I love this! I want more people to know about it!

[Phantom]

Found this on You Tube. The design has been in the works for 20 years, but the vid was made just recently.

Not completely sold on the nacelles, and she looks odd in some of her plan views, but put her in a scene with "shooting angles" and put her in motion and she's pure poetry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCHr9RQ8iU

Here's a good-size 3-d ortho set of her:

http://orig04.deviantart.net/62c3/f/2015/182/7/e/spruance_class_by_admiral_horton-d8mqz8f.png

The guy who does this ortho also has a ton of other interesting designs in his collection that he's done using relatively low-poly meshes designed for some of the Star Trek computer games (Bridge Commander, Armada, etc).

 

[Kaiser]

Awesome

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Interesting. Reminds me of how the Enterprise-E was an update from the D.

 

[Phantom]

^Which is amusing because it's supposed to be the E-A.

I find myself re-watching that video almost daily.

 

[fireproof78]

I could get behind it, but I am not a fan of the nacelle pylon angle.

Other than that, quite a beautiful design.

Thank you for sharing!

 

[MadMan1701A]

Neat. I'm getting a strong USS Vengeance vibe from it, though.

-Ricky

 

[OpenMaw]

I like it, save for the deflector housing, stretched torpedo tubes and the engine pylons. I'm not a fan of the L shaped pylons, and this combines swept back and L shaped pylons. Nnnnooooo.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Yeah, I'm sorry, I've watched that video three times now and I just can't get into this design. The pylons were the first thing that jumped out at me -- combining the L-shape of the Excelsior with the angled design of the Constitution refit -- but it's also the nacelles, the shape of the secondary hull, the stretched-out neck/platform that the torpedo launchers sit on, and the disruption of the saucer's shape in the aft quarter. It's obvious that the artist has put a lot of thought and effort into the design, but it just doesn't do it for me.

 

[Phantom]

Thicker necks were becoming the standard for that time period anyways, starting with Excelsior. The thinner necks were critcized as being too structurally weak.

I don't mind the pylons that much either. The only part that really goes a little wonky for me is the nacelles, but it's not enough to dump her (at least for me).

YMMV.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Thicker necks were becoming the standard for that time period anyways, starting with Excelsior. The thinner necks were critcized as being too structurally weak.

I love the neck on the Excelsior. I really love the graceful lines of the Enterprise-D's neck. I don't have a problem with thicker starship necks in general. This neck looks fat and blocky, and seems rather short, like the designer couldn't decide whether to put a real neck on it or go with a neckless design like the Sovereign or Intrepid classes.

 

[Architect]

I saw it a while ago and thought "do not want." It's a better concept that most of the Dominion War kit bashes, but it's not the Enterprise. It's like someone grabbed the idea of the Big E and squeezed all the grace out of her. It's too much an attempt to blend the refit and the D. I've always felt there was a way to merge the Excelisor pylons into a more graceful expression. This is not that way. The nacelles look as if someone had a good idea, but got bored before they finished (considering how my designs reflect that design method, I think I'm qualified to judge).

I pick nits. What mostly hits me is that shapes don't blend. She looks like a kit bash.

That she is not a kitbash makes it worse, IMO.

 

[Phantom]

I think it depends on the shooting angle. Every model has it's good angles and bad ones.

I find these especially good:

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=143518dad16c6a37c15db52e9cb16401&oe=56732561

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=e1095820bb0a896f16ee9e61cb219756&oe=567E34B3

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=ef0575ec008b88c307ddfd5723f575d9&oe=5679885C

 

[HIjol]

Watched with pleasure, with that "smile/bright-eyed/frozen body" posture inherent (I believe) in every Trek fan (of a certain age?) when looking at an Enterprise fly-by with Theme Music playing.

Jeeeezus H., I can see myself in the "Roddenberry Home For Addled Trekkies" right now, with my jello-and-cottage-cheese that I keep on insisting is Gagh, in my "Command Robe" with pips and just a little leftovers from the week. There I'll be, barking at the Ward Attendants about why they "...aren't in uniform, Mister?!" and asking when in the hell Star Trek is gonna be on the TV.

 

[Phantom]

that "smile/bright-eyed/frozen body" posture inherent (I believe) in every Trek fan (of a certain age?) when looking at an Enterprise fly-by with Theme Music playing.

LOL! I know that posture all too well...

 

[HIjol]

that "smile/bright-eyed/frozen body" posture inherent (I believe) in every Trek fan (of a certain age?) when looking at an Enterprise fly-by with Theme Music playing.

LOL! I know that posture all too well...

Thank you more than you know, Phantom! Good to know I am not alone! See you in the Premium Seats when they decide to run all the episodes and movies, back to back.

In my Stealth-Haze Dreams!!!

 

[publiusr]

That is Mystic Spenny's. He was working on a physical model. I saw an unfinished saucer some time ago.

 

[Phantom]

That is Mystic Spenny's. He was working on a physical model. I saw an unfinished saucer some time ago.

It is indeed. I saw a picture of a 3-d printed physical miniature (micro-machine scale or close to it) once.

 

[publiusr]

I might put the Vengeance neck on it and raise the nacelles a bit.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Great looking ship, but it would make a better Enterprise B or C style-wise.

 

[Phantom]

^Funny enough, I've been debating whether or not to try a photoshop "makeover" giving her E-B nacelles. The biggest "no" on her for me is those weird nacelles.