Isn't that sort of what Stellar Cartography was? Maybe I'm wrong, since I had Star Charts but not Stellar Cartography...
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Isn't that sort of what Stellar Cartography was? Maybe I'm wrong, since I had Star Charts but not Stellar Cartography...
That shuttle was designed by John Eaves. I'm guessing Mandel just did the paint job.
https://johneaves.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/star-trek-the-shuttles-of-the-uss-iowa/
https://johneaves.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/the-uss-iowa-goes-kelvin/
Plus some earlier iterations, including one with the classic three windows.
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Yes. And Ryan Church designed the Abramsprise. That doesn't change the fact that Mandel's artwork depicting them makes them look far more like how they'd appear in TOS than how they appeared in the movie. To me that shows a respect for the source material and knowledge of the specific time period those ships are supposed to hail from.
And so does Eaves, since he designed the shuttles itself.
It would be the norm if he was allowed to. He wanted to make TOS'like designs for Discovery, but that's not the direction the showrunner wanted.
He doesn't work in a vacuum. He has guidelines from his superiors.
But this is offtopic.
My apologies. The pic showed up ok when I looked at my post on trekbbs. I did not know that it would be blocked.
This is the pic of the Enterprise F that I tried to share.
My only issue with the "Odyssey Class" is that giant gap in between the two necks.My apologies. The pic showed up ok when I looked at my post on trekbbs. I did not know that it would be blocked.
This is the pic of the Enterprise F that I tried to share.
I'd honestly prefer that to be filled in with more StarShip "Structure" and extend the StarDrive to be slightly past the rear of the Warp Nacelles like on Voyager.
She needs to have a bigger and thicker StarDrive Section IMO.
The current one is to "Tad Polish" IMO.
This is basically what the generic ships in the PIC finale armada looked like.My apologies. The pic showed up ok when I looked at my post on trekbbs. I did not know that it would be blocked.
This is the pic of the Enterprise F that I tried to share.
I'm pretty much a life long Trekkie (since the late 70s), and I've never even played STO.
I would have liked to have seen the primary hull keep that ring during an emergency boost separation—warp staging, we will call itMy apologies.
This is the pic of the Enterprise F that I tried to share.
I hope Geoff does some great work
The Luna class Titan was considered soft canon until Lower Decks made it fully official. I know how much you hate the Odyssey class, but I wouldn’t put it past them to finally canonize it in the same way in Picard.
From what I understand, the producer of LDS used the Pocket Books Titan design as a tribute to Sean Torangeau. I don’t see the producers of PIC making such a tribute for the STO Enterprise-F, especially since what the original designer came up with was quite different than the finished product.
I think it's the 40th anniversary of the ORIGINAL Star Trek maps. Which he also worked on.
I don't mind seeing the Luna and Vesta and Odyssey classes getting TV screen time alongside the established stuff. Actually, the idea pleases me...but I digress.
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