as it starts to faid into obscurity...
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Aban is funny and correct. I wouldn't grade this one too high on 'originality'.
That 'roll-bar' is more like one of those midget backpacks girls wear at the mall. I've seen shelves in college dormitories that made more structural sense. The only angles where that's not going to look silly are from directly fore and aft. Also it seems to have the start of the Akira catamarans, but then those stop before they ever get past the edge of the saucer, which sort of defeats the purpose of having them in the first place. If you tore those off, and the backpack, you might have something. Something very close to a monohulled Akira.
I'd be very curious to see the Flare contributions/concepts...
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My dream ship would be the Prometheus with the four nacelles closing together on each side like a Negh'Var or X-Wing, when it's not in Warp and needs to minimize its frontal silhouette.
But to tell you the truth, I'm worried about Mark's proposed Viagra-nacelles.
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