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Did anyone ever do a....

TrickyDickie

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....cgi or model based on the unauthorized image on the following book cover? :

Galaxy666A.jpg


I made the suggestion over at deviantart today that Arcas do one of his fine book covers as a new version of that. :)
 
It looks like there's something on/under the right side of the saucer.

I wonder if there are any other views of this completely brand new, original style of ship.

Here's a slightly cleaner pic.

lkud_8bf_u9a07.jpg
 
Well, the review states that this ship was some Enterprise knockoff toy, probably made in knockoff-land China.

For some reason it kinda reminds me of the movie "Zapped," where they couldn't use a model of the Enterprise for rights purposes, so they kitbashed a pair of movie Enterprise nacelles and pylons onto a Millenium Falcon model:

http://ctupa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/z1.jpg
 
Well, the review states that this ship was some Enterprise knockoff toy, probably made in knockoff-land China.

For some reason it kinda reminds me of the movie "Zapped," where they couldn't use a model of the Enterprise for rights purposes, so they kitbashed a pair of movie Enterprise nacelles and pylons onto a Millenium Falcon model:

http://ctupa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/z1.jpg

OH. MY. GOD.
It's the NX-01!
 
The "Galaxy 666" cover ship looks like something the original DOCTOR WHO series would have done 40+ years ago if the BBC ever wanted the T.A.R.D.I.S. to visit the STAR TREK Universe.

It does take the Cage's "pregnant anthill" bridge module to an extreme...

I still say that the fan film makers are missing an opportunity if they don't try to find a good impersonator of Tom Baker, John Pertwee, Patrick Troughton or William Hartnell and make a story where a certain blue "911" phone booth materializes in the TOS era.
 
Well, the review states that this ship was some Enterprise knockoff toy, probably made in knockoff-land China.

For some reason it kinda reminds me of the movie "Zapped," where they couldn't use a model of the Enterprise for rights purposes, so they kitbashed a pair of movie Enterprise nacelles and pylons onto a Millenium Falcon model:

http://ctupa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/z1.jpg

anymore views of this Trek/Wars Kitbash? :)
 
No wonder they blurred the hell out of it, it's an appalling kitbash of an old toy sprayed silver and then Jelly Tots stuck on it.
 
It's pretty clearly a vintage AMT Enterprise kit with the saucer top part glued on at the wrong angle, a third nacelle dome used on the bridge, and a selection of parts sprue strung between the nacelles. The forward domes of the nacelles are rotated so the "3 boxes" detail is on the inboard sides of the nacelles instead of the bottom and the same detail can be seen as the front facing of the bridge area. I am at a loss regarding the projecting bit from the saucer's lower left edge (our left, not the ship's left).

I'm sure whoever built this thing spent at least a solid 90 minutes on it...

--Alex
 
Well, the review states that this ship was some Enterprise knockoff toy, probably made in knockoff-land China.

For some reason it kinda reminds me of the movie "Zapped," where they couldn't use a model of the Enterprise for rights purposes, so they kitbashed a pair of movie Enterprise nacelles and pylons onto a Millenium Falcon model:

http://ctupa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/z1.jpg

OH. MY. GOD.
It's the NX-01!

Glad I'm not the only one that thought that the minute they saw it.

It looks like there's something on/under the right side of the saucer.

I wonder if there are any other views of this completely brand new, original style of ship.

Here's a slightly cleaner pic.
~pic snip~

Oddly enough, I like it. Don't know why, other than the obvious shittacular nature of it making it to funny not to like.
 
I think the thing sticking out at bottom left is probably just the forward edge of the display stand that was accidentally caught on camera, due to the angle at which it was photographed? :shrug:
 
It looks like there's something on/under the right side of the saucer.

I wonder if there are any other views of this completely brand new, original style of ship.

Here's a slightly cleaner pic.

lkud_8bf_u9a07.jpg

Since symmetry is so common among Federation ship designs, that starboard under-saucer projection would have to be matched with a similar port-side projection as well.

If you care to retcon this "Galaxy 666" image into the TREK Universe, that is.

For sake of argument, I would take the image with a grain of salt, and not follow it too faithfully. It could work, in some distorted fashion, as a pre-pre-TOS / post-ENT design. I would be neat to see a "neck-less" design, with the secondary hull blending in with the lower saucer and dishes extending out to port and starboard. Or it would be interesting if there were a neck-and-secondary-hull arrangement, but the saucer's underside had multiple domes or other structures a la Stargazer.

The weird piping/latticework joining the nacelles directly looks weird, even weirder that the Reliant's photon torpedo "roll bar" from TMP2. I have no idea what function this would serve in-Universe, unless the structure houses impulse engines or something.

I think the idea of a distorted "anthill" bridge dome is a neat one. There are mildly interesting design possibilities if you distort different aspects of the TOS-era saucer. (Example: imagine a Baton Rouge or Kelvin-style saucer, but with the bridge-structure replaced with the top of a Daedalus-style sphere, like a super-pregnant "anthill". Now imagine the saucer underside without the TOS-style lower vortex, but with Stargazer-style under-domes.
 
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