Starfleet Academy Starship Thread

[Dukhat]

No.

 

[fireproof78]

I had to google that. That the one that goes back to a shirt design from the official Star Trek website years ago?

It pains me that it was "years ago" but that is one of my favorite promo lines by CBS at the time.

Still a fan of the original 1701 Enterprise design myself.

The STARSHIP and CONSTITUTION class stylings, including the Refit, Kelvin CONSTITUTION, and SNW will always be top starship for me.

Are we certain that the post burn Earth defense ships have been rolled into Starfleet?

Until the show airs we won't really be certain of anything.

 

[tenmei]

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Decent side view of the Athena in this trailer

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Oh hey the wall that honours the Red Squad pricks is back.

 

[Tuskin38]

From a new video

this ship is really growing on me

 

[DaveyNY]

I miss the old days when they lit the ships UN-naturally and you could actually get to see what they looked like.

I really don't need modern Sci-Fi to be factual, I want it to be fun.

 

[Michael]

Using the shots from the latest teasers as reference I was able to refine some of the details on my orthos from earlier, specifically on how the warp nacelles under those “wings” are configured. I also shrunk the secondary hull based on those new references and tried my hand at a front view. Again, there’s a lot of conjecture since we haven’t seen this clearly yet.

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Here’s the reference image of the ship I cobbled together from that panning shot in the one teaser in portrait mode …



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I miss the old days when they lit the ships UN-naturally and you could actually get to see what they looked like.

You mean like we “actually got to see” the new Enterprise-E in this First Contact trailer?

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I’m only half serious, of course, but yeah, trailers usually just give us these short flashes of ships. I assume we’ll get plenty of chances to see the ship in its full glory on the show proper.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Using the shots from the latest teasers as reference I was able to refine some of details on my orthos from earlier, specifically on how the warp nacelles under those “wings” are configured. I also shrunk the secondary hull based on those new references and tried my hand at a front view. Again, there’s a lot of conjecture since we haven’t seen this clearly yet.

(Click for full screen.)
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Here’s the reference image of the ship I cobbled together from that panning shot in the one teaser in portrait mode …

View attachment 51081

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You mean like we “actually got to see” the new Enterprise-E in this First Contact trailer?

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I’m only half serious, of course, but yeah, trailers usually just give us these short flashes of ships. I assume we’ll get plenty of chances to see the ship in its full glory on the show proper.

Nice work.

 

[Dukhat]

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Lol, that’s the first time I ever saw that trailer. So we see stock footage of the Enterprise-D, the Pasteur, the Melbourne, Sisko’s Saratoga, a brand-new shot of the USS Voyager(!) firing torpedoes at a Borg ship…but no Enterprise-E to be found anywhere

 

[137th Gebirg]

Not to mention the opening music from TUC while the camera pans over the Borgified Starfleet logo.

 

[Tuskin38]

the shape of the windows and the way they're laid out on the neck reminds me of the Connie.

 

[Rahul]

From a new video

this ship is really growing on me

Using the shots from the latest teasers as reference I was able to refine some of the details on my orthos from earlier, specifically on how the warp nacelles under those “wings” are configured. I also shrunk the secondary hull based on those new references and tried my hand at a front view. Again, there’s a lot of conjecture since we haven’t seen this clearly yet.

(Click for full screen.)
View attachment 51080

Here’s the reference image of the ship I cobbled together from that panning shot in the one teaser in portrait mode …

View attachment 51081

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You mean like we “actually got to see” the new Enterprise-E in this First Contact trailer?

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I’m only half serious, of course, but yeah, trailers usually just give us these short flashes of ships. I assume we’ll get plenty of chances to see the ship in its full glory on the show proper.

Great catch & work.

I have two wildly opposite opinions about this ship:
1) It's a good blend between the weird DISCO 32nd century designs & more familiar elements that make it more recognizable as a "hero ship".

2) But still - to general audiences it looks nothing like a "Star Trek" ship. It would look really as alien if it were in Star Wars as it looks in Trek.

It's not so much a problem of the ship itself - the Designers did a good job with it regarding the background.
It's just once again, the 32nd century as a setting is such an odd choice, it could as easily be a completely different franchise not connected to Star Trek at all, because it lacks so many of the familiar visuals and rules.

 

[Mage]

to general audiences it looks nothing like a "Star Trek" ship

Do you mean the general Star Trek audience, or the general TV watching audience? Because I can promise you, the latter has no idea what a Star Trek ship is. Only the OG Enterprise and maybe the D might be familiar.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

o general audiences it looks nothing like a "Star Trek" ship.

I can assure you, the general audience does not give a shit.

