Starships of the Galaxy Era

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Star Trek: The Lost Years?

 

[publiusr]

Timo Saloniemi

Nice drawing! One of the better multi-hulled ships I've seen. I like Ian Keldons Carnagie class ship as well

Duane's destroyer had....a secondary hull 1/4 mile across. A ship like that, with a giant secondary hull, would look weird no matter whether the "thrice as big" saucer had thrice the volume (that is, thrice the surface area) or thrice the diameter - unless we assume Kirk's ship already was thrice as big as we have become used to thinking, so 1/4 mi wouldn't be that big a deal yet...

I wonder if Duane had leaned of the PLANET OF THE TITANS Enterprise.

The wedge shaped secondary hull would be very wide--not the study model Apollo type here:
http://s149.photobucket.com/user/pauly1972_photos/library/Apollo Class USS Gage?sort=3&page=1

But some modified version of the largest versions here:
https://losttrek.weebly.com/the-adam-mcquarrie-enterprise.html

Wider please

Better

That said, this original Ambassador is almost too perfectly transitional

I like this:
http://www.treknology.org/new/council-jef1.jpg
http://www.treknology.org/history3.htm

There, no phaser strip--but a ring--a racetrack where a whole metal circle rides along rails with fixed hardpoints slewing rollerball style/

Balmung is a good proto Ambassador as was the Alaska class.

But remember the very stark early galaxy class painting? Aridas fleshed that out a bit here:
https://photobucket.com/gallery/user/aridas_sofia/media/bWVkaWFJZDo1Mzg0OTA1MQ==/?ref=

Now, I might modify an Ariel saucer--with a raised Endeavor class sensor ring around the rim
https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sdy-endeavor-ncc-1768.php

But with ACE nacelles and an extended Belknap secondary hull.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/advanced-circumferential-engine.272017/

A good non excelsior path to the Ambassador.

Really it was Belknap which started the whole nacelles-below-the-saucer deal--years befor there was even a TNG

 

[Tomalak]

What's the lower protuberance on the Endeavour there? I can't quite make it out. Looks like the deflector is in the lower saucer.