We have one small addition from Aridas Sofia - the Kiaga-class Perimeter Action Vessel. Very nicely done!
42 New Federation ships and 3 updates from Neale "Vance" Davidson, William McKinly, Sean "Titan Designer" Tourangeau and many others added here.
I have also made a recently discovered addition - a conceptual design of a new Kzinti ship, called the Darkstalker, by Glitchwerk, that was to be used in the never-filmed fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. As it was never filmed, it cannot be considered "official", per se, but the discovery of this really cool ship only makes me more irritated that Enterprise was cancelled just when it was starting to get good! Anyway, there it is. This effectively cleans out my Trek backlog now.
Finally, as a tip of the hat to what some have called "The best Star Trek movie since the Wrath of Khan", I have lovingly included a new "official" Heavy Cruiser - the NEA Protector - from Galaxy Quest - made by the good folks at The Questarian.
Enjoy!
Having perused the web recently, I noticed that Masao Okazaki & The Starfleet Museum have added quite a few new Pre-TOS and early TOS designs for Federation, Klingon and Romulan Empires. I have taken the liberty of assembling them here. Also looking forward to seeing some of Eric "Jackill" Kristiansen's new and revised designs and including them here soon where necessary. On to the pics.
I am pleased to present the only known ortho rendering of the USS Bonaventure (NCC-1000) by "Meni", the artist which designed the April render in the 2006 Ships of the Line calendar. These are his comments on the work:
"Constructed some 60 years before Captain Kirk's famous USS Enterprise, the NCC-1000 Bonaventure Class cruiser was the first official starship to be used by the newly formed United Federation of Planets. Mike Okuda suggested that name because an episode of the animated Star Trek series suggested that the first warp powered ship was the Bonaventure. "The design embodies elements of both the NX-01 Enterprise that precede it, and the Constitution class USS Enterprise that followed it. Seen here is the prototype that has yet to be christened its eventual name: the USS Bonaventure (being the first of its type, it takes the name of the class). Also seen is Space Station K-2, which is an ancestor to the K-7 station first seen in Star Trek episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles'. "I designed the ship specifically for the calendar. "Due to schedule restraints, the model was created only for the view seen in the calendar, therefore I didn't model detail for the bottom and back. That is why I'm only including a top view. "Once again thanks for the interest in my design. I hope you find my responses useful"!
On a personal note, I must say I'm a little disappointed with the flurry of emails complaining/whining about the "long" periods of time taken between releases. I've said it before, and I'll say it again (at the risk of sounding whiney myself). Don't send me these kinds of emails, as they WILL ALL go unanswered! I know this message will likely fall on deaf ears, but I can only try. You see, I have a 40+ hour-a-week job, a Web-developement job on the side, I'm a re-enactor, and I participate in various fraternal organizations. Quite frankly, I've seen web-sites run by people that do a fraction of what I do, and don't do nearly as many updates as I do. So what's the problem here, people? I get these pesky emails and I sometimes wonder why I continue work on the database. I come to the conclusion that it's for the contributing non-leech users of the database who have worked long hours to help make this website possible. It's for the people who aren't just looking for the latest update. So, to re-iterate, if you are one of these leeches, don't waste your time sending these emails anymore, as they will go answered. You might even find yourself locked out if I ever get the time to build a security system in to the page (insert evil grin here). So please don't let it come to that and become a part of the solution, and not a part of the problem. Anyways, enough unpleasantness...
Added new and updated Official designs.
As one of my favorite authors would say, however, DON'T PANIC! I'm not disappearing off the face of the earth, and Paramount hasn't stomped me into fine granules. This is merely a technical issue only. Hopefully, there will be plenty of time for this update to circulate and let enough people know about this turn of events. Consequently, any whiny emails asking where the site went will go unanswered! I've grown quite weary of such mindless correspondence in the past year. I will, however, continue to receive legitimate emails regarding starship design and submissions, as well as make plans for the new Battlestar Galactica section. Until that time, please sit tight, be patient and be well.
