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Ported to OBJ from the excellent low-poly CG recreation by chrispy120. Based on the original redesign as supervised by SNW art director Jonathan Lee for the precursor to the classic TOS/TAS era Class F shuttlecraft. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download chrispy120's original CG model here, which was intended for use as a gaming model but also works wonderfully for medium to long range visuals and multiple vessel use (to save on memory) ....

... or if you need a higher poly one for closeups and beauty shots, here's an excellent filming quality CG reconstruction by Dave "First Fleet" Metlesits:

Named for 21st century Terran visionary Paul Stamets, who was the co-conciever of the organic-based spore drive, this is the SNW take on the precursor to Wah Chang's classic TOS/TAS Class F shuttlecraft. It's noticeably larger than its inspiration, just as the "Disco-prise" is larger than the "real" classic Enteprise, but hey! At least it's to scale with the "Disco-prise," so quit your complaining (wink). Its larger size allows it to serve as more of a utilitarian, multi-purpose small craft than its smaller TOS/TAS era inspiration, which was strictly an administrative type (read small craft passenger ferry). The redesign is also very eye-catching, like a lot of SNW stuff, and my hat is off to Mr. Lee and the rest of the SNW production team for making it so. Two big differences from the classic Type F are that first the Stamets class has a small one-man transporter originally intended for emergency use but which wound up being used routinely and regularly in the field in all sorts of different ways (grin), and second it's set up so that it can be armed. It can't carry much in the way of armaments and it's definitely no fighter shuttle, but still .... That last is a BIG difference from the classic Type F shuttlecraft, and while we have yet to see this capability exploited on screen (and may never, we'll see) it is definitely worthy of note.

The class name comes from Stamets, the first of these ever seen in SNW. It's the shuttle in the series pilot, "Strange New Worlds," used by Admiral Robert April (a TAS nod there, go look it up) to ferry Captain Pike from his home on Terra up to the waiting Enterprise. Other known named members of the class as of the conclusion of the second season of SNW are Cervantes (for Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes of Don Quixote fame) and of course Galileo (for Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, just like in TOS). We'll probably see more as SNW continues and this gets reused in later Trek franchise media.

This is indisputably and unarguably NuTrek canon given its multiple uses on screen. 'Nuff said.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - This is commonly referred to a pre-TOS craft in lots of current Trek fandom but not by many of us older fans, and this deserves some explanation. FWIW I and many other and older classic Trek fans of a fan tech bent date the start of the TOS/TAS era to the start of the Class I (SFTM) generation of Federation Starfleet starships and in particular the corrected date - early 2220s Terran measure - for the launch of USS Constitution, lead ship of the Constitution class heavy cruisers. The Franchise dates the start of the TOS/TAS era to the timeframe of the first TOS pilot "Where No Man ..." - with everything before it being pre-TOS, including SNW - and also uses Okuda's Franchise-sanctioned "official" launch date of 2245 for Enterprise, the second ship in the Constitution class. Okuda's date is wrong and I and other old school Trek fans have discussed this at length for decades now, but that's what the Franchise has gone with ever since Okuda's Star Trek Chronology was published and so it has been in all Franchise-influenced threads of the Trek multiverse ever since. To make a long story short he wasn't allowed to use TAS "The Counter-Clock Incident" at the time as a date reference given that the Great Bird himself had "de-canonized" all of TAS save "Yesteryear," and that's the main reason for the error. Thankfully it got re-canonized as soon as he had passed on and you can look up the full story elsewhere, but by then Okuda's incorrect 2245 launch date for Enterprise had been fixed in official Franchise canon. "It's in the book!" (grin-and-long-laugh) That's the beauty of Trek being a multiverse. Pick the date that works for you and go with it. I won't be offended. Honest. (smile) Besides, and given the on screen evidence so far, I think the Franchise is going to fix this for NuTrek by saying April was in his 50s when he was given command of the Enterprise for her very first five-year mission, needing a very experienced commander for this brand new starship at the time, and that's fair enough for NuTrek. That's also one of the reasons I've avoided giving specific dates for my various Mandel's writeups and try to write them using the most generic date references I can (era-this, era-that, etc.). That allows you to use whatever Trek multiverse thread chronology you prefer. Fair enough?

