TOS-R Antares Image Available at Startrek.com

[Therin of Andor]

Vance said:
There's no 'Star Trek Canon' because a) there is no regular series currently being produced, and b) the new movie is not going to be beholden to anything, as the producers have already stated. Canon is dead.

Not as long as there are licensed Star Trek tie-ins, and fans who buy/read them.

 

[Joker]

Vance said:
They may HONOR canon, but they're not beholden to it. Canon, as a practical matter, is dead.

Canon doesn't matter to anyone with half of a functional brain.

 

[Plum]

^^^
Which half?

 

[number6]

Vance said:
Thanks for reminding me just WHY the Star Trek fandom has such a terrible rep, Number6. Here I was beginning to think it wasn't deserved.

Judging from your posts, I never had any doubt.

 

[Mallory]

Post, not poster people. And the topic is the Antares.

 

[Matango]

Wasn't Cannon an overweight private eye ?

 

[Vance]

A Quinn Martin production?

Anyway, NCC-G21. I'm nearly sure of it.

 

[AC84]

Does anyone have a picture of the Antares they used in Star Trek Concordance?

 

[Lieut. Arex]

^^^ Check out this page.

 

[Anthony]

Precious memories...How they lin-ger...

 

[Basil]

I'm rather impressed that the design actually seems like something that could have been produced for the show and am reminded once again why I though so much of "Enterprise" was garbage.

 

[Wingsley]

People may either balk at this or laugh at this, but I don't see why Antares could not have looked something like the Detroyat. (Fandom-made blueprints by Michael Morrisette from the early 1980's) I'm not saying the Antares had to BE a Detroyat, or even sized like one, just that it would've been neat to see a "cargo ship" of that shape.

http://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/uss-destroyat-ncc-1100.php

I'm so-so on seeing a cartoon ship concept come to life in remastered TOS.

It is very nice that we at least see the Enterprise and Antares, side-by-side now.

Do you think, given the size of the vessel, that it would be a little cramped for a crew of 80?

What about freight? How much volume do you think a ship of that size could haul? Does it look like the cargo is in modules that can be easily detatched?

 

[Herald]

There! Was that so difficult? A believable vessel using the original series' design ethic. Not an over-windowed, over-neoned, over-greebled, swept back piece of wikked kewl.
I hope the movie people are taking notes.

 

[The Mighty Monkey of Mim]

Wingsley said:
Do you think, given the size of the vessel, that it would be a little cramped for a crew of 80?

The Antares had a crew of 20 according to dialogue.

-MMoM

 

[Plum]

Wingsley said:
People may either balk at this or laugh at this, but I don't see why Antares could not have looked something like the Detroyat. (Fandom-made blueprints by Michael Morrisette from the early 1980's) I'm not saying the Antares had to BE a Detroyat, or even sized like one, just that it would've been neat to see a "cargo ship" of that shape.

http://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/uss-destroyat-ncc-1100.php

I'm so-so on seeing a cartoon ship concept come to life in remastered TOS.

It is very nice that we at least see the Enterprise and Antares, side-by-side now.

Do you think, given the size of the vessel, that it would be a little cramped for a crew of 80?

What about freight? How much volume do you think a ship of that size could haul? Does it look like the cargo is in modules that can be easily detatched?

The design does make one wonder if their couldn't be large tanks attached.

And I was hoping Antares would be that design as well, which I've seen attributed to the Antares more than once on Trek sites. But that doesn't take away from the terrific version here.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Wingsley said:
I don't see why Antares could not have looked something like the Detroyat. (Fandom-made blueprints by Michael Morrisette from the early 1980's)

Copyright. Michael Morrisette's work was not under contract to Paramount.

 

[Psion]

Y'know, I'd like to see this design go into a few re-mastered episodes of TNG and DS9 as a generic freighter -- start tightening up the art of Star Trek.

 

[USS Mariner]

I'm definitely going to try and see this ASAP. It looks as if the lighting has really improved. Now all they'd need to do is turn down the damn fill light and it'd look groovy.

 

[cooleddie74]

Nice job...though it kind of looks like an Oberth-class science ship had sex with a DY-100 sleeper craft.

 

[Wingsley]

Therin of Andor said:

Wingsley said:
I don't see why Antares could not have looked something like the Detroyat. (Fandom-made blueprints by Michael Morrisette from the early 1980's)

Copyright. Michael Morrisette's work was not under contract to Paramount.

I didn't mean that in the most literal sense. I meant that the overall shape of Morrisette's design looks like something that would make a great frieghter. If the Detroyat herself were a freighter, she's be way too large for a crew of 20. (At least, without an M-5 running things.)