OMG! Design the next USS ENTERPRISE (Offical Contest)

I'm playing with basic shapes again, experimenting with connecting the nacelles to the saucer like in my first wip image, and just trying to come up with something more interesting, attractive or unique.

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Gak. Apparently I just re-created this:
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Coming up with something that hasn;t been tried before is proving rather difficult.
 
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It's interesting what happens when I extrude the secondary hull out of the back of the saucer.
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Moments before I fell asleep last night I came up with something that may not have been done before:

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-but does it look like an Enterprise?

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I think I'll move forward with this horseshoe shape idea, which I'll refer to as the "Entusi" from now on (Homeworld players will catch the reference :p)

I may abandon it eventually in favor of something more recognizably Enterpris-ish, but in the meantime, what can I do to make it look bigger and more like the traditional Enterprise without loosing too much of it's distinctness?
 
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Playing with the idea of 4 nacelles.

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It's starting to look a bit like a tOS Romulan bird of prey.

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I think I need to go longer/slimmer to avoid this similarity.
 
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I like this shape idea. How about if you reverse everything, except for the center (disk and under body) which you would turn it around and elongate the under body so it sticks out further in the back.
 
Starbeast said:
I like this shape idea. How about if you reverse everything, except for the center (disk and under body) which you would turn it around and elongate the under body so it sticks out further in the back.
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That would look cool, but very Klingon.
 
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