Holland Space Yards

My design for an RC Crawler back in 2009 vs a DARPA concept vehicle in 2022. :) Convergent evolution. (Or so I hope. :D)

I keep chipping away at a new (friendlier and smaller) habitat for the shipyard. Made some new doors today.

(2/2) I know it looks almost the same, but the 22 version has slots for the pylons and mounting points on the nacelles on the top and bottom, that way it is not just stuck on/in the pylon/hull but really slots in, and all variations would become "valid". That was super important to me. :)

In a way yes! The Curie (from the books) in my mind always had this config. The large Sato side pods would be different/smaller on the Curie. The version on the schematic was a proper conversion I did in 2022 for Picard. (unused) In 2012 I did this mock up: (1/2)

Very cool! :) I like smaller ships, they are more manageable, and in a way just more logical.

If not me, you can always ask one of the many talented modelers on here. :) I first need to finish a shipyard. (Working on it!) :)

But it does exist. :) What era would it be from?
*Most of my work is somewhere in limbo between unfinished or in my head. I do have a huge backlog of ships/workbee/shipyard to finish, so my single nacelle design...maybe in 5 years? :P

Cool! I still want to do a single nacelle ship. I know it might break older Trek rules, but they are not totally implausible. (As long as the nacelle exterior sort of depicts it is a dual coiled system.) I for example like the proportions of the Freedom class, but not the re-use of a D nacelle.

USS Sato, schematic view. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i0y5m... <Bigger version.)

In an alternate timeline:
Shuttle IXL Galileo is (very) near and ready to dock after collecting some atmospheric samples from Proxima B.

A Borg cube I did in 2005. Maybe it was a cube still under construction.

Bussard diagnostics on a New Atlantic class runabout. (Somebody needs to do it!) :)

Diplomatic Star yacht (traditionally) docked at Laibok. (Andoria)

You kind find a couple of these in the Full Circle (Voyager) novels from Kirsten Beyer. I worked with her to get the right ships in that fleet. :)

The livery is very Section 31. :)

This concept is dated Friday 31st of October 2008. A week or so before we settled on Probert's curved pylons. I did try out a few different configs. I personally liked this, but it would make the ship a bit shorter than was desired.

The Vesta made it up to pre-viz. The Merians would have been a background bonus. I have too many things to do, so I'm not pro-active if it comes to Trek work. I first want my shipyard to be completed, so I have a base for my renders, then re-evaluate what ships I want to put time in, out of hobby.🙂

Nearly. :P I prepped some ships for the show, but they did not make it in.

A Vesta class flyby test animation made a few years ago, during the conversion for Picard. I'm not an animator, I primarily do design and modeling and then I run out of will power. 😀 This exact mesh/model is 16 years old. (Finished January 2009.)

The normal "Planck" version is 220 meters long, 115m wide, and 51 m in height. It can operate on a crew of around 80.(Measured is the brushed up version I did for the Picard production, although it did not see use.)

Top and Bottom hull sections start out similar in construction, but are filled in differently. Creating big chunks of the ship in similar fashion probably would help in production speed.

The Merian has no thrusters. It uses a a low level field manipulation device in the central section to very smoothly and precisely yaw, pitch and roll. It is slower than traditional RCS systems though, but it does speed up production. (There is a theme there lol)

I did this one for Probert, he wanted to see a sort of "Stargazer" setup.

Quite early in the design process it had a more "Delta" roll bar, but I felt it was under-defined and would not allow the versatility required.

Fast mass production mainly, required after the events in Destiny. It has a central spine so that different pylon or module configurations can be used independent from the hull sections. My only problem with the Miranda is how the pylon "sticks" into the hull. This was my solution to that.

Thank you! The Merian was designed to replace the Nebula class ships that originally would be in the Full Circle fleet. Kirsten Beyer showed me a list and I did a bit of consultancy on that. The Nebula's would have too much crew for the story and would be hard to outfit/justify with QSD. 🙂

This was my proposed composition, as this was a new ship, I thought it would be better to show it on a more horizontal angle. Drexler liked the lower angle, so who am I to argue. :)

USS Planck - Merian Class
(Image done for the Ships of the Line calendar 2012.)

I like it, they look good on there. I did explore a similar direction in 2009. Design wise it sits much better. One of the first boxed out 3D versions was also having a more angulare/Excelsior like pylon too. Eventually we went with a sweep after Probert did various pylon sketches.

Ha! :D

USS Ranger looking for things.

A crystal render test from 2016.

IXL Hawking undocked from the IXS Enterprise to do some system exploration.

Strange New Worlds' XCV-100 Is a Missing Link in Star Trek History A "blink and you'll miss it" moment from “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” reveals a ship that locks in the Star Trek spacefaring canon.

Thanks to last week's Strange New Worlds I got to spend 2,500 words diving into the history and mystery behind my all time favourite USS Enterprise (with a bit of help from @yard2380.bsky.social): www.denofgeek.com/tv/strange-n...

I never even heard of the term before and had to Google it. I will knoll more in the future. :P