Topic: Design the next Enterprise!!!!! .............. for Star Trek Online

[Age]

Though I don't like it as much, I think this one fits the STO aesthetic the best:

I am with you on this one the bottom one looks to much like JJs ship.

Really?  I see this one as something similar to what Mackie could do with the right parts, and not a bad update to the Chabot to post-Voyager days.

Kind of reminds me of a Buick, the same way that the Galaxy class always did. 

The top looks more like the classic or TMP version

[Wicked Zombie]

Congrats to the winner. While I respect the work put into the design, I myself don't see it as the Enterprise. I'm sure opinions will be divided, as they usually are.

Of course, the root of the issue is: Nobody really knows what they want an Enterprise to look like, they just know what they don't want it to look like. Always a challenging thing for any designer.

[Lepton]

Congrats to the winner. While I respect the work put into the design, I myself don't see it as the Enterprise. I'm sure opinions will be divided, as they usually are.

Of course, the root of the issue is: Nobody really knows what they want an Enterprise to look like, they just know what they don't want it to look like. Always a challenging thing for any designer.

Highly magnanimous of you, WZ; however I cannot agree.  From what I can tell, the winner posted what I assume was his one and only sketch of the design over at TrekBBS the same day the contest began:
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=132240&page=13

And admitted here that he thought the design was derivative and needed to go back to drawing board:
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=132240&page=15

Then did sh*t for sh*t after that.

Nearly all the much more competent and well designed models were submitted full color, fully fleshed out with every indication that the designs were also likely modeled in 3D, textured, etc.  Every person who has created a model on this board and elsewhere has done more and shows more technical skill than this idiot.

This guy does not deserve to win considering the level of effort and the technical skill shown, let alone the quality of the design which is minimal at best.

[intermech]

I lost the contest, but you win! This link will let you download the model for my contest entry. It has textures and light maps. You will have to add your own icing, including hard points. . . .

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3243086/IM%20Next%20Enterprise.zip