Pythagoras Class Research Frigate

[kaisernathan1701]

Looks wonderful even though its small

[Arkady]

Been a while.

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Trek sleeper ship: The CZ-442 Baidara Class Deep Space Probe


Built by and in Russia, the Baidara was a deep space probe vessel powered by a nuclear fission pile, and driven by six ion thrusters, generally considered to be technologically inferior to other vessels of the time, the crew is housed in the forward areas of the ship while the nuclear pile is towards the center of the vessel on the neck, with the six ion thrusters at the aft.

This class of ship did not have gravity systems, but used a rotating section that the crew sleeper pods were housed in, as well as eating and quarters for those crew awake during the journey. The ship's other decks are situated that the 'ceiling' of each deck is in the direction of 'up' or the nose of the Baidara, while the floor is 'down' or towards the aft drive section of the ship.

Normally only four of the six drive thrusters would be in operation at any one time, with two on standby.

[Arkady]

Another concept rework/update of an old FASA design, this time the Northhampton Class Frigate

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[Arkady]

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One of the lightest classes of vessels, crews of the Warden Class are often assigned patrol, installation defence and planetary police, defence and/or patrol duties, which is somewhat in keeping with it's name.

Though small, this class of vessel is nevertheless very quick, and boasts a powerful suite of sensors for a ship of its size, allowing them to detect intruding vessels and phenomena from long distances. At times of conflict, the Warden class can also be used as picket ships and forward scouts, their sensor arrays sweeping ahead and to all sides of a ship formation to extend the range of sensor coverage.

[Arkady]

In case anyone is actually reading this...LOL


Slow nights at work make for busy pens,

The Safari Class Frigate:

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From the Swahili word for 'journey' or 'to travel' the Safari Class is a Frigate sized vessel, but unlike most vessels of this size it is not assigned to patrol and defensive duties, instead the Safari is outfitted for exploration duties such as survey and scouting missions, investigating and conducting initial explorations and determining if a larger vessel should be dispatched to the area for more detailed missions. As such the Safari is a medium ranged vessel, leaving longer explorations up to ships like the famed Galaxy Class.

In the past these kinds of missions were initially handled by much smaller vessels, but ships like the Nova Class and the Safari are being found to be more suited for crew comfort.

A secondary role for these vessels is diplomatic functions.

Though the Safari may not be built for conflict, like all Federation designs of the current age it is capable of combat and armed accordingly with phasers and four torpedo tubes.

[TheSeeker]

You've got some really nice sketches there, I'd just like to see bigger scans of them.

[Arkady]

maybe it be something with my paint shop pro, i dunno, i sketch em big enough. also need to add more angles, but then again i do a lot of these at work when im bored and out of things to do, still they are done fairly fast.

just seems when i blow em they end up looking not to great

[Arkady]

A redesign and refinement of the Salk Class Medical Cruiser, orthographics are not my strong point, side view is without the warp nacelles in place.

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Overview:

The Olympic Class has served the Federation well as a hospital vessel, and in light of that plans were made for a class that would not entirely supplant, but supplement the existing Olympics.

The Salk class is a cruiser class vessel, smaller than the Olympic Class, it has greater range and speed. Intended for quick deployment and travel to trouble spots where a full-sized Olympic Class vessel may not be needed, It is still a fully equipped hospital ship, though of a smaller capacity than a Olympic class, but can accomodate several hundred patients of all triage levels.

The Salk has a large shuttlebay area, with three entrances, one to the port and starboard sides in a through-deck configuration, and one bay to the rear, the latter can accomodate most federation sized shuttles while the former is for larger runabouts, it also carries argo class shuttles for shipment of emergency supplies or medical evacuations.

Like most hospital vessels, the Salk is very lightly armed with defensive phasers.

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
-Jonas Salk

Dedication Plaque for the U.S.S. Jonas Salk, Class vessel for the Salk Class Medical Cruiser .

[TheSeeker]

dmonix wrote:

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maybe it be something with my paint shop pro, i dunno, i sketch em big enough. also need to add more angles, but then again i do a lot of these at work when im bored and out of things to do, still they are done fairly fast.

just seems when i blow em they end up looking not to great

What resolution are you scanning them at?

