Urania-class Post-Enterprise Era Science Vessel

[nicholasm]

I've been working on this project for a while now, and I feel the exterior is more or less finished aside from some detailing and the modeling of the airlocks.
The ship is 1142.5 ft in length, 600 ft across, and 159 feet tall; it has seven decks, with the top deck being an observation dome.
The slight beige panels are based off the ring on the TOS and DSC Enterprise. Here, they are covers for deflector coils/emitters.
I have several interiors for the ship that I'll post at some point.

Any thoughts, questions, and criticisms you have would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Spaceship Jo]

I love it! It looks fantastic in the perspective shot. A really nice use of the stylings of the era.

That said - and this is very much preference not a real criticism - I don't care for the side view, particularly of the engineering section. It's... simultaneously too complicated (curve down, straight over, angle up, angle up) and still quite simple, maybe too simple in it's connection to the bottom of the saucer shapes. It just doesn't match the aesthetic the rest of the design does so very well (gosh, those pylons flow beautifully). But it could just be that one view and again, 3d angles makes a big difference in appreciating a design.

 

[Arpy]

I kinda like it. It’s reminiscent of something I can’t remember what. The only thing that I really don’t like are the dorsal fins. TOS was more clipped and streamlined, and future-y. But it’s an interesting design that reminds me of TOS mixed with DSC and maybe Master of the World or Day the Earth Stood Still or something…gosh I can’t remember…lol. Looking forward to more!

 

[Albertese]

I dig it.

--Alex

 

[Kaiser]

Looks good

 

[nicholasm]

I kinda like it. It’s reminiscent of something I can’t remember what. The only thing that I really don’t like are the dorsal fins. TOS was more clipped and streamlined, and future-y. But it’s an interesting design that reminds me of TOS mixed with DSC and maybe Master of the World or Day the Earth Stood Still or something…gosh I can’t remember…lol. Looking forward to more!

The dome on the very top of the ship was vaguely based off the Jupiter 2, but it's not as obvious as it was in the original version. And the dorsal dins, are those the fins on the nacelles or the back of the main hull?

I love it! It looks fantastic in the perspective shot. A really nice use of the stylings of the era.
That said - and this is very much preference not a real criticism - I don't care for the side view, particularly of the engineering section. It's... simultaneously too complicated (curve down, straight over, angle up, angle up) and still quite simple, maybe too simple in it's connection to the bottom of the saucer shapes. It just doesn't match the aesthetic the rest of the design does so very well (gosh, those pylons flow beautifully). But it could just be that one view and again, 3d angles makes a big difference in appreciating a design.

The engineering section didn't come out how I'd hoped. The ship was a bit too wide and squat for a cylindrical engineering section, so I just took the Discovery's engineering hull and squished it a bit. Hopefully this 3d view helps.

The bridge is a combination of pretty much every bridge that came before TOS (assuming the Kelvin was also in the Prime universe), and it got pretty cramped once I added in the dais and the two standing consoles. However, I'm pretty sure the walkway between the chairs and the railing is about the same width as on the TOS bridge. I'm still working on the lower rows of screens.
The frames around the consoles also get used in the transporter room, which I'm touching up.

 

[nicholasm]

The new semester has kept me sufficiently occupied, but I've finally got the transporter room in a state that I'm happy with it.
Given that this class of ship is meant to be a bit closer to the post-ENT era than DSC, I figured it might have the last generation of lateral-vector transporters, receiving the glowing panels like the DSC and Cage era Enterprise had. I love the big hanging drum in the DSC transporter rooms, but it does make the transporter room a bit claustrophobic.

Out the windows at the front of the transporter room, there's a good view of the bridge. It gives a pretty good view of the braces around the bridge module.
Through the doors at the front of the transporter room, there are staging rooms with enough EVA suits for 3 full away teams.

I've been fiddling with the medical wards; there are four identical wards on the deck above the transporter room. The beds are my attempt at the medi-beds seen in DSC, with updated computer panels to the side, like on the TOS Enterprise. You can see the nurse's station, but there's also a storage room behind the camera with a sink and shelving.

I've gotten the basic shape of Engineering and the antimater-pump room below it. The drums above the reactor are storage tanks for deuterium, and I figure the big console in the TOS Enterprise's engineering section was a big junction box between the reactor and the rest of the ship. The reactor will have pipes leading up to the nacelles like in the NX-01's Engineering section.

The platforms are the tops of the magnetic bottles for the antimatter. The antimatter beams are based off the glowing rods in the Discovery's spore lab as seen through that window.

 

[BorgMan]

Digging the interior shots, and I especially like your Engineering! On a personal note: I think it feels a bit too spacious, but that might be because I like my smaller ships to actually feel a bit claustrophobic. Space in such ships is a premium and Engineering would take up not a lot of space. But as said, that's personal preference. I'm already happy someone else is taking a stab at a TOS aesthetic Engineering!

 

[nicholasm]

Digging the interior shots, and I especially like your Engineering! On a personal note: I think it feels a bit too spacious, but that might be because I like my smaller ships to actually feel a bit claustrophobic. Space in such ships is a premium and Engineering would take up not a lot of space. But as said, that's personal preference. I'm already happy someone else is taking a stab at a TOS aesthetic Engineering!

I pulled some bulkheads in and replaced the upper walkways of the antimatter pump room with some control room windows. I think it feels more reasonable for the ship's smaller size, so I appreciate the suggestion. If you think I should make it tighter, it'd be pretty easy at this stage.

I also have the senior officer quarters basically figured out. I don't know if it comes across, but the table is supposed to be a giant touchscreen with the keyboard just the only open window. The box on the shelves is a fabricator based off the one that produced Michael Burnham's uniform in season one of Discovery.

 

[BorgMan]

Ooooh yeah I like it very much! It feels way more utilarian now. Those slanted panels on the sides of the warpcore... are those walkways? You might get away with opening them up, which would probably result in the whole of engineering feeling more like the NX01's. In this case, I don't think that's bad...

 

[Paul B. Hartzog]

kewl, keep going !

 

[Atolm]

Awesome work on this beautiful ship

 

[Dryson]

Why only seven decks though?

 

[Hawku]

Nice! Love the transitional-generation approach to the interiors.

 

[nicholasm]

Why only seven decks though?

I don't know if I understand your question, but there is a reason why the ship is taller than it would sems necessary.
The hull is two feet thick to allow for the ship's frame, insulation, wiring, etc. Lower Decks also indicates that there is a separate outer hull, which probably needs six or nine inches minimum.
The ceiling of a deck and the floor of the one above it are five feet apart. This would account for space for Jeffries' tubes throughout the ship as well as water pipes, plasma conduits, and all the waste handling machinery and air filtration equipment.
Also, given that the ship is a small, general-purpose science vessel, there'd be no benefit to it having as many decks as a dedicated, long-range science vessel like the Crossfield-Class.
I also just like flat ships; they seem more futuristic