The original Enterprise prepares for take-off after construction is finished.
As you can see, there's still a lot of work to do, adding more detail, supports for the saucer, and so on. Also, the subdivision isn't at full.
Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas.
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Very cool rendering, dude.
I like the realism of the image though. The light balancing is quite nice though the lighting is too intence on the ship. Should be more subdued in the day light.
This image:
NCC1701_small.jpg
Which when you look at it is really just a bad photoshop with the carrier in the slip just kind of filled in, badly, but hey it is a really old photoshop too.
I don't want to say..."too bit" but rather impractical. For instance where they say the Movie Enterprise 2009 was built is due for a massive Earth Quake in 300 years on a five hundred year cycle.
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Utopia Plantia is a plane on Mars yet the ship yards are clearly seen in Voyager, in orbit around the planet just as many of the Enterprises were constructed in San Franscco Yards including Sovereign and as we see in the motion picture Kirk is in San Fransisco and shuttles up to the Enterprise in Dry dock the same as Sovereign...
Yes, I know all of that.
I was just saying it says "San Francisco" on the plaque. That could mean the ship was built there, it could mean that the major components were built there and assembled in orbit (which is the more likely scenario.) The problem is, none of this crap was ever officially stated. Sure, Gene said this, and X fan says this, but nothing is concrete. Personally, I've always gone with the theory that the orbital dry dock seen in TMP is part of the San Francisco yards, but we have no on screen evidence of this. It is possible to build a ship that large on the ground and use the anti-gravity thrusters to get it into orbit. There are advantages to building on the ground. One of which is the fact that your build crew doesn't all have to be in space suits.
can't you delete it yourself, go into edit post, select delete and specify a reason in the text field.
anyway if i was building the enterprise i would do it in orbit but i would(if surface to orbit travel is as easy as it is in trek) build the pieces modularly on the ground. also as director, harder as the effects may be, i would want to shown the shipyard in orbit as it would be pretty awesome to see on screen.
It would be better to build the modules on the moon and moon them between orbits. Space Suits aren't as bad as the most common cause of work place injury/death. Falling...
In sealed structures you could have human crews fit the modules but most of this construction will be by robotics. Human inspectors (I guess because machines can do a better inspection job of so much area) could overseer but there is no better way to build objects 3 and 4 times the size of a carrier in a years time.
Thanks. I'm used to other forums that don't allow regular users to delete their posts.
1. I've never seen anti grav used in such a way. Trek always uses propulsive force in Star Fleet to go from Planetary to Orbit. Thrusters, impulse, Ion
2. The most amount of energy is spent during lift off. It's not about mileage. The moon's gravity is a 17th that of Earth. I would put the ship yards in Lunar Orbit but if there are production facilities around Earth already then moving finished pieces 230 thousand miles instant remotely inconvenient for an interstellar civilization considering that production facilities will often be found near mining facilities which will be all over the solar system.
Just to add something to the land/space argument, weren't some parts of the E-D built on the surface of Mars? I have a memory of seeing a picture from TNG of the saucer and the engineering hull on the ground.
Yeah, we get carried away with the discussions sometimes. I don't remember anything specific about the -D being built on Mars' surface. They had a few "flashback" sequences (some were on the holodeck) that showed the inside of a facility at Utopia Planitia. But, that could have been an orbital facility.
Still looking pretty cool, man. I don't know if I remember seeing the picture of the D on Mars, I know it was built around Mars, but until we saw the last episode I never had a real clear picture in my head of how it was made. I wish I could ask my kid self what he was thinking, he had some funky ideas (oh, to be that creatively uninhibited but with my level of skill...)
The people are cut out from the Riverside shipyard in ST09
No problem. It's not as bad as an argument I once accidentally started on TrekBBS.
I don't remember seeing it in an episode. I think it was on Memory-Alpha. It looked like a satellite photo with all the parts scattered about.
Nothing has been expressly stated.
There is an image of the Saucer of a Galaxy Class Starship used in one episode as an orbital shot of some facility. I think it was a production job flob. It was from far away too hardly intelligible unless magnified.
Later we see the Galaxy being constructed both in Space Dock (during LaForge's Holo-program and during Voyager launching" (this either means there is a Spacedock in Mars Orbit (which seems unnecessary to have two 8 mile long stations in the same system (or one of those station in orbit is large enough to accommodate a ship of this size...with room to spare.
Yeah, I found it:
Utopia_Planitia.jpg
It certainly looks like Galaxy parts, though the resolution on it is so low that it's hard to say for certain. Those could be buildings.
Then there's this shot, which shows the ship clearly being constructed as an entire ship, not parts, because you can see where the framework for the saucer is there and they're putting on hull plating:
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Plus, I do believe that was supposed to be an orbital station. It looks like it's enclosed, so it's hard to say for certain. It might be more clear in HD, but I don't have any of the TNG blu-rays (I have the DVDs.)
This shot shows the fleet yards in all its glory. You can mostly seen completed ships in the docks. Though, if I remember correctly, you did see some ships being constructed during the fly-through of the yards.