Description

Ported to OBJ from the excellent low-poly CG recreation by chrispy120. Based on the original redesign as supervised by SNW art director Jonathan Lee for the precursor to the classic TOS/TAS era Class F shuttlecraft. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download chrispy120's original CG model here, which was intended for use as a gaming model but also works wonderfully for medium to long range visuals and multiple vessel use (to save on memory) ....

... or if you need a higher poly one for closeups and beauty shots, here's an excellent filming quality CG reconstruction by Dave "First Fleet" Metlesits:

Named for 21st century Terran visionary Paul Stamets, who was the co-conciever of the organic-based spore drive, this is the SNW take on the precursor to Wah Chang's classic TOS/TAS Class F shuttlecraft. It's noticeably larger than its inspiration, just as the "Disco-prise" is larger than the "real" classic Enteprise, but hey! At least it's to scale with the "Disco-prise," so quit your complaining (wink). Its larger size allows it to serve as more of a utilitarian, multi-purpose small craft than its smaller TOS/TAS era inspiration, which was strictly an administrative type (read small craft passenger ferry). The redesign is also very eye-catching, like a lot of SNW stuff, and my hat is off to Mr. Lee and the rest of the SNW production team for making it so. Two big differences from the classic Type F are that first the Stamets class has a small one-man transporter originally intended for emergency use but which wound up being used routinely and regularly in the field in all sorts of different ways (grin), and second it's set up so that it can be armed. It can't carry much in the way of armaments and it's definitely no fighter shuttle, but still .... That last is a BIG difference from the classic Type F shuttlecraft, and while we have yet to see this capability exploited on screen (and may never, we'll see) it is definitely worthy of note.

The class name comes from Stamets, the first of these ever seen in SNW. It's the shuttle in the series pilot, "Strange New Worlds," used by Admiral Robert April (a TAS nod there, go look it up) to ferry Captain Pike from his home on Terra up to the waiting Enterprise. Other known named members of the class as of the conclusion of the second season of SNW are Cervantes (for Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes of Don Quixote fame) and of course Galileo (for Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, just like in TOS). We'll probably see more as SNW continues and this gets reused in later Trek franchise media.

This is indisputably and unarguably NuTrek canon given its multiple uses on screen. 'Nuff said.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - This is commonly referred to a pre-TOS craft in lots of current Trek fandom but not by many of us older fans, and this deserves some explanation. FWIW I and many other and older classic Trek fans of a fan tech bent date the start of the TOS/TAS era to the start of the Class I (SFTM) generation of Federation Starfleet starships and in particular the corrected date - early 2220s Terran measure - for the launch of USS Constitution, lead ship of the Constitution class heavy cruisers. The Franchise dates the start of the TOS/TAS era to the timeframe of the first TOS pilot "Where No Man ..." - with everything before it being pre-TOS, including SNW - and also uses Okuda's Franchise-sanctioned "official" launch date of 2245 for Enterprise, the second ship in the Constitution class. Okuda's date is wrong and I and other old school Trek fans have discussed this at length for decades now, but that's what the Franchise has gone with ever since Okuda's Star Trek Chronology was published and so it has been in all Franchise-influenced threads of the Trek multiverse ever since. To make a long story short he wasn't allowed to use TAS "The Counter-Clock Incident" at the time as a date reference given that the Great Bird himself had "de-canonized" all of TAS save "Yesteryear," and that's the main reason for the error. Thankfully it got re-canonized as soon as he had passed on and you can look up the full story elsewhere, but by then Okuda's incorrect 2245 launch date for Enterprise had been fixed in official Franchise canon. "It's in the book!" (grin-and-long-laugh) That's the beauty of Trek being a multiverse. Pick the date that works for you and go with it. I won't be offended. Honest. (smile) Besides, and given the on screen evidence so far, I think the Franchise is going to fix this for NuTrek by saying April was in his 50s when he was given command of the Enterprise for her very first five-year mission, needing a very experienced commander for this brand new starship at the time, and that's fair enough for NuTrek. That's also one of the reasons I've avoided giving specific dates for my various Mandel's writeups and try to write them using the most generic date references I can (era-this, era-that, etc.). That allows you to use whatever Trek multiverse thread chronology you prefer. Fair enough?