The Klingon tanker ship (Koroth) is the first and only utilility style vessel seen from that iconic race.
It’s fair to say that no one has designed more Klingon ships than John Eaves. It’s also fair to say that no other Star Trek series has had more new Klingon ships than Enterprise. A veritable cornucopia of Klingon spacecraft… including today’s tanker, destroyers, raptors, BOPs, and heavy cruisers. This week drex files will be bringing you an armada of John’s most delectable deep space dealers of destruction and delight.
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That is a great design. It looks very Bird-of-prey-esque and hence very TOS-Movies and NextGen. Not so much in the D-7 category.
Dingy looking hull. I like it.
I love the “used universe” look to it. Is that rust?!
I like that green coppery patina thing going on.
Oh boy I’ve been so looking forward to seeing the Klingon ships!
My only reservation re the D5 tanker was what honourable Klingon warriors would make of a revered battlecruiser being turned into a freighter.
The D5’s a wonderful design though.
Thanks for posting these, Doug!
Well John outdid himself again.
I the “used future” look with all the weathering.
Mark
Think you go enough screencaps there? I was able to scroll down and see a movie in the process.
Cool ship.
Wonderful! I hope to see more Klingon ships. Enterprise had some great ship designs.
Wow, I’ve been looking for D-5 references for years. Thanks for these, I’m looking forward to the battleship version and John’s other great Klingon designs. He really knows how to design some great ships, but I think his Klingon ones definitely rank among my favorite ships from that series.
Why was it that Enterprise had so many Klingon ships designed for it while other races didn’t get as much love?
The Vulcans had some great ships designed for Enterprise.
Beautiful, Just after starfleet ships my favorite trek vessels are the Klingons and especially those from Enterprise. Eaves did a great job, I look forward to the following week!
LOL! Even the Klingons’ freighters look menacing. It’s a wonder they managed to avoid scaring off trading partners!
Great design but I agree it’s more of a ST-Movie/TNG/DSN/VGR era look. That was the problem with ENTERPRISE, the designs were great but too advanced looking
Great design! You can really see the lineage between the BoP all the way to the Vor’Cha in this one.
I love seeing these types of “other race” ships…surely the Romulans and Klingons wouldn’t have *just* warships in their inventories! It’s these type of utility-type ships that always seem the most unique in a way.
Mark Gill: It looks to me that those external storage tanks could be jettisoned in a hot minute, thereby letting the crew “fight the ship” to use the naval term. I expect that the Klingons would never design a ship that couldn’t engage in combat…
Great design but I agree it’s more of a ST-Movie/TNG/DSN/VGR era look. That was the problem with ENTERPRISE, the designs were fantastic but too advanced looking
Like the Enterprise era bird of prey, it looks more advanced than the Movie era one.
I like the model, although before I read that the ship is a tanker, I wondered if it was a tour bus for a Klingon percussion band! (Kidding!)
Somewhat off-topic, one thing that I miss about the TOS and TMP eras are ships with designs that seem structurally unsound based on our current technology. I’m thinking specifically of the TOS and TMP Enterprises and the Klingon D7 and K’t'inga. The TNG Enterprise has this quality to a lesser extent. These designs suggest an otherworldly technology of a level at which we can barely dream. The TOS Enterprise’s dorsal seems too thin, and its nacelle struts seem too spindly and off-balance… but they work, and we know that they work simply because we see them work.
The “cables” of ENT-era Klingon ships are somewhat reminiscent of that style of design.
Nifty model!
@ Rick Sternbach (#7)
“Think you go[t] enough screencaps there? I was able to scroll down and see a movie in the process.”
I like that effect.
Oh yeah…
QAPLA’,
deg
Loved ENT. It never ceases to amaze me how articulated is confused for advanced. Its amazing just how consistant these ships look for each race.
Sure… I see how having everything rendered in CG, doing moves that physical models rarely did, can lead to that impression. With later shows set in the past, having the benefit of more advanced production values. I wonder if watching in HD has improved this or made it worse? Putting on an episode of ENT, then following up with one from remastered TOS.
Looks like a battle-ready butterfly.
There’s something very appropriately “Viking” about a Klingon freighter. After all, what’s the point of conquering if you can’t get in a bit of pillaging on the side?
Yes, “pillaging” is very appropriate for the Klingons. For all their talk of “honor,” they’re still just guys who like to kill people and take stuff.
Dude, now THERE’S an accident waiting to happen. Hope they have strong shields.
Neat design though, I like it!
