I think that image is just a cleaned and blown up version of the one from back in the day which I also have somewhere on a drive. The original scan was never that great to start with.A lot of those artifacts seem to be from the printing process, so I'm not sure you could get a better scan (and that image does look a lot larger than the one posted back in the day, but I'm not even going to try and dig through my drive to see if I saved them). Maybe better post-processing to try and blur out the pattern, but I'm not sure how much blood we can get from that particular stone.
Dude, that would be fire.I've got that booklet around here somewhere. I should try and find it.
Is there a name for the ring one?From EM Special 6
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I still don't understand why the producers back then didn't call it the Enterprise class.Regardless of which design was ultimately used, it would have been called the NX class.
Agreed. I don’t like nacelle fins normally but they look good on the Intrepid. Would be great to have the Intrepid and Warp Delta in STO. I got a bunch of them as Eaglemoss models, labelled up with bobmat343‘s decals.Does anyone else dig the little fins on the Intrepid?
Also I think the Warp Delta is a design that absolutely rocks. Feels like a midstep between the Alpha, Intrepid, and NX.
Does anyone else dig the little fins on the Intrepid?
Plus, I kinda like this concept ship from John Eaves.
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Going by the bridge, it's definitely a smaller ship. I like to think of itvas being a Romulan War high speed Interceptor.
Yeh. Rocking that look.You mean those fins that serve no purpose whatsoever because the ship was meant to fly in space and not in the air?
Yeh. Rocking that look.
Trek ships are by their nature cool.Fair enough, although the 'kewl' factor in starship design never really resonated with me.
Trek ships are by their nature cool.
Except for the Ambassador. Fat ass looking ship goddamn embarrassment to the bloodline.
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That's fair. In the Rise of the Federation novel A Choice of Futures, it's explained that the Intrepid class was a 'lean and mean' version of the NX. In that context, the purpose of the fins is as heat dissipators. The early warp technology is a work in progress, hence the thicc nacelles, compact ship shape, and heat dissipators.You mean those fins that serve no purpose whatsoever because the ship was meant to fly in space and not in the air?
Nice to see a thread dedicated to these! I didn’t really vibe with Enterprise’s CGI ship designs when the show was originally airing, but years later when Eaglemoss started putting these out as models, they quickly became some of my favorites. For some reason whenever they released a ship from Enterprise it usually ended up being one of their best made models with the most interesting and intricate details.
Apart from the NX-01 (both the original one and the “refit”, which I sometimes feel I’m the only one like it), I have a real soft spot for the Intrepid, that’s already been posted.
And also the SS Conestoga, which might look a little bulky, but for some reason has that sense of realism about it. That command center section looks so damn cool …
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