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Star Trek fans, what do we think of the Enterprise-C Concept?

>>213494925 (OP)
Looks like a star trek ship

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I'm just going to fucking say it, I love C Concept.

It doesn't look like an evolution of the excelsior, it looks like somebody started with an image of an excelsior class and an image of a galaxy class and intentionally made what came between them, which is exactly what it is but it feels too contrived.
Still better by far than anything nu-trek ever shat out

>>213494925 (OP)
Deflector makes it a bit like an X-32?

>>213495205
There is something to the old ship designs. They just feel completely different. Something about the feel of the scenes of the ships just floating in space really sets the atmosphere for good Star Trek. Nu-Trek tries to sex it up too much and it just winds up feeling like an advertisement.

>other ships be like
:O
>Ent-C be like
:)

Activate FUCKING MASSIVE levels of C Concept!

>>213495312
>YO DAWG I HERD U LIEK PIXAR CHARACTERS

>>213495448
The original concept got much further along that people realize.

>>213495580
I don't really see how Probert's side view and the OP painting can be the same ship. Side view looks so graceful but the front view looks lumbering and fat.

TMP through TNG era designs are great.
One might go as far to say, GOAT.
Nothing else looks as elegant as Star Trek ships.
Doesn't matter if it was purpose built or kitbashed for the background.

TOS era look way too much like props.
ENT suffers from prequel constraints
Don't even bring up the atrocities of JewJew's Trek.

I got into Star Trek because of the ship designs that I first saw in Armada 2, the way Romulans got presented in the tutorial sold me on checking out the actual show.
The fact that it was Lower Decks that brought back the clean TNG look says everything there is about the absolute state of the franchise.

>>213495641
STO ship I believe but basically illustrates how it is.

Looks like someone actually made a model?

>>213495699
I'm a Bird of Prey man myself.

>>213495830
Tobias Richter first made a 3D model with Probert's input.

Looks bulkier, more militaristic. Enterprise D stripped a lot of that down with the nacelles and the saucer and the body being thinner. This seems more like a destroyer, rather than sleeker design the embassy/cruise liner Enterprise D ended up being.

I like it, though. I just don't quite know if I could call it The Enterprise.

>>213494925 (OP)
It blewd up :(

>>213495883
They got a lot of mileage out of that design because they didnt want spend money building new Klingon models
>Its a new klingon ship......it looks EXACTLY like a Bird of Prey but wayyyy bigger!

>>213494925 (OP)
Pretty lights it’s a yes from moi

>>213495883
>>213495993
Completely understandable.
In Armada 2 I liked all 4 of the normal races, Feds, Romulans, Klingons and Carddies.
Each was unique and had a very strong theme.
There was a mod that added Breen and Dominion ships and it tried it's best to expand the roster and aesthetically I think it did well.
There were a ton of mods for the game.
FleetOps is probably what I would have wanted "futuristic" Trek ships to look like, but they completely fumbled it after JJ Trek.

>>213495699
Ever wonder how much a shock it would have been for a viewer of TOS going onto TNG and seeing a d'deridex for the very first time?
Romulans having ships built to rival Fed ships in size was basically unheard of yet all of a sudden they have these giants of a warship in front of them?
>>213495883
Fact was originally meant to be a Romulan ship as well but they changed it very last moment.
>>213495993
The way they were designed didn't lend themselves much to kitbashing hence lack of more designs, not even borrowing from the tabletop games despite numerous of those designs showing up in background shots of the shows. Thought they would have done more in the 3D era though?

>>213494925 (OP)
Fat

>>213494925 (OP)
The nacelles ought to be higher or lower than the saucer. Equal height is simply bizarre

>>213496108
>completely fumbled it after JJ Trek.
Star Wars has the same problem.
Pre-Disney shit mods like Thrawns Revenge were coherent and well put together. Now they are full of shoehorned Disney crap.

>>213494925 (OP)
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>>213496360
It was a pretty major scene for someone who started with TNG, so I can see how having the context would enhance it.
D'Deridex is a top 5 starship design period, it tells a story and it is clean with no loose details.
>>213496487
I knew Star Wars was fucked when they announced Abrams after what he did to Trek.
Stuff like ship design appeals to nerds, to directors like JJ and and Johnson they are just setpieces.

>>213494925 (OP)
It’s literally the most beautiful starship ever designed. It has much more depth than what you see at first appearance and the other C is from a parallel universe.

>>213495205
There’s a bit of excelsior like length to the engineering section but matched with the curved nacelle supports peak elegance

>>213494925 (OP)
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>>213496700
https://youtu.be/04u6EBUhZtQ

Constitution > Ambassador > Excelsior > Galaxy > NX > powergap > shit > Sovereign

>>213496777
Probert Ambassador > Refit Connie > Ent-B Excelsior > Connie > Excelsior > Galaxy > Show Ambassador

>>213496655
Lucas really understood merchandising and even to an extent Gene which is why modern day directors and producers are so shit at their job. So much money can be made from models alone.
Speaking of which wonder why they choose to canonize some of the designs in pic related in TNG but not all?
>>213496734
Neat anon. It looks so much better when you see it in motion.

>>213496734
Beautiful rendering and animation. I'm still not convinced. The Starfleet logo on the side seems a bit tacky. I think it looks nice, I just don't feel its worthy of the name Enterprise.

It looks nice, no doubt.

I love Star Trek ship design.

Nobody hits 'em like the C.

>>213496847
I know FASA mostly from the copyright fiasco with Battletech/Robotech
There was an Armada 2 mod that was set around the turn of 23rd/24th century and used a bunch of these models. My understanding was that they came from the Klingon Academy game, which in turn used the Star Trek tabletop stuff.

Given how much they relied on kitbashing during TNG/DS9/VOY, they probably only adopted the stuff they could cobble together.

>>213497350
FASA held the Trek tabletop license and did not only an RPG but miniatures in the 1980's
They lost their license in 1989 due to constant typos and retarded writing in their literature for the time after being given a few warnings to shape up. Some of their content was used as background material and even some lore in early TNG so those pages and images you see on the computers were lifted from their material.
Losing that license probably is what put their company into a death spiral more than anything as it was an easy source of money.

>vidya ships
Speaking of which, they really should canonize some of Starfleet Command and Klingon Academy designs. They really fit so well into the universe.

>>213497624
They could do quite a lot with the setting and explore the gap between TOS/TMP and TNG/DS9/VOY.
But I don't think anyone up there is interested.

>>213497098
With how shitty the board has gotten it's always a relief to see some actual fucking C Concept.

>>213495993
It's just so fucking cool as it is. I don't think it gets better than that.

>>213497842
They did the Saladin/Hermes type in SNW but that show isn't canon :^)