Wip Concept design for the Enterprise around the time for Discovery Season 4. The idea is that at warp the separated sections reconnect, giving the ship a much sleeker profile.
32nd Century Enterprise Concept Wip
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Wip Concept design for the Enterprise around the time for Discovery Season 4. The idea is that at warp the separated sections reconnect, giving the ship a much sleeker profile.
Not a bad start, but... feels a little too much of a throwback. Too traditional. I'll say this for the Ent-J, it really went hard down the 'how far can we push this and still have it be recognizable as an Enterprise' road. And now we're looking a few centuries past that...
Suggestion: Take the pylons away completely. Both the 'neck' and the nacelles. When at warp the nacelles and secondary hull move backwards and 'flat' between each other, behind the saucer. At sublight they move back into a more traditional Enterprise-looking configuration.
Suggestion: Take the pylons away completely. Both the 'neck' and the nacelles. When at warp the nacelles and secondary hull move backwards and 'flat' between each other, behind the saucer. At sublight they move back into a more traditional Enterprise-looking configuration.
Well...I for one quite like it. I'm assuming the lines in the saucer are meant to reflect the emblem?
Given how the engines on the new ships were independent of the main structure, I like what you've done with this design thought it doesn't look like they are separated from the struts in the side view.
Personally, I'm not keen on the saucer and secondary hull separating at warp speeds. Yes I know everyone has personal transporters and can move about the ship, even when its disconnected but the practical side of me still feels it's...impractical. Frankly I'm not a fan of the whole disconnected 32 century starship configurations but accept it as canon.
Still, I like where this is going even though others have suggested some interesting modifications.
Given how the engines on the new ships were independent of the main structure, I like what you've done with this design thought it doesn't look like they are separated from the struts in the side view.
Personally, I'm not keen on the saucer and secondary hull separating at warp speeds. Yes I know everyone has personal transporters and can move about the ship, even when its disconnected but the practical side of me still feels it's...impractical. Frankly I'm not a fan of the whole disconnected 32 century starship configurations but accept it as canon.
Still, I like where this is going even though others have suggested some interesting modifications.
The line down the middle of the ship means it's showing 1/2 dorsal view and 1/2 ventral view. The upper half is dorsal.
It's actually the opposite, they combine to go to warp. Discovery-A does the same thing; the warp nacelles attach for both warp and to spore jump and then detach upon jump-out/drop-out.
Avris is correct on both accounts. I should have been more clear on that. This is the NCC-1701-Q and is built during or right before season 4, beyond that everything is still undecided/wip.
I like it, but the one thing that's not working for me is the perfectly round saucer. I understand that you're trying to make a tribute to the original Enterprise, but it's clear that round saucers are a thing of the past 32nd-century-design-wise. I think a primary hull would be more triangular or ellipsoid.
Actually the armstrong type (the constitution) has a round saucer. As that ship is the closest to a traditional starfleet cruiser, I wanted my enterprise to share some lineage with her.
The "New Constitution" (as called by Owosheku) has a perfectly round saucer. Sure it has some spindly parts and tiers plus a suspended bridge module, but it's still round.
The "New Constitution" (as called by Owosheku) has a perfectly round saucer. Sure it has some spindly parts and tiers plus a suspended bridge module, but it's still round.
I don’t think the saucer on the new Constitution is perfectly round. It looks much more elliptical to me, like the Enterprise-E’s saucer.
I feel it's hard to imagine a 32nd century Enterprise in part because we haven't really had much of a good look at the existing ships on the show, and also, based on what we've seen, it's hard, at least for me, to imagine variations on what we've seen and extrapolate to the classic Enterprise shape. The "new constitution" we glimpse here and there is, in my view, quite ugly as it is.
I like it overall but... I would change the split nacelle struts/pylons. A bit too much, imo.
If anything, I’d have the nacelles split off as one large U-shaped piece from the secondary hull. You could incorporate some nods towards the Ent-B / Excelsior design (not the squared off pylons, but with the ‘hump’ on the secondary hull where the pylons attach), etc.
YMMV, of course.
Cheers,
-CM-
If anything, I’d have the nacelles split off as one large U-shaped piece from the secondary hull. You could incorporate some nods towards the Ent-B / Excelsior design (not the squared off pylons, but with the ‘hump’ on the secondary hull where the pylons attach), etc.
YMMV, of course.
Cheers,
-CM-
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