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Published: 2013-09-20 05:36:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 4569; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 244
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The Valiant Class Explorer is a pre-TOS design, by Raymond "Warped9" Lefebvre. And was inspired as a possible design for the lost ship Valiant, from the "Star Trek TOS" episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before".Related content
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you know, strangely enough this concept is starting to become a reality... we may have to rethink another star trek universe where the Vulcans have a nacelle setup and us earthlings use the ring system! XD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zPOxm…
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Very Cool! I've Never seen what the Valiant Looked like,So it's a Design open to how People Might see it.
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Actually, look up S.S. Valiant in The Star Trek Encyclopedia. It has great image of what the Valiant looks like. That is, of course, according to Michael Okuda, but the book is a record of all things canon up to the late 90s and early 2000s.
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If you ask me, for a really early warp ship, it's far too big and fleshed-out. You have to take into account that the SS Valiant was launched only two years after first contact with the Vulcans. Earth was very much still a shit-hole from WWIII, seeing as how Cochrane was able to commandeer a US nuclear missile silo, with missile, then bring in labor and materials to construct the Phoenix, all without getting noticed and shut down.
Anyway, judging by the size of the windows and the radius of the hull, your ship here is AT LEAST 200 meters long, and displacing tens of thousands of tons. I just don't see a post-apocalyptic society coming together to:
a) build something so huge
b) ignore Cochrane's nacelle design and try to mimic Vulcan annular warp drive
c) let something that big and hugely expensive just go off on and open-ended exploration mission and lose track of it so quickly
I'm sorry, I had a rough day. It makes me a bit of a jaded, cynical asshole.
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I think the US wasn't hit as bad as the east. Especially since most likely Cochrane was doing warp tech theory during the war, its quite possible that along with US-NATO western-coalition tech and vulcan tech, something ring like could be sent - the problem is making it bigger than a probe for the solar system alone
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Look at it this way-- it takes 3-4 years to build a Nimitz class aircraft carrier, and this is in the presence of an established design, established shipyards and materials and logistics. The Phoenix is a refurbished ICBM built by a drunkard in a shanty town in the hills outside of Bozeman, Montana. To go from that to this in two years is simply impossible.
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I have no love for the idea of such an early ship, but most likely it was a warp-project ship for early interstellar travel. For all we know (and some fan sites postulate) it was simply an inter-stellar explorer with a range of 10 ly over 10 years or so, a evolution of pre-warp interplanetary and stellar ships. It was never intended to go far, canon shows that.
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No worries...I have an excuse...It ain't my design. LOL
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Actually, I find it fascinatingly retro in a Buck Rogers kind of way.
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I think that was the idea.
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Sent to the wrong one...Not a big fan of DA's recent changes...Well, she does what she does...Was quite popular at TrekBBS.
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Would love to see her, when you do.
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