In other news, there's a new game in town (if it can be called a game?)-- Star Trek: Starship Creator from Simon & Schuster. It appears to be a starship designer's dream. Build your own ships and put them in their own missions, running in the background. Almost like a Sim-Trek kind-of thing. Don't know if it will be as extensive as Star Trek TNG: The Birth of the Federation from MicroProse (that one sounds more like a Civ II in the Star Trek Universe). The reason I'm particularly interested in this one, is because it's the first piece of software ever made commercially which is 100% dedicated to starship design and development. It's also being made for the Macintosh, as well as the PC, which makes me happy :-) More on that later in the form of a review.
We have several Federation updates/accurizations:
In other news: I have registered this site with InterNic, and will be creating a new domain specifically to this database. Keep watching for details on that one. AND! I've had a large number of emails requesting a Vulcan section. As they have so few ships associated with the Vulcans, and as I have received these emails, I WILL be including the Vulcans in the next release in a few weeks, along with a pile of new Federation and Klingon designs. We're getting close to two milestones with this site: 1) Reaching the 50,000 user mark, and 2) Reaching the 1,000 ship schematic mark. I hope to make those two events happen simultaneously, so keep the designs coming!
In the Klingon section, I've added the Freighter owned by the House Noggra from the DS9 episode "Sons of Mogh". Anybody got an official name on this one?
Last but not least, I've added the Ferengi Shuttle we see occasionally in Next Generation and DS9. Looking for a name for this ship, too. Enjoy...
In the Klingon section we have two new ships, the I.K.V. Hood from Jim Leary (which has an interesting story behind it, included in the image), and the Bat'Leth-class Dreadnaught from USS Dark Star.
The Romulan section has the new Aerv-class Drydock from Toni Pienonen.
...And last but not least, the Nemesis-class Galaxy Conquest Vessel in the Alternate Universe section from Erik Fromme.
I'm back with a few more Federation additions, including some official dock and station designs.
Many thanks to Adam Heinbuch for reminding me about Space Station (Drydock) McKinley (of the Utopia-class) and the Antares Shipyards Drydock from Star Trek: Generations. Thanks to Toni Pienonen for passing the name of that drydock on to me for the database.
Also added a conceptual design of what the I.S.S. Enterprise would look like after being upgraded in the "Mirror Universe". Thanks to Jim Leary for his submission. Until next time...
Big things have been going on recently. I've just completed and installed the first version of the "Small Craft" and "Docks/Stations" sections of the various organizations within the database. Here's a breakdown of the new sections:
Small Craft includes all fighters, shuttles, work bees, and any other smaller-than-starship vehicles. This line gets fuzzy with Runabouts, as I have heard people claim they are considered starships, because of the "NCC" designation in their registry. I personally disagree, as I have some other shuttle-type designs in the database with "NCC" registries as well. To me, Runabouts are just oversized shuttlecraft and will be treated as such for the purposes of this database.
Docks/Stations includes all spacedocks, drydocks, and space stations of any available type. Let me know if I missed anything, but I think I got just about everything.
Anyway, there it is! The interfaces have been accordingly changed to accommodate the new configuration. I may do a few small updates here & there down the road, but I think it's time for another vacation away from the site. I will be answering emails & collecting new designs as usual, but I don't suspect I'll be making any more major updates (such as the Small Craft and Docks/Stations sections) for a while. In the meantime, enjoy the new stuff! See ya!
Welcome back everyone! I'm almost ready to install the new Small Craft and Stations/Docks sections. I still need to do a little more work with the interfaces to accommodate the new sections. In the meantime, I have taken the liberty of collecting a few more new starship designs for display, including the long sought-after official Merchantman-class Freighter from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Romulan Update! Discovered that the Romulan warp shuttle as seen in the DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight" is called a Raptor-class warp shuttle. Thanks to my users for this information.