Just love seeing the clunkyness of the D5, which would evolve into the D7 all the way to the Negh’var.
Great views. Thanks for posting. Always wanted to see more of this ship.
Love the weathering. And you can never have too many images!
Graet post Doug. We didn’t get enough of a look at the D-5 during the series.
Much appreciated for the abilit to stare…
The DC
Doug you spoil us so much! A King amoungst men you truely are.
J.Oliver, I just laughed a good laugh…battle-ready butterfly! I can just see a butterfly zooming menacingly into battle…HA! I do like the description, though.
The first thing I thought of was a skeleton BoP, like it’s ready for halloween, in that first 3/4 pic. I like the look, which definitely suits the Klingons!! I don’t think we can say what some of the alien races would have been developing or if they would match our pace. Technology could be upgraded, but maybe their models are pretty close to how they want them, huh?
Qapla, deg!
oops, Qapla’, gotta get it right!
“…delectable deep space dealers of destruction and delight.” Why is that funny? (or is that just me grinning??)
Gorgeous renders Doug, cheers!
Love it love it love it, except for the pointy nacelles, just like on the BoP. Maybe all the DS9-watching I did has built up the association in the mind, but pointy nacelles = 24th-century to me.
Ohh I loved this one, and the “bomber” version
Looking forward to the other klingon ships, thanks for posting these Doug!
Stu, I don’t know why it’s funny, but I was chortling (a word I think I’v never used before!) as I read it.
Deanne: I have butterflies-on-the-brain just now.
DeanneM – Chortling! Don’t think that one scores much airtime on my station either!
Here we go: These are Klingons right? — Delectable! As in delicious, inviting, tasty, savoury, enjoyable, luscious, palatable, flavoursome… Klingons!! “Today is a good day to die!” (delicious! haha!!)
Stu, Worf said that so matter of factly in FC, but I like the non-response from the other guy! He just turns around somberly and goes back to work.
J. Oliver, are they laying down straifing fire?
DeanneM – Yeah, that’s the kind of captain you need: One who can take the prospect of death totally in his stride! (yikes!!) One who can bump up the priority of a suicide manoeuvres ahead of say the chuck-the-warp-core-at-the-Borg-cube-manoeuvre!
“Prepare for ramming speed!” Hmmm… I would have been giving Worf a bit of resistance on that one: “Damn it sir, my hands! They’ve stopped working!!”
I don’t care that the ships from ENT look more modern than the ships from TOS or TNG. The Star Wars prequels had the same “problem”. All those ships are children of their time – the designers time. So it’s natural that a ship designed in the 2000s doesn’t look like a brick.
And regarding the D5: That’s such a kick ass design. Aggressive, sleek, modern. Beautiful.
DeanneM:
dea, QA TLHO’. (I THANK YOU)
FYI: It’s been a while (And I am by no means an expert) but capitalization is a key part of the Klingon language. I can’t recall all the rules for letter combinations, but I believe “QAPLA’” (SUCCESS) when said alone is always spelled in all caps. I could be wrong but I seem to recall something to that effect. Has to due with proper Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol) pronunciation. That dictionary is around here somewhere…
QAPLA’,
deg
Very cool ship!
Thank you for taking the time to post all these…My favorite is the never-used D4 personally, but the Battlecruiser config D5 is a close second.
deg, you know Klingon? My estimation of your abilities goes up higher each day.
And mine just went down a notch…JK!! I always used to roll my eyes at those folks, but now I’m kinda into how other languages work and like picking up some words.
How do you pronounce QA TLHO’ ?
deg, I’m by no means an expert in the Klingon language, but I do know that capitalization is not a way to emphasize stress. For one thing the Klingon alphabet is not known to have a concept of case (uppercase versus lowercase). In addition, according to Okrand’s dictionary, the anglicized Klingon letters q and Q are distinctly different letters, there is a letter I but no i, and there is a letter a but no A. There are other examples of things like this, but the bottom line is that there is no known way to capitalize the anglicized spelling of a Klingon word without changing some letters and/or turning some letters into non-letters.
And before anyone asks, I *did* have to look up those examples from Okrand’s dictionary. I am fascinated by languages in general, as well as by “constructed languages” (“conlangs”) like Klingon. Having said that, don’t expect a comment to be posted in Klingon, Vulcan, or Thermian anytime soon.
Jonathan, I dabbled at best back when the dictionary came out, in the early 90’s or late 80’s, IIRC. Klingons are basically Vikings is Space, and being of Viking decent, my bro and I naturally gravitate(d) to Klingons, and worked many phrases into our personal dialogue back at the time, most of which is quite rusty/forgotten at this point.
