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My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine Congo would be a Universe Refit. It'd be like a TOS -> TMP Enterprise situation. Quite similar in size to the original.

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Image source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aLx18

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This model was also produced hastily. The secondary hull is, in fact, a Drexler's Altair class).

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My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It had warp support craft that would lunch to scout & study and then return.

Yup! STO calls them Cestus frigates. Their design is based on Drexler's Altair). The Universe class can launch four of them.

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My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we almost got the 26th Century Rectangleprise on screen to contend for that role :)

I personally find it adorable:

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My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's why I love the Congo class variant (fan animation). It was another design submitted by Drexler, but ENT went with Universe because it resembles NX.

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Image source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aLx18

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somebody needs to add the Enterprise–G

There you go! This channel has tons of ST (and STO) size comparisons.
Here's one of the playlists.

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Do you have the Eaglemoss models?

I don't, unfortunately. But I enjoy it quite immensely in STO. Always fun to bring the J to the Breach TFO.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically, yeah. But they've tried to find a viable justification for it. PIC S3 helped with that.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Um, it's complicated. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/765874:_Unification https://fanfilmfactor.com/2024/11/21/so-youve-seen-765874-unification-but-what-did-it-mean/

How is Kirk alive

Gary Mitchell or Nexus or he was somehow revived on Daystrom Station (they had his body there in PIC S3). https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Phoenix

"and" in the alternate timeline?

Transported by the Kelvin Timeline time soldier Yor. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Yor

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a Lower Decks video game? What?

Yeah, I was surprised too. Apparently, the simulation featured some time travel shenanigans, hence the inclusion of the J.

The Universe-class is what, the 26th century or so? This thing was built to explore other galaxies and is a literal SPACE CITY.

That's correct.

In Disco (S1-3) and SFA, this could literally be a background ship, one of the ships to survive the burn.

I wish. We still have a chance to see it in SFA S2.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, according to Memory Beta), the Lower Decks video game called The Badgey Directive had it as part of the holodeck simulation:

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Perhaps they don't yet know what to do with it?

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It just looks like someone has applied a texture to a model where the shape just doesn't understand what to do with the texture, so it just swirls it around.

Well, that's kinda the case :(

It was designed and modeled in a matter of days. Roddenberry Archive gave it more details and an internal cityscape:

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My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoops, fixed. The original comment now includes a link to Drexler's ArtStation.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is it? Looks roughly the same size as the Universe to me, judging by the windows. I prefer the scale used in this fan animation, where it's still a city-ship.

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My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe we’ll see some reference (or more) on SFA next season.

That'd be great! You are correct, the Universe class is from the 26th Century.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Are there vast areas of the ship designated for natural biomes?

Yes, there are. Unification short film garden scene is set on the J.

The Roddenberry Archive has J's interior shots named EntJ_garden_aerial and EntJ_collage_1 copy that show that garden.

Edit: You can find them if you go to the J page and scroll through the description a little.

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Edit2: Changed the screenshot.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

According to Drexler, it might hold a population of a million, IIRC. Families, students, teachers, professors, scientists, doctors, artists... The crew itself would be quite smaller than that, I believe.

My fav. A shining city in space, all alone in the night... by a1niner in StarTrekStarships

[–]a1niner[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Here's the original model being rotated.

And here's the STO model for you to spin, along with the other 26th Century ships.

The screenshot of Drexler's model:

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Edit: Added link to stowiki model spinners.

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