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Published: 2014-08-12 21:14:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 11878; Favourites: 230; Downloads: 382
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An homage to Matt Jeffries, who would have been 91 today. His "ringship", which seemed to be the original concept behind "Andromeda". Memories of 1970's Lincoln Enterprises abound!Model by David Metlestis!
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How 'Star Trek: Enterprise' should have looked.
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I think this is just wonderful! Love the retro feel and the elegant visual style!
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simple elegance! pity we didn't (as of yet) didn't get to see more of this ship in trek. i'm astonished that this design of matt jefferies is similar to NASA's concept warp ship, and so is your own Uss Sagittarius design in the seekers novels.
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Well the NASA design that got all the publicity was done by a frequent Star Trek modeler, so that may lend some of the similarity. But the two-ring design of the Alcubierre warp concept does bear a striking similarity to the ring ship components. Old Matt Jeffries was just a tech prophet, I guess
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The man knew his stuff. It's shocking how close this is to the "real" conceptual Enterprise they're talking about building...
...And God I hope that ship, and that name stick. It would be a dream come true. A space-warp ship named Enterprise, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Well done on this render. It's an elegant and beautiful design.
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I rather doubt we'll see a warp ship in our lifetime, but I'd be delighted to be wrong about that
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What can I say? I dare to dream that we may yet see a revolution of thought in our life time.
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Always liked this ship, admittedly, I always like the way the Andromeda Ascendent that they eventually used was so advanced it looked alien, but this one here is still a very nice design.
Interesting to note that the NASA concept Enterprise is also a ring ship.
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It's more interesting to me that Jeffries would use this design decades before the Albicurrie warp drive was proposed. Good ole Matt J. was prescient that way.
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Absolutely fantastic. Such rich and wonderful colors.
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that burning horizon (even if not horizontal) is selling that one for me 
lovely ship too,
but it's all about the burning!
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I saw that Ship on the Wall in Star Trek Motion Picture. No NX-01 ftw. Very nice render.
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I was trying to evoke the design before it got adopted by Trek, from '79 onward.
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Thanks. I've used it before, but hopefully few will notice when I tilt it this way and that
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haha. thanks goodness more than one planet have clouds
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Yeah, it's a special kind of sleek, for sure.
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Wow, not kidding about the Lincoln Enterprises memories!
Beautiful! Quite the magic wand!
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I wish I'd bought that "Starship" treatment from Lincoln, back in the day.
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Mr. Jeffries was a friggin genius---designs that real engineers gaze upon and murmur, "Hmmm, could be."
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Yep... that's what SF used to be. Now it's kind of the other way round, with many SF authors struggling just to keep up.
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That's what I love about Heinlein novels---he was an engineer, trained at the U.S. Naval Academy, holder of patents that are to this day classified top secret.
Write what you know...gawd, I miss that cranky old perv.
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Yay! The XCV 330.
Say. The letters XCV are lined up nicely on a QWERTY keyboard.
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I love how it turns out that this isn't too far off from predicted warp drives in development...also...I can't believe I can actually say "warp drives in development".
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Yeah, it is pretty uncanny how the double ring design has come into its own reality.... like so much other Trek tech!
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HEY! I am doing a Ringship homage...take this down at once! It makes mine look crappy.
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I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.
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It's also rather cool that the Albucare (I know my spelling wrong) Warp ship could look a lot like this
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Yup. A freaky-cool happenstance, for sure!
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Sci-Fi still a good predictor of Science...
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Nice!
Got to make time to finish my ringship v2...
Wouldn't today be his 93rd Birthday? Aug.12, 1921 - Aug.12, 2014.
Just asking.
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Huh. Maybe. I saw a date that put his b-day in '23.
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Happy Birthday Matt Jeffries. Was this design on the front of OMNI a LONG time ago?
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I don't remember it being on an OMNI cover, but I certainly could be wrong.
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