OMG! Design the next USS ENTERPRISE (Offical Contest)

It's taken me a day to digest Cryptic's final draft, but I can now say that it's a far more appropriate Enterprise F than my own.

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/StarTrek_EnterpriseF_screen_main.jpg

She's intimidating, having a very mature stature. My design looks rather adolescent by comparison.

Her curves are a good deal more fluid. Very organic yet purposeful. No doubts as to her structural integrity.

She's not a great leap forward in design philosophy, a safer choice, probably wise. I have no doubts she'll be seamlessly accepted by the majority of fans, which is all they could ever have hoped for.

I do wish they'd add a few more poly's to her nose.
 
This one looks good. I also designed a Star Trek ship in the past for a Star Trek series what we wanted to pitch to Paramount (Then they cancelled the whole franchise, when we just finished the script of the first season...). It was a four nacelled spacecraft carrier, the U.S.S. Concordia NX-92337, Concordia Class (It was graceful, was a bit similar to the Prometheus class, especially it's saucer section but it was twice as large and had four large hangars on her back.). Maybe I still have her design somewhere...
 
I couldn't find it, so I made a very quick (and ugly) pen sketch about the Concordia, scanned it and added some blueprint color to it. :)

This is how the ship looked like (The original was much more beautiful and more detailed. It had dual phaser banks on the top and the bottom of the saucer section. There was two at the middle top-bottom section.). From this view the deflector is not visible, so there is a side view. And I left the nacelle holders and I built in the nacelles right onto the saucer section. The hangars are at the top back section. The Concordia has the length of 937 meters, so it was a pretty large ship (But the scripts played 10 years after Nemesis and this ship was an experimental carrier.). The fighters and bombers on her were well modified Type 9 Shuttles (Vigilance Fighter and Myrmidon bomber variants) and Modified Danube Runabout troop transports. In the story these ships were only for the shakedown cruise and later in the story the fighters and the bombers have been replaced by a new design, a new space superiority interceptor, the Grasshopper Class. Oh, and the ship also carried few Olympic class hover tanks. The U.S.S. Concordia NX-92337 had two sister ships, a much more advanced Section 31 ship, the Olympia and the U.S.S. Athena, NCC-77613-A. And the Concordia had a larger version, another experimental ship, the U.S.S. Juno NX-92331, Juno Class, and she also had a smaller evil sister ship with a sentient A.I., the U.S.S. Aurora NX-92401, Aurora Class (It was an advanced Defiant class with holoprojective hull. Deadly combination with a psycho A.I.). So this is my Concordia Class from my old Star Trek series project, Star Trek - Beyond Frontiers. :)

USSConcordia.jpg
 
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That looks great! Very streamlined and powerful. I wish you could find the original, I'd like to see more, a view from the front specifically.
 
Yep, she was powerful. She was developed against the Borg. But in the series, not the Borg was the greatest threat.

From the front the shape was very simple. The nacelles were a bit tilted, like if they would want to shape the legs of an A at the top and a V at the bottom. The deflector was a bit different because it wasn't a standard deflector as the Concordia had one large separated to two as the front of the deflector section was also V shaped (If we look from the top. The left side of the V was one of the deflector, the right side was the other side.). It was also streamlined to the other parts of the ship. But from the front she was a realtively easy design.

So the ship had a lot of V and A shapes. The saucer is also was more similar to a V as it wasn't that smooth, but it was much more similar to the Prometheus' saucer section.
 
Both looks great, but Chris' picture has a little problem (While the ship is beautiful and I like the warp nacelle and deflector design.); because of the lights it's giving the false impression the ship is moving backward.

Your ship also looks great (Your warp nacelle also has a great design). The only thing what I don't like is the revese nacelle pylons. But it's not your fault. I never really liked reverse wings or pylons on any designs (That's the point what I don't like on the Prometheus either.).
 
Freelancer said:
Both looks great, but Chris' picture has a little problem (While the ship is beautiful and I like the warp nacelle and deflector design.); because of the lights it's giving the false impression the ship is moving backward.

Your ship also looks great (Your warp nacelle also has a great design). The only thing what I don't like is the revese nacelle pylons. But it's not your fault. I never really liked reverse wings or pylons on any designs (That's the point what I don't like on the Prometheus either.).
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To clarify, both the images above are by Chris Madden, not me.

This one is mine:
v3_persp_08_s.jpg


Bigger.
 
Lots of new Enterprise F pics from Cryptic:

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/sto_screen_enterprisef_072211_01.jpg

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/sto_screen_enterprisef_072211_02.jpg

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/sto_screen_enterprisef_072211_04.jpg

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/sto_screen_enterprisef_072211_05.jpg

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/sto_screen_enterprisef_072211_07.jpg

I'm liking her more and more :)

[edit] More pics: http://startrekonline.com/gallery

[edit] I do hope they work on the textures a bit more. In some area the shapes seem purposeless or misapplied. Especially on the nacelle struts, which also don't blend with the other objects very well.
 
There is, or course, no right answer to the question of "What is the Enterprise F?" Responses fall into a gradient of acceptance basked on individual bias.

My answer was "fast and lean."

Adam Ihle's answer was "big and bold." CapnLogan's (STO's modeler's) answer was "sleek and streamlined." The combination is incredibly imposing and dynamic. The dual neck does a wonderful job of conveying size, and taking the back of the necks and pulling that line into the nacelle struts took her from fragile to sturdy in a single stroke.

I still prefer "fast and lean" but that doesn't make it the best choice for Cryptic. I can see why they went with Adams instead. The Enterprise F, as the flagship in a time of war, must command a great presence.
 
Star Trek Online has released the Enterprise F.


Gotta admit she's a real beauty.

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I added a little more polish after getting Andrew Probert's help. Mostly she's just smoother around the neck/strut area.

1701-f_800a.jpg
 
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