Saber Class

[Saladdodger]

I was wondering if any out there had any decent images of the Saber Class Starship please?

 

[The Old Mixer]

Moved to Trek Tech, where it seems like this would be better suited.

 

[LAFR]

I was wondering if any out there had any decent images of the Saber Class Starship please?

http://www.rlafleur.ca/misc/sabre/

This site will be available until June 28, 2022

 

[Dukhat]

Here's the Eaglemoss PDF booklet for the Saber class:

https://d1v224g40dbxxy.cloudfront.n...df?VersionId=t0ocmEJq2Yf1u1EAzhT1S0jGxFADSrwD

 

[David cgc]

EAS has renders of the original model: https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/firstcontact1.htm

Meshweaver has renders of the more detailed model made for Eaglemoss: http://meshweaver.com/eaglemoss--trek-little-ships-1.html

And D.M. Phoenix made a more TNG-styled version that has appeared in the Ships of the Lines calendars: http://www.phoenixium.com/galleryvehicles/saber/saber.htm

 

[LAFR]

Jeez. Sorta makes my stuff from 20 years ago look like it's from, well, 20 years ago!

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I always felt that the Saber Class & Star Wars Raider-class Corvette should've been combined into one platform.

Then you could've had a StarShip that actually looks like a proper flying Saber.

Just merge the Raider-class Corvette to the front of the Saber Class, blend the hull and adjust a few bits & bobs. Then you have what looks like a proper flying Saber.

 

[DEWLine]

Sidebar comment re: D.M. Phoenix...that their website's been hobbled by the end of support for Macromedia/Adobe Flash. Any word on whether or not they've been able to rework their site?

 

[DEWLine]

Back on topic: a crew of forty, and it looks like there's an escape pod for every single crewmember to use exclusively...?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Back on topic: a crew of forty, and it looks like there's an escape pod for every single crewmember to use exclusively...?

Depends on the scale of the ship, it might be that each escape pod isn't much larger than a photon torpedo casing.

 

[Dukhat]

Back on topic: a crew of forty, and it looks like there's an escape pod for every single crewmember to use exclusively...?

Is there a canon source for that crew complement?

 

[DEWLine]

I don't know if it's canonical. I was quoting the Eaglemoss write-up.

 

[drt]

Depends on the scale of the ship, it might be that each escape pod isn't much larger than a photon torpedo casing.

Maybe like the Kelvin pods in Beyond.

 

[valkyrie013]

Do think of extra evacuation pods for extra people that might be onboard.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Having a creew of forty goes back to the DS9 TM, I think. Fandom at the time were using grainy movie stills and windows to presuppose a smaller ship, and I thnk Rick Sternbach made the same conclusion.

Mark

 

[DEWLine]

Meanwhile, DM Phoenix adopted the class design as a personal project and played around with it. A lot, going by the calendar artwork they produced over the years.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The generally accepted length of the Sabre is 190 meters, so it's only 20 meters longer than the Defiant, if we go with visual effects supervisor David Stipes in regard to how they scaled the ships (though this would make the Sabre 120 meters wider), which would make a crew of 40 not seem outside the realms of possibility.