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Star Trek Online: Bringing the Next Enterprise to Life
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The latest developer diary on the official Star Trek Online site has arrived with details about how exactly the team chose the winner of the recent "Design the Next Enterprise" contest and how the team plans to bring that star ship to life. It's a terrific look at the design process from pen and ink drawing through the draft rendered version.
Normally at this stage of the process, with a piece of concept art and a rough 3D model, we'd jump right into building the ship. We'd pass it on to the ship team's capable hands and, in a few weeks and with some iteration, we'd have a shiny new ship in the game. However, we've got a new member to the STO art team. His name is Thomas Marrone and he loves him some Star Trek. He's a talented guy, has this infectious enthusiasm for all things Trek, and he really wanted to sink his teeth into the next Enterprise. Since we only had a front ¾ view of the ship we still had some extrapolation to do. We actually liked the fact that there was room left for us to get our hands dirty in the design. The biggest unanswered question was how that double-neck-to-saucer junction was going to work. Thomas said he had an idea, so we gave him our blessing and let him go about figuring things out.
Read more on the Star Trek Online site.
Comments
I like the look of that model, hope it becomes cannon.
I like it but I wish they would not make the saucer so elongater and more disk shaped.
Its an ''OK'' design, IMO. Neither am I impressed, nor am I disappointed. It looks like what its prolly meant to be; a slightly more futuristic yet traditional disk + x2 handlebars design. Personally, I do not like Star Trel designs much, IN GENERAL (not limited to the game). Im more into Babylon 5 human ships, or Caldari ''designs'' from EVE online. Well, each to his own, I guess.
I thought at first it was going to be more its own style. But, it looks like a variation of the E as the art goes. It should be unique much as the D was.
It won't.
If the saucer were to come off and become its own escape ship (like in star trek the next generation)
The bottom fighting piece would look alot like a War of the Worlds ship. Looks cool in my opinion.
(supresses the inner Trekie trying to get out)
Work hard Play Harder
CBS had to approve of the design, so you never know, it could.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
No it couldn't. To be considered canon for Star Trek something must appear onscreen in a TV show or movie. This is from a video game, and a middling quality game from a company that's constantly losing money as well.