Contest: ENTER July 2020 Art Challenge - New Look Next Gen

[Cyfa]

While I have a few theme ideas knocking around in my notebook, they're rather arcane/esoteric, so I took a look at the "Can I suggest an Art Contest?" thread for inspiration (go on - click the link!). Fortunately, I didn't have to look far, as the latest two suggestions there - by @MisterD and @Norsehound, respectively - jumped out as excellent art challenge fodder.

So, what I'd like for us to do in July is to forget the somewhat stagnant design lineage between 2293 and the TNG era, and come up with concept art of how dramatically different in-universe Trek could look - at either the beginning of the TNG era in 2364 (71 years since the end of the TOS movies), or in 2399 (20 years or so after the end of the TNG era). As Norsehound says for 2399:

The challenge is to create a New Look/feel/set staging completely different from the TNG universe. Leave behind LCARS, one-piece uniforms, and organic looking ships. Treat TNG like yesteryear's TOS (Or appropriately, TMP) and design for us an alternate 2380 {2399} that is just as dramatically different as the early trek movies are from TOS.

For example, one of my bugbears are the massive consoles (conn, ops, and all the others). Why are they so bulky?? I know that in the real world they have to contain all the styrofoam rocks, explosives, CRT monitors, and lighting equipment required for the show, but in-universe shouldn't they be wafer-thin, floating in mid-air, firm to the touch yet yielding to a fall or impact?
I want to see your take on a no-holds barred, totally futuristic 2364 or 2399. In the words of MisterD:

What do you think Federation ships/technology of that era should look like? I want to see it all. Ships (outside and inside), LCARS, uniforms, equipment (phasers, tricorders etc.).......all that stuff and more.

As ever, here are the rules for the competition:

• the artwork you submit should be created during the month of the challenge
  
• only one final image can be submitted (although it may contain multiple views)
• your final entry should be posted in this thread (although dedicated WIP threads are appreciated)

You have until the end of the month (or, just after, in fact) - i.e. midnight (or thereabouts) Saturday 1st August - to come up with your concept art. Bon chance!

 

[BorgMan]

So, hmm, kind of like what I'm doing with my TOS Redesigned? Like, having a TOS Prometheus or Galaxy? I can go wild with that...

 

[Redfern]

Hmm, instead of "locking away" the information within some secluded and forgotten vault (like the Ark in "Raiders..."), maybe the Federation examined the plans Sargon promised and developed those walnut sized warp engines. There's an idea for somebody to pursue.

 

[Finn]

I’m not certain what you are asking us to do, @Cyfa

 

[Atolm]

I had designed a "what-if" Enterprise for tng a while back:

Direct Link:
https://i.postimg.cc/gcNmKcfb/Concept-Federation-TNG-Redux-Enterprise-00.jpg

 

[Cyfa]

So, hmm, kind of like what I'm doing with my TOS Redesigned? Like, having a TOS Prometheus or Galaxy? I can go wild with that...

- Kind of, yes! Redesign TNG

Hmm, instead of "locking away" the information within some secluded and forgotten vault (like the Ark in "Raiders..."), maybe the Federation examined the plans Sargon promised and developed those walnut sized warp engines. There's an idea for somebody to pursue.

- Oh, excellent suggestion! If the Federation didn't keep ignoring all the fanciful technology they keep finding laying around and actually put it to use, just imagine what their ships/tech, people and places would look like in the TNG era (and then depict it for us)

not an entry, but something I did a while back

https://www.deviantart.com/gazomg/art/Star-Trek-Picard-Riker-Data-Wrath-of-Khan-562195545

- Oh, dear... Starfleet has regressed. Or maybe they're just going for the retro look?

I’m not certain what you are asking us to do, Cyfa

- Sorry, Finn - amongst all that waffle, what I'm trying to say is: redesign the TNG era. Get rid of all the old TOS/TOS Movies trappings and make it completely different (I mean, they're still using warp drive, and phasers, and tricorders, and navigational deflectors, and those corridors and transporter pads have been around for ever! It's old news, dahling. Yikes - I'm beginning to sound like Edna Mode ). Or, if you don't want to change TNG's style, then change Picard/2399 style instead - it's just too similar to what came before.

I had designed a "what-if" Enterprise for tng a while back:

Direct Link:
https://i.postimg.cc/gcNmKcfb/Concept-Federation-TNG-Redux-Enterprise-00.jpg

- YES!!!