 

[Tuskin38]

But still - to general audiences it looks nothing like a "Star Trek" ship

I disagree. It has a saucer and warp nacelles and deflector array.

 

[Arvis Taljik]

Using the shots from the latest teasers as reference I was able to refine some of the details on my orthos from earlier, specifically on how the warp nacelles under those “wings” are configured. I also shrunk the secondary hull based on those new references and tried my hand at a front view. Again, there’s a lot of conjecture since we haven’t seen this clearly yet.

(Click for full screen.)
View attachment 51080

Here’s the reference image of the ship I cobbled together from that panning shot in the one teaser in portrait mode …

View attachment 51081

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You mean like we “actually got to see” the new Enterprise-E in this First Contact trailer?

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I’m only half serious, of course, but yeah, trailers usually just give us these short flashes of ships. I assume we’ll get plenty of chances to see the ship in its full glory on the show proper.

Minor niggle: I compared your front and side or this and I noticed that the lowest line of the nacelles isn't the same height between the two views. I personally prefer the look of the front view but which do you think is the more accurate representation of the ship?

 

[Michael]

Minor niggle: I compared your front and side or this and I noticed that the lowest line of the nacelles isn't the same height between the two views. I personally prefer the look of the front view but which do you think is the more accurate representation of the ship?

Good catch! Goes to show how much I merely eyeballed this thing, I guess. I find it hard to wrap my head around the exact shape of the nacelles. I’m sure it’ll all make sense once we see the ship in full (and really, once Eaglemoss Master Replicas Fanhome gets around releasing it as a model to hold in our hands), but I’ve been staring at my collection of teaser and trailer screencaps for so long, trying to figure them out, it’s insane. What throws me off is that the individual nacelles aren’t symmetrical, but look different on either side. And I can’t figure out how exactly the glowing front connects to the sides. I do know that all of it converges in a really pointed tip at the ends. It’s like some weird origami ice cream cone.

I tried to correct the mistake here, but still I have very low confidence about the accuracy of the depiction. By the way, I’m also not sure about the underside of the outer saucer ring. In some cases it looks like it has a convex curvature to it, but on the latest screenshot it looks like it might be completely flat.



EDIT: And to answer your question: I feel pretty confident about the sideview, since we see the relation between nacelle and secondary hull pretty clearly here. There’s some perspective distortion going on, but overall we are seeing the ship from quite the distance, so it should be minimal.

 

[Arvis Taljik]

Good catch! Goes to show how much I merely eyeballed this thing, I guess. I find it hard to wrap my head around the exact shape of the nacelles. I’m sure it’ll all make sense once we see the ship in full (and really, once Eaglemoss Master Replicas Fanhome gets around releasing it as a model to hold in our hands), but I’ve been staring at my collection of teaser and trailer screencaps for so long, trying to figure them out, it’s insane. What throws me off is that the individual nacelles aren’t symmetrical, but look different on either side. And I can’t figure out how exactly the glowing front connects to the sides. I do know that all of it converges in a really pointed tip at the ends. It’s like some weird origami ice cream cone.

I tried to correct the mistake here, but still I have very low confidence about the accuracy of the depiction. By the way, I’m also not sure about the underside of the outer saucer ring. In some cases it looks like it has a convex curvature to it, but on the latest screenshot it looks like it might be completely flat.



EDIT: And to answer your question: I feel pretty confident about the sideview, since we see the relation between nacelle and secondary hull pretty clearly here. There’s some perspective distortion going on, but overall we are seeing the ship from quite the distance, so it should be minimal.

I'm a starship artist myself so I'm really just looking for reasonable views to base my own version on that I'll be modeling and texturing (and I'm sticking with the white/black scheme I used on my Wanderer II just because I like it ), so close is definitely good enough as I'll be changing some things myself anyway.

Wanderer II-class Starship on Sketchfab

 

[Fateor]

Do you mean the general Star Trek audience, or the general TV watching audience? Because I can promise you, the latter has no idea what a Star Trek ship is. Only the OG Enterprise and maybe the D might be familiar.

If I remember the audience study right, it was the Enterprise, Enterprise D, and Klingon Bird of Prey that were recognizable by the general populace as "star trek" ships.

Mind, due to design language just recognizing the Enterprise and Enterprise D is enough for most to tell that pre-Discovery "Starfleet" vessels were "star trek".

 

[Dukhat]

If I remember the audience study right, it was the Enterprise, Enterprise D, and Klingon Bird of Prey that were recognizable by the general populace as "star trek" ships.

I would agree with this. The TOS Enterprise, by virtue of being the first; the Ent-D, by virtue of being on screen the longest; and the BoP, by virtue of being shown in the most popular Trek movie as the Bounty, are the most recognizable ships to a general audience.