This ship appears as if it was for a Commodore going on one of those political junkets.
Unseen TOS....
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Fits your criteria for what would be seen at a distancee, or briefly close up.Okay. Tweaked the forward windows. Changed the navigational dome into a more conventional dish--my guess is this could be a coat button with a nail through it and painted. Also added a bit more detail on the underside as well as a little extra colouring on the upper hull for a little more visual texture.
At this point I don't want to go any further with it because I would then be making it look too detailed for something that is supposed to be worked up reasonably quickly.
For some reason I'm thinking the ship should be named Scoundrel. And given the modest size of this ship I don’t envision t having a transporter hence the nod to some sense of aerodynamics to land on a planet surface.
And yet I want your orthos to have some insignia/name/hull number! Not NCC probably!
Or for Kirk and Spock to sneak off for a camping weekend.
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I was wondering, could this ship have a transporter inside it? Is this a starship or an experimental shuttlecraft or is it a combination of both?
Nothing experimental. It's meant to be the smallish Class J cargo ship glimpsed at the beginning of the TOS episode "Mudd's Women." Harry Mudd commandeered (stole) the ship and was trying to escape the Enterprise when he overloaded the ship's engines wherein it drifted direcly in the path of an asteroid and was destroyed. I wouldn't think a craft of this size in the TOS era would have a transporter so it would have to be able to land on a planet surface.
Okay. Tweaked the forward windows. Changed the navigational dome into a more conventional dish--my guess is this could be a coat button with a nail through it and painted. Also added a bit more detail on the underside as well as a little extra colouring on the upper hull for a little more visual texture.
At this point I don't want to go any further with it because I would then be making it look too detailed for something that is supposed to be worked up reasonably quickly.
For some reason I'm thinking the ship should be named Scoundrel. And given the modest size of this ship I don’t envision t having a transporter hence the nod to some sense of aerodynamics to land on a planet surface.
How many decks does she have?
I often wondered what happened to the real Captain Leo Walsh.
Were the original Mudd anything like Disco’s version,my guess is that ol’ Leo did the airlock shuffle.
My assumption has ALWAYS been that Leo Walsh was a fiction. Mudd's fake ID and nothing more.
--Alex
Except that the computer doesn't "incorrect" him at that point like it does about his name, his master's license, his criminal record or that he has not devoted his life to wiving settlers. So I have always figured any lies spoken there were lies of omission that the computer couldn't refute.
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I was thinking of its place of origin before "Mudd's Women" before TOS current function of that vessel.
Blast that tin...plated... pot!
Hmm… Squinting this looks somewhat like something Matt Jefferies might have sketched. I was partly influenced by his original shuttlecraft design and I thought of putting a belt around the widest part of the hull, but I thought it would unnecessarily complicate the design and maybe muss up the overall look.
Yep - KISS principle in practice back then. Don't overthink it.
I didn’t try to envision the Columbia mentioned in “The Cage” because its appearance in the story isn’t at all necessary AND it could easily have been a Talosian fiction to lure the Enterprise to Talos 4.
I’m thinking much the same regarding the Astral Queen mentioned in “The Conscience Of The King” given there is no reason story wise to see the ship even though we know it exists.
Still it might be interesting to imagine what it could look like…
I’m thinking much the same regarding the Astral Queen mentioned in “The Conscience Of The King” given there is no reason story wise to see the ship even though we know it exists.
Still it might be interesting to imagine what it could look like…
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I have envisioned the Astral Queen! I once built a 1:1000 model of it by kitbashing an A-10 Warthog with some sharpies for engines and a few other bits. I think it came out looking sleek and civilian.
SADLY, the model is currently in storage and I don't seem to have any pics handy. Someday I'll have to start a thread of all my own crap I always say I've done but can't prove...
--Alex
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