Topic: New light shed on mysterious Pre-TOS "NCC-1000" from Ship of the Line calendar

[Rat Boy]

If you're not familiar with it, here's the original picture of the mystery starship that appeared in the 2006 Ship of the Line calendar with little information regarding its origin, purpose, or even name.  However, along came a thread at the TrekBBS and the mystery artist behind this vessel and the accompanying space station finally surfaced with the following description:

Constructed some 60 years before Captain Kirk’s famous USS Enterprise, the NCC-1700 Bonaventure Class cruiser was the first official starship to be used by the newly formed United Federation of Planets. Mike Okuda suggested that name because an episode of the animated Star Trek series suggested that the first warp powered ship was the Bonaventure.

The design embodies elements of both the NX-01 Enterprise that precede it, and the Constitution class USS Enterprise that followed it. Seen here is the prototype that has yet to be christened its eventual name: the USS Bonaventure (being the first of its type, it takes the name of the class). Also seen is Space Station K-2, which is an ancestor to the K-7 station first seen in Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles”.

I designed the ship specifically for the calendar.

If you scroll down you'll see I noted that this places the Bonaventure's launch around 2185 or twenty-four years after the birth of the Federation and the decommissioning of NX-01.  Also included at the thread was a top-down view of the Bonaventure, which you can see here, with perhaps other orthographic views to come.

[ModelsPlease]

Interesting though that doesn't look anything like any of the Bonaventure Class Cruisers I've ever seen.

[Starforce2]

What were you expecting? Someoen to actualy pay attention to canon? lol. Someone was building one too and never seen what became of it.

[Rat Boy]

Someoen to actualy pay attention to canon?

Only parts of TAS are officially recognized as canon; the Bonaventure, in light of the film Star Trek First Contact and ENT, probably isn't one of those parts.


Also, it appears that the rest of the ship is left to everyone else's imagination:

"Due to  schedule restraints,  the model was created only for the view seen in the calendar, therefore I didn't model detail for the bottom and back.  That is why I'm only including a top view.

[ModelsPlease]

Meh, I like the one I posted. Though it is great work and no offence meant to the author I've never been keen on Akira-prize (ENT) Styled ships. But to each their own. Interesting it's the same guy that did the book cover Titan. I don't like that one either  .

-MP

[Chris Johnson]

The NCC-1000 looks alright for a TOS-era ship, but like with MP I never cared much for Enterprise.  In fact I'd take Starfleet Museum over Enterprise anyday.  And TAS's Bonaventure?  Sorry, but it looks to me like a Mini-Enterprise (or Mini-Constitution Class).  Although this different take is less of a Mini-Enterprise and a bit more Pre-TOS-era, it's still looks too cute.  But that's my taste and two cents.