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New Romulan Warship & Season 4 NX-01 Refit

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Hi,

Doug Drexler just posted an awesome design for a Romulan Super Cruiser from Andrew Probert (the guy who designed the TNG Warbird as well). Any chance this beauty might make it into the game?

Also check out the Season 4 Enterprise Refit Doug is doing with some other pals from the "Star Trek: Enterprise" production team. I say: "Guardian of Forever, baby!"

Regards,
Rachel
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I love that romulan ship. how about making it the Romulan carrier when they become a playable faction, Cryptic?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Zaroph wrote: »
    I love that romulan ship. how about making it the Romulan carrier when they become a playable faction, Cryptic?

    Personally, I'd rather see the Reman Warbird be the carrier for the Romulan faction. The new design for the Romulan Warbird is pretty cool though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Not very impressive. It's a design by Andrew Probert for the D'deridex class Warbird from the 80s that was rejected in favor of the design that was actually used in TNG which is just a horizontal re-arrangement. This rendition here also seems to be rather low on detail.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I have to say I kind of like the Enterprise refit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    your link doesn't work
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    He's turned the Warbird on its side...yah thats impressive.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    The NX-01 refit looks pretty clean. That design definitely gives a hint of progression from Enterprise to TOS.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    dstahl wrote: »
    The NX-01 refit looks pretty clean. That design definitely gives a hint of progression from Enterprise to TOS.

    Agreed, the NX-01 refit does look pretty good and gives a nice hint at how vessels switched over to the TOS look. If I could change one thing it would be to make the curve where the back of the engineering section is not go up so much. Then it would be perfect.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    on a slight side note, remember the cardassian hutet ships from some of the earlier games, (might have been dominion wars)
    does cryptic have the rights to these designs from other games. id love to see that one come in

    that new warbird looks a little odd, maybe it would look better if it had the four wings both horizontal and vertical like the centauri cruisers from Babylon 5
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Zaroph wrote: »
    your link doesn't work

    Sorry. You'll find Andrew Probert's Warbird design near the bottom of this page. It's not new, it's from the 80s.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Hmmmm...couple of tweeks and that would make a nice cruiser design......
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Not impressed with the Romulan Supercruiser, which is sad b/c I'm normally crazy for Romulan designs. I can imagine this thing looking like a Giant Sunfish from the side, which is to say, not very Romulan. The bridge/command section is nice, but they could do something different than just putting the clamshell halves on it's side.

    I am curious as to how the NX-01 refit would look like, off the blueprints and in three dimensions.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    dstahl wrote: »
    The NX-01 refit looks pretty clean. That design definitely gives a hint of progression from Enterprise to TOS.

    not really into the new Romulan ship it is ok

    The NX refit is a home run for me!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I like the NX, but not the Warbird.

    Romulan ships were meant to look like *gasp* birds, and no bird I have ever seen flies sideways with its head upright. It wouldn't have been as bad if the hadn't made the "wings" asymmetric, made it look more uniform in back because as is it looks like a goose that brained itself yet maintained the ability to fly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Hi,

    Doug Drexler just posted an awesome design for a Romulan Super Cruiser from Andrew Probert (the guy who designed the TNG Warbird as well). Any chance this beauty might make it into the game?

    Also check out the Season 4 Enterprise Refit Doug is doing with some other pals from the "Star Trek: Enterprise" production team. I say: "Guardian of Forever, baby!"

