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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #40 on: October 08, 2005, 11:08:45 am »
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.


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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #41 on: October 08, 2005, 11:18:28 am »
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

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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...

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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:

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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.


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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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  ;D.

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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.

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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 ..

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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.
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2005, 12:02:02 am »
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

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« 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.
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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 :(
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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.
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #54 on: November 05, 2005, 11:05:53 pm »

This is more of how I envisioned the Titan.



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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #55 on: November 05, 2005, 11:15:26 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

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #56 on: November 05, 2005, 11:53:44 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D   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. :police: dont make me come there when u guys start bashing on my akiras.  :police:    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.

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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #57 on: November 06, 2005, 11:21:48 am »
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« 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.
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Re: Ladies and gentlemen...the Titan!
« Reply #59 on: November 06, 2005, 11:43:21 am »

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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