Case in point, I stand corrected by Greg, eh.
dea, while I’m a Trekker, I am not one of those folks. Not that I have by any means anything against the folks that dress up and speak the languages fluently and such (more power to ya doin’ what makes you happy, I say eh), but I have never been that type of fan myself. Like I said, I share a certain affinity for the Klingons, and my bro and I have always had a personal dialogue based on TV and film impressions and/or sources, so speaking a bit in Klingon (starting with TMP) just naturally fit into the screenplay of our lives.
I found this pronunciation of the web: KAHTLOE. I don’t recall ever hearing a Klingon say thank you on Trek, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. It may well have, I may just not recall it, eh.
Thanks for the grammar refresher Greg, I knew there would be those much more up on the subject than I, eh.
QAPLA’,
deg
Deanne: Nah, they are spewing the nuclear nectar.
deg and Dea – I used to have a poster in my room that had Klingon phrases in it. It was always good for some chuckles from my friends when they came in my room. One of my favorites was “Where do you keep the chocolate?” which was “nuq Daq yuch Dapol”
Great design on this ship! Even for a tanker, it looks tough, just as one would expect a Klingon vessel to be!
Oh, now I’m going to have to memorize that line! And if anyone cares, I’ll always accept a box of See’s Bordeaux’s for any occasion, or even non occasions!!!
I have always looked at those who enjoy dressing up and speaking Klingon on Trekkies, but then I saw the term Trekker used on here and have adopted that. Is there any rhyme or reason for the use of these terms? Minor, inconsequential question, but I was just wondering.
I think I’m starting to see where you are coming from now with ship design Doug. You really have a thing for what today we’d say is impossable with structures, like pylons what are wafer thin and joints that look like they’d snap in a mild breeze!
Still, I do think its nice to have designs that stretch the imagination and break the norms of what people see as possable or impossable using modern day technology. I’d love to see how you’d revise the NX as discussed in the NX topic to fall inline more with your vision of how she should of been
That’s from the episode where deuterium is being mined (:() and then refined (?) on a planet, and the Klingons are stealing it because it’s so rare and valuable :\
And once a miner reminds us that burning deuterium can get almost as hot as plasma. :dies:
JNG: Just pretend it was liquid Dilithium or something
Tylium. They just mispronounced it
Matt Boardman:
Oh, that’s a good one, Matt. Mmmm, chocolate. I still have my “All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek” poster, but I missed that Klingon one. I’ll have to try and find one, eh.
dea, to me, first and foremost, “Trekkie” is a media label. “Trekker” I believe is the term created for fans by their own selves. I know it is what I have always referred to myself as, for as long as I can recall. Plus, it just sounds “stronger” to me.
Personally, I also class Trek fans who maliciously fight and squabble among themselves as Trekkies. Trekkers, in my view, are the class of fans that “get” the basic harmony-based IDIC precepts of Trek, and walk the walk, as opposed to just talking the talk.
LLP,
deg
Nice explanation there, mister! Fits well with my thinking.
I hadn’t watched an ENT epi in a long time until the last couple of weeks when I set the DVR to record them on Sci Fi automatically. It has been a weird coincidence that the postings each day seem to have the ships (and Xindi balls) that I *just* saw on here!! The episode with the raptor was on my tv screen half an hour after I read the article (these episodes aren’t being shown in any distingquishable order and I’m watching them as I get a chance), so it is almost eerie!! That epi had the tribunal against Archer where the prosecutor and gallery of Klingons chanted J’Hal! I’m assuming that means “death”, since that was the sentence they wanted carried out, right?
deg- “Personally, I also class Trek fans who maliciously fight and squabble among themselves as Trekkies. Trekkers, in my view, are the class of fans that “get” the basic harmony-based IDIC precepts of Trek, and walk the walk, as opposed to just talking the talk.”
Wow, deg! Resorting to labels? How unlike you
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The DC
Hey, all. First time posting and I’m a little bit late – I hope people still check older blogs.
First I want to thank Doug for continuously posting these schematics – it’s a real shot in the arm for us Treknologists out there, particularly who like seeing new orthos of established designs.
Question about the D5 – was there a non-tanker variant of this ship that I recall seeing at some point? And, if so, have those orthos shown up here yet? I tried scouring all the calendars and I thought I saw it once but I can’t seem to find it again. Probably got it confused w/ the Raptor.
Any info appreciated and thanks again!