Cardassian Update! My loyal users have also informed me that my image of the Cardassian Freighter Groumall was, in fact, upside-down! That's because I scanned it from the Star Trek Encyclopedia, which is what had it upside-down to begin with (along with the Jem'Hadar Battlecruiser). Even though there really is no such thing as upside-down in space, I decided, nonetheless, to flip it vertically to match the orientation of the studio model. I have also included a view of the much asked-for Cardassian Weapons Platform from the DS9 season finale "Tears of the Prophets". As nobody really knows if this thing has a class-name associated with it, it will be listed as "Unknown" for now.
Tholian Update! Added the new Tholian Light Fighter.
Gorn Update! Added the new Gorn Light Fighter.
We're back up and running!
Well, it would appear that the worst thing that can happen to a person with a computer happened to me on Saturday morning. What would have been an otherwise normal weekend turned into a complete nightmare. I was in the process of composing the last few remaining starship designs for the newest release, when I fell prey to an unprecedented hard drive failure on my removable disk. I consider it unprecedented, because in all my seventeen years of computing, I have never experienced such a complete failure of hardware and software.
I tried doing a simple file search for a particular file (an existing schematic which was similar to a newer one that was recently submitted), and I wanted to cut & paste pieces from it to create the new schematic. Pretty basic, eh? Well, when the system began searching on my removable media (where all my Web-related data was stored - FIVE YEAR'S WORTH), the system hung irretrievably. I hit the reset button, only to find that upon rebooting, some bizarre read-write cycle began when the removable drive tried mounting to the desktop. Thinking it was just some way of fixing itself, I let it do its thing and went to watch TV for 40 minutes, only to return to a still-spinning disk. I couldn't escape out of the cycle, so I - regretfully - hit the reset button again.
This time, the thing wouldn't even mount. It was COMPLETELY hosed! So, I pulled Old Faithful off the shelf & blew off the dust: Norton's Utilities to the rescue! I succeeded in fixing the Boot Sector, but the File Allocation Table was totally trashed. After finally being able to mount the disk, I saw ZERO FILES visible!!?!? Again, bringing up the Norton's Utilities, I went to the Undeleter, where I successfully retrieved 80% of the 4000+ (hidden) files I lost, but with a catch: Since the Directory Tree was fried, every single file was labeled with some strange compu-speak nomenclature, like "JPEG #2183.data", or "GIF #2112.data". I spent the rest of the weekend going through each and every file to see how it should be named, where it should be placed, or even if it survived the whole process altogether.
Imagine a castle which has just been blown away by cannon-fire. 80% of the stones are laying about your feet, and not a single stone sits on top of any other stone. That was the task I had to overcome. Needless to say, I had to take down this site temporarily to make a new backup of my web data, taking advantage of full bandwidth capabilities. What was originally intended to be my backup (the removable hard-drive), wound up relying on my originals on the web for backup. Savor the irony. In any case, the site is back up and running, as is my system. I am going to invest in a new CD-ROM cutter to minimize the pain if this ever happens again. I was planning on making my new release this week, but due to the technical difficulties, I'm going to have to postpone that release for another few weeks, as my window for such opportunity has become quite slim. Thank you for your patience, and I'll get back to you soon.
Had a small glitch in the system, possibly because of the sporadic thunderstorms we've been having recently in the area (Northern Virginia). I have been getting an inordinate number of emails informing me that the website is down. Although I am grateful for your concern, I will now include an excerpt from the F.A.Q., which should be read before using this site for any extended period of time:
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME AN EMAIL SAYING THE SERVER IS DOWN! Sometimes this happens, be it a full swap disk, or a web server crash, etc. etc. I check the site periodically almost every day, to verify the status. If I find it's down, I will contact the sys-admins and have them do a reboot. So, since I get 200-300 hits a day, and if 10% of those hits tell me the server's down, that's at least 20-30 emails I have to sift through and reply why it went down. It's much easier to do one update to the Chronology section explaining the downtime, than returning 30 emails.
