Star Trek Stuff

[scifieric]

No, I don't have a larger version of that particular shot. However, I revamped the ship sometime after that:

https://evilgenius180.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/brisbane-class-revamp/

Some of the stuff I did on that ship is an influence for this one.

Beautiful, staggering work!  You do FANTASTIC work!  Absolutely lovely.

Yes, that's what I did. It was initially to try something else to make cutting the windows in and getting rid of what I wanted go more quickly, but then I found out that I didn't wind up with what I didn't want. So, it worked even better than I thought.

I'll have to try that, one of these days.  I'm determined to make both pilot versions of the Enterprise.  Perhaps I'll try there.

So, despite my claim that I was done with this for now, I can't help but be nitpicky. My escape pod hatches were bothering me. What really bugged me was that some of them were close to the phaser arrays. However, while I was fixing those, I decided to tighten up the spacing on them all, to put them in tight groups.

Anyway, I think it looks less sloppy. Each pod holds up to six people and there are 36 pods (so far) on the top of the saucer, allowing 216 people to abandon ship using these pods. Of course, more will come on other parts of the ship, and possibly more on the saucer top.

Wow!  This looks great!

The previous placement looked okay to me, but these discrete groups really look terrific!

[scifidude79]

Thanks Eric.

[scifieric]

Thanks Eric.

You've certainly deserved it.  You're a great artist, Chris!

[Freak]

Looking Good Chris and your moving quickly with this build.
Look like you got into the flow of using blender.

[scifidude79]

Thanks Dean. Yeah, I seem to be getting along with Blender this time.

[scifidude79]

It's not a massive update, but I've kind of been picking at the lower saucer grid lines all week. It's tedious work, so I've been breaking it up. I also added the registry to the bottom. That will help me with my window layout, so I don't have to guesstimate where that will be. Tonight I'll start working on the windows, phasers and escape pods for the lower saucer.

[scifieric]

That is absolutely cool!

[scifidude79]

Thanks Eric.

[scifidude79]

This is a more substantial update than the last one. I got the rest of the saucer section windows in. I put quite a lot of windows on the saucer bottom, to fit with other Star Trek ships. And, to fit with other ships, some of them are at a more extreme "downward" angle than I'd like them to be, but that's how Starfleet rolls, I guess. And, to finish up the windows, I did the structure under the bridge too. I also redesigned my phasers to be more like TNG phasers. The ones I had before were too "poofy." These are flatter. And, of course, more escape pods. There are an odd number of those on the bottom, but I'll even it out up top as there are still more to add up there.



There are 55 escape pods in the lower saucer, added to the 36 up top and that's a total of 91. As I said previously, the pods can hold up to 6 people for a total of 546 people. However, ordinarily the pods hold only 4 people, for a total of 364. The pods would only have to be filled to max capacity if the ship was carrying extra people. After all, the shuttles can also be used to abandon ship. I don't figure the ship has a crew anywhere near as many as there are escape pods. That's normal, though, as the ships do sometimes carry extra people. The Enterprise-D had enough pods for 1400 people, plus shuttles, and a crew of only a little over 1000. Even though this ship is the same size as a Constitution class, I figure it only has a crew of about 350, owing to modern automation and stations/departments that are no longer necessary in the 24th century. IE: the ships no longer have communications officers, as the tactical and ops officers usually handle communications. The helm and navigation stations were also combined into one flight control station. We have to assume other redundant departments would be combined and unnecessary ones removed. This trend is evident by the Galaxy class having a crew of only a little over 1000 when it's much larger than a Constitution class. The Enterprise-A in Star Trek VI had a crew of 500.

Anyway, that's what I have for now. I may move on to the secondary hull next and get those grid lines and windows knocked out.

[Freak]

Looking Good Chris.

You made one mistake and it not with the ship. It actually the number of crew of a Galaxy Class Ship. You State that it has a crew little over 1000. The crew number is actually lower than that. As the Galaxy Class also carried families aboard. Let assume that just under half the crew have brought their families along and they have kids. lets say 2 each.
So that would put the actual crew of the Galaxy Class ship roughly around the 550 to 600 mark and the rest would be civilians living aboard. :p

[scifidude79]

I always figured the 1,000+ crew didn't include the civilians. Andrew Probert wanted there to be at least 4X as many people aboard, but the budget didn't allow for the extras needed to make it look convincing.

I'm in the kitchen right now, but I have the technical manual upstairs. I'll take a look at the crew compliment when I get up there.

[scifidude79]

According to the DS9 Technical Manual, since the TNG one isn't much help, the crew of the Enterprise is 1,012 officers and crew, 200 visiting personnel (civilians.) Take that with whatever grain of salt you want to, the exact crew specs were never said in an episode.

[Freak]

Yeah It was never mentioned on screen.
Though I think Picard did say something like their are "1200 souls aboard" in one episode.

[scifieric]

This looks absolutely terrific, Chris!  Great work!

[scifidude79]

Thanks Eric and Dean.

Yeah It was never mentioned on screen.
Though I think Picard did say something like their are "1200 souls aboard" in one episode.

Yeah, that does sound familiar. It may have been when the Yamato was destroyed.