Constellation class technical manual

[Data Holmes]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Posted by MichaelS:
More.

Surprise, surprise!

Those images are truly works in progress - some errors still need to be smoothed out, and I may colour the first image if I'm in the right mood.

I still think the 2300 to 2340's com badg should be the same as the TWOK-GEN pin. Just incoprate the comm package into the large bar behind the delta.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Posted by hutt359:
I still think the 2300 to 2340's com badg should be the same as the TWOK-GEN pin. Just incoprate the comm package into the large bar behind the delta.

Considering as that's what Castillo uses as a commbadge in "Yesterday's Enterprise", I agree.

Best,
Alex

 

[SonicRanger]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Posted by hutt359:
I still think the 2300 to 2340's com badg should be the same as the TWOK-GEN pin. Just incoprate the comm package into the large bar behind the delta.

Posted by AlexR:
Considering as that's what Castillo uses as a commbadge in "Yesterday's Enterprise", I agree.

I think that this new insignia/combage design would be better if it was brought just a bit closer to the TWOK version.

Check out the insignia the cadets/enlisted are wearing in TWOK -- it is not that different from this new design.

The two suggestions I have are:

(1) Add the "star" back in the middle, just recessed into the arrowhead surface a bit.

(2) A smooth outer circle, and a recessed inner circle with vertical ribbing (again to mimic the hollow area in the cadet/enlisted insignia).

 

[USSHathaway]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Posted by MichaelS:
I'll have to think about that some more ... actually I was planning for only one warp core (Matter/Antimatter Reaction chamber, anyway), with one shaft for each of the nacelle pairs.

However, I'm open for suggestions.

Well for our fan film we are working under this assumption. The Constellation-class starships started with two warp cores (one responsible for each of the pairs of nacelles) and then there was a later upgrade to a single more powerful warp core around 2300.

Instead of spelling out the reasons that led us to this decision I'll simply point you to the webpage that helped in that decision which is located here:

http://www.ussmiranda.com/ships/constellation.htm

 

[SonicRanger]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Posted by SonicRanger:
I think that this new insignia/combage design would be better if it was brought just a bit closer to the TWOK version.

Check out the insignia the cadets/enlisted are wearing in TWOK -- it is not that different from this new design.

The two suggestions I have are:

(1) Add the "star" back in the middle, just recessed into the arrowhead surface a bit.

(2) A smooth outer circle, and a recessed inner circle with vertical ribbing (again to mimic the hollow area in the cadet/enlisted insignia).

Here are examples of the TWOK-era insignia pin I'm talking about:

http://movies.trekpulse.com/album/albums/wrathkhan/twok0276.jpg
http://movies.trekpulse.com/album/albums/wrathkhan/twok0328.jpg
http://movies.trekpulse.com/album/albums/wrathkhan/twok0889.jpg
http://movies.trekpulse.com/album/albums/wrathkhan/twok0007.jpg

 

[MichaelS]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Update!

I elaborated my phaser array design a bit ...

 

[Captain Robert April]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Presenting Captain Rachel Garrett of the starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C, circa 2344.

http://tng.trekpulse.com/episodes/season3/3x15/screencaps/yent192.jpg

 

[Blip]

Re: Dual warp cores?

Posted by Captain Robert April:
Presenting Captain Rachel Garrett of the starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C, circa 2344.

http://tng.trekpulse.com/episodes/season3/3x15/screencaps/yent192.jpg

Um, if you get near a point...

 

[MichaelS]

Update!

Okay, so I'll rethink the combadge issue.

Meanwhile, here's something completely different.
A photo manip intended to create a picture of the Stargazer's chief engineer, a lizard-like alien created by author Michael Jan Friedman for his novels set on the Stargazer in 2333, with a young Picard in command. The first one is a coloured drawing that I did some years ago, and the other one is a collage WIP of various bits and pieces of crocodile and komodo dragon photographs that I found on the web. The goal is to create a realistic-looking character that I can paste onto a screenshot from "Peak Performance" so that it looks as if he's in the Stargazer's engine room.

