Rate the "Protector" as a Ship Design
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Yeah, I also love the Protector.
"Red particle cannons", "blue particle cannons", and a "magnetic catapault", IIRC.
Anyways, its a pretty hot ship design, and evocative of the Enterprise, without being obvious and vulgar.
YARN
Fleet Captain
Yes, it would've been nice to see more footage of the ship.
I almost wish there actually had been a Galaxy Quest show to see more of the Protector in action.
Funny... While I love the movie and think the Protector is a really cool design, I don't see any Enterprise in there at all. It always struck me as wholly original, which is actually one of the things I liked about it. Well, maybe the bridge module on top vaguely resembles a Constitution bridge module, but I'm sure that was just coincidence. 
YARN
Fleet Captain
Funny... While I love the movie and think the Protector is a really cool design, I don't see any Enterprise in there at all. It always struck me as wholly original, which is actually one of the things I liked about it. Well, maybe the bridge module on top vaguely resembles a Constitution bridge module, but I'm sure that was just coincidence.
The Enterprise has a shape that is largely defined by a saucer shape sitting on a cylinder with diagonal struts. The protector conserves these shapes, moving them around a bit.
The protector keeps the circle-shape of the saucer but shifts it back to where the engines are on the Enterprise.
The primary hull of the Protector alludes to the secondary engineering hull of the Enterprise (it even has a little dish in the front.
The gull-wing evokes the verticality of the Enterprise. Where the Enterprise has diagonal struts connecting to the nacelles, the Protector has a diagonal shape in the wing which leads to its semi-circular engines.
The blue grills at the front of the wings evokes orange nacelle caps of the Enterprise. The rear end of the engines remind one slightly of impulse engines.
The connection in allusion has to be indirect -- otherwise it would be a quotation -- the Protector alludes beautifully to the Enterprise -- the glory of it is that is nice design itself.
Take a look at this image and tell me if you don't think it resembles the top ortho of the Enterprise.
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I always thought the person who designed the protector (cant think who - doh!) said he based the design off a TNG com badge?
EDIT: At least wikipedia agrees with me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest#References_to_Star_Trek
Also, YARN, you can't link to an image stored on your hard drive.
EDIT: At least wikipedia agrees with me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest#References_to_Star_TrekAlso, YARN, you can't link to an image stored on your hard drive.
There was one "direct quote" if you will: along the keel of the aft half of the ship there are the exact same shapes as on the 1701's keel, the yellow circle, the gray T, the rectangle and the white square, as well as the red outlined rectangle beneath the fantail on the area that would be analogous to below Enterprise's shuttlebay. I noticed that first time I saw it in the theater and I smiled broadly. Nobody else got it, though. I love obscure stuff like that.
--Alex
--Alex
The Protector's registry prefix NTE = "Not The Enterprise".
I think they did a nice job with the Protector, it has the qualities of a Trek ship without being blatantly Trek. Imagine being given the design brief to 'design a Trek ship without it looking obviously like a Trek ship'.
Great pics!
Protector is a brilliant design, if your design brief is to evoke Trek's ships without copying or parodying them. I might have a couple quibbles with the location of what appear to be engines, if I wanted to look at it as a logical, practical design, but for what it is, and what it was intended for, I love it; 9.4 out of 10
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Protector is a brilliant design, if your design brief is to evoke Trek's ships without copying or parodying them. I might have a couple quibbles with the location of what appear to be engines, if I wanted to look at it as a logical, practical design, but for what it is, and what it was intended for, I love it; 9.4 out of 10
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One of the designers - may have been the guy who did the initial concept art, which does have the basic ring/fuselage combo - said that what he did was to "reverse" the Enterprise: put the propulsion in the saucer (ring) and the people in the cylinder.
One of the designers - may have been the guy who did the initial concept art, which does have the basic ring/fuselage combo - said that what he did was to "reverse" the Enterprise: put the propulsion in the saucer (ring) and the people in the cylinder.
Sounds like a good idea for an art challenge!
I was waiting on that one.
Sounds like a good idea for an art challenge!
In a way, that could be the current challenge
(so get crackin'! 
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