I wonder what those are, too! I'd really like to do a cutaway, but we shall see! The exterior is still the priority. You're right on the money with the functions of the modules. At least very close! The "drums" are about 50 feet in length each, so I think that puts us closer to 225-230 feet, but a very close estimate.
The great thing about this, like how the NX was the beginning of the saucer shape for starships, is that this ship appears to be the beginning of Starfleet using a design that will one day become the stardrive section.
I first came across your concept of the NPC-19 Interceptor Romulan War Destroyer on devientart and was moved to comment on it at that time. I started working on a pre-STTOS tome after watching the Star Trek Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint". My idea was to set the historical events of World War II, in the early history of the Star Trek universe’s Earth Romulan War, as well as the years leading up to and following it. I used several TOS episodes "Balance of Terror", "Space Seed", and "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", mining them for their historic content of the early devised history of that universe. What motivated me to post this was the amazing parallel of your design and one of my own ideas for a cheap, easily mass-producible space combatant. I took the design of the DAEDALUS Class ship, as my departure point. This ship was shown in the first “Star Trek Chronology” and encyclopedia, as well as a model shown on Captain Cisco’s desk in the ST: DS 9 Episode “Maquis”. I posited that the model was a stylized version of various prototype ships. As we know, the original design the initial design was first depicted in a line drawing by Matt Jeffries, from Stephen E. Whitfield’s “The Making of Star Trek, and if memory serves, the drawing was captioned “USS Inverted”. I considered this was somewhat of a justification for the DAEDALUS concept being canonical as a pre NX, or CONSTITION Class saucer shaped primary hull. The model integrated the Star-drive/Secondary-Hull and Sphere-Saucer/Primary-Hull as a late war era design. Not to rehash the whole “Akiraprise” argument, but the needs of war and practical construction principles might lead to a simple, easy to build ship, just as Henry Kaiser’s “Liberty Ships”, and Casablanca-class escort carriers, as well as the redoubtable Canadian “Flower” Class Corvettes, all of which helped to turn the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic. My design was to utilize the Star-drive/Secondary-Hull with weapons and some simplified control room added to the dorsal section just above the deflector on the bow. Such a “Gunboat” could be massed into “wolf packs” as USN fleet submarines did in the Pacific war. In the second part of my trilogy, the main character while recovering from injuries, points out the ability of such a design to function without the spherical Command /Primary-Hull. I surmised that a cylindrical hull with warp nacelles pylons attached to the dorsal-amidships section of the secondary hull would produce a simple sturdy configuration and provide a liner flow to the impulse drive units at the dorsal-stern section of the cylinder. Weapons platforms as well as twelve Life-pods were located at strategic points around the secondary hull. Their interiors resembled the cramped and claustrophobic environs of World War Two era submarines, and corvettes. I have to say that your presentation of this destroyer is quit an excellent interpretation of the original intent described in the short story of "Balance of Terror" that James Blish wrote in the Bantam Books adaptations of original series episodes. Indeed, in that story he described the war era ships as large cylinders in design. I wish I could create the quality graphics that you used to generate the artwork. Well done, and best of luck in your future endeavors.
Dude... There's two and a half years between the last post and yours. The topic starter's last post was last year. You might want to think about the topics you reply to a bit more carefully
Definitely something I can see Starfleet producing during the war. Small, relatively cheap and quick to produce, and easy to replace as they are destroyed. Sort of the 22nd century version of the Liberty Ships from WWII. I always had this notion that Starfleet would have been caught rather unprepared for war, just based on what we saw on ENT season 4. With only Enterprise & Columbia capable of warp 5, the speed at which Earth could deploy their forces would be as much of an issue - if not more of an issue - than their weapons and defensive capabilities. Especially given that, based on what we know of them, the Romulans have many more ships capable of high warp (by 22nd century standards) than Earth does in the 2150's. It always made sense to me that, rather than rushing to build a new fleet of NX-class ships, it would make a lot more sense for Earth/Starfleet to use those resources outfitting their existing ships (which there were apparently plenty of, based on what ENT showed us; the Intrepid, for example, among others) with new weapons - including left over nukes from WWIII - and building a handful of large warp-3 or warp-4 carrier vessels that could carry the smaller, warp-1/warp-2 (and even sub-warp) ships into battle. Each carrier could be lead by/protected by an NX-class ship, which Starfleet would presumably have at least 3 of by the time the war kicks off, and possibly a 4th. Once they get where they're going, the carrier would open and allow a group of 20-30 smaller ships to do battle, along with whatever NX-class ship was leading the fleet.
how did this little beauty slip by my notice. This is exactly how I imagined 22nd century vessels to be like. Awesome work.
I'm late to this party, so let me catch up. That is some amazing work. What a beautiful ship design! Thank-you for posting.
Since this thread has been revived from the dead, I'll also give my 0.2$. That's an amazing design @aalenfae ! I wish ENT showed more Earth ships like yours and less Akira-class derivatives.