Jackill Starships Appreciation

[Arpy]

Those would work better as cargo hatches than the big-ass "Shoot Here for Explosive Decompression" windows,

If windows were that much a hazard, they wouldn’t be on any starship, especially not those from the Klingons or Jem Hadar or paranoid peoples like the Romulans, Breen, or Devore Imperium.

The windows are fine. The arboretums are fine. Especially if you’re going to be stuck on a tin can in empty space for 5 year missions. We need to take the phaser out of our underwear and get back to living our lives.

 

[Arpy]

I loved this thread and Jackill’s work. He was great at coming up with new configurations and design elements and fitting them smoothly into the canon esthetic. There’s a lot of ship variety now in DSC (something fans like me have long dreamed of), but it’s kind of an hyper-stylized mess to my eye. I’ll put together some examples of ships I like/don’t from it. But major respect to Jackill for being, to me, the ship designer of the late 23rd Century.

 

[Unicron]

I like his work fleshing out that era as well, and the fact that many of the designs are "successor" classes to the FJ fleet. My personal head canon is that the designs using Excelsior family technology would begin entering service around the turn of the 24th century, gradually updating older generations.

FASA had the option of stripped down hulls sometimes being sold on the civilian market, though of course this was less common with line vessels compared to smaller ships. And given that some Federation worlds in FASA weren't full members, but associate members, perhaps it would be logical to rotate such designs there to serve as support fleets? The Star League had an interesting system like this in Battletech, where the Royal regiments of the Terran Hegemony would get all of the best technology first and then rotate older models around the League membership. This ensured that House Cameron could keep its technological edge for the most part, while also allowing the other Houses to benefit from the technology exchange.

 

[Forbin]

Eric was not only a design inspiration, but also a great help to me in publishing my own Trek tech book. Tho I've been neglecting kitbashes for, like, 3 years now, to build 'normal' model kits. I'd probably better get back into it, since I've got a few score unbuilt starship kits lying around for fodder.

 

[publiusr]

I wish we could have more drawings from him