Here it is - no bloody "A", "B" "C" or "D"

[Tom Servo]

A side view I quickly sketched up:
http://img395.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newenterpriserj3.jpg

Sorry for it being vertical, I have been trying to rotate it to no avail.

 

[StarTrek1701]

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/star-trek-first.html?xid=rss-popwatch-'Star%20Trek':%20An%20exclusive%20first%20look%20at%20the%20Enterprise

Most beautiful Enterprise (no A, B, C or D) I have ever seen. Absolutely brilliant!

 

[Rat Boy]

A side view I quickly sketched up:
http://img395.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newenterpriserj3.jpg

Sorry for it being vertical, I have been trying to rotate it to no avail.

Easy fix. Looks better from this angle.

 

[Tom Servo]

Thank you sir!

 

[steveman]

What's really helped bring me around to it, as some have conjectured, is if the ship was designed with "functionality" in mind. As the teaser trailer showed us, a conscious effort was made by Abrams and Co. to tie Star Trek to our own space history (NASA, etc). And if this ship was designed in such way to make, for example, the generation of warp fields more "believable" or "realistic" within the context of our world, I'm totally on board with what they've designed.

When you take asthetics out of play, it makes a big difference. If they made a conscious effort to aim for "functionality," I can dig that.

 

[Michael]

Tom, that's beautiful!

 

[Rat Boy]

Thank you sir!

Would have been faster if I had more RAM in my PC.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Here's a full body photoshop of the ship, with shuttles removed:

Hey, thanks for doing this. While I admit I was a bit put off by the original image, seeing it this way is making it grow on me. As Dennis said, it's interesting that even though they strayed from the original design, there's no denying it's the Enterprise. Different? Yes, but still the Enterprise.

 

[Ghostface1701]

So I'm guessing that if the Enterprise's deflector is blue, then that thing we saw on top of the Kelvin is a deflector and not the warp nacelle.

Indeed it is. A short secondary hull above the saucer (with shuttlebay at the rear), and a long warp nacelle underneath.

PS, the crew on Kelvin wear blue uniforms, no-one's mentioned that yet

 

[Tom Servo]

So I'm guessing that if the Enterprise's deflector is blue, then that thing we saw on top of the Kelvin is a deflector and not the warp nacelle.

Indeed it is. A short secondary hull above the saucer (with shuttlebay at the rear), and a long warp nacelle underneath.

PS, the crew on Kelvin wear blue uniforms, no-one's mentioned that yet

Am I getting an ENTERPRISE reference?

 

[Rat Boy]

So I'm guessing that if the Enterprise's deflector is blue, then that thing we saw on top of the Kelvin is a deflector and not the warp nacelle.

Indeed it is. A short secondary hull above the saucer (with shuttlebay at the rear), and a long warp nacelle underneath.

PS, the crew on Kelvin wear blue uniforms, no-one's mentioned that yet

Am I getting an ENTERPRISE reference?

Well, it's more flattering than a transporter-scrambled beagle, isn't it?

 

[Ghostface1701]

So I'm guessing that if the Enterprise's deflector is blue, then that thing we saw on top of the Kelvin is a deflector and not the warp nacelle.

Indeed it is. A short secondary hull above the saucer (with shuttlebay at the rear), and a long warp nacelle underneath.

PS, the crew on Kelvin wear blue uniforms, no-one's mentioned that yet

Am I getting an ENTERPRISE reference?

It wouldn't be out of the question, but the uniforms reminded me more of the medical "All Good Things" uniform.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Seeing it like in this drawing reminds me of one of Matt Jefferies early sketches for the Enterprise where the neck was far back and it looked like a duck (which I think Jefferies even wrote next to it).

My first reaction was "I like parts of it, other things I don't care for," but it's growing on me. It's not the Enterprise but it's the Enterprise. If that makes any sense.

 

[Tom Servo]

Someone at hobby talk posted this profile:
http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showpost.php?p=2579751&postcount=45

This profile image actually puts the bussard collectors over the saucer, so that problem has been solved.

Which makes me like this design MUCH MUCH more.

 

[Ghostface1701]

Now that feels more like the ship I saw in the clips today, Tom Servo. There's a distant side-view of Enterprise as a shuttle leaves, and with the sunlight behind it, I could only really see it's silhouette. But it looked like the TOS Enterprise.

 

[James Bond]

Engineering hull moved back a bit:

I love the design as it is, but that looks even better.

 

[LutherSloan]

It looks good except for the seemingly backward engineering section. I feel like the deflector area sticks out too much.

I'm glad they went with something closer to the TMP-refit design. I like the nacelles.

 

[davejames]

A side view I quickly sketched up:
http://img395.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newenterpriserj3.jpg

Sorry for it being vertical, I have been trying to rotate it to no avail.

Easy fix. Looks better from this angle.

Nice work! Although I think their secondary hull is a bit skinnier than that. I also get the impression the nacelle's are lower...

 

[LutherSloan]

It is just me, or is the saucer also the largest we've ever seen on any similar vessel? It looks massive in comparison to the rest of the ship.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Nice work, Tom Servo. As quickly as you churned that out, I bet it's the first fan rendering of the new Enterprise.