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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yeha, the kelvin looks bad ass;-)
omg
click on the bridge, how awsome ist thats security officer:-D??
geeeekkkeggeeekedi
That thing looks like it’s been service for a long time (very cool detail!). Without going to the linked site, I’m guessing the engine is on the bottom, and it looks huge! The saucer looks a little thin (flat) compared to the Enterprise. Overall, I’d say it demonstrates design progression beautifully from the Kelvin’s era to the Enterprise’s era. (Critique finished.)
To quote Strangelove: “Bad ass!!” Suddenly I have doubts that the Enterprise will be the ’star’ of the movie!
just look at that alien
i just can imagine how much more alien lifeform we will see^^
finaliy star trek boldly goeas wher no man has gone befor^^
sry me english;-)
Pike does not command the Kelvin.
It looks like a Star Trek dildo.
That ship looks horrible…
I would have gone with a different nacelle structure…
Why is Pike in command of this ship?
Also, it looks upside down,,,
“(maybe even the USS Enterprise itself)”
Wait a sec…it has to go “maybe even the USS Enterprise HERself”…She’s a lady
It does look upside down.
hahahahahah… Star Trek dildo
Priceless
I may be mistaken in stating that Pike is the Captain of that ship.
Vic
The Captain of The Kelvin Is Richard Robau, (Taran Fahir).
But dont worry vic,
You cant be expected to know EVERYTHING!
It’s a bad design period.
For those that never read any books, or educated themselves on ST Lore, Pike did indeed captain the Enterprise. But, unlike Kirk, it was not the only ship you ever saw him on. Also, for those that are commenting on the ship design, I recall a bit of trivia about the original show and ship design. The ‘original’ Enterprise from the first series, is actually upside down. The nacels were actually located on the bottom, but someone thought the design looked better on top, so they went with that. I like the idea that they are toying with various design concepts and echo the happy thoughts of a few commenters here that enjoy the notion that they are building different evolutionary concepts into this. Anything…absolutely anything…is better (in terms of ‘prequel’) than that horrible “Star Trek Enterprise” series. In that case…the “…Enterprise” was far more a vehicle for Scott Bakula’s career than it was for the progression of this beloved science fiction genre.
Oh…more ST trivia. This comes from a somewhat dubious source, but I used to know a guy that worked for Desilu Productions (back in the day). He told me that the same guy that wrote the theme song for “I Love Lucy” wrote the theme song for “Star Trek”. In fact, if you ’speed up’ the I Love Lucy theme song (or vice versa to the ST theme), you can actually hear that they are largely the same music. Dont’ know if you can play Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon to it like you can with The Wizard of Oz LOL…but I digress. Hope someone found this interesting.
@Steve
Oh my gosh! You’re right… the Trek and I Love Lucy themes ARE incredibly similar, lol!
Vic
Lucy’s actually the only reason Star Trek exists in the first place.
She (Desilu Productions) was the only one that took the chance on it in the late 60’s. Nobody else wanted a crazy space alien show…
This is all from Gene’s words in a dvd interview I have…
I love Lucy!
To me, that ship looks horrible, almost like it had been in a firefight.
I think these ships look incredible. That thing looks viable, powerful and dangerous. Seems that we just might see Star Trek go from being a bit cartoonish to something far more believable…’might’ being the key word.
The Kelvin is interesting, not so much for the hull layout & design but for it’s detail, what you modelers might call ‘weathering’ – it looks like a ship that has been serving a long time, and has many scars – plus, I like the abscence of any streamlining – like the squared-off tail of the lower warp nacelle, minus the usual ’scarfing’ of the Enterprise. I also like the over-&-under arrangement of the top-mounted secondary hull, I didn’t think I would like that at all, but now that I see it in situ, so to speak, against a background of stars, it’s cool.
Many may not know this, but when John Jefferies originally designed the TOS Enterprise in 1964, the layout was all over the map; for example, the saucer was at first a smaller-diameter sphere, the power units were connected to the primary hull, the name was Constitution, Independence, and the nsme Enterprise was settled on only later (suggested by an old friend of Roddenberry’s who served on the old Enterprise of the Yorktown class, also, the world’s first nuclear-powered supercarrier, CVN Enterprise, had just come on line), the registry # NCC-1701 was the tail number of a friend’s private airplane (and became the ‘Naval Construction Contract’ number), and most striking of all, once the layout was finally settled (saucer, engineering hull, & 2 nacelles)…it was upside down!
Jefferies called Roddenberry to come down & look at his final brilliant design, and when old Gene saw it, he smiled and said, That’s it! With one change, though…and then proceeded to flip it inverted, with the saucer at the top & the secondary hull at bottom. That’s the way the public saw it in it’s final form, as we all know it today.
Roddenberry also did this with the Reliant (’Miranda’ class), for the movie STII, ‘Wrath of Khan’ – it was originally designed with the weapons pod & megaphasers & the angle walls on the bottom, & nacelles up top.
I do like the Kelvin, it is a shorter-dorsal version of the Hermes & Saladin class (scout & destoyer) classes found in the original Starfleet Tech Manual, released in the early 80s, with the addition of a superior secondary hull. The Hermes & Saladin ships located the main sensor dish on a strut protruding vertically right out of the lower sensor dome, almost directly in front of the Bussard hydrogen ram collector (that big, glowing red dome). This is better; it has balls. Also, it increases the internal habitable volume by half-again.
JOHN
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.
It’s your site; I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes.
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