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Just sketched this up for the TrekBBS monthly contest. It's supposed to be a low-budget atmospheric shuttle for only one or two persons, probably used my flying enthusiasts and some of the Federation's outer colonies. Have at it.
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Interesting, Rev. I'm liking it! A few points: 1. The knob tail is different lengths on the two views. 2. Is that a bicycle landing gear? Unless you have some outrigger supports this ship will need a kickstand. 3. Are those wheelie things on the wings supposed to be vertical lifters?
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Had to mention this: A year or so ago when my son was 3, we were in the car talking about nothing in particular, mostly spouting out non-sequiturs just to hear my son's reaction. At one point, I yelled out "PURPLE!" and my son immediately shot back with "GREEN!" My wife and I just burst out laughing. Funniest damn thing I ever heard, especially since he's never seen (or would understand) B5.
Okay, back on topic: While I usually like your stuff, Rev, this one leaves me cold. I understand the restrictions of this month's contest, and that kind of backs you into a corner, but it just doesn't look, well, Star-Trekky to me. I'm not sure we've ever seen anything other than landing "feet", and I haven't known any Trek craft to need any visible vertical lifting device. While this may be a good design for something else, I just don't feel it fits well into Trek.
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Well B.J. that is where I'm coming from. It's not a standard federation design, it's a cheap civilian shuttle, probably sub-contracted from colonial admin to one of the less 'wealthy' federation members as a sort of echonomic leg-up. With 150 members I think there is plenty of room for all kinds of out landish and 'un-trek' designs. At least peek outside of the box once in a while, it's really not that scary.
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Don't get me wrong, Rev, I admire the diversity you're inserting into the Trek universe here. It's just not something *I* would do. That being said, there's also plenty of odd-shaped Federation non-Starfleet canon designs. This page showed me that.
And taking another look at your ship, it looks to me like the pilot might be in a prone position, similar to the Minbari fighters in B5.
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