Topic: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan! (Read 13590 times)

Rat Boy · « **Reply #40 on:** October 08, 2005, 11:08:45 am »

Quote from: Captain Pierce on October 07, 2005, 08:01:31 pm

I don't recall Riker every saying that he wouldn't take a ship smaller than Enterprise.

He actually wanted the Enterprise, not a sister ship of it. According to the novels that preceded the Titan series, Riker was starting to sense that he wasn't going to get that chance any time soon and not only was he being unfair to his own career advancement, he was being unfair to Data's as well, who would have been Picard's new first officer had he not been vaporized.

OlBuzzard · « **Reply #41 on:** October 08, 2005, 11:18:28 am »

Quote from: Rat Boy NCC-75098 on October 08, 2005, 11:08:45 am

Quote from: Captain Pierce on October 07, 2005, 08:01:31 pm
I don't recall Riker every saying that he wouldn't take a ship smaller than Enterprise.

He actually wanted the Enterprise, not a sister ship of it. According to the novels that preceded the Titan series, Riker was starting to sense that he wasn't going to get that chance any time soon and not only was he being unfair to his own career advancement, he was being unfair to Data's as well, who would have been Picard's new first officer had he not been vaporized.

YUP !

I remember the feeling of anxiety he felt after the saucer section of the Enterprise had "landed" (if ya can call it that). The Enterprise "D" was gone ... he had hoped that he:

"One day to be able to sit in the big chair"

His finally seeing how this was holding not only him back ... but others as well does make sense.

BUT, it still does not justify the design

CaptainTombs · « **Reply #42 on:** October 08, 2005, 01:20:34 pm »

im just hoping he doesnt let deanna at the helm, she trashed the Enterprise D, and nearly destroyed the Enterprise E by ramming it into the schimitar

either way i like the ship and in a couple of weeks if no one has made it yet ill commision cleeve to make a medium detailed model

Captain Pierce · « **Reply #43 on:** October 26, 2005, 07:56:08 pm »

Just in case anyone is interested, some of the runners-up have been posted... IMO, all of them are superior to the winner; two of the three are very "out there."

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=44&feature_id=4418 This is the most "traditional" of the designs; you can see a lot of design elements hinted at, and even a couple that are pretty blatant, but nothing as "ripped-off" as the winner.

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=44&feature_id=4419 This looks surprisingly TOS, and yet also managed to look like a FASA design from the TNG era.

It may be my favorite of the bunch...

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=44&feature_id=4420 This is probably the best post-TNG design of the bunch; I wish the 3D renders in the middle were bigger so I could get a better look at it.

Honestly, now that I've seen the runners-up, I can't imagine what the judges were thinking when they picked the winner...

Starforce2 · « **Reply #44 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:44:54 pm »

I'm not sure about 2 and 3. 2 looks a litle odd with all those blue orbs, though does look alot like something I've seen on asdbj, atleast with the nacelles. Maybe thats where he's from.. Anyways, 3 just looks bad, maybe because it's only a drawing, perhaps I'd like it better if it were a model and the pix were bigger. The 1st one does look cool and even supports traditional separation, despite looking rather odd when it does.
A titan link I fallowed from soneone over msn also provided these. dunno if they were runners up or just submissions, but thye don't look too bad:

Rat Boy · « **Reply #45 on:** October 26, 2005, 11:14:55 pm »

I don't know, the official runner ups make the winner look that much better and more in-line with established (that was the key word in the contest rules) Starfleet tradition for a ship who was first developed in the late TNG, early DS9 days. That last one that Starforce posted, which wasn't an official runner up, looked to be the best out of the entries that I've seen.

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #46 on:** October 26, 2005, 11:49:44 pm »

Well, they all pretty much stink but I agree the runners up show more imagination then the winner, except the one that's a rip-off of the Insignia class. Personally I'm very disappointed in all of them. I'm so very glad we have WZ, Azel, Buzz and Sandman's Titans

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-MP

Starforce2 · « **Reply #47 on:** October 27, 2005, 01:52:02 am »

I don't know/agree that is a ripoff of the insignia. That shape of pylon is more suited to the feature of the ambassador than the insig, the round saucer in homage to the galaxy, while the impulse and hull style homage to the sov/E and the nacelles shorter and wider similar to the C and D Enterprises, but more resembling the promethius. Basicly, he's used several established canon starfleet design ideas and incorporated them beautifuly into a new class of ship that is one of the mroe believeable vessels of the bunch, IMHO.

