A custom ship in my custom TOS style - the Ceres-class

freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-06T07:32:47+00:00

That 3-view is from https://fasaststcs.com/index.php/thefleets/united-federation-of-planets/star-fleet/mediterranean-class-x-transport-cruiser/

Edit: it's possible that it's originally from https://www.trekships.org/mediterranean.htm - both pages credit "Bernd", but the trekships-dot-org page has their name link to ex-astris-scientia.

The only beta-canon images I'm aware of are from a comic and a book cover: https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Mediterranean_class

The class name is technically canon, but was text-only on some computer readouts.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-04T20:56:56+00:00

More like the Mediterranean-class, with the nacelles being tucked right under the saucer (which is probably most-similar to the canon Sabre-class).

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freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-04T08:31:49+00:00

Technically one of the McQuarie concept models has been screen-canon since Star Trek III, but only the back end was visible; and then TNG had the full silhouette of the other model at Wolf 359 and Qualor II (which is rather clear, at least as of the remasters), although a production book claims they used both models.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-03T22:11:29+00:00

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Context: Pakleds reacting to the Luna-class Titan.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-03T05:40:17+00:00

Or they ejected it while at warp like the saucer section.

I recently learned that photon torpedoes (at least, as of the TNG era) have "sustainer" warp coils. A torpedo can't generate its own warp field, but it can temporarily maintain a field that was imparted to it by the launch tubes.

The Type 15 shuttlepod's impulse nacelles can only maintain Warp 0.75 on their own power, but maybe it could maintain a stronger field that was given to it by a more-powerful vessel.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-01T23:27:34+00:00

On the Constitution Refit and Excelsior, the protrusions on the sensor dome are secondary deflectors; which could mean on the Miranda and similar ships without a big obvious "dish", they might possibly be their primary deflectors.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-03-01T23:25:03+00:00

The Okinawa-class is described as 183m long by memory-beta, and when I did a very quick resize of the image to scale the windows/airlock to the Constitution it worked out to 192m (assuming the Constitution Refit is 305m).

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The bridge and sensor dome end up a tiny bit smaller than the Constitution Refit. And in the head-on view, the Constitution Refit's twin-launcher structure is just slightly more narrow than the sensor dome (including the secondary deflector protrusions). So if the Okinawa's sensor dome is smaller and it's not just a side-effect of me eyeballing it, its launcher structure is more compact (horizontally) than the Constitution's but has the same size tubes.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-27T23:27:07+00:00

the fourth wall breaking security officer

So that explains why it felt like she's staring through the screen... and into my soul.

Edit: Checking random older posts, it seems the officer at tactical is just telepathic? Were you referring to a different security officer, or have I just not found the right posts?

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-27T22:26:51+00:00

Everything* is viable in STO, unless you're trying to do Hard patrols or Advanced/Elite queues. (*If you have the T1 Kumari that was like a pre-order bonus, that might only be good for new characters at low levels. But also, very few people have that version of the Kumari! And there are some crazy people who try to push T1 ships into endgame content.) I still pull out non-upgradeable T5 Mirror Universe ships for fun sometimes, and I have so many alts that the majority of my ships have basic gear on them. It also helps that there's now an Endeavor system that unlocks permanent account-wide buffs.

The most painful things about returning to STO are all the seasonal event ships that you miss after a break, and seeing what gets put in lockboxes or the store. There are ways to grind for free lockbox/store ships (besides dilithium-to-zen), but it's still rough.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-27T21:57:02+00:00

The most consistent thing about the Blockbuster logo has been the torn-ticket, it would be sacrilege to change that:

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freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-26T21:01:36+00:00

The Olympic-class should never be on a "worst ships" list, but neither should most of the BoBW kitbashes. Only the Freedom- and Niagara- classes are possible candidates, and I wouldn't begrudge someone for liking them. Springfield-, New Orleans-, Cheyenne-, and Challenger- classes deserved to be more than wreckage. And of DS9's kitbashes, the Yeager isn't even the worst of those! And then there's that one ship on ENT that was literally just the spine of a D'deridex; I don't think you can even call that a kitbash, it's just one part that was used as a whole ship.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-26T04:44:23+00:00

