Yes, Praetor... that's the one! And, like the others, I FAR prefer this to what was chosen. Nice work.
I'm glad it was after all,
Bolian. Thank you very much.
I still have a soft spot for this design. I was trying to do something in between the
Galaxy and the
Intrepid and primarily wanted to make sure it would be distinctive when put beside the
Sovereign. I feel that my wish to make it look so distinctly non-
Sovereign yet still 'heroic' (via full saucer, up-swept engines, no pod) ultimately hurt it. But
que sera, I still like it, even if I'm embarrassed by my technical skills at the time I drew it. I should probably redo the drawing itself.
If you or anyone else is interested, my deviantart gallery has all of my sketches and the different 'versions' of it I went through with notes based on what I can remember, including when it had a pointed hull. It's
here.
I started modeling her once, mostly to see if the orthos would translate to look in real life like it did in my head (which it did) but I never finished. (Looong story.) Maybe I should, or convince
MadMan to.
Here's an old WIP render, and yes I know the technicality of the shot is crap, but I'm actually rather pleased how well the form of the ship translated to 3d:
Looking good,
Praetor. I wonder how that would look if the pylons were swept back instead of forward to allow shortening the engineering hull while keeping the nacelles right where they are, even though I do like the forward-swept pylons per se. Or maybe there's some way to do both without turning it into a Nebula clone.
That also made me wonder if someone had made a Sovereign variant in the spirit of the Nebula. I found one here, but I was picturing it as being closer to
Preator's design above but with Sovereign saucer section and the same nacelle size as in
Praetor's design but mounted low, Nebula style.
http://www.trekmania.net/the_fleet/utopia/conjecture/utopia.htm
Thanks,
LCARS. That's pretty interesting. I swept the pylons forward to just be different from the
Sovereign, but some versions that I sketched did have forward pylons and slightly shorter engineering hulls. The one she ended up with always did seem a tad bloated to me.
I keep wanting to try taking the
Nebula-version
Sovereign approach and doing it all over again as a mental exercise. Ironically, after the contest was over, I found a sketch in one of my tabloid drawing books that I must have done when I was like 14 that has a crude
Nebula-style
Sovereign (fighting a Star Destroyer.
)
I need to scan that, because it's largely the take I think I would go from. It's not that much different than the one in the link above, actually. IIRC, I shoved the engineering hull forward a la Akira and then had the nacelle pylons sweeping downward from somewhere around the lower 'platform' of the saucer.
To pod or not to pod? That is the question.
