2DDifferent kind of Trek ship

B.J.

This is the start of something I came up with recently. I just sketched out the basic shapes, and I liked the way it looked, so I started fleshing it out a bit.

It's far from finished yet, and of course it's missing all the regular details, but I wanted to put this out for comments. If it's not clear, the engineering hull has a sort of wasp-waist in the front view.

I did take a look at a few options (per suggestions on another forum) for a spherical primary hull. I admit, they look nice, although I do prefer my original saucer (on bottom). What do you guys think?

Galen

Very interesting concept. Very new and original way of design dude!

bbzwbbzw

Looks good BJ, I like the saucer one too. Its good to see you back at work BTW!

Melak

How dare you do something different, this is trek!

Out of the options, I like the original saucer best, with the one on top as a 2nd. I really like the way the shuttle bay looks, and the nacelles are pretty, too

somacruz145

Yup it looks good. The spherical hulls look like they could fall off so the original sounds the most ... logical. Looking forward to seeing more :thumb:

Kmpr´rak

Uncommon idea so far, but nice! For me it looks like a bird or something, but absolutely positive meant! Go on, cool art! :cool:

Ironscythe

I REALLY like this! Maybe once you're done with the 2D, you could work on a mesh? At the very least, I'm sure someone would be willing to pick it up as a project. This is great stuff!

B.J.

Thanks for the comments, guys! I went ahead and built a very rough Sketchup model just to see if there were any glaring problems with the overall configuration. The only things I see is that the nacelles look way too high in the front/aft views, and the neck needs to be wider in the top view. Other than that, the proportions look pretty good to me.

dawnie

Like it

Ironscythe

B.J. wrote: »

Thanks for the comments, guys! I went ahead and built a very rough Sketchup model just to see if there were any glaring problems with the overall configuration. The only things I see is that the nacelles look way too high in the front/aft views, and the neck needs to be wider in the top view. Other than that, the proportions look pretty good to me.

I agree, the nacelles could be pushed out and down a bit...maybe just down. But HOT DAMN, it's sexy. I'm bookmarking this one.

walpurgis

It looks kind of Klingon-influenced, like mabe its from an alternate universe where the Klingons join the federation early on.

Major Diarrhia

You could thicken the pylons a bit on their leading edges but I wouldn't change the height, the ship looks good.

Flanker

This is really a great design and very different structure wise. I am looking forward how the finished product will look like. The pylons might be a bit to thin but thats about it.

Marian87

Hey man, really cool design, so much so that I couldn't stop myself from modeling it.

Majestic

Wow, beautiful design and great model, to me it looks like a early Federation design (22nd century), something that ran alongside the Daedalus.

Marian87

Hmm, I think it's a bit too organic when compared tot the Daedalus and the Meteor.
The nacelles have a resemblance to the new Trek movies, maybe it's one of those prototypes ignored in the prime Universe but accepted in the JJverse leading to the new more organic Enterprise.