 

[Redfern]

- Oh, excellent suggestion! If the Federation didn't keep ignoring all the fanciful technology they keep finding laying around and actually put it to use, just imagine what their ships/tech, people and places would look like in the TNG era (and then depict it for us)

Of course, the way that episode unfolded, Sargon, probably didn't have a chance to reveal those plans before Henoch's treachery. Sargon and Thelasia were busy building those android receptacles just so they could spend more time working with the crew and share those technological gifts. But even before the "Motion Picture debuted, I wondered how different things might have been.

 

[Norsehound]

My original pitch for this idea was to show starfleet quickly moving away from the TNG aesthetic as much as they did for the TOS to TMP (and WoK+) eras. So, an alternate DS9 / VOY that's not married to the conventions of TNG, abandoning it as quickly as Starfleet dropped the TOS styling.

I'd have to think about this, but even if I could do it I'm wrestling with a 2 month old and trying to reclaim the notion of sleep...

 

[Colonel Midnight]

^ Sleep? Ha... Next time you’ll see that interesting notion will be in about 17 years or so. Maybe.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Cyfa]

So, how are those of you partaking in this month's challenge getting on? Better than I am, I hope - I've got a bit of a block going on. I'm looking forward to seeing your interpretations of a differently styled TNG era

 

[Soran77]

I'm working on it, though I'm working on something I've been inspired to do many times, and kinda failed, this has given me the ability to work on that project! A fresh start at an old idea I've had for years

 

[BorgMan]

Not so good. Busy times at work, GF that wants attention... not enough hours in a day!

 

[Cyfa]

I'm working on it, though I'm working on something I've been inspired to do many times, and kinda failed, this has given me the ability to work on that project! A fresh start at an old idea I've had for years

Sounds intriguing. Good luck - I hope it comes to fruition this time!

Not so good. Busy times at work, GF that wants attention... not enough hours in a day!

I know! Where do they all go?? I'm pretty sure we're down to 18 hour days instead of 24 now - especially at weekends

 

[Finn]

I think that’s the opposite...

 

[cardinal biggles]

Definitely the opposite, but it's still some nice Photoshop work.

 

[Soran77]

This is my Entry!

Since you could go 20 years past TNG I decided to create what I think the USS Defiant would have looked like if it were designed differently, as you'll see the Buzzard collectors are in line with the impulse engines, the warp engines are fully integrated into the ship, it has two big phaser cannons on the under belly, two for and aft torpedo launchers for a total of 4, has experimental phaser strips on the wings and in the front fangs, two heavy warhead launchers on the wings too. Triple armored hull, crew compliment 30.

 

[Cyfa]

Oh, @Soran77, that's great! New Look Defiant certainly has a new look, but what I like most is the colour scheme and the gold-edged red Starfleet Delta

Everyone else: There are still nearly a couple of days left to get your artistic juices flowing and come up with a "New Look Next Generation" something-or-other - ideally something more futuristic or different-looking than what we got in TNG (or Picard, if you think those designs could be reinterpreted).
But don't worry if you're already working on something that's not more futuristic, or harks back to yesteryear (not the TAS episode ) etc, as I didn't make it clear enough in the original challenge post, so just go with whatever you've got. As long as it's TNG (or Picard) but different, it'll do

Deadline for entries is midnight (or thereabouts) on Saturday 1st August (although, I probably won't be doing anything about the voting thread until into Sunday, so you have a little leeway).

 

[Lord Other]

It's kind of the spur of the moment- but taking TNG's original concept of being explorers where no one has gone before.. into intergalactic space. First stop the Magellanic Clouds.

 

[Cyfa]

I'm intrigued by the saucer, @Lord Other - especially the tall bridge. And it's nice to see the return of that square-with-a-cut-out-circle "C" insignia

 

[Michael]

Whew, right on time. The idea for my entry is actually a couple of years old when I already created a version of this (which, unfortunately, seems to be lost to time), but here it is completely redone. The basic idea behind this is a version of the Enterprise that has the proportions of the original but the surface detail and design of the Enterprise-D. So what I essentially did was remap and reshape an image of the Galaxy class I found online onto the silhouette of Kirk's ship.

I'm calling it the Enterprise NCC-1701-2 from a spin-off called Star Trek: The New Generation.