True Trek Prehistory?

[MGagen]

I have always considered Forbidden Planet to be in the Trek continuity. It is undeniably in the Trek concept DNA, since it served as one of the main inspirations for Roddenberry in his development of the series. I also think it makes a much more believable back story for Trek than the corner we were painted into by First Contact. (Timidly going where the Vulcans and everyone else has already been; rather than Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before.)

In that spirit, here are a few images of a project I've been working on sporadically for about a decade.

It began with a studio blueprint of the FP Tractor. Here are some WIPs of a 3D model I constructed in Strata 3D:

The background is a SmartIBL to provide illumination. Since that time, Strata has pretty much gone to seed and I began working in Blender.

I next tackled the C57D, also from some Studio BPs. Here are some line renders from the modeling program MoI3D:

Here is an early Blender render after importing my earlier Strata Tractor model. The Saucer in still WIP.
You may notice that the ship is scaled a little larger than the Studio desert set version. I used the Spaceship Handbook Saucer Fleet scale (but not shapes), since they had worked it so the full size interior sets would fit.

Finally, the fully realized C57D in the cool desert night of Altair IV.

 

[publiusr]

I wonder if the Bellerophon was larger, as a colony saucer.

I’d like to see your take on that.

 

[Finn]

Not sure what you mean. TOS implied Humans weren't the first ones out there. Why couldn't Vulcans be one of them, especially with the attitude the Vulcans in TOS had toward Humans, and Enterprise suggested Vulcans didn't explore the way Humans have been....

Sorry. Anyway, Cool tractor.

 

[BillJ]

Not sure what you mean. TOS implied Humans weren't the first ones out there. Why couldn't Vulcans be one of them, especially with the attitude the Vulcans in TOS had toward Humans, and Enterprise suggested Vulcans didn't explore the way Humans have been....

Sorry. Anyway, Cool tractor.

I look at now as the post-continuity age. Where pretty much anything can happen.

 

[Vagabond Elf]

I enjoy projects that rewind a franchise to a certain point in time, and then say "so what if this happened instead?" Backing up to before "First Contact" and then postulating a new backstory certainly fits in that box. So if you do more to tie the two shows together, I at least will be interested in reading it.