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Commodore's log, February 15, 2157. My new commission came with new responsibilities. Enterprise was assigned as the lead ship of the Earth Third Flottilla. Although I'm unwilling to admit, only Buran, the seventh addition to our Warp 5 fleet packs the needed punch. Although we keep churning out more and more of Deadalus class ships, they won't win the war for us. Especially now, with the Vulcans ceasing all support and the Andorians providing only non-military aid. Commander Reed says the Daedalus class won't disappoint us. I just hope he'll be right in the end...Commodore Archer's hopes weren't high for the Daedalus class, up until the major battles of the War have taken place. The small, under-powered, but sturdy vessels often held the last lines before Starfleet could dispatch the NX fleet to the rescue. After the War, most remaining Daedalus class starships were refitted, producing a smooth, clean design that was comfortable for the new, mixed-speciel Federation Starfleet. This new, utilitarian design will become the standard for the upcoming centuries...
Yeah, people, I've built Aethernaut's Daedalus redesign. We can't have Enterprise steal all the glory, can we? I hope I can release her, I'll contact Aethernaut for the permission.
Models by me
Background elements by NASA
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I'm extremely impressed with your ship/models. Β
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Thank you very much!
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both ships just awesome!
this version of the deadalus class is my favourite
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Thank you very much!
The design is not mine, I merely built the 3D model.
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Would be lovely to even show some Christopher class vessels in the mix.
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Another one on my building list
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I love the refit design of NX01 enterprise I wish it had made it in the series, and inn the toy line. Β
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Β still I m hear there is a model though I don't know how big or how detailed it is.Β
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Most of the comments seem to imply a bias one why or another concerning the linage of starship design and its impact on the Earth-Romulan War. This is interesting because there seems to be no discernible description of the Earth-Romulan War in any of the television seriesβ, and/or motion pictures. ST:E was filled with hints and suppositions, but most fly in the face of the few references to the "first" Interstellar war that preceded the series.(the Xindi war must have been considered a βPolice Actionβ)
The most glaring of these was the possession of both warp drive, and cloaking devices by the Romulans prior to 2266. One almost has to go back to the originalΒ books by James Blish of the Bantam series of short story adaptations of Star Trek episodes. For the most part these were based on early versions of scripts. In one of them, based on "Balance of Terror", Blish refers to the ships of that war as being little more than cylinders fighting with nuclear weapons. Also implied by that episode is that the Romulan use of a Cloaking device was unknown up that point. Furthermore, the new Romulan ship is stated as not possessing Warp drive. Moreover, one is left with the fact that it was established that the war concluded indecisively.
One is left to ask the obvious questions. Why would the Romulans, almost a century after that war, have created a game changing new super weapon, capable of destroying a planetoid with a station built deep inside it and having deflector shields. A weapons system I might add whose platform was protected only by a new invention that cloaks a ship from the view of the enemy, and then place both systems in a ship without warp drive? Curious isnβt it.
The answer screams that none of the supposition from ST:E about the pre-war period seems to hold up.
The ability of the fledgling Earth Starfleet, with a flagship having only primitive energy weapons, no energy deflecting shields, and what apparently was only ablative-like "polarized armor", emerged barely a decade before that war. Then after only three years of space exploration, during which the Earth was attacked, and fought in a conflict that left it badly rattled, went on to engage a vastly superior enemy,(the Romulans) whose ships had warp drive, holographic cloaking devices, and energy weapons in a major interstellar war?
Of course, they had help! If they had not, Earth would have been beaten and forced to relinquish any hopes of exploring space beyond its own system, and perhaps not even that. Vulcan, the hopped for prize of that enemy, would have been forced into a fratricidal war of their own, destroying what they had worked for over a millennium to achieve. The outcome of which would have left the Andorians and Tellarites to squabble over the pieces of three devastated worlds.Sorry If I seem a little bit contentious about this subject. I just hate to see a great opportunity wasted by ham-handed armatures. Talk about making it up as they went along!
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The sad thing is, Trek's "pre-history" is different from series to series. ENT was a major game changer, though.
The Romulan tech and mindset is explained well in Federation: The First 150 years. They wanted to ignite war between the Humans, Andorians and Tellarites, and later on, dispose Earth as the emerging new power (and, boy, were they emerging fast).