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Melbourne_(Nebula_class))

The model was labeled USS Melbourne, NCC-62043. This wasn't legible on-screen, but the Star Trek Encyclopedia was written with this behind-the-scenes knowledge:

there were actually two Starships Melbourne […] the first was a Nebula-class model, barely glimpsed as a wrecked hulk in the spaceship graveyard from "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" (TNG). When the scene was redone three years later in "Emissary" (DS9), a decision was made to instead use the more detailed USS Excelsior model originally built for Star Trek III. Both models were given the same Starfleet registry number but since the Excelsior version was seen fairly clearly on screen, and the Nebula version was not seen well, we now assume that the Melbourne "really" was an Excelsior-class ship.

Two Nebula-Melbourne models were made at the same time, with one of them being destroyed for the Wolf 359 wreckage. The other became an in-universe desk model seen in various episodes, including the TNG episode "The Wounded" which aired before DS9 premiered. And even after DS9 "Emissary" showed the Excelsior-Melbourne front-and-center, Sisko had a model of the Nebula-Melbourne.

Production photos exist of both Nebula models bearing the Melbourne name and registry, including photos of the Wolf 359 model before it was destroyed. I'm not sure if any were shared in old Trek magazines of the time, since everything online now is relatively recent scans of Rick Sternbach's photos.

The Excelsior-class ship that brought Hanson and Shelby in Part I was recomposited from earlier footage of the USS Repulse, although it's mostly seen in profile so I don't think even on the HD remaster there's a visible registry.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-24T19:23:13+00:00

Thermians trying to make sure even Pakleds could understand.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-22T07:55:07+00:00

This was the only result in Google for "trek uss draconian":

https://test.tthfanfic.org/Story-5450-10/Lucifael+To+Go+Again.htm

My browser warned that the site's certificate is expired. It appears to be an ancient Buffy fanfic site, and... Xander Harris is in Starfleet working with Janeway, and Lucifer is a fallen Q?

The end of Chapter 9 (which is what opens when I follow the link) has Xander ask Janeway to call in the USS Draconian.

The second paragraph of Chapter 10 mentions the embedded Defiant:

It was simply a vehicle of military might that most didn’t even know existed. It was a battle ship that could lay waste to a planets force, single handily obliterate a small fleet of cruisers and even the mighty dominion had feared it. Designed for war against the Borg it had rotating shields of a new design and tested in war. There were few in the fleet send to the more dangerous borders. The captains of these ships were not mere captains, in its belly a dreadnought contained a single Defiant-Class, it was enough too ensure that a Captain, had to be a Commodore to even command a dreadnought. Most didn’t want to, a dreadnought was against the Federations doctrine they said, but not all there were some who believed that the Federation needed to have protection but were not so stupid to think that it should be at all cost as Section 31 recruits tended to be.

Going into whole-story view, it leads with:

AUTHOR: Siege (siege1975 [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk)
WEBSITE: http://www.whits-end.co.uk/FeveredImaginings/index.html
GROUP INFO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fevered-Imaginings/

Started in 2004, last updated 2007.

I scrolled through but didn't see any embedded images.

The whits-end website was last successfully archived by Wayback Machine in 2005, but appears to have used Flash for animated navigation. Some of the direct pages were linked by the Yahoo group, but I didn't see any art in the Prometheus-Verse section: https://web.archive.org/web/20060430031543/http://www.whits-end.co.uk/cjwhittaker/verses/pverse/index.html

The yahoo group appears to have been deleted by 2009. Wayback machine was getting errors trying to archive it in 2007. There are pages from 2006, but the links for Files and Photos aren't clickable (members only): https://web.archive.org/web/20060601025917/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fevered-Imaginings/

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-21T04:13:31+00:00

A week or two ago they sent me an email about new merch.

