Starline 2500 Klingon D17 -- Exploratory concept

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Jean

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SVC wrote: Matthew begged me to let him do a Klingon that was "very different" so Petrick and I cast about through the files and found the D17 from SSJ1. We sent it to him and told him to go crazy and, well, he did.

It's violating a few precepts (the D17 as published had the same boom as the D7, not that we couldn't fiddle with the SSD and even make it a non-detachable boom) but, well, I'm surprised that I kinda like it.

I think that the FXX phasers might as well be higher and FX, and that the RX phasers are insanely placed (they might as well be 360 which I cannot allow). My thought was to slide the whole deckhouse forward to the edge of the rear hull and move the RX phasers behind it, where RX would indeed appertain.

Anyway, it's funky, and I thought maybe I'd run it up the flagpole and see if anybody salutes.

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Jean
 
I love it too. Ive thought the boom was a soft point for klingon designs. I like the direction this is going. and would prob use this. a heavy troop transport along this same design would be nice.
 
Good initiative, poor execution...honestly I would like to see "non-cookie-cutter" style ships, but this one looks a little too boxy for the Agile Klingons. Still think it is a step in the right direction.
 
can we have a top shot? little blocky, but shows a similar approach to standard klingons, but with a prototype "neck" area, wouldn't say not to some in my fleet.
 
I have more renderings with different angles but there has to be the right timelag or the renderings all get glommed up into a pile.

Another shot should go up within half an hour, provided that everything cooperates.

Jean
 
Excellent stuff - still Klingon enough to be recognisable in its' origins and different enough to tell it apart from other ships. Lets see some more ships from other races given a bit of an overhaul please!!
 
This is amazing! I am looking forward to the other angles, but even with just the one top view I already want a whole fleet of them.
 
also, whilst naturally, later era's are not licenced, it does show some similarities with later designs with the thicker neck area.
 
Personally I think it is semi-ugly but it is clearly a Klingon design and would fit well with the fleet.

If you produce it, I'll buy a squadron.
 
Reminds me very strongly of this; http://www.starfleet-museum.org/d5.htm, it looks like something that got *replaced by* the D6.


Where would Klingon cruiser design go after the C7? If they're stuck with the standard '15-box' warp nacelles, any increase in power will have to come from more reactors or an expanded impulse deck - meaning more volume in the rear hull. Increasing automation could reduce the number of the the bridge crew, giving a smaller command 'bulb'.

An expanded phaser fit might be installed on pylons away from the bulb and/or rear hull to maintain those famously wide Klingon firing arcs.

Additional disruptor mounts could change the profile of the engine nacelles.

Unless the Empire suffers a sudden outbreak of democracy, I can't see the command boom not being detachable...and following the C7, it will have it's own mini warp engine, too.
 
their is actually the danger of me converting from a romulan to a Klingon fleet at this point...
 
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