r/StarTrekStarships

From Bridge Commander Remastered: Orion mod

So I made a mockup

so, rebuild number 6 (i didn't render the first 3) is about done, just some fine detailing and stuff to go, but i think she's looking pretty damn good!
tried something new with the texturing, so wanted to see how she reacts at different angles, so yeah, here she is!

The Igneous is a mysterious object encountered by Star Fleet only once. It is unknown where it came from, and whether it was some kind of starship, autonomous probe, or possibly even a life form. It appeared to be made of a composite of super-heated minerals, hence its name. It was heading for a populated planet when it was encountered, however the Federation ship that discovered it managed to draw it off and send it on a different course. Shortly after that, it disappeared completely. So its true nature may never be known.

After 3 years of multiple failures it’s finally complete. Built in 4 parts and assembled by moving away from complexity zones… full bridge, shuttle bay, snd engineering included, and yes it flies…. Very slowly

I don’t fully know what it is. I have just never liked the Excelsior class. The neck looks like it’s a giant rubber bushing which I just think is weird rather than having a smooth transition and I’ve never really liked how the engineering section and the pylons look either.

Posted to the official website last week:

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11581851

Thoughts are that it was originally designed to study hazardous nebulae that affect warp fields, shields, etc. (hence aerodynamic features, large wing & deflector for sensors, specialised nacelle & buzard collector); later applied to policing, surveillance, & light escort missions due to it's sensor suites, robust hull, low signature, & adaptable crew who proved its worth against the hazardous inhabitants who frequented areas like the Badlands & Briar Patch.

Dervish Class from Star Trek Online

Commission for my friend Jenny from 2024 for her Star Trek Adventures campaign, depicting the Intrepid-derived USS Curiosity encountering a low tech alien stealth ship in a region of space similar to the Badlands.

It looks like the original ending of TMP had the refit Enterprise fight the three re-materialized Klingon battlecruisers.

Could other starships come in and reinforce Earth?

Were there any mention of orbital defense batteries?

What about armed space stations?

Hot take: I like the Phase II Enterprise more than the Constitution Refit.

Kirk's Enterprise should have no less than four forward-facing torpedo launchers and two aft-facing torpedo launchers.

The Phase II Enterprise is a better basis for mounting them, especially if there was going to be saucer separation.

The TOS TV Constitution has two forward-facing phaser emitters and two forward-facing torpedo launchers just above the sensor dome.

The Phase II Constitution doesn't make the redesigned torpedo launchers look so big. There's room to keep the two torpedo launchers there.

2 dome + 2 neck

As for the aft, ENT In The Mirror, Darkly established two aft-facing torpedo launchers for the TOS TV Constitution.

The Phase II Constitution keeps those.

Designed to explore the four ice giants of the ZwoNmu system: Glarpi, Shpler (pictured), Eauah, and Flibul, this rocket is technically a Federation ship, belonging to the United Mellanus Space Program. One of the conditions for Mellanus joining the Federation during the Dominion War was that they would be given exclusive space exploration rights to their own solar system and 15 lightyears of surrounding space.

But they are only barely post-warp, and they developed warp drive a little on the early side to begin with.

Mellanoid Slime spacecrafts use a peculiar propulsion technology: Fission-Impulse. These engines use fission reactors in the form of a nuclear thermal rocket, but with the exhaust velocity and thrust power artificially increased by use of impulse drive coils powered by an additional nuclear fission reactor. The performance is far inferior to a proper impulse drive, but superior to the previously available nuclear thermal rockets.

The warp reactor is replaced with a capacitor bank charged by the five fission reactors making up the impulse drive. As a result it can only make short FTL hops before recharging, but this is still better than waiting decades coasting through interplanetary space.

Waste heat on a starship is generally rejected directly into subspace via a subspace heat sink, but with subspace technology still being a fairly underdeveloped field on Mellanus, traditional glowing red-hot heat radiators are used. In this case, liquid droplet radiators. (Mellanoid Slimes will of course prefer a fluidic solution to a problem when given the opportunity)

This ship, reconfigured into the USS Liberty, plays a role in my Lower Decks OC-focused fanfic Surviving Schwil. https://archiveofourown.org/works/56540020/chapters/143695525