USS Constellation, NCC-1017

[MadMan1701A]

Thanks.

Got the thing resized....

I like that better...

I can't help but wonder, where is the gigantic tongue that stimulated the earlier smaller bridge, making it swell into what we have here. Like a....

Oh my- sorry.

Excuse me. I have to go find my wife now!

Wow. you took that somewhere I didn't even think about.

 

[largo]

Wow. you took that somewhere I didn't even think about.

to boldly go...

 

[Kaiser]

Great Progress on this

 

[JuanBolio]

I like it, MadMan. Well done, sir. Well done.

 

[MadMan1701A]

Thanks, guys. The progress won't be much in the next several days, since we decided to come to Washington DC to see the sights.

Speaking of which, this is the first thing we went to see...

And to prove I was actually there...

Have fun, guys.

 

[GilmourD]

Thanks, guys. The progress won't be much in the next several days, since we decided to come to Washington DC to see the sights.

Speaking of which, this is the first thing we went to see...

And to prove I was actually there...

Have fun, guys.

I CAN HAS!?

 

[B.J.]

Nice! I went there two years ago, but considering the fact that my kids were 7 and 3 then, I actually had to *avoid* the gift shop!

 

[The Castellan]

Does this mean the Doomsday machine's going to be about 50 miles in size, now?

 

[Birdog]

Does this mean the Doomsday machine's going to be about 50 miles in size, now?

Since it eats whole star systems that makes sense.

 

[GilmourD]

Does this mean the Doomsday machine's going to be about 50 miles in size, now?

Does this mean the Doomsday machine's going to be about 50 miles in size, now?

Since it eats whole star systems that makes sense.

Wasn't it always something huge like that?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I would expect the planet killer should be at least close to the size of the planets it eats.

Likewise, I kind of figured the Fesarius probably should be interpretted as a kind of mobile planet, like a small moon or something covered with warp engines and weapons.

 

[MadMan1701A]

Yeah, I'm thinking of how big it is going to end up... I would think deathstar sized, at least. Otherwise, it could take it years to eat up a planet...

 

[Vance]

Yeah, I'm thinking of how big it is going to end up... I would think deathstar sized, at least. Otherwise, it could take it years to eat up a planet...

Not really. You guys are forgetting that the thing is a CONVERSION system. That means, it chops up planets, ingests the mass and converts that mass into energy. It does NOT swallow a planet whole, nor does it need to. Also, keep in mind, the thing left plenty of debris behind as well.

Destroy the planet, eat to refuel, go to next planet.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Nobody said it was an efficient planet eater. In fact, its table manners are dowright horrid.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Apparently someone hasn't heard of a napkin.

This is why I don't buy nice clothes for the Doomsday Machine anymore.

 

[Vance]

Nobody said it was an efficient planet eater. In fact, its table manners are dowright horrid.

Heh.

But it's kind of the point. It wasn't supposed to destroy the planet down to the last atom. It was just to reduce it to rubble, refuel (whatever it needed) from the mass now around, and then move on. It's a war machine, first and foremost.

 

[MadMan1701A]

Nobody said it was an efficient planet eater. In fact, its table manners are dowright horrid.

Heh.

But it's kind of the point. It wasn't supposed to destroy the planet down to the last atom. It was just to reduce it to rubble, refuel (whatever it needed) from the mass now around, and then move on. It's a war machine, first and foremost.

That's true... but the bigger it is, the bigger the proton beam can be. Therefore, the faster it can chop up said planet.

I'll be home tomorrow... so I might sketch out some ideas. does anyone know of any neat concepts they've seen over the years of an updated machine?

 

[Maurice]

The DDM as shown in the original effects shots would be about 13,330 feet long if you go by the size of the Enterprise (not the shuttle or Constellation). I built a 3D model of it back around 1990 and determined the size by comparing the Enterprise to it when it's in profile in front of the DDM to the DDM's maw height.

 

[SonicRanger]

The Doomsday Machine has already been made much larger:

http://trekmovie.com/2007/02/10/the-doomsday-machine-screenshots/

For example...

Old effect: http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/doomsday_ep/old_20.jpg

New effect: http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/doomsday_ep/new_20.jpg

 

[BolianAuthor]

^

TOSR is so silly, and that first link proves it. The original footage looked so much better, than the "improved" footage. I mean, TOSR is basically just an attempt to make the BEST "old cheesy" effects you can make, which backfires, because it looks even worse.