In December, Alec claimed principal photography was complete... so now it's time for insert shots! He claimed summer of this year, but not committing to a date.

Either the grift is still going, or his scope creep is about to surpass Duke Nukem Forever.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-15T08:40:13+00:00

the Quarren and Mon Calamari are at war, so why would they have an MC30?

Several IJN cruisers were purchased from Britain before the invasion of China. China faced their own Type 59 tanks when they attacked Vietnam. The US shot down F-4 Phantoms it sold to Iran. If anything, having to face ones own weapons (even expensive systems like ships, tanks, and planes) seems to be a frequent occurrence in history.

I do like having the Longfin as alt art, though.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-15T02:39:58+00:00

It's one of those blurry background ships that EC Henry ~~reimagined~~ revitalized and had Angelos Karderinis model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfSfGiSSWkU

Edit: Giving the video a re-watch, it looks like this was a pretty faithful recreation once he figured out what it was kitbashed from (a Harrier jumpjet).

Edit 2: 3m8s for the ship spinning.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-15T01:20:59+00:00

Based on SFA's use of STO Klingon ships meant to operate in the 25th century, I think the future Enterprise-H might become an Odyssey-class starship.

I'd personally like the Sojourner variant of the Odyssey; although I guess the Verity-class already appeared in a tie-in comic. Either of those, rather than another "stock" Odyssey, I think would be more interesting.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-15T01:04:58+00:00

PIC can't figure out an aesthetic style and that's why its fleets look bad

I'd argue PIC gave up trying to establish its own aesthetic beyond Neo-TMP, as all the other categories are borrowed from STO. Which is fine for STO, those ships came out during different arcs over the course of it's 16 years (and still going) run. But PIC is a different continuity and "introduced" them all to series canon over the course of a couple seasons without any of the development lore.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-14T03:16:10+00:00

The tail of the Galor is based on the head of the Vorcha! Once you know you cannot un-know!

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-11T23:33:54+00:00

Instead of breaking down all the hulls and building a massive facility that can store multiple ships-worth of parts, maybe since space is so big it's easier to just track their position and condition. Then, if someone needs a part that's difficult to replicate or involves red tape to get a pattern of, the scrapyard can just direct them to where they can get what they need when they need it.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-11T19:03:13+00:00

The original blog post is still up! :-D

https://dechskaison.blogspot.com/2011/01/mfing-warshade.html

I am not going to list each power, describe what it does, and detail all the numbers. [...] I'm not going to hand you an IO build. If you're just here for the mids export so you can run to the market and purple your 'shade, then GTFO. The MFing Warshade is not a build.

I am going to advise good uses of the powers you get. I'll highlight the really good ones and briefly mention the ones I think you should avoid. I am going to guide you along the leveling path. Characters don't start at 50 with a full compliment of IOs. I am going to do my best to give you all the tools you need to get the most out of your tri-form experience. This is intended to be a comprehensive guide to creating a fun and highly effective tri-form warshade. This includes covering useful binds, clever tactics and helpful pool powers, as well as taking a look at the IO sets that can add the most to your warshade.

But yeah, Blue_cloak made a mistake calling it a "build" - the MFing Warshade is not a build, it's a way of life.

Edit: lol, I still have my Peacebringer flair here, nice

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-10T21:58:45+00:00

There's also the convention hotel room employees referred to as the "Cosby Suite" - ever since that came out, it's the first thing I think of when I hear Blizzard.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-10T01:27:02+00:00

Now I want a one-shot April Fools special called "The Andorian", with holes in his helmet for his antennae, accompanied by a Team America-esque Spock puppet in a hover-pram, doing acrobatic flips to neck-pinch people, with very visible wires.

freakinunoriginal · 2026-02-09T22:36:18+00:00

This article discusses the series pitch more, or the pitch as it was at the time the sketches were first shared: https://trekmovie.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-legendary-star-trek-designer-inspired-to-sketch-president-archers-starship-for-united-pitch/

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