OlBuzzard · « **Reply #48 on:** October 27, 2005, 07:28:48 am »

Even the huge monster fan based one (trying to remember the web site where it's found) was better than the winner ..

BTW ... AV now has mine ... and as soon as we get a new MAP to retexture ... it will be redone in short order.

S33K100 · « **Reply #49 on:** October 30, 2005, 10:02:39 pm »

Nathan Smith's one is my personal favourite (the first one in SF's post) the last one in that post is also very nice, both are far superior to any of the runners-up and the winner. Hope someone considers contacting that Nathan Smith about recreating his Titan in SFC.

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #50 on:** October 31, 2005, 12:02:02 am »

Quote from: S33K100 on October 30, 2005, 10:02:39 pm

Nathan Smith's one is my personal favourite (the first one in SF's post) the last one in that post is also very nice, both are far superior to any of the runners-up and the winner. Hope someone considers contacting that Nathan Smith about recreating his Titan in SFC.

Nathan Smith's Titan looks like a TNG Akyazi perimeter ship

S33K100 · « **Reply #51 on:** October 31, 2005, 01:04:34 pm »

Not really, the Akyazi had a completely flat saucer bottom, the back half cut off and twin pylons leading to the little engine assembly thing at the rear, this reminded me much more in it's basic arrangement of that abominable Enterprise-J they showed once on Enterprise. Only this one has some nice proportions and detail work, and doesn't look like a giant leap backwards to the Galaxy class like the Ent-J did.

CaptainTombs · « **Reply #52 on:** November 03, 2005, 04:49:26 pm »

man i wish my 3d studio max would work

i want to kitbash this ship i wish someone would make it tho

NannerSlug · « **Reply #53 on:** November 05, 2005, 09:11:19 pm »

Just looking at this now. From my perspective it is a PO*. Buzz's design is far better.

Fedman NCC-3758 · « **Reply #54 on:** November 05, 2005, 11:05:53 pm »

This is more of how I envisioned the Titan.

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #55 on:** November 05, 2005, 11:15:26 pm »

Quote from: Fedman NCC-3758 on November 05, 2005, 11:05:53 pm

This is more of how I envisioned the Titan.

That's the Endurance class.......

The Endurance Class cruiser was developed in the late 2360s as a new multi-purpose starship incorporating technology from the Sovereign Class starship in a smaller hull package. These ships were designed to serve as medium to long range explorers during peacetime, and heavy gun cruisers during war.

Roughly between the Sovereign Class and Excelsior Class starships in size, the Endurance Class cruisers are well suited for extended patrol and fleet operations. Their Advanced TA/T/TS targeting sensors and extensive defensive phaser arrays were especially effective against Dominion and Cardassian fighters, and they were frequently paired with guided missile/torpedo cruisers and carriers, such as the Akira Class, in hunter/killer teams.

USS Southern Cross, NCC-75122, is one of the earlier Endurance Class cruisers. She is equipped with a dorsal sensor pod, just above the aft shuttlebay, and a single forward torpedo launcher in place of the captain's yacht. She was assigned to convoy escort duty, guarding transports and planetary/amphibious assault carriers during much of the Dominion War, and never lost a single ship under her protection.

More here............
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/gallery/contest3/scr39.htm

I'd love to have this ship ingame.

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 05, 2005, 11:53:44 pm »

leave it to MP to find info bout ships lol i aggree this titan does suck a big toe deep throat style. and no way in hell is it a reminder of the akira class.

dont make me come there when u guys start bashing on my akiras.

but i hope to be up and running soon guys and i will have treats for u. includeing my TOP SECRET PROJECT..... excelsior study model 3. bet she would make a better TITAN than that thing.

WOOT carry on gentleman carry on

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #57 on:** November 06, 2005, 11:21:48 am »

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leave it to MP to find info bout ships lol

Fedman NCC-3758 · « **Reply #58 on:** November 06, 2005, 11:35:37 am »

Personally, I'm not that enamored with the Galaxy saucer on a Sov fuselage. I'm also not as dismayed as some here concerning the winning entry.

CaptainTombs · « **Reply #59 on:** November 06, 2005, 11:43:21 am »

Quote from: Fedman NCC-3758 on November 05, 2005, 11:05:53 pm

This is more of how I envisioned the Titan.

heck if no one will make the titan please someone make that it looks awesome

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