Topic: My Take...

[Atolm-Rising]

On a Medusan starship... Gorgon-Class


Figured the ship should be a highly modified fed ship, so I gave it a highly modified navigational array and some sensor pods.

[FoaS_XC]

Stop me if I am wrong: it has one nacelle?

[Atolm-Rising]

Aye, she has one nacelle
Still working on it but this is the direction I am heading towards.

[Atolm-Rising]

Finished Side-view:

[Starforce2]

What does the species look like again?

[Norsehound]

Depends, do you want to go mad and drive your spaceship outside the galaxy to feel safe from "them?"

Nice Atlom. I liked what they showed in the episode, but I also like your ship. The reasoning behind it also stands.

[Atolm-Rising]

thnx
yeah it would make sense that the Medusans would still need starships to get from point A to Point B, and I can totally see them feilding highly refined vessels to fit their needs.
I can also see their tech specializing in navigation and sensors to be utilized in the next generation of starship by Starfleet(possibly the Connie Refit).

The Medusans are a race of noncorporial(...though I do not personally agree with that definition of them) beings from TOS that if you saw them, you would go insane.

[Norsehound]

I don't think the TOS episode addressed the Corporal/Non Corporal-ness of the Medusans.

I just assumed that their physical form was so....different that it drove men (and half-vulcans B) ) mad when seeing them unshielded.

Your design seems to suggest the Federation handed off a Deadalus hull for the Medusans to modify in their own way. They may have done this to strengthen the national fleets of their member races that didn't have any ships of their own before joining the Federation *shrug*

I like that touch about the deflector though. Makes sense, and an appropriate homage to the forgotten TOS races

[Starforce2]

the insanity could have been attributed to a form of telepathic communication that was intrusive to other lifeforms.

[Norsehound]

Eye protection wouldn't be needed to shield users from telepathic communication though. You'd need a helmet, not eye goggles, so it must be something sight-related.

[Starforce2]

Ok, then perhaps a series of glows or visual communication (similar to the way video games cause seizures)?

[Norsehound]

I like to think that the Medusans exist in a different way from what we consider 'normal matter'. They have bodies sure, but they exist in a phased state that causes the humand mind do go mad when trying to perceive it. Kind of like an extreme form of sensory distortion (i.e. hearing from your eyes). Or as another example, 2001's images in the end are things that aren't really there, but they are the closest things that Dave could comprehend. The visor perhaps filters out some of this, or blobs the vision whenever certain wavelengths that defy humanoid perception hit the screen.

It's not any fault of the Medusans, obviously, but life and matter evolved differently on their world.

[Atolm-Rising]

I like to think that the Medusans exist in a different way from what we consider 'normal matter'. They have bodies sure, but they exist in a phased state that causes the humand mind do go mad when trying to perceive it. Kind of like an extreme form of sensory distortion (i.e. hearing from your eyes). Or as another example, 2001's images in the end are things that aren't really there, but they are the closest things that Dave could comprehend. The visor perhaps filters out some of this, or blobs the vision whenever certain wavelengths that defy humanoid perception hit the screen.

It's not any fault of the Medusans, obviously, but life and matter evolved differently on their world.

I'm glad someone other than Me thinks they are some kind of semi-phased or semi/quasi-corporeal-type organisms with possible density control

[Norsehound]

I'm glad someone other than Me thinks they are some kind of semi-phased or semi/quasi-corporeal-type organisms with possible density control

Hehe A testament perhaps to TOS's writing style: creating a perfectly believable alien without going to an arm's length to actually show it. Doing more with less is TOS's merit- something lost in later generations, I feel.

I suppose it goes without saying that being in a phased state of matter might be the reason why they're so good at being able to navigate through space/time. They might perceive the giant gravity well at the center of the universe better than we do.

[Atolm-Rising]

In general that's almost all things

Okay here's the Coloured version: