My "Early Days Enterprise" Would Look Like Battlestar:Galactica

[Dayton3]

I don't know if this should go here since I don't have an actual drawing or not.

But if I was going to design an Enterprise from say 100 years before the Original Series, it would look generally like the Battlestar Galactica.

Preferably the one from the original series.

Of course, I would replace the flight pods with early warp nacelles.

The large engine section on the rear would remain the sublight engines.

I always envisioned early starships as having very large sublight engines.

I would probably put the large hangar bay on the underside of the forward, wedge shaped section.

Just some thoughts.

 

[Sean_McCormick]

Like this one :http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/uss-durance-class-cargo-tug.php

 

[SonicRanger]

^^^

I've seen other, better-done Trek-ified battlestars... I'll see if a Google search will turn them up.

 

[MarianLH]

Like this one :http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/uss-durance-class-cargo-tug.php

That's adorable.


Marian

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

This one still has landing bays, but is pretty cool anyway. It might have been in a thread here on the BBS once upon a time, but I couldn't find it anywhere on the web, so I uploaded the copy I saved (hopefully OK). It's credited to Jon Marquez.

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/4/4/12/f_ussgalacticm_1975f9c.jpg

 

[SonicRanger]

^^^

That's the one I had in mind.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Would it be ribbed for Archer's pleasure? Or Hoshi's??

(Sorry, couldn't resist the nuBSG reference...)

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Dayton3]

Some of the starship designs on the covers of "The Best of Trek" had this general design theme.

 

[Magic04]

I kind of like the USS Galactica, but for the time frame being discussed I think the hull is a little too smooth.

 

[Sean_McCormick]

Took a while to get anything with this concept done.

My take on it.

 

[nx1701g]

This still reminds me of the Galactica for some reason:

 

[judge alba]

This still reminds me of the Galactica for some reason:

hey i well like that one any ideas where it came from?

 

[Sean_McCormick]

Looks like a low-poly model for a computer game.

 

[IcecreamLtDan]

I always thought the USS Patton from the Spaceflight Chronology book had a vaguely Galactica feel to it and was a good design for an early warp flight ship.

 

[Wingsley]

I felt the same way about the UNSS Bonaventure from the Goldstein & Goldstien's Spaceflight Chronology:

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/bonaventure.htm

 

[nx1701g]

This still reminds me of the Galactica for some reason:

hey i well like that one any ideas where it came from?

It is the Achilles Class created for Star Trek: Dominion Wars.