December Art Challenge - B.J.'s entry

[B.J.]

Thought I'd get a start on my entry:

It's not exactly what I keep envisioning in my head, but it'll do. A different idea I kept having was a pic of a rendezvous between the Botany Bay and the space shuttle in orbit, but that would require a lot more time to make work. Anyway, if you aren't familiar with sizes here, each of those boosters attached to the Botany Bay here is almost as big as a Saturn V each!

 

[Kaiser]

I wish kinda that was RL

 

[Klaus]

Kinda????

 

[Kaiser]

Kinda????

cus in Trek universe 1995-2130's really blow and are terrible years of war and destruction despite small years of peace and alien contact

 

[NX-20 LAIKA]

B.J.: Your picture of the Botany Bay's pre-launch is perfect. Reminds me of the Apollo Missions to the Moon. Congratulations. No complains from me. I cannot agree if Khan is there with his group, escaping the Eugenetic War in 1996. I just wish we had a real Bontany Bay for exploration. My thanks to you again for the beautiful picture. Was this held at the Kennedy Space Center?

 

[TheSeeker]

That is a very cool image. Doesn't look like it needs any more work to me.

 

[B.J.]

Thanks guys!

B.J.: Your picture of the Botany Bay's pre-launch is perfect. Reminds me of the Apollo Missions to the Moon. Congratulations. No complains from me. I cannot agree if Khan is there with his group, escaping the Eugenetic War in 1996. I just wish we had a real Bontany Bay for exploration. My thanks to you again for the beautiful picture. Was this held at the Kennedy Space Center?

It was definitely based on some real pictures of the Saturn V and Space Shuttle at KSC, but there's nothing in the picture specific to that site. In my mind, I would think that Khan would use a non-US launch site like the Guiana Space Center or somewhere in Brazil.

 

[TheSeeker]

Would you mind if I shared this image on facebook?

 

[B.J.]

Go ahead, but I may still add a few details here and there.

 

[TheSeeker]

Thanks!

 

[Klaus]

Kinda????

cus in Trek universe 1995-2130's really blow and are terrible years of war and destruction despite small years of peace and alien contact

I prefer Greg Cox's take on it in his Khan novels... The war is going on behind the scenes even as we speak.

 

[Albertese]

I prefer Greg Cox's take on it in his Khan novels... The war is going on behind the scenes even as we speak.

Well, even as we spoke might be better as it all ended around the time he left in 1996. So it's been over for like a decade and a half. But yeah, that was cool having it all take place in a covered up, underground fashion. Though that doesn't quite jive with Spock's description of events, it certainly was a fun mash-up of Star Trek and actual history!

--Alex

 

[Patrickivan]

Thought I'd get a start on my entry:

It's not exactly what I keep envisioning in my head, but it'll do. A different idea I kept having was a pic of a rendezvous between the Botany Bay and the space shuttle in orbit, but that would require a lot more time to make work. Anyway, if you aren't familiar with sizes here, each of those boosters attached to the Botany Bay here is almost as big as a Saturn V each!

I like it. Except for one thing... The transport containers. It's funny how this ship is always drawn with them just on the bottom, when it clearly could carry them on top too...

My take on the lauch would be to loose the containers. They'd be shipped up in seperate launch systems and then mated with the DY.

But- as I said. It is a cool looking image you have none-the-less.

 

[TheLoneRedshirt]

It's an awesome image. If it were Real Life, I would imagine that the B.B. would be encased in a temporary shell to limit aerodynamic drag.

But it wouldn't look nearly as cool as this. Love it!

 

[B.J.]

I like it. Except for one thing... The transport containers. It's funny how this ship is always drawn with them just on the bottom, when it clearly could carry them on top too...

My take on the lauch would be to loose the containers. They'd be shipped up in seperate launch systems and then mated with the DY.

But- as I said. It is a cool looking image you have none-the-less.

I agree about the containers. It's made for an entire ring of containers, plus a whole additional row of them for 16 total. If I were going for realism, I'd either remove them all or add all 16, but then you'd lose the immediate recognition of the Botany Bay. So this would be one of those cases of form/art over function.

 

[Intelligence]

Looks fantastic!

I was going to bring in the same argument about the containers, but I think that here are enough people to recognise the ship even with additional containers