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TOSified nuEnterprise

Squiggy

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Ryan Church, who designed the new Enterprise put this up on his website...

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Discuss.
 
:drool:

Outside the nacelle caps, that is. I'm not sure what colour they should be, but that isn't it.
 
I love it. It looks less like the TOS enterprise then the new Enterprise does. What it does look like, however, is advanced. Futuristic. Like the entire armor has been molded or grown into a single thing, as if the windows light through the (transparent) armor. I love it.
 
I'm still not happy with the "swelling" of the nacelles and the engineering hull extending so far beyond the neck.

Can't say this really changes the new version much at all.

If he's suggesting the ship will be slightly changed for the next film, nice. But it's still not the TOS version, and I guess at this point not only will it never be, but maybe it SHOULD never be.

I dunno.
 
well from a position of indignant aversion i've gone full circle and i'm in love with this design. I think the shape and curving of it makes complete sense with the swirling hugging furious warp effect that bathes it. It just looks designed and streamlined to travel in that warp effect and glide amonsgst its torturous currents majestic and awesomely. And even in stills with the warp effect, its definently iconic and dynamic.
 
I think the shape and curving of it makes complete sense with the swirling hugging furious warp effect that bathes it. It just looks designed and streamlined to travel in that warp effect and glide amonsgst its torturous currents...

"Dear Penthouse..."
 
I'd like to get my hands on her ample nacelles, if you'll pardon the engineering parlance.
 
I like it better than what we got. Otherwise, I'll repost my comments from the Trek Art thread:

You know, I just realized this painting is the source of the odd Playmates Enterprise prototype that leaked out a while back. It has the black triangles on the saucer rim, gold dish, red bussards, narrower nacelles and straight pylons with the angled backs. As we know that ILM was tasked with fleshing out the design, I wonder how far the VFX team got with the version that was closer to this before it moved in the direction of the final design.

Also, that painting totally looks like an ilustration of the Enterprise as it might have been done for the cover of a '50s pulp scifi magazine. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
 
I actually think i like the red collectors more than what we got. The deflector dish they went with is better than the one in the image though imo
 
Holy Hell in all thats Holy. :drool:


Excellent.


Im wondering if this could be an early concept, at least.


That looks awsome, doesnt look like the TOS ship, but it does at the same time...


Like Quinto and Nimoy, he looks exactly like him while looking fuck all like Nimoy. ;)
 
Can't say this really changes the new version much at all.

If the new ship had adherents as stubborn as the old it'd no doubt cause a few apoplectic fits.


The odd thing is that a good while back someone posted their "update" of the original, and while others were RAVING about how nice a job he'd done, I really could NOT see a difference.

They apparently could, however.

If they'd only changed the ship to the degree they changed the uniforms, it would have looked far more familiar and yet still be new. I think it would have been easier for a lot of people to accept.

I'm still accepting of this new movie version, since this is a new timeline or a different reality entirely and the differences can be explained that way.

My only point is that if the above picture was supposed to be TOS-flavored, it needs some more seasoning. (Besides, why are the collectors yellow and the deflector red? Shouldn't it be the other way around? :p )
 
It seams to me, that this one
ENTERPRISEexteriorBEAUTY1.jpg
is more in line with TOS Enterprise & the one we got was more in line with the movies with the aztec panaling & so forth. I like this design ''almost'' more then the one we got.
 
It seams to me, that this one
ENTERPRISEexteriorBEAUTY1.jpg
is more in line with TOS Enterprise & the one we got was more in line with the movies with the aztec panaling & so forth. I like this design ''almost'' more then the one we got.

Oh yes, post it again would you.

Now I'm taped to my screen, dribbling over my keyboard again. *grmbl* :mad:
 
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