Intel has a Star Trek movie tie-in page set up to promote the film and they’ve added a cool Flash-based look at the USS Kelvin, the ship commanded by Captain Christopher Pike. I have a feeling they’ll be adding a lot of cool stuff to the site as the weeks go by - probably shuttlecraft, other ships (maybe even the USS Enterprise itself).
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I took a few screen grabs and enhanced them to make it easier to make out details - you can see them below.
Side view of the USS Kelvin
Rear 3/4 view of the USS Kelvin
Top view
Bottom view
For a full 360 look at the ship, plus details about the bridge, warp engine and hangar bay head over to BoldlyGo.Intel.com and click on the “Starfleet Database” icon.
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what is that thing at the top? The Star Trek website says the Kelvin only has one warp Nacelle, logic dictates that the thing on the bottom is the warp nacelle, so what is the thing on top?
@Jake
That’s the secondary or engineering hull. It’s usually below the primary hull (disc) but in this case they put it on top.
Vic
the secondaet hull also contains the shuttle bay on seeing the new film twice it wierd thing is that it looks worse off interior wise than the nx-01
The design is similiar to a Starfleet scout ship from the original series. Franz Joseph Designs put out blue prints of three ship classes; Constitution Class, Scout Class and Dreadnaught Class. Also if anyone has ever heard of or played Star Fleet Battles or the FASA, Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator(strategy board games), you will find many interesting designs in the ship recognition manuals.
@ Jim . .
The Hermes scout class’ design was also used for a “destroyer, escort or frigate” (quote from Memory Alpha wiki) class, called the Saladin class.
There was also one more federation warp-capable ship, with a different design, from the old ST Tech Manual: a “tugboat” type ship, called he Ptolemy class. It had a design (very) superficially resembling the later “Reliant” style frigate, with 2 nacelles below the primary hull on very long pylons, a nav deflector dish (like the one on the Hermes/Saladin classes) projecting out of the bottom of the “saucer section”. The tug had no secondary hull (only the saucer), but it did still have the ventral “connector neck”, which was used to connect to detachable cargo units (which were long cylinders, so resembled a secondary hull); one cargo unit coupled to the neck, and further cargo units were strung off the back of that unit, in a chain.
No bashing friend. Read your comment box - there should be no personal attacks.
Calling people dorks and nerds is just plain mean.
Galaxy Quest was a good movie BTW.
@Fury
No worries, I deleted his comment. Thanks for pointing it out.
Vic
@Vic
You can’t mess with a Star Trek fan.
P.S. Let me know if I’m becoming too much of a thread hawk.
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