Poll.... Voyager! :)

The Voyager design is almost 18 years old and it is on my mind quite a lot these days. (oh rly?)

While I did some research on what I believe where parts that would benefit from improvement, I'm not sure if I want to go that route. My time is limited this year, recreating a slightly morphed version of the original might be too time consuming to be worth it, also I'd like to use the (re)design as a demonstration of what I'm currently able to do. (ahum...)

Images show a bit of the research phase and a possible (mild) refit direction.

A different approach would be to go more freely and create a ship that feels like Voyager, but does not follow the original strictly. This would come closer to what was done with the Enterprise when it was upgraded for ST:TMP. Clearly it was still the Enterprise, but it also was modernized to an acceptable 1979 standard. (And beyond, as that ship never really will look outdated.)

I just contacted Kirsten Beyer to hear what she thinks about this, and I created a poll. Thanks for voting! :)

Like it was taken yesterday....an evenly lid (semi finished?) Enterprise in spacedock for TMP during lighting tests.
Photo courtesy of Andrew Probert.

In other news:

 CBS in the shape of John van Citters gave me green light to get my starships in Star Trek Online.

I'm preparing a list of questions and tech specs that I need to sent to Cryptic, see how and if we can shape this. To be continued. :)

Alejandro, here is that underside view! :)

Click on the "Actions" tab and then "download" photo. I find it extremely annoying that Blogspot decides what format would be best for these pictures.... :P

Planck topview

It will be a slow sunday! :)

I kind of like this image so I wanted to share it.
This was made a few days before I finalized the ship.

The image below explains why the registry looks flipped on the bottom.

I apologize for my insanely bad post construction/writing this morning. Time for some breakfast!

Priority One! YAY!

Thanks for the support guys! I really appriciate it!
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