The Axanar Freighter from “Fight or Flight”.
Continuing on our tour of Local Group merchant marine vessels, this John Eaves design.
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Looks like the Axanar freighter from “Fight of Flight”
http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/the-lost-ships-of-episode-003-fight-or-flight/
Thank you, Harry! Adjusting text now!
Your other option is to slap this on a milk carton with, “Have you seen me?”
Ships like this always make me think of the Cardassian freighter. Do you have any background on that one?
I really like this ship. I’d love to see a version with the cargo modules removed. Empty, as it were.
I had never noticed all the Axanar writing on the hull of the ship, cool additional detail!
I liked both this and the larger Axanar ship. They looked very much like they were from one big happy fleet. And an alien one at that, though they still had instantly recognisable functions.
Is there any chance of digging up more examples of the written script?
I really liked the 2 Axanar ships, they were a nice departure from regular Trek ships I felt, you could easily picture them in the BSG Fleet, or in a Star Wars convoy or even in Starship Troopers. This is most likely due to the very functional design, the 2 Axanar ships are definaltly in my top favorites for ‘alien of the week’ ships
Hats of the John for the design, and hats off on the model, very cleanly executed.
Looks small to me. Is that a door on the forward end? Looks like it might be two doors.
More cool freighter-ness!
My dad flew overnight freight for most of his career. I love the space frieghters!
More please.
It looks small to me, too, but it doesn’t appear that John had to use the direction arrows for that supervisor on this one.
It does seem like it may have gone either way from the side.
This is a very interesting design, which I didn’t appreciate earlier. I like it best of the three freighters we’ve seen up close so far. Loving the angular look.
I think I prefer this one to the previous two freighters we’ve seen recently. I think the attitude of this is more aggressive looking with it’s classic sloped nose and big tail design (like a Lambo! haha!!) – The eight year old in me responds well to that!
Doug – Cool renders? You know they are!
A strong utilitarian design. I liked its partner ship, too. But the bad guy ship from that episode…wow!
This sorta reminds me of Wing Commander (the games, not the movie…)
Yeah, I’m the same. This design reminded me of the Carrack and Lancer designs from Star Wars.
More merchant navy stuff, this time alien merchant navy…Cool.
I really like this design of John’s, and it is a superb cg model.
More freighter/cargo vessel goodness…and the merchant navy theme continues
Mark
Hi Doug,
Very nice looking ship, I have a request for you or maybe John Eaves: has there ever been a Romulan Space Station? I don’t recall ever seeing one, but was one ever put on paper on CAD?
Thanks and keep the eye candy coming!
Another great contribution and we appreciate the excellent views here. Only through this medium can we get a change to grasp the level of detail and design process.
Thanks.
BTW: Do you have anything on the little freighter/Transport shown in STIII? I always liked the make-shift elements that contrasted so well with Starfleet clean [back in the days when Starfleet was clean!].
The DC
Great stuff! One of my favorites from the series, together with its sister design.
Again, I love the freight train look and feel of these freighters. I always pictured the frontier of the West being connected by trains and it seems fitting that initially, the frontier of space was connected in a similar manner!
This model seems to have a Pierre flavor to it, but I may be wrong!
Thats a really awesome design.
Where to begin? Let me say that I come to praise not to belittle!
Well for a start it does not have tandem nacelles. Glory Be! I think he’s on to something. Could someone please tell why it is that all of the big minds (read: Bobble Heads) over there at Star Trek Central, think that every Earth/Federation Star ship has to have a tandem nacelle configuration? At last someone has thrown down the gauntlet of originality. Good Show Drex old boy! Well done!
I bought Stephen E. Whitfield’s book “The Making of Star Trek” way back when (No! I don’t care to say how long ago) and, Gene and his team didn’t say all ships must look like this example. At one point the saucer was actually a sphere, and also had the secondary hull inverted. I think “Matt” Jefferies even labeled a sketch USS Inverted in the book.
This is in line with many of my own ship design concepts. I started out with a single criterion for my design architecture. It extended along a time-line that took in all I read or listened to about posited historical events, like a manned mission to Saturn in 1984, and who would command it. As well as this I charted the various wars, launches of ships, like the SS Botany Bay, and so forth.
So my designs began as something similar to the Discovery One from 2001ASO, and the DY series of ships. They then evolved up to and including ships prior to the era of ST: E series time frame, and moved on through the ST:TOS era. The designs began a gradual widening into rectangular shapes, then with single and tandem in-line warp coils, all the while slowly morphing, becoming more streamline, with eventual primary and secondary hulls separating, which then grew nacelles, that began extending them out on pylons into what we see in the ST:TOS.
I used as my rational the fact that materials science would not substantiate the delicate design architecture of the CONSTITUTION Class of ships, let alone the NX-01 conception, as early as the mid to late 21st through the early to mid 22nd twenty-second century.
And quite frankly the “PHEONIX” design concept, while elegant in conception is hardly practical in completion. The Titan ICBM that Zefram Cochrane, Will Riker, and Geordie la forge, are shown prepping for launch in ST:FC. As configured that Titan could not lift all of them, and the subassemblies for a warp drive into orbit. Then it is shown transforming, replete with fold-out nacelles, warp reactor etc… It was all just too much of a suspension of reality for me, and I suspect for anyone with even the most basic understanding of engineering, astronautical or otherwise.
Another problem with such a complex and intricate configuration would seem completely inconsistent with the woebegone and far-away look of Zefram Cochrane’s means, people, and capabilities displayed at that time.
In fact I dare say that the whole First Contact time-line of WW-III occurring in early-mid twenty-first century is improbable at best. This is especially so when you consider the episode “The Space Seed” in which Spock pontificates about Humanities’ Wars.
There was an excellent ship that was presented on the cover of that first Next-Generation time-line encyclopedia/compendium. And like The Man with No Name, That ship, call it whatever you want, was obviously a vehicle that had been built in space, and had the look of a vehicle that was converted to use warp nacelles.
The book “The Star Trek Chronology” (1st & 2nd edition) appeared around 1993 as an officially approved time-line and encyclopedia of the Star Trek Universe. The date of the first warp flight was sometime in the early 2060’s. The first warp vessel is unnamed, and the design is dissimilar in concept to the PHOENIX. The images provided were labeled “Zefram Cochrane’s first warp-powered spacecraft”.
In the final analysis I suppose that it matters not one wit what the ships look like or indeed how they worked. Rather, it is a simple question that seemingly was never asked. In all of Star Trek production’s history why was there not some money to hire a person to keep track of all the dates and speculations. I think in motion pictures they call it continuity.