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Pretty sneaky Cryptic, pretty sneaky =P

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    captainkenny1captainkenny1 Member Posts: 326 Arc User
    You mean it is named the uss archer?
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    tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    Huh?
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    nickcastletonnickcastleton Member Posts: 1,212 Arc User
    your idea that they copied the NX is flawed, not only did enterprise copy the Akira class which is widely known but the nessele pylons point down not up.
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    grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    Ha har, I see it instantly. Nice. Is this an upcoming tier 6 ship?
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    thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,165 Arc User
    grylak wrote: »
    Ha har, I see it instantly. Nice. Is this an upcoming tier 6 ship?

    Actually, it's been out a while:

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9478993-star-trek-online:-heavy-escort-carriers-now-live!

    However, I only just bought it last night :)

    And, IMO, we now finally have enough parts to assemble the silhouette of the NX! You can see all of the Akira classes in game in the album below, with the very last pic being my "kitbash" from the OP:

    http://imgur.com/a/QodNU

    So I now essentially have a T6 NX :p

    PS: I'm *not* saying Cryptic "copied" anything. As many have stated, the NX was based on the Akira design(in real life). The title of this thread was simply a joke, and it's been very entertaining reading all of the replies :D

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    semalda226semalda226 Member Posts: 1,994 Arc User
    Hah! You even confused Taco!
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    jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Huh?

    I second and Third this lol HUH?? lol​​
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    lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,825 Arc User
    As long as the nacelles point downward, doesn't really feel like a NX to me...

    Closer than ever...but still doesn't feel it.
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    jbmonroejbmonroe Member Posts: 809 Arc User
    At first I thought it was the standard HEC, but it's not. Fascinating.
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    storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,253 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    jam3s1701 wrote: »
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Huh?

    I second and Third this lol HUH?? lol

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    hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    Seriously? No one got Akiraprise? When the NX class was first unveiled, this was the only thing people talked about.

    I'm surprised a lot of people didn't catch on to this, unless Star Trek wasn't on your radar back in 2001. :p
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    duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,870 Arc User
    hypl wrote: »
    Seriously? No one got Akiraprise?

    See page one. :tongue:
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    trygvar13trygvar13 Member Posts: 697 Arc User
    Hmm I thought you were talking about the Galaxy class starship that the interior in the background looks like.
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    daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    According to Doug Drexler, the producers of ENTERPRISE originally wanted to just use the Akira model for the shows hero-ship.
    It took a lot of convincing from him and Herman Zimmerman to adjust it enough, so that it looked more like the era the show took place in.
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    qweeble#7491 qweeble Member Posts: 164 Cryptic Developer
    I too, am still confused... but I have a guess about what's going on.

    You customized a ship, swapping out certain parts so that you could make a ship that, from one angle, looks similar to another ship. You wanted to share your kitbash.

    Is that correct? Because, if that's not, then I'm terribly confused.
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    daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    I too, am still confused... but I have a guess about what's going on.

    You customized a ship, swapping out certain parts so that you could make a ship that, from one angle, looks similar to another ship. You wanted to share your kitbash.

    Is that correct? Because, if that's not, then I'm terribly confused.
    Somebody quick give Capt. JamJamz a cookie.
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    semalda226semalda226 Member Posts: 1,994 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    Wow...OP confuzzled all the Devs... also JamJamz change your avatar to a boombox! It will amuse us....
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    zbzznzbzzn Member Posts: 221 Arc User
    And here I was thinking OP was referencing something far more risque, akin to the third place submission in the Bioshock Cover Art Contest.

    Warning: If you are easily offended, you may not want to look too deeply into the origins of said submission.
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    grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    Ah, thanks Nagus. Weither intentional or not, that is a pretty cool little thing.
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    I too, am still confused... but I have a guess about what's going on.

    You customized a ship, swapping out certain parts so that you could make a ship that, from one angle, looks similar to another ship. You wanted to share your kitbash.

    Is that correct? Because, if that's not, then I'm terribly confused.
    It's my best guess as to what this is about.

    Also, your avatar escaped.
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    thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,165 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    No one should be confused at this point. I posted earlier this morning what this thread was "really about". Well before jamjam's post. Anyone confused at this point just isn't reading :p

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    psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    Sorry, but unless you can get the nacelles to face up instead of down it's not an NX-class. :P
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    ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    bergins wrote: »
    @daveyny

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    ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    rmy1081 wrote: »
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Chronilogically speaking, the Akira is based on the NX, just flipped over. :p

    and in real life, the NX is based on the Akira, just flipped over :)

    I don't really have the desire to dig up the source but it's there.
    Um no the NX isn't based off Akira. Doug Drexler designed it based off the Matt Jefferies Enterprise and the TMP refit. There are many many cues in it from the Enterprise. At one point before he took the Drex files down he went into a lot of detail on the NX. The Impulse drive is the TOS Enterprise spilt down the middle. The pylons are taken from the refit along with other things.

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    daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    ssbn655 wrote: »
    rmy1081 wrote: »
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Chronilogically speaking, the Akira is based on the NX, just flipped over. :p

    and in real life, the NX is based on the Akira, just flipped over :)

    I don't really have the desire to dig up the source but it's there.
    Um no the NX isn't based off Akira. Doug Drexler designed it based off the Matt Jefferies Enterprise and the TMP refit. There are many many cues in it from the Enterprise. At one point before he took the Drex files down he went into a lot of detail on the NX. The Impulse drive is the TOS Enterprise spilt down the middle. The pylons are taken from the refit along with other things.

    ALL of which he and Herman Zimmerman had to fight tooth and nail to get the producers of the show to agree with.
    And Berman and such, did simply want to use the Akira with a different color scheme.

    This too was also described in Doug's old blogs (The DREX Files), which unfortunately he closed down a couple of years ago due to the amount of negative backlash he was getting from assorted sources. (which is too long of a sordid story to get into here).
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    berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
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