That is one ugly beast!
Sorry to the original designer!And yet I like this one.
It might be based on an idea from one of Diane Duanes' novels, although it's smaller than the one in the novel.
Looking for TOS era design 2008-2011
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That is one ugly beast!
Sorry to the original designer!And yet I like this one.
It might be based on an idea from one of Diane Duanes' novels, although it's smaller than the one in the novel.
I might go another way. Anybody think to put a Kelvin secondary hull under the warp nacelle, or to flip the Abbe class with two nacelles on top and an underslung weapons pod to keep the TOS Ent' swan stance?
There you might have the saucer far out on a stalk and keep the pod and nacelles in the back for something more rakish....
There you might have the saucer far out on a stalk and keep the pod and nacelles in the back for something more rakish....
Now where did I put that eye bleach...
Ok you start out with a Federation class Dreadnought add 2 warp engines ala Ptolemy class then add a Constitution class primary hull and another warp engine to boot. Yes definitely a nightmare
I shall reiterate my earlier post on the subject now that I’ve seen what cannot be unseen.
Your "to boot" misses that there are more than one "another warp engine"s: one above the Constitution saucer and one or two between the Dreadnaught's upper single and lower pair of nacelles.Ok you start out with a Federation class Dreadnought add 2 warp engines ala Ptolemy class then add a Constitution class primary hull and another warp engine to boot. Yes definitely a nightmare
I'm having a hard time trying to spatially reconcile the pylon of the second-from-the-top nacelle with the bussard collector of the third-from-the-top nacelle, both of which appear to share the same physical space. There's also something weird going on with the mount point of the lowest nacelle's pylon, which I'm thinking should be in front of the lower neck and lower half of the primary hull with a matching pylon and nacelle on the opposite side, but... 
Oh, well... As Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China always reminds me, I was not brought upon this world to "get it". That notion definitely applies here.
Oh, well... As Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China always reminds me, I was not brought upon this world to "get it". That notion definitely applies here.
I'm having a hard time trying to spatially reconcile the pylon of the second-from-the-top nacelle with the bussard collector of the third-from-the-top nacelle, both of which appear to share the same physical space. There's also something weird going on with the mount point of the lowest nacelle's pylon, which I'm thinking should be in front of the lower neck and lower half of the primary hull with a matching pylon and nacelle on the opposite side, but...
I kind of want to mock it up in 3D as-drawn, with one Ptolemy nacelle with the pylon on the starboard side of the saucer crossing over to the nacelle itself to port, and the third nacelle coming out of the top of the engineering section canted to starboard. I think it might actually end up looking asymmetrically balanced in an interesting way.
I’d kind of like to see that in a really perverse way. 
You know, I'm realizing that it probably explains a lot about my life-path that I solicit peer-pressure as an excuse to do what I already wanted but couldn't be arsed to. 
Behold, in all it's awful glory, the Mammoth-class battleship as drawn, if not necessarily as intended. (I built this from parts of an old attempt to make a more TOS-y version of the DSC version of the 1701, so that's why it has paneled nacelles and a low-profile bridge).
Behold, in all it's awful glory, the Mammoth-class battleship as drawn, if not necessarily as intended. (I built this from parts of an old attempt to make a more TOS-y version of the DSC version of the 1701, so that's why it has paneled nacelles and a low-profile bridge).
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Sweet Baby Jesus you did it! 
My God, it’s worse than I could have imagined! My first thought upon seeing it was Picard shouting NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! and destroying his little ships in FC.
It’s the random diagonal nacelle that makes it EVIL for me.
Beyond getting rid of those, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if the upper saucer were smaller than the lower double-saucer, and the lower neck were thicker than the higher one.
It’s the random diagonal nacelle that makes it EVIL for me.
Beyond getting rid of those, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if the upper saucer were smaller than the lower double-saucer, and the lower neck were thicker than the higher one.
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Mine eyes! Ze goggles, zey do nozing!
I'd mirror each warp engine left right making a total of eight engines 
That's probably how the artist intended it, but it's not how it was drawn. Besides, having symmetrical engines would merely be conventionally ostentatious. The diagonal pair really gives it something unique.I'd mirror each warp engine left right making a total of eight engines