Still working on small craft and stations/docks. I don't think anyone will be disappointed with what I come up with. Even I was surprised out how many such designs there were. Consequently, it has taken me longer than I previously estimated to complete these sections for the Federation, as well as the other races/organizations. Stay tuned, and PLEASE read the F.A.Q.
It's been another long while, but I hope it was worth the wait. I've added the remaining set of ships from other races, and once again cleared my desk of pending federation starship designs.
Updated Vreenak's Warpshuttle from the DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight" thanks to Rutger Warrink.
Last but certainly not least, we have more miscellaneous vessels from the "Others" section that many people have been looking for, including the very elusive Peregrine-class fighter (which also happens to have been used as an Academy Flight Trainer - or at least so says the Star Trek Encyclopedia) and the extremely popular Jem'Hadar attack ship.
In other news: This site has been nominated to be the Internet Collectibles Awards Star Trek Site of the Year. Cast your vote for this site! All help is appreciated - I know I have the users to make a serious dent in their voting poll.
Also! I now set out to do what many people have asked me in the past (and I'm finally getting around to doing it): I am now going to add small craft (i.e. shuttles, fighters, etc.), starbases, space stations, and drydocks to the Federation section (and continue to do so in the other sections). It will take me a while, so please don't send me emails asking where I am :-) Thanks, and I'll see you in a month or two.
Had another bizarre hiccup with the Netscape server, but it seems to be functioning normally again. Anyway, added a couple new Federation designs including and featuring the U.S.S. Dauntless.
Now, as we know (we, meaning those of us who saw the Voyager episode "Hope and Fear"), the Dauntless is not really a Federation Ship. It was built by one of the many wacko races bent on the destruction of Voyager for screwing up their planet, or whatever. But, since the Dauntless was built with Starfleet ship design in mind (and since everyone has been screaming for this schematic), I have added it to the database with a small footnote in the entry saying "Non-Federation", classified as "Galaxy Exploration" (since it was ultimately designed to replace Voyager).
Also added the Romulan Warpshuttle from the DS9 Episode "In the Pale Moonlight". It is highly inaccurate, as there were very few views of this ship shown during that episode. I only hope that it shows up again later in the series - especially now that the Romulans have entered in the War against the Dominion. So, for what it's worth, here's the new Romulan shuttle - I was tempted to call it the Fett-class Warpshuttle, because of its cockpit design :-) NOTE: Found the true name of this warpshuttle. Refer to the 7/31/1998 Update for the info.
The Cardassians have arrived in the Other Races section!
Created two new significant additions to the database today.
The first is the Goodson-class heavy cruiser; an interesting design, originating as a concept sketch from the producers of Star Trek: First Contact. As no ship name was associated with it, I christened her the U.S.S. Goodson, after her designer John Goodson.
The second is a ship that many of us have seen recently: the Warship Voyager, as seen in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Living Witness". As actual footage of the ship lasted for no more than 5-10 seconds (and a full view of the vessel was never shown), I tried my best to capture the extreme beweaponment that adorned this alternate-Voyager. I hope everyone approves.
Someone just sent me the first email regarding the differences between Defiant and Valiant, in both my database, and in the show, as what I have in my database is clearly not what we saw in the recent DS9 episode "The Valiant". I will attempt to explain this difference as adequately as possible.
The "Valiant" I have in my database is, in fact, the prototype/conceptual design that eventually became to be known as the Defiant. As a matter of fact, I had heard that the producers of the show unofficially called the Defiant a Valiant-class ship (or maybe the ship was originally supposed to be called the Valiant - I can't remember which). You can even see that older version of the Valiant on various schematics and "Okuda-grams" scattered here-and-there around the bridge of the Defiant (if you have a VCR with a good pause and a quick eye), no doubt because the bridge set was built before they finalized the starship design. Hope this helps people understand the difference.
Added several new Federation, Klingon and Romulan Ships to the list and updated a few Federation Ships.
