Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription
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Yeah, I would say that at least the Ryan Church Enterprise was a design, it flows and looks pretty good on screen. It'll never be my favourite version of the Enterprise, but it brought in distinct elements and was a legitimate design.
It's not beautiful or grand, but I don't hate it!I wish the Enterprise had been more of a kitbash of the Kelvin. I think this "Kelvinprise" idea looks quite good, though presumably not heroic enough.
Yeah, IMO it's much better than what they finally came up with. Although I get that they wanted to design something that was clearly next-gen to differentiate it from the Kelvin-era ships. Any other Connie's still out there in the Abramsverse, I wonder?
Honestly, there's never been a version of the original Enterprise that actually captures the elegance and simplicity of the original or the refit. And I know that sounds weird given how different those two are, but they have a similar philosophy behind them. None of the attempts to redo that have measured up.
Agreed. The TOS and TMP Refit Connie's have zero bad angles. They can be viewed from any direction and they literally can never look bad. The 2009+ Connie's, though? I honestly cannot say the same about them. There's always one angle on any one given variant that's just a bit... off. The neck; the nacelles; the pylons; the general shape of the hull... All IMO of course.
I think the Kelvin Enterprise is a beaut personally.
It does have its charms. Mostly deriving from the refit. 
Nice. The SG Beliskner seems to have turned out pretty well; as for the Puddle Jumper, I'm still trying to think of a way to fix the engine pods...
Beliskner variants, updated
Puddle Jumper variants, updated
Beliskner variants, updated
Puddle Jumper variants, updated
Ditto for their offering of the Prometheus. I was shocked when that arrived to discover it was essentially one piece of light plastic. I suspected these new offerings from MR would be par for the course, and is one of the reasons I held off.
I'm really only interested in the Puddle Jumper at the moment. But I have heard that there are some inaccuracies with the engine pods, but I could swear I had seen that configuration in some episodes?
I couldn't find many episodes that use this particular model at all, and I don't remember ever seeing it with this engine pod configuration.
On the original "hero" model you can see where the intakes are supposed to go even more clearly.
On the original "hero" model you can see where the intakes are supposed to go even more clearly.
I wish the Enterprise had been more of a kitbash of the Kelvin. I think this "Kelvinprise" idea looks quite good, though presumably not heroic enough.
Jetfreak7 did a Jovia class Kelvinprise (for “Seek Him” where the hulls were proportioned a bit better:
Active Starfleet vessels in 2258 by SeekHim on DeviantArt
www.deviantart.com
The secondary hull is a bit plain—so what Krause did with Hood needs doing here to point to the teardrop shape. I might.
The two raised catamaran hulls atop NX-01 I would put on either side of the secondary hull—with larger NX-01 impulse engines on the nacelle pylons in a bit of an Ambassador configuration (nacelles above the saucer though).
That would be the huge saucer that Pine’s Enterprise had to dodge—head canon.
Jetfreak’s work
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