And there's also Matt's early section view, which predated the building of the filming miniature, that show the lower portion of the saucer rim...
In the case of the Excelsior, I can't think of anyone off the top of my head who has studied it as thoroughly as you have. I'd noticed that about...
I had wondered over the years why Andy had put some of the ventral saucer windows in insets, and not others -- and why none of the dorsal saucer...
In the Constitution, Enterprise, and Excelsior classes and all the other designs based around those saucers, there is no obvious and visible...
Perhaps. Point stands that there's no way to reach that lower rim deck from the coreward section of that deck -- one has to come down from the...
A few things, as I need to get more popcorn for the ongoing debates... :whistle: • The Centaur is both large and small. Adam detailed it to be a...
Here's my big issue. See this big undercut circling the entire ventral saucer? [IMG] At that scale, that's pretty much most of a deck high. The...
The only thing I'll say on the Centaur is that even Adam Buckner has become a bit more Schrödingerian about the ship, both sticking with the scale...
Leaving out how the JJ-verse and Disco are blatantly not the original Trek universe... Enterprise just doesn't fit what we knew of the era from...
Oh! Oh, Greg, no. Didn't you do enough damage with "The Case for Jonathan Doe Starship?" Yeah, no, I, for some reason, thought he'd made something...
Whee, golly, some stuff. I'm-a winnow a bit... A longer discussion could be had here about glowing-bubble version versus dark-grille version,...
I'm not even talking about that. Reactors and power delivery is irrelevant. Sure, the warp coils can be all in the bit sticking off the back. I'm...
Except neither of those latter two have the warp engines running through the ship. I'd flip your Scout and Surveyor examples. Scouts are...
Hey, that reminds me of the Prometheus in Voyager... ;) I like the Akira and Norway -- agreed, registry issues aside -- but in the case of the...
@Dukhat, your list is pretty good, and I won't get into all of it, beyond not entirely agreeing with non-sequential registries. Only thing I'll...
I reject the Excelsior-class Melbourne. Since that footage from "Emissary" of the ship getting blasted by the Borg was used in Voyager for the...
Ironically, that's my take on the origin of the Excelsior's name. The Great Experiment development project would've started about 2265. Hull...
In the case of the Galaxy, there's superstructure above the fantail helping tie it to the rest of the ship. The Excelsior just has that long flat,...
There's a lot of recent discussion I'd love to weigh in on with an essay, but I don't know that it's germane to sizing the Excelsior, so I'll...
*blows dust off the thread* Sorry -- had a bad winter. Cross-pollenating with the whole TOS-era Starfleet-registry question, real-world politics...
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