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Published: 2010-12-01 05:21:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 11167; Favourites: 185; Downloads: 667
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If it was a fire fight the Gorns were after, the Constitution and Columbia were more than willing to oblige.I don't do many battle pix, but davemetlesits' ([link] ) new photon torpedo graphics resource cried out to me for some experimentation.
Connie by Aggie, Scout/Destroyer by some game I can't ever remember. Rendered in DS3 and finished in Photoshop.
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That's GOOD! With no up or down, you should be dizzy!
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Great work! Love to old school photon torpedo effect!
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Thanks! I kinda feel like I should do a version 2.0
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By all means.Β I'd love to see your new take on this already epic shot.
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Interesting to see the Hermes class scout at work. I never could decide if I liked that design.
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Yeah, the whole issue of Franz Josef's designs are.... complicated. They're cool/fun, but they did throw a monkey wrench into some of Trek's internal tech logic... plus they set us down this path of mixing and matching saucers and nacelles, which is now a given (unfortunately).
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I agree. The simple use of existing components that those designs suggest show a certain lack of either imagination or resources. Shared components would be realistic I suppose. But the designs that Franz Josef came up with seem impractical given their assigned missions. Though the "Saladin" class is better armed than the "Hermes" class, both types in my opinion seem very limited in their scanning capability. Also, their engine placement would seem to make them vulnerable to damage, and make them large targets given their large frontal areas.Β Β
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My personal take on it is when you're going warp.... anynumber.... the placement of elements and profile of the craft don't really have any bearing. It's gonna take pretty heavy tech just to hit ANY target, let alone being specific about your hit zone.
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You're probably right.
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Excellent work. Very cool. Loving the lighting on the Bussard Ramscoops... very "alive".
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HA! Yet another member of my Trek personal top 10!
Good choice!
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Great work as always. Always a joy to see your new works!
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Actually with my current imagination drought I've been submitting some of my older works to newer groups. So this one's from about two years back.
Still - THANKS!
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This is a fabulous picture. The viewpoint, the sense of action, the cool way the destroyer's bussard is illuminating the underside of its primary module, it's all beautiful.
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It seems like I used to spend more times getting details like that right. Getting lazy in my old age
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Beautiful!
Thanks for using my photon effect!
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Thank YOU for sharing it! Quite a useful resource!
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I think you nailed it with this image. I love the lighting from the weapons fire on the ship hulls, and also that your point of view isn't the stock right side up aspect, because after all, this is space, where up and down don't have the same meaning. Really nice work, this one's definitely a keeper.
Now, about that Dreadnaught...
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Whoahhh!!!! Awwwwwesome!!! 
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Thanks. I think this is one of my personal faves, too. I'm not really into your classic images of starship combat (which are usually at too close range to be anywhere near accurate, anyway), but this gets around that by not even showing the foe. And I too like the implied energy of the ships' maneuvers.
Every once in a while, I strike gold
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Ohh...I dunno...it's just my humble opinion...but, I think you strike artistic gold with your images an awful lot!!!!
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I'm glad I and others can at least provide metaphorical gold. Not if we could all be as generous with the real stuff right?
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If I had "the real stuff", I'd just exchange it for the metaphorical variety. I'm that way
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I hear you and understand.
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Glad you like it. I think it's really gown on me over time... which is a nice happenstance
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Small-fry ship getting to kick some arse for once! Great render!
Like how the smaller ship is named Columbia, is that in reference to OV-102, the NASA Shuttle Orbiter Columbia?
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The naming of the scout "Columbia" pre-dated the shuttle, but could have been in reference to the Apollo 11 CSM. The scout was first named in Franz Josef's Tech Manual and was later mentioned (in background voiceover) in ST: TMP.
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True, the 'Columbia' name being derived from the Apollo 11 CSM is more fitting. The Shuttle Columbia did not do any such thing as glorious as visit another celestial body and had a more tragic end. *Plays 'Taps' for STS-107 crew*
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Definitely got the fluidity of battle I imagine in Star Trek battles.
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But....but.... they're in deep space?!?! No fluid about at all?!?!! Though that would bring out the high seas romantic adventure aspect...
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Pilot desperately trying to control his bladder as he swings the Constitution around an asteroid. "Sir, you won't be saying that in a minute!".
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But what about the Γ¦ther?
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The Γ¦ther's either neither?
But what about the children?
WHY won't someone think about the children??!?!?!
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Hm. "Children of the Γ¦ther" sounds like a neat title to something!?!
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"Why won't someone think about the children??"
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"Hi, I'm Chris Hanson - won't you have a seat over there?"
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