7/20/1998
7/7/1998
6/18/1998
5/25/1998
5/17/1998
5/16/1998
5/15/1998
Broke 15000 hits! Another record! 1000 hits in 2 days.
5/12/1998
Well, it's been a relaxing couple of months and the site broke 14,000 users in that time! AMAZING! But playtime is now over, and it's time to start catching up on some new business. Something new you may or may not notice, is the fact that all image filenames are now 32 characters in length. The reasons for this are two-fold... First: This allows Macintosh users (such as myself) to download the images, and not have to rename/truncate their names. Second, (and for COMPLETELY selfish reasons) it makes it easier for me to store the individual images on a Mac-formatted removable hard-drive for backup purposes, instead of hiding them all in one big, nebulous, difficult-to-access TAR file, that only a UNIX gnome would love. I have compiled a new group of submitted starships to be placed in the database sometime this weekend...more on that later.
3/18/1998
Oops! Some pesky cron-job (or something) killed the server at exactly Midnight and 9 seconds last night. We're not quite sure what, but as of 8:59:03 this morning, we seem to be back up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience. I just have to sift through all my email now telling me that the server is down :-)
3/15/1998
Happy Birthday to the site! As one of my users, Adam Heinbuch has pointed out, I began development on this site exactly one year ago today. To celebrate, I have included the last of the major pieces of the site - the long-awaited ROMULANS! This particular section currently has 45 ships in it - mostly from the Romulan Ship Recognition Manual from FASA, interleaved with a few others. This should keep you users busy for a while, as I'm going to be a taking a LONG vacation from the site. I've been up until 3:00 in the morning for the past week cleaning out all the backed up files that people have been asking for along with building the Romulan section, so now I'm taking some time off. I will continue to accept any emails sent to me, and build up the queue once again for a future release - maybe a month or two from now. Until then, enjoy the new section.
I've now begun the long journey of building the Romulan section, now long overdue. I should have the interface built tomorrow, along with the first wave of designs. There aren't too many, so I'm hoping to get all of the designs in at once. Stay tuned...
Also added some more of the "unofficially official" ships along with a bunch of submitted designs from P.T. Riley and other users of the site.
Also added some new official and non-official designs and made accurization updates to various ships.
DISCLAIMER: To the designers that apply: Some of the designs above have John Gurzick's name attached to them for no other reason than he was the one that brought them to me. This in no way implies that he was the original designer of said designs - he just didn't have any source info on some of the ships he sent me. This is in no way meant to be a slight towards either the original designers OR John. I appreciate all submissions sent, and I want to make sure that everyone is appropriately credited, the best I can.
In other news: Finally added hit-counter, time and date displays. I started it off at 1000, as I know for a fact that I've gotten at least that many hits based on the emails and cgi-bin calls I've been seeing :-)
This column contains (for now) four values:
| Pre-TOS | For ships that look as if they were built before the timeframe of The Original Series. |
|---|---|
| TOS | For ships that look as if they were built during The Original Series. This also includes The Animated Series. |
| Movies | For ships that look as if they were built during The Movies (from Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Star Trek VII: Generations). |
| TNG | For ships that look as if they were built immediately before (i.e. Ambassador-class and variants thereof), during, and after Star Trek: The Next Generation. This includes ships seen in (or look as if they might have been built during the time of) The Movies Star Trek: Generations & First Contact, the Voyager and Deep Space Nine Series and beyond... |
And last, but certainly not least, the small but significant change: With the help of John Gurzick, I've found that the previously-unknown thru-deck carrier, as seen in the DS9 episode "A Time to Stand", belongs to the Shelley-class, and is now listed as being in the TNG era, and Movie era (for of its use of Miranda and early Star Trek III-variant Excelsior parts).
Added some new ships and updated a few others.
