Nebula Class: the Nebula has some nice angles, but the tower here could be more organic to match the rest of the Galaxy esthetic. They sorta kinda went for it with the third nacelle pylon on the
AGT Enterprise.
Cheyenne Class: the saucer on the smaller Cheyenne needs more work, but the ship is nice to look at.
Akira Class (2) (3): the Akira has more of the
elegance of the Galaxy than its
stubby cousin. With less of a refit than the
Saber above, the Akira could be a dazzling addition to the Galaxy Era.
Speaking of ships in need of refits:
U.S.S. Jupiter: from Star Trek Online, reminds me a bit of the Risa Express transport linked above, or of a Sydney Class.
U.S.S. Voyager: concept #3 has stayed with me over the years and I’m sure
is Voyager in an Alternate Universe.
U.S.S. Discovery: what light cruisers might have looked like before the Intrepid Class.
Unnamed Ship: the pylons need work but nice organic neck here.
WAHT?:
Enterprise-I: single nacelles are mostly obstructed by the saucers, but they're visible. I wonder what this ship could be used for. And am thinking about playing around with ships with multiple (different-sized) saucers.
A stretch:
Corvettes: the
Enterprise-D can sometimes remind me of something out of
War of the Worlds. When I saw these Asari light cruisers from the game Mass Effect recently, I thought "slap on a couple of nacelles and some paint & windows, and they could make interesting patrol ships." Or Jackill
corvettes.
Some of my doodles imagining Galaxy Era ships of the Constellation Class configuration.
Notes on individual ships:
A is all saucer, with an elaborate pylon structure (larger than the
Galaxy Class's) leading to four nacelles. Like the Constellation, there is no deflector on this one — though, like on the Enterprise-D, Galaxy saucers have their own. I’m debating adding one or two smaller deflector dishes to the top and bottom nexus points. If I make those full necks, not just pylons, Main Engineering could fit in one and a deflector array in the other.
(Not shown are the Main Shuttle Bays — they’re flipped around and open on the
front of the ships, to avoid shuttles having to mind the necks. The Nebula's should be likewise.)
B actually has two full necks
and two full stardrive sections. The pylons, again, are distinctly different from the Galaxy’s. This sucker’s big. (I did a Microsoft Paint cut & paste of this years ago and called it the Sioux Class at the time, in keeping with the Native American theme of the Cheyenne. But I’m sure there’s a Cheyenne Class U.S.S. Sioux already (and Powhatan, Chumash, Iroquois, and the rest), so that’s enough of that. I’m debating calling this the Mars Class as it’s vaguely
War of the Worlds-like, but that may be too cute. Or perfectly fitting, as my suspicion is that Cheyenne is so named for the four nacelles that look like feathers on a chief’s elaborate headdress.)
C is the monster. The Constellation’s saucer is much thicker than the Constitution’s, and this is echoed here. I haven’t decided if that’s a Galaxy saucer sliced, then expanded with a massive shuttlebay in the middle (like a mini spacedock), or if those are two
new Galaxy-
like saucers piled on top of each other
with a massive shuttlebay in the middle like a mini spacedock, but it’s big. (I’m debating calling this the Cosmopolis Class (or Acropolis Class) to denote its size. Sister ships would be named after hypercities of the Federation.)
D is the Asari Light-Cruiser inspired corvette. (I’m debating calling it the U.S.S. Malone. Sammy loved his ‘vette.)
(D/E/F aren’t to scale with A/B/C, as you don’t need a full cruiser-size deflector and nacelles on a corvette.)
E is a variant corvette reminiscent of an upside-down
Asari Dreadnaught or the
Chariot Class. (This one is pretty alien-looking. Maybe I’ll call it after the famed Bolian Adislo family.)
Thoughts on the doodles?