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An excellent combination of the various ships from the realms of Star Trek. You have done a great job of defining the progression of an intricate ship built during peacetime to the simple utility of a ship designed during wartime. This image really defines the different mindsets of one set of production teams and another one nearly thirty years later.Β
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Thank you very much, although none of them are my designs
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Were these ships going to feature in Enterprise?
If so, that would have been nice
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It's a fan redesign, but who knows...
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WellΒ I must say, if there's one ship I thought would join the Enterprise in fighting the Earth-Romulan War.......The Daedulus is NOT it. Not only were they prone to warp core breaches (almost spontainiously), but they hardly carried the firepower to fight off a Romulan Warbird. And although I could see the Vulcan's giving non-military aid, like Medical ships, there is no way concievable that the Andorian's would missΒ the fireworks show over Cheron in 2159. They are too proud and battle-loving of a race. Though Archer making Commodore is a nice touch.
This being said, Mr. Metlesit's I am not downing your work. Its amazing as always. Simply pointing out the facts as I know them. Also, and I know I mentioned this, but the Journal of Applied Treknology has ship designs from this era you could use, such as the Victory class dreadnought, and NZ class cruiser. Just aΒ thought.
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Many references state that the Daedalus was a core player in the War. They were easy to build, also cheap, so they kept building them in greater numbers than the Romulans could destroy them.
The Vulcans completely left out the War. You know, didn't want to risk getting involved, they did know who the Romulans were.
As for the Andorians... they had their own problems. Romulans never attacked their ships (or any other ships other thsn Earth's) during the War, so they chose not to take action.
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It has become quite obvious that the references you have are not the same I have. Though, the reasons for that are not importent.
What IS importent is that the art is great and that it's YOUR interpretation of events. I won't stand in the way of that.
P.S. My source is the Starfleet Museum, though I imagine the timeline to be different from the one supplied there. And of course, I also completely disregard the Bison designs. Ships like that would never survive in war let alone be practical enough for Starfleet to use after it formed. I feel bad in that regard, because Mr. Okazaki did a very good job putting all of that together. Just my opinion though.
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I love Starfleet Museum, and Masao Okazaki is a genious in my eyes.
In y interpretation, I combine various tielines, including FSM and Federation: The first 150 years.
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You see, I was right. I think of it a bit differently (no surprise there), and according to the Museum the Daedalus was not a very good design. Of course, in the Museums timeline, M/AM reactors and subspace arrays are not developed until the Earth-Romulan War. Which if you consider ENT canon, then that's completely wrong. But hey, as I said, everyone has their own opinion.
As far as ships and timeline go, I combine the federation starship chart in the Museum with the NX-style designs found on the Journal of Applied Treknology (yes, I use that alot), and all those designs were done by the same person. So I use the info in the ship descriptions to piece together a rough idea of the War and fill the rest in later.
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Yeah, it is actually my Columbia model, representing the Buran here
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Cool combination ofΒ NX-class and the Daedalus-class starships together.Β I know that the ships are decades apart in the real world but in the sci-fi world I don't see how the Daedalus replaced the NX in the Star Trek time line.Β Good job.
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Thank you very much!
Actually, the NX replaced the Daedalus.
I think the Daedalus was Warp 3, the Intrepid was Warp 4, and the NX was Warp 5 rated. A gradual progression.
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Your welcome and thanks for the correction.
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Actually, I think the Daedalus wasn't in service until circa 2160's (That's according to Memory Alpha), which would have been around the same time the NX-01 was retired.
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Your images just get better and better mate! Beautiful!
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Thank you very much!
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More than welcome Dave. Your art has come so far
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If you haven't already, you seriously need to read Pocket Books Romulan Wars. There are four of them. I would love to see scenes from that done up with your models.
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On my list
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Nahh, just a fanboy
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I always though of the NX class as the more advance ship. But too advance so it was hard to build, while the Daedalus class was fasted to build and easy to upgrade with NX type gear.
The phonic torps, polarize hull, phase cannons, and the warp five core, with the numbers of the Daedalus made her the work horse while the NX was the Flagships.
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Reading Federation: The first 150 years made me think of the following. The Daedalus was the Starfleet equivalent of Project Mercury: off-the-shelf hardware as a proof-of-concept project. The Intrepid type was Project Gemini: testing new tech and training personnel for the bigger goal, which is the NX project, the Trekverse's Apollo.
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Aethernaut's Daedalus is the only Daedalus in my books! She looks beautiful! Β
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Thank you very much. It was a fun build.
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Would love to see some action shots of the Daedalus with the Romulans!
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