Now that some time has passed and nobody else has done it for us, can we tell something definite about the S31 ship types assembled to capture the Sphere Data?
Here is the fleet surrounding our heroes in that intimidating 2D formation. We can tell there are three distinct types present:
1) The "main adversary ship", of which NCIA-93 is an example, with twin folding nacelles
2) The big four-naceller, of which some specs briefly appear on the main viewer, too
3) The big two-naceller to lower right, with a roll bar and some white features on top
Essentially, the third is the second with the top nacelles omitted - almost. There are other angles to it to demonstrate the top nacelles really are missing, but also to show the difference in the ventral pylons, and the presence of the roll bar. This ship launches drones; it's possible this is the only ship to do so.
Is number three also the ship that fires the torpedo that hits the Enterprise? That ship's nacelle count was left obscure, but it had a large cutout within the bow, Vengeance style. Do the four-nacellers have it? Does number three?
Do we have better images? I haven't seen accurate interpretations of number three anywhere, even if number one already sports a good set of tabletop models, concept drawings and whatnot.
Timo Saloniemi
Here is the fleet surrounding our heroes in that intimidating 2D formation. We can tell there are three distinct types present:
1) The "main adversary ship", of which NCIA-93 is an example, with twin folding nacelles
2) The big four-naceller, of which some specs briefly appear on the main viewer, too
3) The big two-naceller to lower right, with a roll bar and some white features on top
Essentially, the third is the second with the top nacelles omitted - almost. There are other angles to it to demonstrate the top nacelles really are missing, but also to show the difference in the ventral pylons, and the presence of the roll bar. This ship launches drones; it's possible this is the only ship to do so.
Is number three also the ship that fires the torpedo that hits the Enterprise? That ship's nacelle count was left obscure, but it had a large cutout within the bow, Vengeance style. Do the four-nacellers have it? Does number three?
Do we have better images? I haven't seen accurate interpretations of number three anywhere, even if number one already sports a good set of tabletop models, concept drawings and whatnot.
Timo Saloniemi
