Starfleet R&D failures

[Cmdr. Madden]

I got to thinking, all of the now famous ships that we see today are the culmination of many many many painful eraser marks on the Starfleet R&D drawing board. everything in the here and now is in essence a kit bash of the best parts of one design and another and maybe even more. so why not give the designers the recognition that they truly deserve...

i want to put together a pack of ships from design hell, the ones that got turned down because they were too round or not too round enough or even just plain insane as the designers tried to cope with the picky admiralty. I have a couple of ideas so far, they span the federation's history, things like a knock off of a D7 battle cruiser in the 2200's and a high warp transport that is in essence a giant nacelle and a gondola being dragged for the ride from the 2370's.
I want to hear some feedback first before i invest too much time in this, so any comments are appreciated. I'm kinda aiming for something that's fun and wacky at the same time, and to create disgustingly overpowered ships that are incredibly fun to blow up but at the same time, have them be full of so many bugs and glitches, that using the phasers at like 1% would do something like blow half the ship up.

I'm thinking about calling it the "Starfleet R&D failures Pack" or something to that effect.

[FarShot]

That would be awesome!  Just don't spend too much time.

[JimmyB76]

it could be a fun project i suppose...  but i wouldnt expect too many downloads and also be prepared for harsh and potentially rude criticisms in BCFiles comments sections lol   those guys can be brutal when they comment on released ships...  godships and unusual ships are rarely warmly welcomed, im afraid...

[Cmdr. Madden]

that's the best part, since they're prototypes... the ships don't have to be detailed and when i said disgustingly overpowered, i didn't mean god-ships i just meant a starship with a warp core that's full of bugs or is some crazy prototype that overloads half the systems when it starts up... mainly im going to try to tweak them to either make the biggest explosion possible because the thing would be so unstable or to like have no explosion at all.... my top priority isn't going to be to have the ships look amazing and be high poly, just have a bunch of half baked prototypes that weren't meant to make it off the drawing board.

anyways, im slowly coming up with a bunch of designs to use and im going to hammer out all the details so at least it's going to be "half-baked" consistency.

like i said, any and all criticisms and suggestions are welcome.

[ACES_HIGH]

well, I like the idea, although I've found that you can't really make a ship overpowered in BC, giving a warp core more output just gives the systems more power to work with, it would be easier to just make it not generate enough power for all the systems.

one good resource for odd ship designs and stats is the ASDB:
http://www.asdb.net/asdb/
you also might want to check out the Journal of Applied Treknology:
http://www.treknology.org/index.htm
JoAT is an index of Fan articles about various trek tech in the guise of a technical journal.? Alot of it is godships and whatnot but there's some good stuff in there.

I wouldn't mind an ASDB rejects pack.  We know that there were various study designs for some of the well known classes.

[FourChan]

I'll download them cause I always like seeing different things. Though when you start making them, I am amazed no one has done it yet, but please do the Katana Class, it's one of my favorite non-canon ships.

[Cmdr. Madden]

so im still working on the initial designs, i want to have the entire lineup done before i start any actual work, i was also thinking to just throw in a coupe of jokes like the "star trek cannon" (being an actual cannon labeled "star trek") that just flies around launching torpedoes at everyone it comes into contact with just for shits and giggles....

i have a couple of designs down pat right now, and im still working on the others but it's coming together ever so slowly, but when it's done, i think that it'll be a fun pack to mess around with.

[Arvis Taljik]

I'm currently working on a piece of pixel-art as a prelim to modeling a ship design from treknology.org that's based mainly on the Hippolyta-class with my own ideas implemented on it. I wouldn't call it an "R&D Failure" per-se, but it is a bit of an interesting design. I've also incorporated a couple design elements from the odd-looking ships of Star Trek Online.

[Kirk]

Looks like the Soulwolf and the Elysion mated.

[Arvis Taljik]

More like Soulwolf, Supremus, and Century. lol 

[Shino Tenshi]

Nice!  8)
But I'd also add a two-storied engineering room ^^

[Bigkap]

Hmm looks like the Premonition without the purple "time pod". Cool