Hey, everybody.
Since I posted my Doomsday poster on a couple of sites, I've had a ton of requests to actually build a Doomsday Machine. Well, I decided to, but I thought that instead of doing another variation of it that looks like it's made of rock, I decided to head in more of a "Tech" direction...
That little Enterprise there is a placeholder, that I built to the same dimensions of my STXI Enterprise model...
What do you guys think?
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Kind of what I was going with the idea is that it is still made of Neutronium, but just to look more "advanced". I think they talked about a possible war that the original was built for... maybe this was the first version, and in response, the one we saw in TOS was built quickly for retaliation?
More later...
I was just thinking didn't spock say it was from a galaxy far from their own? and in the time it took to get to ours and encounter the Constitution it could of gathered debris from the planets it was destroying that were attached to the hull of the weapon its self, Sorta like V'ger but with the doomsday machine? so maybe this is what the machine part of it is supposed to be like?
Ah either way, I love the look and can't wait to see more
looking great sir!
Not sure about that.... I had built those spikes back there, and I was thinking they might be heat radiators, or part of the drive. I was thinking about building some exhaust vents into the areas where the conical sections go together... hard to see now, but should look cool when they're lit up, behind all the panels and rings and stuff.
I think you're right about that... it's going to be tricky, for sure...
Interesting for sure. I'm sure what ever you come up with will be fitting. Looks great.
-Brian
Geek moment over.
Nice design. Reminds me of the tower at the top of the Chrysler Building.
Not yet, unfortunately. I am definitely wanting too, though. It's just all the Christmas stuff starting to ramp up... been shopping, and have parties to go to....
Yeah, me too. It always made more sense that it would cut up the planet / blow it up / whatever, and then it would just eat what it needed, and move on, leaving the rest.
Hopefully I can get some done soon... I had wanted to be done by Christmas.
@madman: As usual, your design sense is impressive. I love that your DM looks mechanical rather than organic. If you feel that you must add some rock-like bits to it I suggest doing that only around the machine's maw, like the molten rock from the planets it has carved up over those countless eons became crusted around its mouth as it cooled.
Work, work, work......
I say this because in all reality I'm a Tellarite at heart.
Writers intentions and directors interpretation are often two separate visions. Also, IMO, the only interpretation that really matters is the viewers.
1.) The motors in my dragster jams all the radios at PIR every time I make a run (Fully electric Vdub Bug, best ET 10.688 at 146.87mph), so the idea that it must be weapon because it jammed them looses strength when you think about how much power that ship must put out when it cracks a planet. All I have to do to wipe out every radio transmission within 500 feet of my car is pop on the E-brake and step on the throttle a little. The DM could do the same thing.
2.) A shark will attack a surfer thinking its a seal, because it looks like a seal, sounds like a seal, and acts like a seal in the surf. But when they get a taste of all the fiberglass and styrofoam they realize, It ain't food. The Constellation likely looked like food, but once it got a taste... And as for the crew, they simply made a bad choice when beaming down to the next planet on the Vogon's demolition list.
I can accept that rationale. Guess I never thought of the Doomsday Machine as anything other than a weapon because that's how Kirk classifies it in the episode, comparing it to modern-day hydrogen bombs. If nothing else it does give the machine an interesting backstory.
By the way, I'd love to see a VW Bug screaming along at 147mph. Driving that baby must be a blast!
The hydrogen bomb theory that kirk classifies well a good analogy, could also be seen as him reacting to what the machine has done, its capabilities, and its threat to the federation. He has no clue of the machines original mission, its history, where it came from, who made it, and why it attacked worlds. It was too him totally alien and he was reacting accordingly. It was true in a sense. Nothing the federation had at the time that they knew of could potentially harm the machine. The thing would have rampaged its way through there weapons and technology useless. So the Bomb analogy was correct the machine was indeed a major threat. Also if someone managed to capture it. Well it may have been in my theory a major contruction machine, in a primitive cultures hand like the federation, or say the klingons, and Romulan Empire. It defiently would have been a fearsome weapon. Of course hopfully said cultures would have the mind to put doors infront of the maw to keep intellegent captains from firing torps into its gut..