VUSPUCCI CLASS would be a good name I'm thinkin After the The Amerigo Vespucci, a sailing ship with an engine entirely built at the Royal Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia near Naples at the beginning of the 30ies. After its launch on February 22, 1931, the delivery to the Navy on the following May 26, it immediately functioned as Training Ship.
An excellent deceptively simple build up. Yeah, I had a lot of troubles with Discovery-- the whole Spock thing just got to me. Plus the over-designed Klingons... so, with all our advances in medicine and scanning tech, we can't pick out a Klingon as Human... ? Okay, well, I don't have to like it. The struggle for soap-opera drama was heavy-handed. And tech headline driven plot elements-- what did those poor tardigrades do to deserve that? If those little bastards only knew what was done to them, they'd unionize and go on strike. I did like the Shenzhou-- very nice new-ish design. Even if it seems just a quick evolutionary step from Star Trek Enterprise era designs. The Discovery was okay, but reminded me of that American Express Traveler's Checks campaign-- the one where you are here and your wife is over there... Now the ISS Charon was downright sweet-- finally a big, florid design and different. But that Bird of Prey-- not the utilitarian Klingons... NO!
Great job scratchbuilding the concept ship. Best starship design....the Shadow's ships from Babylon 5. Looks like a predator insect.
Bill
Thanks Bill someday I would like to build another whitestar.
VUSPUCCI CLASS would be a good name I'm thinkin
After the The Amerigo Vespucci, a sailing ship with an engine entirely built at the Royal Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia near Naples at the beginning of the 30ies. After its launch on February 22, 1931, the delivery to the Navy on the following May 26, it immediately functioned as Training Ship.
An excellent deceptively simple build up. Yeah, I had a lot of troubles with Discovery-- the whole Spock thing just got to me. Plus the over-designed Klingons... so, with all our advances in medicine and scanning tech, we can't pick out a Klingon as Human... ? Okay, well, I don't have to like it. The struggle for soap-opera drama was heavy-handed. And tech headline driven plot elements-- what did those poor tardigrades do to deserve that? If those little bastards only knew what was done to them, they'd unionize and go on strike.
I did like the Shenzhou-- very nice new-ish design. Even if it seems just a quick evolutionary step from Star Trek Enterprise era designs. The Discovery was okay, but reminded me of that American Express Traveler's Checks campaign-- the one where you are here and your wife is over there... Now the ISS Charon was downright sweet-- finally a big, florid design and different. But that Bird of Prey-- not the utilitarian Klingons... NO!