OMG! Design the next USS ENTERPRISE (Offical Contest)

[Pyan]

How about a one-third size secondary saucer raised above and overlapping the main one, on a curving pylon fixed to the area above the shuttlebay? Could be a fast raider/courier-type ship that separates...?



























Only joking... - it looks great!

 

[sloweye]

None on the shape.
How about adding phased pulse cannons? they perfected those for use on the Defiant and i think (but not sure) on Saber class ships, they would make a fine addition to her armourey. maybe on the underside and aft?

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

How about a one-third size secondary saucer raised above and overlapping the main one, on a curving pylon fixed to the area above the shuttlebay? Could be a fast raider/courier-type ship that separates...?

Maybe if I could get it to look like a spoiler.

Probably be kind of like the Reliant's torpedo pod, but rounder.

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Lol, didn't catch that is was a joke at first, and now I'm pondering it

None on the shape.
How about adding phased pulse cannons? they perfected those for use on the Defiant and i think (but not sure) on Saber class ships, they would make a fine addition to her armourey. maybe on the underside and aft?

I'll do some research

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They aren't supported in game, but I'll add them anyway.

I'm thinking of hanging them from the underside of the saucer, like fangs.

 

[Pyan]

Well, if it's not too late...

I was thinking more of something about half the size of the "Defiant", to snuggle in between the nacelles, and mounted on a centrally mounted curved pylon (like the ones you get with aircraft kits)...

(in situ, you'd be looking at it from starboard aft)

 

[sloweye]

I still think as extra ships go, delta flyers would be good. well armed, light, fast and not much bigger than a shuttle. you could fit loads in there (like strike fighters)

 

[Pyan]

Have to be careful you didn't turn the Enterprise into a fighter carrier, though - unless you wanted to: it doesn't seem to have been a road that the Federation have gone down, in canon anyway (unless someone knows different...)

 

[sloweye]

The missing scene from the last flick saw her go in for a refit, they added 5 new torpedo tubes and more phaser banks on the strength od the encounter with the very heavely armed simatar. i was just thinking along the lines of they wouldn't back track they would move forwaard. (i'm asumming that the guy in charge of the ship yards are German, we know from porsch 911's that they dont like to admit they had a bad idea )

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

Something else I whipped up for pondering purposes.

My current to-do list for tonight:
Pulse Phasers
Shrink bridge 30%.
Concave ass.
Big hull segments modeled?
Thin saucer in all areas except neck.

 

[sloweye]

I wouldn't slim her down to much if she is going to carry massive armourments, she need the weight behind her.
I seem to remember form the early days of the Defiant someone saying "the phase cannons nearly ripped the bulkheads apart"

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

It would require a few steps back, but what if the nacelle struts sprouted from the "neck", rather than the "shoulders?"

To put it another way, instead of one neck piece and two strut pieces, what if the neck were all one Y shaped piece that connected everything?

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Kinda like this:

 

[sloweye]

That might ruin her Enterprise-ness. She looks good, i'd just keep her bulk as is.

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

That might ruin her Enterprise-ness. She looks good, i'd just keep her bulk as is.

I can always go back. I haven't done anything particularly original yet. I think I'll try this route, just to see if it's a path I want to follow.

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

I'll post these two together so you can compare:

VS

Still have a lot of detail to work out on the new one of course.

 

[Pyan]

I must say I prefer the top one there, FM - the head-on view of the bottom one doesn't work for me at all, and it looks remarkably like an Excelsior class with a longer, slimmer saucer and longer nacelles.

IMHO, of course...

 

[sloweye]

I agree, she looks better with some size. The plan view of the slimmer one looks voygerish. And head on its not as imposing

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

Thoughts? I'm not happy with the basic shape of the engineering section, especially from the front.

 

[sloweye]

I honestly think the saucer has gone to.... arrow head. It looks too 'intrepid' class now.

(click to enlarge)

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

I like this engineering section better.

This is what it looks like with absolutely no smoothing btw.

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Wireframe

 

[sloweye]

Sorry, but thats not enterprise.

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

Sorry, but thats not enterprise.

It's pretty close in silhouette. Add rear struts and you're there. I want to do something at least slightly different.