    Regards,
    Rachel

    The Enterprise refit looks good. The Super Cruiser might work with some alternations, but probably never as a Romulan Vessel. It lacks the "bird" quality, as others have noticed.
    Though maybe it could still be used as a Reman ship? I mean, they are not Romulans, and it would be nice to have an actual difference between Romulan and Reman ships, now that they apparantly don't really work together anymore. (At least I gather that from the fact that there seem to be no missions where you fight "mixed" groups and even missions where the Reman act against Romulans.) Spoiler: (Plus the whole Hobus thingy.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    would love to see the NX 01 refit for us to use
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    The bird is okay but the NX refit rocks my socks. I love the idea of the ship starting to progress towards the Connie. Would have been cool to see the ship get a refit and maybe the uniform take a turn. (Maybe sleeker black flightpants, and a more open jacket with tank top TOS shirts underneath...? And use of the three division icons in the uniform insignia somewhere?)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    not really into the new Romulan ship it is ok

    It's not new. It's an abandoned design from the 80s. Check near the bottom of this page.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    The NX design is very cool I like that a lot.

    The Romulan ship - bleh, I don't like it in it's current configuration let alone turned sideways heheh. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    The bird is okay but the NX refit rocks my socks. I love the idea of the ship starting to progress towards the Connie. Would have been cool to see the ship get a refit and maybe the uniform take a turn. (Maybe sleeker black flightpants, and a more open jacket with tank top TOS shirts underneath...? And use of the three division icons in the uniform insignia somewhere?)

    yup =( would have been awesome, but they cancelled the series =(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Kinthok wrote: »
    It's not new. It's an abandoned design from the 80s. Check near the bottom of this page.

    actually that Artwork looks better then the thing that is in the 2011 Calendar

    also i found this:
    http://probertdesigns.com/Folder_ILLUSTRATION/Probert_ILLUSTRATIONS.html

    the Shipyards look salvagable for STO i'd think.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I'm not a big fan of the Romulan ship. It looks too similar to the D'deridex class Warbird, just bigger and 90 degrees turned.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    i think that romulan cruiser looks frikking horrible ... sorry ...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    dstahl wrote: »
    The NX-01 refit looks pretty clean. That design definitely gives a hint of progression from Enterprise to TOS.

    But, IMO, it already looks beyond the Constitution Class, like the Connie would be a step backwards from the NX-01 refit. I'm just sayin...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    ...the Romulan ugly thing makes me feel like I should be tilting my head to look at it.

    On the other hand, the Enterprise refit looks awesome. It makes me wish that B&B hadn't spent so much time dicking around with the stupid Temporal Cold War plot and actually started progressing toward the known Romulan War and founding of the Federation plots sooner. Or that Paramount had brought in whoever it was who made Season 4 not suck (I forget who it was exactly) from the very beginning.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Beaker2009 wrote: »
    But, IMO, it already looks beyond the Constitution Class, like the Connie would be a step backwards from the NX-01 refit. I'm just sayin...

    Of course it would be. It was designed in the 60s.

    I'm very glad that JJ-Trek didn't keep that era of the franchise mired in the limited imagination and FX tech of its founding.

    Of course, the next defibrillator jolt to the franchise in a few decades will probably look nothing like JJ-Trek either, because we'll be well past the limited vision and ideas of now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    That NX-01 Refit looks a lot like the NCC-05 Atlantis from a Bridge Commander ship pack: http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/screenshots/File/41035/6
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    That NX-01 refit is sweet! :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Of course it would be. It was designed in the 60s.

    I'm very glad that JJ-Trek didn't keep that era of the franchise mired in the limited imagination and FX tech of its founding.

    Of course, the next defibrillator jolt to the franchise in a few decades will probably look nothing like JJ-Trek either, because we'll be well past the limited vision and ideas of now.

    Based on that thinking, the update that was done to Battlestar Galactica and "V", bringing them up to date from the Campy 70's to more updated and much darker, should be done to Star Trek. Bring the Campy up to date, which could actually be kind of cool!! :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Beaker2009 wrote: »
    Based on that thinking, the update that was done to Battlestar Galactica and "V", bringing them up to date from the Campy 70's to more updated and much darker, should be done to Star Trek. Bring the Campy up to date, which could actually be kind of cool!! :D

    Oh please do not "drama queen" Star Trek as was done to both V and BSG, especially that abomination that was BSG.....
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