On a more personal note, I have been receiving a lot of emails, lately, asking me why I'm taking so long in updating images or putting their submitted designs on the page. Please keep in mind that I do have a 40-hour-a-week job, taking most of my time. I just got a new (used) car which is taking me a lot of time to get fixed up, among a whole bunch of other side-projects. This is just one of many of those side-projects. I am giving this site a higher priority than the other sites I maintain, but PLEASE don't send me emails why I haven't gotten around to putting something in. Everything is looked at and updated accordingly. I think I've done a pretty good job so far keeping things moving right along, so let me continue to maintain things at my own pace. Thanks in advance for your consideration. - Jim
In other news: I have some info from Marcus C. Nee on a previously unidentified Nebula-esque Tactical Cruiser variant (the U.S.S. Melbourne), as seen in the TNG episode "Future Imperfect". Marcus writes:
That design was the Nebula class starship in its original form as built by Ed Miarecki using parts from ERTL's 1/1400 and 1/2500 scale Enterprise D model kits. At least two different models were built. One was the desktop model seen in "Future Imperfect" and the other was the wreckage of USS Melbourne, NCC-62043 seen in "Best of Both Worlds". Ed showed me photos of the Melbourne model and it is indeed the same design, with the little nacelles on top. However, the name and registry are no longer official since USS Melbourne was redefined to be an Excelsior class ship in the DS9 pilot. The current Nebula class was a modification of that design. When the large filming miniature of the Nebula class was built for "The Wounded", Sternbach and Okuda had replaced the small nacelles with the AWACS dish and repositioned the secondary hull. Later, it was modified again with the wedge array replacing the AWACS dish.Keeping this information in mind, I'm now changing the unknown tactical cruiser to be the U.S.S. Melbourne. Even though the name is unofficial, the design is, so I will keep it official for now, until a new name can be obtained for this ship. Thanks, Marcus.
I have also added a few new sites to the Associated Links Section.
Also added a few more Federation & Klingon ships, including yet a few more unknown ones (all Klingon). All but one of these unknown designs come from "The U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual", a grey/white/red-looking fan-published book, which had some good stuff on the early series, including the first-ever known printing of the "Klinzhai"-variant of the Klingon Language. The second unknown Destroyer is a design by Mateen Greenway.
| Subclass | Designation | Ship Name | Translation | Source | Official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battleship | B-1 | Unknown | Bibliography | No | |
| Cruiser | K-5 | Unknown | Bibliography | No | |
| Destroyer | ES-A2 | Unknown | Bibliography | No | |
| Destroyer | Unknown | Internet | No | ||
| Freighter | N-6 | Unknown | Bibliography | No |
In other news, this site has recently been added to various search engines, such as Alta Vista, Yahoo!, and InfoSeek.
Well...that's it for now. Got a few more Fed and Klingon designs to work on, then I'm going to start kicking in with Romulan designs. Until next time...
Updated the Yeager-class scout to include a third warp nacelle to make it more accurate to the actual miniature (thanks, Adam).
Added a few more new ships.
| Subclass | Ship Name | Variant | Registry | Source | Official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battleship | Mareln | NCC-1061 | Internet @ Griffworks Shipyards | No | |
| Destroyer | Unknown | NCC-0077 | Internet @ Griffworks Shipyards | No |
Began work on Klingon and Maquis sections of this site.
Added new Associated Links section for the various internet-related sources that were instrumental in the construction of this site and its database.
Updated some ships to accommodate a higher level of accuracy.
Added new entries for Federation ships including the official design for the Yeager-class Scout.
NOTE: The Yeager-class Scout is considered official, as it can be seen occasionally orbiting Deep Space Nine. Not much is known about this one, other than its mere existence. We assume that it appeared sometime during DS9's late fourth season through fifth season, as that was when Star Trek: Voyager went on the air, since the Yeager appears to be made up of components from both USS Voyager and the Maquis Raider.
| Subclass | Ship Name | Variant | Registry | Source | Official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tactical Cruiser | Unknown - has been changed to Melbourne - see 1/25/1998 update above | Bibliography | Yes |
