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Tourangeau 2D fleet.

These look cool, I really like the look of the Axanar era ships and have been thinking of doing my own version for a deck plan project after i get bored of my current ones, or an intermediate between ENTERPRISE and AXANAR era.
 
Here is something I addressed over at the fan productions forum, but figured I would also post it here. Yes the Akira pre-dates my Titan, but I did not copy the Akira. the contest stated that the Titan needed to look like it could fit right into the fleet. So As I was designing the Titan for the contest I looked at many ships and tried to incorporate many design element from many ships in the fleet. The contest stated that it needed to fit between the Ent-D and Voyager, but was mothballed. so I figured by the Time the Lune was being built that the Akira could be being developed as well. I added the catamarans to be the anchor for the Pod pylons. I decided to add the Ent-F escape pods verses the Ent D era pods. (so I was following the design contest rules by incorporating different aspects of different designs into the Titan's design)
 
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Sean, are people still giving you static over the Titan looking too much like the Akira??? How many years has it been?
 
Yep 10 years on and I am still getting grief for it.
I can see the gross similarities, but since they're all in the same universe and built by the same people, they're all going to look the similar - that's the point of a fleet.

They both have saucers and the pylons point down and they have a pod. So do the Miranda and Nebula. There's only so many ways you can rearrange those parts before it doesn't look like a Starfleet ship. Nacelles up. Nacelles down. Nacelles out? No nacelles? People need to get over themselves.

It's not the direction I would go for something named "Titan", but then again I couldn't draw a free-form circle with a gun to my head, so I can't say much. I've always thought of it as a beautiful vessel and looks like it should appear as a hero-ship.
 
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