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Published: 2012-08-25 19:07:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 9004; Favourites: 157; Downloads: 483
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A Trek piece done using my new stock background [link] . Also using Greywolf-Starkiller's DEG-inspired Scout model and David Metlesits' G-Type starbase model.DAz Studio render.
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In the original Connies there isn't all that much unique engineering in the Engineering Hull, so it's pretty easy to imagine that they could make an independent saucer ship like this. As for the nav deflector, that technical rationale was a late arrival. When this ship was designed, that dish was understood to be the "Main Sensor". The nav deflector array was, I recall, the three white dots that appeared on the front of the primary hull. It was either something in later movies or TNG that reassigned this device's function.
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ButΒ the dish-as-deflectorΒ was then thoroughly retconned in... book authors and.Starship Creator saw to that.Β And even accounting for TOS's odd M/ARA configuration, a warp core and fuel storage is bulky for the saucer to contain.
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The warp core was a TNG creation. Have you ever looked through the original, 70's Ballantine Enterprise blueprints? It wasn't until the Motion Picture Enterprise (several years after the design of the Scout/Destroyer) where we started to see power train integration between the two hulls.
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The Classic warp reactor may not have been a 'core' in form, but it is a M/ARA power plant regardless.Β Those still require plasma conduits, support machinery and fuel storage that would be difficult to fit into a Constitution-class primary hull.Β I suspect that's the reason Miranda-class hulls are bulked up towards the stern.
Incidently, I did once see those plans when in middle school.Β Even then,Β I gotΒ the sad impression that the writers were in way over their heads andΒ just trying to bluff their way out.Β
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Your artwork, especially your Star Trek work, is beautiful. I've been seeing it on Tumblr and it's simply breathtaking.Β
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Dammit - always making masterpieces of the beauty of space and the joy of exploration combined with the humility the cosmos bestows on man.
Excellent
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Well... thanks for clearly seeing the passion/spirit behind these pieces. Sure, playing chicken with Klingon D-7s was always kinda cool - especially in my younger days. But the REAL appeal for me has always been Trek (and all sci-fi's) exploration of the unknown... and the challenges that come with that experience. I suspect you know EXACTLY what I mean
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Was not for me at first but as one gets older...I wish...who knows, one day someone may do a story about that - there is more awe in the cosmos than blasting Klingons...
Well said sir
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It's the bloody unicycle of starships! O.o
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She is rather pretty though, in a peculier sorta way.
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LOL!
"Unicycle"... perfect!
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Wow, that's great! I have a similar AMT 18" model in progress. Mine is the U.S.S Sacagawea NCC-1788. I think I've just struck "Trek Gold", here!
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HA! Glad you're groovin' on my gallery, Steve! If it weren't such an expensive kit, it'd totally rock to see a Scout made from the new, 1/350th Polar Lights kits!
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Yet again, more awesomeness. Classic ship, classic station, and it don't get much better than gas giants when it comes to stellar eye candy. Damn fine job, good sir
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Thanks. It's just the view I wish I could see out my window
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I cannot get enough of these classic FJ style ships. Always beautiful work.
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Well... as I may have said before, TOS (and FJ) are my favorite Trek era.
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A Trek-Starship without nacelles (or with just one?) looks a bit strange to me, because everytime I see an "UFO"-Section I expect an "Enterprise" hanging on it (silly me) 
Though still the composition of colours and how everything is arranged here is still working better than normal
And it's a Lovely background too
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Sorry to inflict nacelle confusion on you 
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This Starship was briefly Referenced in Star Trek The Motion Picture, during the first scene featuring the Communicatons station Epsilon XI.
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Yep! It was a great nod to Franz Josef's effort
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I was wondering, are you using IBL like Uberenvironment for these ? or just regular DS lights ?
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Just the standard lights. Nothing fancy at all.
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It looks better this way, I usually go crazy trying to get a mix between IBL and regular lights, and comes out weird
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Gorgeous color balancing act! You really draw the eye to all the right focus point. You've managed to give a real feeling of vista and wonder in what is ostensibly an average, slice-of-life scene.
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Well... "average" in the 22nd century is almost certainly "jaw dropping" for us cave dwellers!
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TOS is my favorite playground
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Sweet love the point Of view a real creative Beauty!
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The Scout's only got one.... poor lil' ship
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Magnificant!
I made this suggestion a looong time ago, but here it is again. How 'bout a 24th Century scout ship? Kit-bash a Voyager-type saucer with a single warp nacelle. Easy-peasy as the Kilingons say... after enough blood wine.
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Hm. It's gonna take a LOT of blood wine...
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