Probert looking for HELP-

[Trekker4747]

Well, I personally rather think all of kit-bashed pieces of junk from DS9 don't "really exist" and are just part of the limited budget. On ship I'm convinced "doesn't exist" is the Yeager.

YIKES! Was that thing hideous!

That "tug" up there is just pure crap. I'd like to know what that particular model maker was smoking when he slapped that thing together.

 

[Probert]

Hmmm very interesting comments here. I'll add a couple of phaser strips as well as some kind of 'cutting' phaser (good suggestion).

As far as prefixes go, NCC seems to be favored but I'm now leaning toward the idea of STF designating a 'Salvage Tug: Fleet'. In support of this idea, check out this page of contemporary classification prefixes I just discovered: http://www.nvr.navy.mil/class.htm

I thank you all for your input. I'm now including a 'little' preview of the direction I'm headed with this. You're seeing a flat work/repair/recovery-storage area on the bottom (upside-down) and a 4-dock lifeboat recovery section on the other side (top), which includes a small shuttle bay at the back. These 'Tugs' are equipped with eight 'Sphinx' Utility Craft to assist in various ways, dispatched from a side bay.

Sorry about the size but I'm not comfortable revealing anything more before the 2013 calendar comes out.

Andrew-

 

[Trekker4747]

Thanks Andy! Always been a huge fan of your work and loved the full realization of the Ambassador in the '12 calendar.

 

[milo bloom]

That's a pretty nifty little tug design there, that's the kind of world-building I always lament not being able to see on screen.

As for the prefix, I like the idea above of using the TAS concept of NCC plus a letter/numbers, but this isn't really one of the areas I'm big into so take that for what it's worth.


Also wanted to say we recently bought one of the Enterprise-D prints you and Mr. Sternbach did and we had it mounted in a floating glass frame and it is the centerpiece of our living room. Very nice work.

 

[Timo]

contemporary classification prefixes

The problem with that is that contemporary prefixes indeed deal with ship classification. Starfleet prefixes explicitly don't - a cruiser, a frigate and an escort all get the same NCC prefix, never mind a hospital ship, a surveyor and a runabout.

Of course, Starfleet might have outsourced its deep space recovery and towing tasks, and the organization in charge of that is registered STF in the Federation-wide scheme.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[EmperorTiberius]

contemporary classification prefixes

The problem with that is that contemporary prefixes indeed deal with ship classification. Starfleet prefixes explicitly don't - a cruiser, a frigate and an escort all get the same NCC prefix, never mind a hospital ship, a surveyor and a runabout.

Of course, Starfleet might have outsourced its deep space recovery and towing tasks, and the organization in charge of that is registered STF in the Federation-wide scheme.

Timo Saloniemi

Communists outsource things?

 

[Holdfast]

contemporary classification prefixes

The problem with that is that contemporary prefixes indeed deal with ship classification. Starfleet prefixes explicitly don't - a cruiser, a frigate and an escort all get the same NCC prefix, never mind a hospital ship, a surveyor and a runabout.

Of course, Starfleet might have outsourced its deep space recovery and towing tasks, and the organization in charge of that is registered STF in the Federation-wide scheme.

Timo Saloniemi

Communists outsource things?

That's what the gulags - sorry, Federation penal colonies - are for.

 

[RAMA]

Hmmm very interesting comments here. I'll add a couple of phaser strips as well as some kind of 'cutting' phaser (good suggestion).

As far as prefixes go, NCC seems to be favored but I'm now leaning toward the idea of STF designating a 'Salvage Tug: Fleet'. In support of this idea, check out this page of contemporary classification prefixes I just discovered: http://www.nvr.navy.mil/class.htm

I thank you all for your input. I'm now including a 'little' preview of the direction I'm headed with this. You're seeing a flat work/repair/recovery-storage area on the bottom (upside-down) and a 4-dock lifeboat recovery section on the other side (top), which includes a small shuttle bay at the back. These 'Tugs' are equipped with eight 'Sphinx' Utility Craft to assist in various ways, dispatched from a side bay.

Sorry about the size but I'm not comfortable revealing anything more before the 2013 calendar comes out.

Andrew-

Obviously that's WAY better than the tug we got...can't wait to see the glorius painting from my favorite Enterprise designer.

 

[EmperorTiberius]

The problem with that is that contemporary prefixes indeed deal with ship classification. Starfleet prefixes explicitly don't - a cruiser, a frigate and an escort all get the same NCC prefix, never mind a hospital ship, a surveyor and a runabout.

Of course, Starfleet might have outsourced its deep space recovery and towing tasks, and the organization in charge of that is registered STF in the Federation-wide scheme.

Timo Saloniemi

Communists outsource things?

That's what the gulags - sorry, Federation penal colonies - are for.

They paint starship registration on the hulls and make dedication plaques for 1 Federation Credit a day.

 

[RAMA]

Oh it's an ugly duckling alright.

That's so ugly I got a shiver when I first looked at the shooting model.