This is fantastic
The Great Awakening begins: The Baton Rouge class
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You know, never in the entire time I've watched 'The Cage' or 'The Menagerie' did I ever notice a piece of aircraft used in that scene until now. And even if I did, there's no way I would ever have recognized what plane that cockpit went to. So great job with the detective work!
(Although now that I'm seeing it, I'm wondering if it was actually meant to represent wreckage from the S.S. Columbia...not to belittle your own ideas or artwork
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(Although now that I'm seeing it, I'm wondering if it was actually meant to represent wreckage from the S.S. Columbia...not to belittle your own ideas or artwork
)
You know, never in the entire time I've watched 'The Cage' or 'The Menagerie' did I ever notice a piece of aircraft used in that scene until now. And even if I did, there's no way I would ever have recognized what plane that cockpit went to. So great job with the detective work!
(Although now that I'm seeing it, I'm wondering if it was actually meant to represent wreckage from the S.S. Columbia...not to belittle your own ideas or artwork
Thank you for the feedback @Atolm, @ashefivekay, and @Dukhat.
I actually considered whether the wreckage was intended to be that of the Columbia, but I decided it probably wasn't for two reasons. First, if the Columbia was such a small craft to have a control canopy as small as that of a B-45 Tornado, I couldn't see it have a extended mission profile to survey deep space, and have a pregnant woman on board. Granted the statement of the Vina's mother giving birth to her "almost as we crashed" (implying a ongoing pregnancy aboard ship) was part of the Talosian illusion. To my mind it would be unlikely that the Talosians would have tried to concoct some scenario which would have stretched the credulity of what the survivors had to say. Sure, I suppose the crew could have been really, really cozy/friendly with each other, but privacy would be impossible and so that could/would lead to an awkward social situation aboard.
Also, having a baby inside such a small spacecraft would be difficult in space (imagine being stuck in a Cessna at 30,000' with a woman giving birth)- with six or more other adult humans being "right there". 
Lol.Second, when the Enterprise reaches orbit, Jose Tyler makes the observation, " Reflections, sir, from the planet's surface. As I read it, they polarize out as rounded metal bits. Could be parts of a spaceship hull.." Which leads me to be believe the Columbia itself broke up in the atmosphere as it deorbited, and the debris like that of the shuttle Columbia of RL spanned a good stretch of the planet surface. The shuttlecraft itself could have been the only one to make it out in time, with the "survivors" being the aged versions of the crew that Vina served with aboard the Columbia, and that had been aboard the shuttle when it crashed (leading to the figure I came up with for the C class shuttlecraft). That's my story at least, and I'm sticking to it.
That said, here are the corrected versions of the earlier sheets for all to see.
