Recently I've been working on the Constitution-class ship from the never aired series Star Trek: Phase II. It's basically the version of the ship Matt Jefferies was designing for the Enterprise's big refit, which was supposed to be explained in the pilot episode,
In Thy Image.
Well, as preproduction on the series was being done and the ship was being built, Paramount changed their minds and decided to make TMP instead. So, the script
In Thy Image was turned into TMP and the models, which were being built for television resolution and weren't good enough for movie resolution had to be scrapped. Andrew Probert finished the refit of the Enterprise and the rest is history...
Anywho, I'm finishing the unfinished Phase II ship in 3D. I'm using Matt Jefferies' original design drawings that were cleaned up by David Shaw, more of Matt Jefferies' original drawings from the book
Star Trek: Phase II: The Lost Series and images from that book. I'm not using the fan blueprints from Kennedy Ship Yards, they used too many TMP elements to finish the ship, IMO.
Here's the nacelle so far. I'd thought this would be the hardest element to do, but it was easier than I thought. It's easier to build than the TMP-refit version, IMO. I did do one TMP-ish element, which was to add the bussard grills to the front. The orignal plans had that area plain. I don't do plain very well. :evil:
And the secondary hull. I'm still working on it. The only TMP-ish thing I did was change the design of the docking port to canonize the ship. The original pentagonal docking port didn't fit with what was done in TMP and all Trek that followed. Everything else is either from Jefferies' drawings or Mike Minor paintings of the ship.
