"U.S.S. SALADIN, underside view" by Raymar3d
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A different angle of the ship. 3d model base was the Enterprise 1701 model by Thomas Phong, customized (with permission) to make the Saladin by Kenneth Thomson Jr. based on the ship designed by Franz Joseph for the Starfleet Technical Manual.
Comments welcome, and please take a look at the other gallery images. I've been posting at 3am regularly, and I'm not getting as many views as I'd hoped for.
Check 'em out and let me know what you think!
Sincerely,
Kenneth Thomson Jr.
Regarding canonicity of the Saladin and other ships of the SFTM, please read this article :) http://www.trekplace.com/franzjoseph.html
Comments (7)
Love it!
Looks good, but I must admit, I don't care for the mounting of the deflector dish under the saucer section. I wonder that it's a part of the Starfleet Technical Manual, as it goes against Roddenberry's design guidelines. I'm not saying that the "rules" he laid out are an absolute must to follow, but for an older ship (by the look of it, plus the fact that the Saladin has its own insignia patches, which puts it in TOS era) to stray from the two section and two nacelle [clearing the profile of the saucer] design - well, it's not something I'd expect. Oh, by the way, it's not so much the number of nacelles or pylons that mattered, but how many engines there were - dual core, as you put it in an earlier post. The alternate future Enterprise D in "All Good Things..." had three nacelles, but each nacelle is two parallel engines. I think. I'm not familiar with all things Starfleet, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have that before TNG era. I remember seeing a couple single nacelle ships during TNG (I think it was TNG), but the nacelle itself was much like Enterprise-D's, making it a pair of engines. I'm pretty sure the point was to have balance with the engines and a single one wouldn't do. I don't have any of my ST reading material around, so I can't really dig around and see what's what. Still, it's a decent looking ship. While some of the later designs looked pretty good, there's still something about the relative "simplicity" of the ships built earlier that's hard to beat. $.02
So sweet. 5+. My fav.
Hey Revelation :) I come from the old school, and the Starfleet Technical Manual was THE first tech publication of all in the Star Trek Universe aside from the original series writers guide. It came out in 1974 when I was ten years old. While I still prefer the TOS Enterprise design, I wanted to see the designs of Franz Joseph on screen as they were on the readouts on the monitors on the bridge in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and in communications around the Epsilon 9 space station in ST:TMP (scout class version). These ships were canon, until later, when Gene Roddenberry changed the rules because of a copyright/ownership dispute with Franz Joseph. I and most of the TOS era fan filmmakers are using them, but I wanted to base my story aboard one as we used that ship in our FASA Role-playing adventures in the early 1980's. It's not the most beautiful ship, but it's a destroyer, and that makes it kind of interesting, as its mission will be similar to the Enterprise, but it will be patrolling Orion space, dealing with pirates and smugglers a lot, making for some different kinds of stories. I hope you will all tune in when they start coming online! Ken
I think this is fantastic.
Great POV of the ship. Really cool to see the FJD ships from the Tech Manual.
wonderful to see someone keeping Franz Joseph's Trek ships alive!