One of the hardest things to do in this project is ignore decades of post TOS designs that one could unwittingly retcon back into the original...
Hmm…could be.
In terms of realistic depiction a ship at warp speed would be effectively invisible.
If I recall correctly the glowing object we saw in “Mudd’s Women” representing Mudd’s shop was supposedly a piece of cereal with light cast on...
I have gone back over Matt Jefferies’ development sketches for the D7 and there are kernels of ideas there. Today, or since TSFS, the idea of a...
I wasn’t referring to the early ringship Enterprise, but the TOS Enterprise. The TOS E and the D7 both have a primary hull, interconnecting dorsal...
Just like on Earth it’s entirely possible for two disparate groups with no contact with each other to come up with very similar solutions. Also...
Interesting. These guys, known as the Target Audience, are working their way through Star Trek from the beginning. Their only frame of reference,...
It’s hard to unsee the D7. So I’m thinking of something that Jefferies or Wah Chang could have played with that could have some familial feel to...
Fact is with this project I need only concern myself with how things were seen in 1965-69. The rest doesn’t exist yet. Indeed at this point I’m...
The D7 as depicted originally in TOS was not “brutish” in appearance. That came later in how the design was refinished in TMP and with later...
True. I was just using that as a yard stick to stir the thought process.
Okay, stepping out of the strictly 1965-1969 TOS framework for a moment. Franz Joseph gave us a scout class Starfleet vessel that was still quite...
So this is what remains of Season 1. “Return Of The Archons” - The way the episode is structured there is no real opportunity to catch even a...
Separate names with a comma.
