For this month's contest, my entry is my conceptualization of what a descendent of what an airliner might look like in the Trek universe.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/7687211586/in/photostream
Due to a combination of not being completely skilled in Illustrator, and my ineptitude with time management, I haven't gotten things quite as complete as I would have liked, and have only managed to get two angles close enough to done. As I have found out time and again, it is way faster to simply draw everything physically, but never as precise or neat as in Illustrator, just as difficult to match up all views. Hopefully, what I have managed to get done will prove to be enough of a competent entry. I've already seen the competition, and I know that my entry probably isn't as refined or completed, but I'm hoping it will still make some hits "cool" category or something. I will try to get a little more work done before submitting tonight. Anyhow, here is the information I have come up for the design:
The Boeing 967 is a mid-sized spaceliner, and sort of descendent of the 767. They are what I envision to be one of many types of spacecraft that ply the Solar System's spacelines, and are mostly intended for travel in the Solar System, and not beyond it, being only capable of speeds up to warp two, though it would be no problem for them to make it to Alpha Centauri, and craft such as these could hypothetically be used to attempt the evacuation of a planet in the Solar System, should the need ever arise. They are also often used to transfer and take passengers to and from interstelliners, so the true stellar transports don't always have to dock with a starbase or go into orbit over a planet, saving time.
Transports such as these would eventually be rendered obsolete by the beginning 24th as transporter technology became advanced enough to beam people throughout a star system, forcing airline companies to either get into the interstellar liner business, become a service provider for public transporter pads, or go out of business completely.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/7687211586/in/photostream
Due to a combination of not being completely skilled in Illustrator, and my ineptitude with time management, I haven't gotten things quite as complete as I would have liked, and have only managed to get two angles close enough to done. As I have found out time and again, it is way faster to simply draw everything physically, but never as precise or neat as in Illustrator, just as difficult to match up all views. Hopefully, what I have managed to get done will prove to be enough of a competent entry. I've already seen the competition, and I know that my entry probably isn't as refined or completed, but I'm hoping it will still make some hits "cool" category or something. I will try to get a little more work done before submitting tonight. Anyhow, here is the information I have come up for the design:
The Boeing 967 is a mid-sized spaceliner, and sort of descendent of the 767. They are what I envision to be one of many types of spacecraft that ply the Solar System's spacelines, and are mostly intended for travel in the Solar System, and not beyond it, being only capable of speeds up to warp two, though it would be no problem for them to make it to Alpha Centauri, and craft such as these could hypothetically be used to attempt the evacuation of a planet in the Solar System, should the need ever arise. They are also often used to transfer and take passengers to and from interstelliners, so the true stellar transports don't always have to dock with a starbase or go into orbit over a planet, saving time.
Transports such as these would eventually be rendered obsolete by the beginning 24th as transporter technology became advanced enough to beam people throughout a star system, forcing airline companies to either get into the interstellar liner business, become a service provider for public transporter pads, or go out of business completely.