 

[Orion_Randy]

Re: Update!

You might try finding a picture of a troodon. They were the inspiration for the Saurians seen in ST:TMP, iirc.

 

[Blip]

Re: Update!

Posted by MichaelS:
Okay, so I'll rethink the combadge issue.

Meanwhile, here's something completely different.
A photo manip intended to create a picture of the Stargazer's chief engineer, a lizard-like alien created by author Michael Jan Friedman for his novels set on the Stargazer in 2333, with a young Picard in command. The first one is a coloured drawing that I did some years ago, and the other one is a collage WIP of various bits and pieces of crocodile and komodo dragon photographs that I found on the web. The goal is to create a realistic-looking character that I can paste onto a screenshot from "Peak Performance" so that it looks as if he's in the Stargazer's engine room.

There's really no need to: The only reason they used those communicators was because it was a quick and easy way to illustrate that this was an older Enterprise, under budget constraints. I'm sure if they had had the time and money we would have seen an intermediate type of Communicator, such as the one you designed. I'd suggest asking Rick Sternbach - I'm sure he'd have some useful suggestions on the matter.

 

[HortaVorta]

Re: Update!

Posted by Orion_Randy:
You might try finding a picture of a troodon. They were the inspiration for the Saurians seen in ST:TMP, iirc.

Which reminds me of paleontologist Dale Russell's take on how dinosaurs might have developed into sapient bipeds not entirely unlike ourselves.

Troodon reconstruction and a hypothetical intelligent descendent:

Troodon and sauroid

Sauroid head

This awesome sculpture has become my mental image of a Saurian, though it postdates the TMP version.

 

[fiero84]

Re: Update!

michaelS:
great work! You are some meistro at technical drawing.
AwesOme stuFF.Words fail me.

I'm attempting some bridge stuff with USS Excelsior using FLASH MX. (gif sample here)
If you know anyone who could assist with profiding info on ST:VI stuff, let me know.
http://www.geocities.com/fiero84@sbcglobal.net/

 

[MichaelS]

Re: Update!

*blush* Thanks, fiero84!

Here's a belated present for you.

Enjoy your first glimpse at something beyond mere pictures as I present three pdf-ed pages out of my constantly evolving technical manual file.

(Note: Included in this update is a new graphic, a customised version of a diagram from the TNG TM.)

 

[Orion_Randy]

Re: Update!

Posted by HortaVorta:
Which reminds me of paleontologist Dale Russell's take on how dinosaurs might have developed into sapient bipeds not entirely unlike ourselves...SNIP...This awesome sculpture has become my mental image of a Saurian, though it postdates the TMP version.

Yes, that's the figure I had in mind, although I could swear I saw something like it back in High School, circa 1974-1979, in a Weekly Science Reader of all things!

 

[HortaVorta]

Re: Update!

^^^
The sculpture apparently dates to the early '80s, although Russell's concept probably goes back farther (EDIT: Carl Sagan mentions something like it in 1977's The Dragons of Eden). I was only in grade school during the period you describe, and I seem to have a vague memory of something like it--but the big "gee-whiz" thing I do remember back then was Voyager's Jupiter flyby. That was spectacular.

 

[Harry]

Re: Update!

What kind of software do you use to write your TM?

 

[MichaelS]

Re: Update!

It's written in Word (Mmmmh, Microsoft!) and then turned into a PDF.

 

[MichaelS]

Re: Update!

Here is an update.

BTW, thanks for digging out those troodon sculpture pictures. They're certainly interesting, even though they're not the direction I want to go regarding Chief Engineer Simenon.

 

[librarytrekker78]

Re: Update!

MichealS, I think that your test page is good and the illustration of the warp core also good, except it's missing the power transfer conduit!!! Anyway, keep up the good work and continue to provide us more.