Thanks for the kind comments on the first images of this design everybody! I am glad to see there are still some folks out there who like "old school" Star Trek-inspired ships :-) This project is a tribute to the kind of spaceships I was designing as a younger teenager before the movies Star Wars and Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out. During those halcyon days of my youth, there was no set canon among Star Trek fans of what Star Trek ships were supposed to look like. I found myself gravitating towards hull configurations that mixed elements of Spaceship Discovery from the 1960's science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey with those of the Starship Enterprise from 1960's TV show Star Trek: The Original Series. Starship Apotheosis does not depict an actual design I did during my teenage years, but is does attempt to convey the sense of innocent wonder I often felt during that era of my artistic life. It is the kind of design I would have created back then if I had the 3D CGI tools and skills that I now possess. I hope that young teenager would be pleased.