[Arkady]

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Federation Kumari Class Frigate:

Overview:

An Andorian design, the Kumari Class design lineage dates back over two centuries to an older Andorian vessel of the same name, the modern namesake was constructed to supplement the Defiant Class in fleet escort and combat duties.

The Kumari is a Frigate class vessel, albeit on the lightest end of that particular weight scale whose main offensive punch is through the seven torpedo launchers that the frigate carries, three are mounted on the dorsal saucer just above and aft of the bow-mounted deflector dish - firing forward. An additional two torpedo launchers - also firing forward - are mounted on the ventral side of the saucer. Lastly, two torpedo launchers fire aft between the warp nacelles. The Kumari is also armed with six stardard collimation phaser strips. The torpedo launchers of the ship are multipurpose, and can fire a number of different torpedo types, including standard, quantum, probes, and sensor ghosting decoy casings.

In Andorian fashion, the two warp nacelles of the Kumari are arranged in an over/under configuration, with the two impulse drives located on the angular wings that extend from the hull area near the warp nacelles. Large and powerful, the impulse systems make the Kumari very fast at impulse velocities and have the unique ability to reverse their direction of thrust, allowing the frigate to make an emergency reduction in velocity, though this strains the structural integrity fields when used.

Unlike the Defiant Class, the Kumari is not built for nose to nose combat, and so - while it's shielding is powerful for a ship of it's small size - it is not fitted with the expensive ablative armor carried by the Defiant Class. Instead Kumari combat tactics call for standoff attacks and hit and run tactics utilizing the destructive power of it's multiple torpedo launchers.

Kumari Class frigates carry a crew of 125.

[Arkady]

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Huron Class Tender

Class Name: Huron
Designation: Tender
Crew: 65
Era: 23rd Century

Overview:

Constructed for the express purpose of servicing outposts, sensory and communications bouys, and other Starfleet vessels, the Huron Class Tender is a workhorse ship, it's uniquely shaped hull holds machine and fabrication shops extensive cargo stores of materials and parts, and a very large shuttlebay that sits almost directly under the bridge and impulse unit deck, this massive shuttle bay has entrances at the bow and towards the aft between the twin hulls. The Huron has workbee docks as well and is studded with tractor beam emplacements, larger componants can be fabricated in place or maneuvered between the aft hull by workbees or by tractor beams for repairs.

Cargo access doors are located on the dorsal part of the after hull and on the port and starboard sides.

The underslung nacelles requires lengthy plasma conduits to feed the warp coils in the nacelles, this is not seen as such a problem as the conduits also provide power to the rest of the vessel when undertaking it's mission, and two extra fusion reactors are on board beyond that needed for the impulse system.

The Huron is not a class of combat vessels, and as such are armed only with phaser emplacements.

Named for various large lakes, the ships of the Huron Class are often seen crewed by Starfleet Engineers, and although their quarters are spartan at best, the crews assigned to these spacegoing repair shops know that they serve a vital function to the Federation.

The example depicted is the USS Salt Lake

[Arkady]

To give an idea of the scale of this sucker, the bridge module is Federation standard, I don't know the exact dimensions of that, if I did then I could maybe extrapolate the idea of how wide this thing is and figure out a length from there.

(assuming anyone reads this thread, lol.)

[BK613]

Nice designs.

[Clawhammer]

Nice job! I'm looking at this now, and I must say that it has the perfect shape for it's purpose. I like your nacelle position, they are really out of the way like that. Within the Trek universe this should work pretty well.

2 years ago I started working on something similar, a deep space recovery tug. It had 2 powerful tractorbeams on the back and a repair "station" for smaller ships like runabouts, retrieval of escapepods etc. I never finished it, but perhaps 1 day I will. The rear part of both ships are quite similar, im happy with that, seems that I (for once) used the logical route.

Almost forgot to add the links:
concept 1
concept 1 damaged/stripped runabout for scale.

[sojourner]

I like that! nice use of the unused voyager design elements and some great modeling work!