A more conservative update to the TOS Enterprise
- Thread starter Belz...
- Start date
Excellent work!
You sir, as the saying goes, are ‘cooking with gas’ with this... Great work!
(Okay, call it plasma, for a TUC homage
)
Cheers,
-CM-
(Okay, call it plasma, for a TUC homage
)Cheers,
-CM-
I was definitely inspired by the James Webb telescope for that deflector dish.
Good.
That pattern is what I would like to see in the two “dead” areas to either side of the refit dish on the Alaska class battlecruiser. But as missile ports.
I think Atolm is looking at that.
Back on topic— this is wonderful.
Great work! I love the slimmer profile and diagonal lines. Gonna have to say I enjoy the TOS inspired nacelles over the JJ ones, personally.
As long as the size is not inflated.
Nacelles by DeSoto.
My one questions is: If you are going with the hexagon dish why have a stem on the beast? Make it flush with the hull. Are the panels adjustable? That is the point with the Webb and the W. M. Keck Observatory
Nacelles by DeSoto.
My one questions is: If you are going with the hexagon dish why have a stem on the beast? Make it flush with the hull. Are the panels adjustable? That is the point with the Webb and the W. M. Keck Observatory
I have no idea what any of this means.
I don't really care about the function. It's the look that inspired me.
947? What is that? Feet? Ha! I use metric! 
I didn't enlarge it because I wanted to. It's exactly as big as it needs to be to have two full decks in the saucer rim (with a bit of extra for shielding systems, etc.). In my opinion, the size given for the original Enterprise dates back to when the model was constructed with a single deck in the saucer, and was never updated.*
Enterprise needs to be at least about 400m for those two decks, assuming 3 meters (10 feet) floor-to-floor. Discovery has it at about 450m, which makes my 464 quite reasonable.
*: I did a test cutaway at some point with two decks at the "official" (though never mentioned on screen) size, and I had no choice but to make the saucer rim decks shorter. It just doesn't fit there, especially taking the sets we see in TOS into consideration.
I didn't enlarge it because I wanted to. It's exactly as big as it needs to be to have two full decks in the saucer rim (with a bit of extra for shielding systems, etc.). In my opinion, the size given for the original Enterprise dates back to when the model was constructed with a single deck in the saucer, and was never updated.*
Enterprise needs to be at least about 400m for those two decks, assuming 3 meters (10 feet) floor-to-floor. Discovery has it at about 450m, which makes my 464 quite reasonable.
*: I did a test cutaway at some point with two decks at the "official" (though never mentioned on screen) size, and I had no choice but to make the saucer rim decks shorter. It just doesn't fit there, especially taking the sets we see in TOS into consideration.
Ok, I did something a bit fun over the week-end; a different version of the last design there, this one further modernised. I had tried that engineering section shape before but the rest of the ship didn't give it justice. Trying it again here, I think, delivers much better results.
Nice work. This ship looks like what I have long imagined something from the Lost Era should look like. Circa 2300. It has some of that retro feel of Probert’s first proposed redesign for TMP, that went on to inspire the TNG ship.
http://forgottentrek.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/05/Enterprise-D-concept-art.jpg
http://forgottentrek.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/05/Enterprise-D-concept-art.jpg
I’m loving both versions of your work Belz!
Last edited:
