TAS made real....

[Warped9]

Update--how this is coming along.

At this point this just might be my favourite TAS alien ship design so far. It strikes me as so counterintuitive, unconventional and convincingly alien. Firstly, other than us assuming we are seeing it right side up, we have no real clue as to it's orientation--are we seeing it right side up, upside down or perhaps even tipped up on its side? If it's on its side then it is truly asymmetrical. If it is right side up or upside down then it has some kinship with the single nacelle designs that Starfleet has.

I think this is one funky looking starship. Seeing something like this on TOS would have been a treat.

 

[Santaman]

I wonder if there was a second nacelle but that one must have snapped off or gotten lost over time and the ship is actually floating sideways.

 

[Warped9]

I wonder if there was a second nacelle but that one must have snapped off or gotten lost over time and the ship is actually floating sideways.

I thought about that and concluded that if it had the second nacelle it would still look okay, but wouldn’t be as cool. I rather like the “tall ship” orientation. It’s really in contrast to how ships in the TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT and TNG era films were getting flatter and squashed looking.

 

[Santaman]

I see your point, if it has a second nacelle it would look more like the previous ship you did, I do like the tall ship idea.

Also yes.. going neckless with the "E" was a stupid move and I really dislike that ship..

 

[Atolm]

So awesome!
I always interpreted the hull arrangement as something like this (accoeding to the screenshot):

 

[Santaman]

Personally I think the cylinders and nacelle are all in a straight line, that it looks a little strange in the screenshot, the technology used for TAS wasn't the latest and greatest

 

[Warped9]

So awesome!
I always interpreted the hull arrangement as something like this (accoeding to the screenshot):

Thats a very interesting idea I hadn’t considered although I don’t get that impression when I look at how it’s drawn onscreen.

 

[Atolm]

if you look at the screenshot, that bottom pod is definitely in front of the pod above it in the perspective.
Look here:

Now I admitt that this may not have been the intention, but it sure does look like it.

 

[Warped9]

Yeah, I can see how it could be interpreted that way. It just didn’t leap out at me to see it as such.

 

[Atolm]

Yeah, I can see how it could be interpreted that way. It just didn’t leap out at me to see it as such.

Aye. And I am pretty sure that the actual design probably was not intended to be as how I have extrapolated. Just bringing up how I've always envisioned it based on the scene.
Also I just noticed that the top pod appears to be the smallest of the 3, but again, that may not have been the original intent.

 

[Warped9]

In the interests of simplicity I could have made the top and bottom pods identical. But--*sigh*--I didn't want it too be that simple. The way it's originally drawn the top pod could be seen as the smallest and thats how I modeled it. On the large middle pod the aft section is a bit longer and a bit less rounded on the end than the fore section. There are also some small and subtle details included that are not readily visible unless seen close up (something I often like to do).

 

[Warped9]

I think I'm just about done with this one. I still might play with the colours some--I think perhaps the green and blue should be more muted or more desaturated. Maybe eliminate the green altogether.

 

[Santaman]

It has an interestig look in any case.

 

[publiusr]

I might call those cargo pods that detach fore and aft or slide out at speed.

Go a light year—drop one. Go another light year—drop another.

A fleet of these could line the space lanes with emergency supplies for later vessels

 

[Atolm]

I think I'm just about done with this one. I still might play with the colours some--I think perhaps the green and blue should be more muted or more desaturated. Maybe eliminate the green altogether.

Stunning! I really Love how this came out.

I might call those cargo pods that detach fore and aft or slide out at speed.

Go a light year—drop one. Go another light year—drop another.

A fleet of these could line the space lanes with emergency supplies for later vessels

I wouldn't think that they are cargo pods. Don't get me wrong, they very well could be, but that seems to be the "easy conclusion"... And if TAS has taught us anything, it's that the design extrapolation is not easy. They were able to explore other ideas and concepts that TOS was very limited to. Those concepts have proved to be laughable in the mundane and extremely frustrating in the deeper one looks at the designs. Shapes and ideas not readily identifiable by us. So after all that, I think those are "hulls" for some more exotic a species. lol

 

[Warped9]

In “Time Trap” it seems all the ships, except the Enterprise and the Klothos, have a bluish cast to them. Perhaps that was meant to be a weird lighting effect to denote the strange zone they were trapped in. In normal space the ships might possibly look quite different in colour.

 

[Warped9]

Desaturation definitely helps. I also shifted the colour of the cones a bit lighter and somewhat more blue (although it mightn't be really apparent.

 

[ashleytinger]

That looks fantastic.

 

[Warped9]

I really like this one. Later I might experiment with some different colours and added detail like windows and hatches.

I think it looks more original and somehow less comic book like than the previous designs. And given the colour I could see this as an Andorian ship of the TOS era.


We never saw the Enterprise pick up Ambassador Shras before the events of “Journey To Babel."

 

[Atolm]

Aces!