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The ships of Surplus Depot Z-15: Crossfield-variant?
angrytarg
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Today, I stumbled upon something interesting:
The surplus depot Z-15 from TNG's "Unification".
In the episode, the Enterprise-D was investigating the depot in order to find traces of the T'Pau. But that is not what I'm posting this for. Amongst the wreckage of the Federation depot, which includes a Klingon K'tinga, there is a rather curious ship, designated on MA as B-24-CLN. Notice something?
I knew that the crossfield was based on a shelved Phase II design, but I actually didn't know this one showed in TNG. The round nacelles don't look bad at all. It'd make a good Kelvin-era version.
The surplus depot Z-15 from TNG's "Unification".
In the episode, the Enterprise-D was investigating the depot in order to find traces of the T'Pau. But that is not what I'm posting this for. Amongst the wreckage of the Federation depot, which includes a Klingon K'tinga, there is a rather curious ship, designated on MA as B-24-CLN. Notice something?
I knew that the crossfield was based on a shelved Phase II design, but I actually didn't know this one showed in TNG. The round nacelles don't look bad at all. It'd make a good Kelvin-era version.
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I suspected hotlinking doesn't work, but if you click the link you get to the wiki page, it has all the pictures on it
EDIT: Should work now
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And the saucer landed:
They kept the model around and if Phase II had made it to air they probably would have made a shooting model of it to use as one of the non-hero ships similar to the way TNG used the Excelsior and Miranda quite a bit. That concept model (or one of the others, they had several with slight differences) was used in TMP in the background in spacedock also.
It would be great c-store ship if the devs would make it (though it does need some polishing) along with the four engine "tennis racket" Excelsior concept model just astern of the Planet of Titans ship.
Yup
That one would have looked better than the Discovery that is in the show. It would be a great addition to STO if they can do it without flack from CBS.
THAT's the one I LIKE. I can see that as a pre tos thing.
> It was one of the concept models for McQuarrie's design for the dropped early '70s Star Trek movie Planet of Titans. It was designed before Star Trek became so formulized in its ship design, and the main bridge is actually in the "delta" hull not the saucer (the saucer was actually a mostly science section that could detach and land on planets).
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> It would be great c-store ship if the devs would make it (though it does need some polishing) along with the four engine "tennis racket" Excelsior concept model just astern of the Planet of Titans ship.
Like the Galaxy class which' saucer was also meant to land and take off, but due to time constraints they couldn't fit the landing gear bays on the shooting model. But the eaglemoss starship magazine has the story and concept in it.
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When it was first revealed I remember that design being met with a lot of hatred as well, I personally don't think it looks any better than the design they ultimately went with. It's the wedge shaped secondary hull that ruins it for me, and this design already had that.
The wedge is not the secondary hull on the Planet of Titans ship, it is the primary hull. It is a mid 23rd century descendent of the "warp delta" ships you occasionally see in ENT (one of which was featured in the beginning credits), modified with a neck and the saucer secondary hull perched on its nose.
The script for the movie was available a long time ago which mentioned that reversal of the usual arrangement.