New TOS-R Ship

[lurker]

New Fed ship in the Medusan ambassador ep:

trekmovie.com/tosrem/ititnb/new_tosr062_15.jpg

[redsharif]

Interesting. Reminds me of the Amarillo from SFM.

The windows don't really work for me, though. The number of windows and their size seems to work against the intended scale for the ship.

[zerosnark]

Finally. . . .someone who doesn't think all fed ships have saucers.

[Terradyhne]

cool some use of the Daedalus design idea for an other ship

[lurker]

It's a curious design. My guess is that it is a fast transport or resupply ship, maybe a small frigate. I'd like to hear the designer's intentions. I can't even guess at the purpose on the
cylinders coming off the back of the secondary hull or the large blue lit area.

Update: It appears somebody over at the flare sci-fi forums emailed Mike Okuda and he said it is a Medusan ship using Fed parts because they can't make their own ships.

[CaptainPierce]

Finally... somebody went back to Matt Jefferies' original Enterprise design sketches and took their inspiration from some actual TOS behind-the-scenes material. This is almost enough to make me forgive Okuda for the Antares and the Woden.

Almost.

As for it being a Medusan ship... oh, please. Aren't the Medusans supposed to be the best navigators in the Federation? Would you like to tell me how they got so good if they can't even build their own starships? See, if he was smart, he could have made this be a Federation ship, and then re-used it for the Aurora...

[Atrahasis]

You know, the windows look like they're on decks that are only 2 feet high. Must be efficient to be so tiny!

[vipre]

Scale is not exactly easy to tell in space. A couple of assumptions being made here seem to be that there's only one row of windows per deck and that the windows are regular sized.

The decks could be two windows high or the windows could be one deck tall, like the big picture window at the end of Star Wars Episode V.

[RBM]

[quote author=captainpierce board=models thread=1206309524 post=1206414071As for it being a Medusan ship... oh, please. Aren't the Medusans supposed to be the best navigators in the Federation? Would you like to tell me how they got so good if they can't even build their own starships? [/quote] 'Cuz they ain't got no hands? Dolphins, whales, and birds are great navigators but they can't make boats or planes.

[Atrahasis]

That's a good point...I guess they must basically look like sea urchins.

[I, Mudd.]

The Medusans seem to be non-corporeal, more of an energy/electromagnetic being about the size of a metal lunchbox, being carted around in breadbaskets of a sort. In Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson, there is a write-up on the species that is also accompanied by a sort of environment suit/contact vehicle for the species, which is also rather small and very un-humanoid in appearance, complete with a spherical center, no head and at least four tentacle-like appendages.

That said, why would the ship need to be designed to human scale?

JM.

[straightwing]

or need windows?

[lurker]

Maybe the ship designed for human/medusan interaction along the lines of what was talked about in the episode

[Atrahasis]

lurker said:

Maybe the ship designed for human/medusan interaction along the lines of what was talked about in the episode

That's an interesting thought...though you'd need decks taller than two feet!

[lurker]

True, you would. There must be some because they beamed that lady over with the ambassador.