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Design winner for U.S.S. Titan

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Design winner for U.S.S. Titan
Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:45 PM

 

You guys may have already seen this but here is the design winner for the U.S.S. Titan. I just stumbles upon it while looking for interesting ship designs. Actually i was loooking for the new Excalibur. But anyways I  figure this will get some interesting conversation started and get the creative juices flowing for the group build.

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=44&feature_id=4347

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by Fish-Head Aric on Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:31 AM

I've been watching this to see if anyone has anything to say.  It's a cool design, and I vote that, since Martian's brought it to our attention, time to "git 'er done boy!"  go build one fer us!Wink [;)]

 

~Aric Fisher aric_001@hotmail.com
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:03 PM
The designer is an old school buddy of mine from the Art Institute of Seattle.  I saw his name mentioned in a thread at Starship Modeler last month and checked it out.  His online porfolio had his new email address and I got back in contact with him.
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Posted by MoparManiac on Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:29 PM
It's a beautiful design Sean Tourangeau should be proud.. Bow [bow]
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Posted by Jorg Sacul on Sunday, January 15, 2006 10:24 AM
I like that design better than the Sovereign-class.  Riker got the better ride! Now if he can just keep Troi out of the driver's seat..Wink [;)]
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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:50 AM

The guys over on the Flare sci fi forum (where I found this link) were seriously bashing this design, though after looking at the runners up most understood why it won. I like it, didn't picture it as the Titan though. Most complaints were wthat it appeard unoriginal, however the rules of the contest wanted it to be recognizable and basicly reflect the "established look" of Fed vessels. I kinda like the idea of adding a roll bar to a cruiser styled hull. I think I'd like it better if the engines were raised but the low profile creates a smaller cross section. I do agree with others that it is a bit small for a deep space exploration vessel, however the (Intrepid Class) Voyager, Nova Classs (Equinox), and Obereth Class (Grissom) were all relatively small vessels. The Galaxy, Nebula, and Constellation designs seem better suited for deep space exploration. I picture smaller vessels within the Federation with the large vessels on the out skirts or in deep space where there may be little or no Federation assistance.

 Many also complained that the design had too many common elements that were just switched around. Like Sovereign hull and Akira engines but anyway I don't find that unusual if it was developed around the same time as the Akira. Star fleet ships should share some of the same elements. Every new ship design doesn't have to have a whole newly designed set of engines. Look at the refit Enterprise and the Miranda Class, and the Galaxy and the Nebula Class, not to mention all of the Batttle of  Wolf  359 vessels with Galaxy style engines.Well anyway the design has begun to grow on me but no Aric "I" wont be building one any time soon!LOL .

Here were design specs for the contest:

The Ship:

U.S.S. Titan, NCC-80102, Luna-class. The Titan is a midsize Starfleet vessel, approximately 450 meters in length (larger than the U.S.S. Voyager, smaller than the Enterprise-D), with a crew complement of 350. Titan's hull configuration is comparable to other established Starfleet vessels.


U.S.S. Voyager, approximately 344 meters

[Additional: USS Akira - 464 meters]

[Additional: USS Excelsior - 467 meters]

U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Approximately 642 meters

The Luna-class is Starfleet's newest-generation long-range explorer, a starship not built specifically for combat, but like the Constitution-class of the previous century, a vessel designed for a long-term multipurpose mission into uncharted space. Equipped with conventional tactical systems (deflector shields; phasers; quantum torpedoes), Titan also boasts state-of-the-art propulsion and cutting-edge scientific equipment, as well as being a testbed for experimental science tech not yet available on other classes.

The Titan is manned by the most varied multispecies crew in Starfleet history, with humans taking up less than 15% of the 350-member crew. The diversity of the crew is intended to facilitate stories that will explore the ways that beings of different cultures, biologies, psychologies, and physical appearances learn how to work together, or fail to, depending on the circumstances they encounter. Titan has eight shuttlecraft of various sizes.

The story behind the Luna-class:

The Luna-Class Development Project was initiated in 2369 in response to the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole, and originally conceived as leading a planned Starfleet wave of deep-space exploration in the Gamma Quadrant. The project was spearheaded by Dr. (Commander) Xin Ra-Havreii, a Starfleet theoretical engineer at Utopia Planitia. Field testing on the prototype U.S.S. Luna was under way by 2372 in the Alpha Quadrant, and construction of the fleet was scheduled to begin the following year. Unfortunately, contact with the Dominion and the subsequent outbreak of hostilities mothballed the project indefinitely, as Starfleet redirected its shipbuilding resources to the production of vessels better suited to combat.

Upon the war's end in late 2375, Dr. Ra-Havreii correctly judged that the Federation's cultural psychology would eventually shift back toward its pre-war ideals, and pushed to have the Luna-class revisited as a major step toward resuming Starfleet's mission of peaceful exploration (even though the class would no longer be assigned exclusively to the exploration of the Gamma Quadrant). Construction of an initial fleet of twelve Luna-class vessels was completed by 2379, and the Titan was offered to William T. Riker, one of many command officers eager to put the strife of the last decade behind him.

The Luna-class fleet:

The ships of the Luna-class are all named for moons in
Earth's solar system:

Amalthea
Callisto
Charon
Europa
Galatea
Ganymede
Io
Luna
Oberon
Rhea
Titan
Triton

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by terry35 on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:41 PM

Excellent,congratulations.

 

regards,

Terry.

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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:26 AM

Come on we have a trek group build going on I figutured there would be more comments than these. It looks like it may have photorp launcers in the pod (two fore and one aft) though I know it is supposed to contain sensors. I'd love to make this vessel into a battle ship or a torpedo cruiser. Place about 4 or 5 Galaxy class photorp launchers in that pod. Galaxy class only has a single forward facing tube that can fire a full spread of about 10 torpedoes in one salvo. That would be sweet! 

Any one know what the  Galaxy class Excalibur is supposed to look like. It is supposed to have a third nacel but I wander if it's like the Dreadnaught Enterprise D or does it use a smaller nacel. 

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by Woody on Saturday, January 21, 2006 9:52 PM
I'm not a big fan of Trek designs from TNG on. I suppose if the nacelles were up a bit higher and the rollbar was removed it would look ok.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Monday, January 23, 2006 8:50 AM

Well I'lll say this it took a LOOONG time for the Gaxaxy class to grow me but finnally I have grown to like the "big girl". She reminds me of a blue whale, powerful and gracefull. And like the bleue a face on it's mother could love but you still wouldn't pick a fight with it!LOL I loked the design of the Defiant and Voyager though I always felt that the nacels were a bit small. I like Enterprise E design because it harkens back to the refit Enterpise. But the refit will always be my fave. I also now love the TOS Enterprise design after seeing the TOS Defiant "strut her stuff" on ST:Enterprise.

Though I don't find the design of the Titan very inspired the rules din't call for to be and it fits all the criteria, sooo I really can't find fault in the design itself. I find it odd that it was the best design they had to choose from. Those runner-ups, except for mabe one, left quite a lot be desired and makes me wonder what the other designs look like. You guys see the one with spheres all over it?

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=44&feature_id=4419

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by highlanderburial on Saturday, February 4, 2006 12:16 PM

Which Enterprise episode was that? I would have loved to have seen that. Darn anti-terrorist deployments, you miss all the good stuff!

Thanks!

-TMW

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