Unseen TOS....

[fireproof78]

Small steps.

I really like this. I appreciate that it feels like a older SF style ship, yet feels like it has a very futuristic grounded feel beyond just a rocket ship. Something I really like about it is that it feels a bit like a submarine feel with the weapons in the shroud at the front.

 

[tesral]

Shame "they" didn't do this for the TOS Enterprise...

They did, but they didn't. There was a rough deck cross section in the Writer's Guide.

 

[aridas sofia]

Shame "they" didn't do this for the TOS Enterprise...

“They” did.

https://stra-tek.tumblr.com/post/185081749723/classic-uss-enterprise-cutaway-masterpost-the/amp

Matt Jeffries’ created just such a layout that was reprinted in “The Making of Star Trek”. Ostensibly to guide the placement of windows, though the preexisting windows painted earlier in the ship’s development maybe flummoxed his attempts to make it all make total sense.

 

[Henoch]

I was referring to the 11 foot filming model as lighted for the 1966 season. Jeffries' deck sketch does fit that model...

 

[publiusr]

Maybe an "eye" to either side? The old FASA icon for a windshield?
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/fr/...he_Romulans_Starfleet_Intelligence_Manual.jpg

 

[Warped9]

A bit more progress. I still gotta do the bird. Besides that I’m wary of adding too much more detail—don’t want to lose that TOS vibe.


Interesting mix of sensibilities to this. Up close there is something of a ‘50’s era rocketplane mixed with a vague submarine vibe to it. Yet from a distance it looks more avian like with the cluster of engines aft suggesting the idea of streaming tail feathers. Weird.

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Very Nice work there

 

[Warped9]

I went back for another look at the original BoP graphic in the episode. From a distance it looks cool, but seen in full it kinda looks like…a turkey. Maybe Romulans have viscous, fearless turkeys?

Praetor: “I cannot understand it! Why are the humans not fearful of our ships?”
Centurion: “There are intelligence reports that our great raptor resembles an Earth bird of feast, one consumed during one of their celebrations. They see it as a…ungainly and…comical creature.”

The Centurion was summarily executed on the spot.


I was more interested in the style of the graphic. I am basing my image on a peregrine falcon only stylized.

 

[aridas sofia]

Wild turkeys are terrifying creatures. They resemble nothing so much as mutant velociraptors. Those talons can eviscerate a person. I wouldn’t want to face one without my shotgun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/22/wild-turkey-anacostia-attacks/

 

[blssdwlf]

Wild turkeys are terrifying creatures. They resemble nothing so much as mutant velociraptors. Those talons can eviscerate a person. I wouldn’t want to face one without my shotgun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/22/wild-turkey-anacostia-attacks/

LOL - there was a Brooklyn 99 episode that showed how dangerous a wild turkey is

 

[137th Gebirg]

IIRC, Benjamin Franklin wanted the Wild Turkey to be the national bird of the new United States, as opposed to the American Bald Eagle. He found the nature of the eagle as a carrion eater to be distasteful (pun not intended) and thought the turkey as a symbol of the first Thanksgiving in America would make it a better choice. Thankfully, he was in the minority on that notion. BF was a great man in many respects, but he also had some seriously wacky ideas about things.

This may be an urban legend, but it's a good one anyway.

 

[trynda1701]

I am basing my image on a peregrine falcon only stylized.

Looking forward to seeing that!

 

[Warped9]

A preliminary look.

 

[fireproof78]

I think it is an excellent blend of rocketship aesthetic and a submarine type look. I like the addition of color and feel some thin colored lines could add some distinction as smaller details without going overboard.

 

[137th Gebirg]

That's niiiice!

 

[publiusr]

I love it!

 

[Warped9]

If we had seen something like this it would have been a tease and fans would have spent years trying to discern or unearth the details of such a blurred image.

People might have wondered if this was an unused concept. Then again if it’s onscreen it wouldn’t be unused.

 

[Redfern]

If we had seen something like this it would have been a tease and fans would have spent years trying to discern or unearth the details of such a blurred image.

Hey! That's quite convincing! The color palette and shading looks like you took a cue from the Nomad schematic presented in "The Changeling".

 

[Warped9]

While I'm getting near wrapping up this design two other ideas are hovering at the edge of my imagination.
- an idea for an Earth combat ship of the era.
- an earlier Romulan design for the first ships they used at the beginning of the war.

 

[STEPhon IT]

The Earth's ships wouldn't be Daedalus? I was thinking the Romulans underestimated how good Starfleet vessels were; how far humans advanced in technological engineering and space strategy.