U.S.S. TITAN -- THE WINNER!

[Trent Roman]

Thanks, Sean. You've obviously invested a good deal of thought and effort into these designs.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Reiko]

Very cool design! It's going to look good on the cover of the next Titan book.

 

[Tino]

Hi there.

Those images are quite nice. One question though:

Why does the mirror-starship have a slightly different
hull and engines? On purpose or is the mirror-starship
based upon an older design?

Your Tino.

 

[elaithin]

Just a more agressive look, I think.

 

[Reiko]

Tino said:
Hi there.

Those images are quite nice. One question though:

Why does the mirror-starship have a slightly different
hull and engines? On purpose or is the mirror-starship
based upon an older design?

Your Tino.

In the TNG book Dark Mirror the evil enterprise-D was described as having a slightly different look.

 

[Titan Designer]

Tino said:
Hi there.

Those images are quite nice. One question though:

Why does the mirror-starship have a slightly different
hull and engines? On purpose or is the mirror-starship
based upon an older design?

Your Tino.

I wanted her to look meaner, so I got rid of the Sensor pod and added weapons pods, and made the nacells more aggresive looking.

 

[JWolf]

I do have a question about the Titan logos. It's the same sort of logo format as used with NX-01 and not again until Titan. What happened t the logo format between the time of Enterprise and the time of Titan? It would seem that if NX-01 used that sort of logo format, then it would have been used for the all the other ships we've seen in the time period in between. Something like this logo format is what makes prequels a problem. If you use anything from the prequel like this logo, then you get the sort of question I just asked and unless a really good answer can be found, then you have a rather larger plot hole.

 

[Titan Designer]

when creating the Titan for the contest I decided why not give her a logo. And I came up with the one attached. yes I paid homage to the Enterprise Logo, but added the moon Titan into it to tie in with the Luna class theme.

 

[JWolf]

It's still something taken from Enterprise That was not used up until Titan with no good explination why it was dropped and then picked back up. Just a good reason why sometimes prequals fail as they cause future works discontinity with works inbetween.

 

[Dayton Ward]

We've seen logos/decals/etc. for things such as the Galaxy-class development project, which aren't worn on uniforms but are seen displayed on computer screens/bulkheads/etc. in various episodes (See "11001001" or "Galaxy's Child" or "Pathfinder" for examples). Just because we don't see such logos for every ship doesn't mean they don't exist.

To me, the logo Sean designed is more for that use. That it evokes something from the ENT era is no different than shuttle mission patches that harken back to the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo days.

 

[fleetcaptain]

Dayton Ward said:
We've seen logos/decals/etc. for things such as the Galaxy-class development project, which aren't worn on uniforms but are seen displayed on computer screens/bulkheads/etc. in various episodes (See "11001001" or "Galaxy's Child" or "Pathfinder" for examples). Just because we don't see such logos for every ship doesn't mean they don't exist.

Dayton is correct. The DS9 manual gave us a look at DS9's official logo and the Defiant 's logo, so there could be logos for the starships and starbases still, just not seen as much. I think it would be a good idea to see them once and awhile. I think the fighter pilots probably wore those logos more since during the DW, they most likely had their starship logo and the squadron logo on their uniform and maybe flightsuit, if they wore one.

To me, the logo Sean designed is more for that use. That it evokes something from the ENT era is no different than shuttle mission patches that harken back to the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo days.

 

[Titan Designer]

I just used it as a mission development patch. It isn't on the uniforms. I pictured it on some of the Titans' mission logs. But it was just something that I created for the contest. Now in my Dark Mirror Universe Project in the Art section the mirror Universe does use ship logos on their uniforms.

 

[Trek]

Dayton Ward said:
We've seen logos/decals/etc. for things such as the Galaxy-class development project, which aren't worn on uniforms but are seen displayed on computer screens/bulkheads/etc. in various episodes (See "11001001" or "Galaxy's Child" or "Pathfinder" for examples). Just because we don't see such logos for every ship doesn't mean they don't exist.

To me, the logo Sean designed is more for that use. That it evokes something from the ENT era is no different than shuttle mission patches that harken back to the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo days.

I think it's quite apropriate for the Titan and her fellow Luna-class ships to have mission patches. They're spear-heading a new era of exploration in much tha same way as the NX-class, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions did.

 

[captcalhoun]

^^ seconded.

the DS9TM also features similar patches for the Danube class runabout, the USS Defiant - complete with 'assimilate this!' - and the work bee. these were never seen on screen, but they're still cool.

 

[JD]

^ They did? Is there anywhere where we can see them now?

 

[Masao]

They were both in the DS9 tech manual. You can probably find them online somewhere.

 

[captcalhoun]

ex-astris-scientia.org

 

[Skywalker]

I like the logo a lot. Personally, I've always wished that every ship had a patch that was part of the crew's regular uniform. At least my wish was granted in ENT.

 

[fleetcaptain]

For some reason when I posted yesterday, what I said did not show up. What I was going to say, well capt.calhoun already did. But how do we know that any of the starships and starbases still don't use mission patches? They might and we just never saw it on screen.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Actually, it did show up, but it's embedded in the portion of my post that you quoted. Looks like the quote tags might have been off.