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At the risk of sounding just plain silly, I'm going to suggest that this has little or nothing to do with Star Trek. Some movement seems in order, perhaps.
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If anyone has any better links with CGI-renders, please let me know. I used to have a big blue print schematic, showing the Saratoga and all the small-craft.
I heard they made all the visual effects on LightWave. Man, if they'd still been operating, what cool it might've been... In an interview with the VFX-studio, Area51, they said they'd just gotten the hang of doing nice ship effects and planet renders when Fox cancelled it. *sigh*
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Yeah, how cool it might have been...
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Augh, I can't stand that ship! It's built with almost no functionality whatsoever, ALL the weapons are on the top side, and it has a huge "hit me!" bridge sticking out of the top. Sure, it was meant to visually cross a battleship with a Star Destroyer, but in my mind it just doesn't work. Yarr!
Nice fighters though. They didn't make much more sense, but at least they looked purdy. Ditto for the ISSCV.
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Being a carrier, it's not meant to get directly into a fight, making its weapon and bridge placement less essential.
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A space-carrier designed with "Star Blazers" mentality. (a big boat in space)
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I have to agree with Mark here; this ship is completely boring; at least a Star Destroy had a few interesting lines; this is a flying brick with greebles all over it...
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I don't know, it carries a certain authority with it. It's the perfect platform for a Pacific War/Fighter Squadron style fiction series. Besides, it looks more functional and naval than the Galactica, which resembles a pregnant dugong.
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Mr Nguyen (niong?): "ALL the weapons are on the top side" And the hangers are on the belly of it. Just like an SD.
"it has a huge "hit me!" bridge sticking out of the top". Well, I haven't seen that since last I looked at a wet-navy carrier...or an SD.
The thing is, the JFK class is built in modules, with easy replacement and upgrade options, as well as configuration. The theme is present in all earth ships of S:AaB; the Hammerheads with their detachable cockpits, the dropships with the container-hulls. If you build effective, sometimes you have to capitalize on aesthetics.
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"this is a flying brick with greebles all over it..."
Spaceships should be flying bricks with greebles all over them, dammit. Me, I've always preferred the gritty, industrial, utilitarian, almost dystopian look of ships like the Omega-class destroyer, the ISD, the Sulaco, and the Saratoga that have every cubic inch of their hulls dedicated to functionality to the bright-shiny-and-smooth-as-a-baby's-bottom designs that riddle Trek but would be better at home in a gallery for modern art...
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