Concepts
Design
Development
My involvement with this series started in 1986, mid October, when Star Trek
creator Gene Roddenberry announced on television that he wanted to "do it again".
He was going to produce a new generation of Star Trek.
I secured an interview with him, early in November, and he remembered my
contributions to ST:TMP. Then, on Dec. 2,1986, I became the fifth person hired
on the new project and started sketching right away. Actually, I was so excited about
the whole idea of a new ship that I started sketching right after that November meeting.
My official first task, however, was to provide concepts for the bridge,
(which you'll find in the menu / 'interiors' section)... but this is all about the exterior.
So,..... let's go back seven years before, when I made this sketch.
NEW IDEA
This 8" x 5.6" sketch was made in one of those "what if" moments, shortly after I'd finished working on
"Star Trek: the Motion Picture" back in 1979.
Having warp engines above the saucer always bothered me and I thought it made more sense
to lower them closer to the ship's center of mass. And, while I was at it, I thought, along with
the saucer's wide horizontal profile, the other main elements should also be wide and horizontal.
So I sat down and said,... "what if..I could design this ship the way I thought it should look"?
And this was the result
Six years go by and I randomly produce this page of sketches in one of my sketchbooks. Obviously,
I started with that "New Idea" above and, out of the blue, sketched up these couple of ideas in passing,
little realizing that I'd be doing this for real, less than a year later,
Hmmmm...
in an unusual change of pace,... I'm going to address a big question which I've discovered
has risen once again on Trekfanworld. So let's
Jump ahead to ship coloring....
My involvement with this series started in 1986, mid October, when Star Trek
creator Gene Roddenberry announced on television that he wanted to "do it again".
He was going to produce a new generation of Star Trek.
I secured an interview with him, early in November, and he remembered my
contributions to ST:TMP. Then, on Dec. 2,1986, I became the fifth person hired
on the new project and started sketching right away. Actually, I was so excited about
the whole idea of a new ship that I started sketching right after that November meeting.
My official first task, however, was to provide concepts for the bridge,
(which you'll find in the menu / 'interiors' section)... but this is all about the exterior.
So,..... let's go back seven years before, when I made this sketch.
NEW IDEA
This 8" x 5.6" sketch was made in one of those "what if" moments, shortly after I'd finished working on
"Star Trek: the Motion Picture" back in 1979.
Having warp engines above the saucer always bothered me and I thought it made more sense
to lower them closer to the ship's center of mass. And, while I was at it, I thought, along with
the saucer's wide horizontal profile, the other main elements should also be wide and horizontal.
So I sat down and said,... "what if..I could design this ship the way I thought it should look"?
And this was the result
Six years go by and I randomly produce this page of sketches in one of my sketchbooks. Obviously,
I started with that "New Idea" above and, out of the blue, sketched up these couple of ideas in passing,
little realizing that I'd be doing this for real, less than a year later,
Hmmmm...
in an unusual change of pace,... I'm going to address a big question which I've discovered
has risen once again on Trekfanworld. So let's
Jump ahead to ship coloring....