I... agree? More accurate, for me, to say I hated it less as the Akiraprise.
Not to piss in anyone's corn flakes...
Not to piss in anyone's corn flakes...
Doug Drexler refits the NX-01
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John Eaves did a rather nice version (and I'm not a fan of Eaves' work, think the Enterprise-E sucks) of a proto-Constitution design for Enterprise. It was rejected, but it had all of the parts in a good balance.
Tacking a little engineering hull onto the bottom of NX-01 as an afterthought doesn't cut it visually - you've still got those catamaran things jutting out above and as a mass they both fatten up the saucer and diminish the engineering hull. The only way in which the revision is appealing IMAO is if one indulges a fetish for familiar details - you know, "oh, it's got a copper dish like the TOS ship!" - and find such stuff exciting just because it's there.
Tacking a little engineering hull onto the bottom of NX-01 as an afterthought doesn't cut it visually - you've still got those catamaran things jutting out above and as a mass they both fatten up the saucer and diminish the engineering hull. The only way in which the revision is appealing IMAO is if one indulges a fetish for familiar details - you know, "oh, it's got a copper dish like the TOS ship!" - and find such stuff exciting just because it's there.
No. Treating it as if it's one of the two or three most important aspects of anything to which it applies is what's stupid. Treating it as the ultimate filter or most important criterion for acceptance of something is stupid.
I've given some thought to making an advanced NX using the Polar Lights 1/1000 NX kit with a secondary hull from a 1/2500 Ent-C. My plan is to cut the catamaran extensions flush with the aft saucer edge, make a dorsal pylon that fits where the shuttle pod bay is, and reshape the E-C hangar deck area.
If you fill in every other row of windows on the E-C secondary hull, the remaining windows look good and the engraved deflector grid lines look just like the polarized plating lines on the NX saucer.
I'll make new warp nacelle pylons to fit to the secondary hull.
Hmmm... NCC-01, U.S.S. Dauntless, sound good?
If you fill in every other row of windows on the E-C secondary hull, the remaining windows look good and the engraved deflector grid lines look just like the polarized plating lines on the NX saucer.
I'll make new warp nacelle pylons to fit to the secondary hull.
Hmmm... NCC-01, U.S.S. Dauntless, sound good?
Screw the NX-01 Refit, I'm interested in the XCV-330 Enterprise. I've a soft spot for that puppy.
Or if he got rid of those damn catamarans. From the back 3/4 angle where the warp pylons block the damn things, the refit looks pretty good. It's from every angle where you can see it's a cut-n-paste job that it's unbearably awkward.
I like it.
That would have been a start, yeah.
Same here.
I don't particularly like it, but I don't hate it.
I like the Akiraprise, the saucer only design rocked for ENT era ships.
I would have liked it a bit more if it had a more Bonadventure class style. (The Ships of the Line one, not the TAS one)
I like the Akiraprise, the saucer only design rocked for ENT era ships.
I would have liked it a bit more if it had a more Bonadventure class style. (The Ships of the Line one, not the TAS one)
Does anyone have a link to what that ship looked like? I'm not sure I've ever seen it.
TIA
Google Images for USS Bonaventure NCC-1000 should get you some hits
TAS Bonadventure: http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/vance/Schematic_Fed_Bonaventure.jpg
The Ships of the Line Bonadventure: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/d/df/Bonaventure_ncc1000.jpg
The Ships of the Line Bonadventure: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/d/df/Bonaventure_ncc1000.jpg
Looks good to me.
I like the NX design, and I don't like the Akira design. They of course are very similar, and yeah the Akira was first, but I think the NX looks cooler.
I think ENT had, overall, the most thought out and developed designs for ships, interiors, uniforms, and props. They look both retro and futuristic, the way a lot of NASA stuff does. Unfortunately, that level of artistry didn't extend to things like the scripts...
This looks more like an actual refit than the TMP E did. Now, I love the Enterprise refit design, but it's too much of a stretch to really call it a refit. The thing was completely rebuilt imo. What we see here is an obvious refit, thought out to convey that.
I like the NX design, and I don't like the Akira design. They of course are very similar, and yeah the Akira was first, but I think the NX looks cooler.
I think ENT had, overall, the most thought out and developed designs for ships, interiors, uniforms, and props. They look both retro and futuristic, the way a lot of NASA stuff does. Unfortunately, that level of artistry didn't extend to things like the scripts...
This looks more like an actual refit than the TMP E did. Now, I love the Enterprise refit design, but it's too much of a stretch to really call it a refit. The thing was completely rebuilt imo. What we see here is an obvious refit, thought out to convey that.
Thanks. I guess I had seen it before, but never associated a specific identity to that image.
Ugh. Looks like "Star Trek: Babies".
^ This. The TAS version was ass ugly, even worse than the Daedalus class. (Then again, TAS as a whole was rarely a paragon of beauty...)
More to the point, the TAS Bonaventure was too much like the Constitution. It looked pretty much the same. Slightly more bulgy and squat, but the same basic layout. Are we to assume that starship design has changed that little in all that time? And Sarah April said it was the first ship with warp drive, which is quite obviously impossible anyway.
More to the point, the TAS Bonaventure was too much like the Constitution. It looked pretty much the same. Slightly more bulgy and squat, but the same basic layout. Are we to assume that starship design has changed that little in all that time? And Sarah April said it was the first ship with warp drive, which is quite obviously impossible anyway.
