Retro Excelsior

Since I know a lot of you want to see one, I’ve made a movies era version of the excelsior class MSD:

Excelsior Class

A bunch of folks have been heckling me to do this one, so here it is. And MSD of an Excelsior class ship, upgraded after being pulled out of mothballs to take part in the dominion war. Named for a place I once lived in.

Not the Springfield from the Simpsons

But rather the Springfield class, seen only as a few pixels on our TV screens as part of the destroyed fleet at Wolf 359.

This is my interpretation.

I decided that the curious looking pod type construction that is slung underneath could be a mission specific pod which always contains a navigational deflector and then whatever equipment the ship might need for upcomming missions. Having the deflector as part of this pod would make replacing it when damaged an easier task in my opinion.

Scaling the Defiant

There is a lot of on screen evidence to show that the defiant was actualy meant to be an 8 deck ship. The map in the turbolifts shows 8 decks. The window configuration hinted at something much larger than 4 or 5 decks and flying along side a Miranda class, the defiant certainly looked big enough for 8 decks.

So, here is what an 8 deck defiant MSD might look like. Extra large as a christmas treat to anyone watching.

The face of defiance

This is a very popular ship. It’s the ultimate in badassery. A Starfleet borg buster that defies starfleets design conventions in its design. The official MSD took the shape of the ships side profile, and not its centerline, which others MSDs had. So, I have decided to take the ships center line, but remain true to the established interior of the official MSD. As you will see, there is a big difference. There are 5 easter eggs included. 3 graphical and 2 spelling easter eggs (in homage to an old friend who always left out one particular letter in his spelling)

Miranda

A favourite of many, the Miranda class has been seen on our TV screens in countless episodes since it was first introduced to us in ST:TWOK. It’s functional and utilitarian and different from the standard starfleet configuration of ships. Thats probably why it is so well liked. It is unfortunate that the Miranda class was given an ass whooping in the Dominion war arc. We saw two of them, the USS Sitak and USS Majestic suffer what are arguably the most dramatic deaths on screen in Star Trek history.

Death of the Sitak and Majestic at 01:00 -

Centaur comes galloping

We saw the Centaur attack Sisko and co when they where in a captured Jem’Hadar ship. After that, the kitbash was seen in the background during battle scenes and external shots of DS9 and various Starbases. Absolutely nothing is known of this class of ship referred to as Centaur type.

It’s a Constitution.

I made this MSD on comission to a friend in America. He has an RPG that is called the USS Proxima. He saw some of my MSDs and wanted me to create one for a refit constitution class as it might have looked after being outfitted with Excelsior class tech sometime after the events of ST:TUC.  So here it is. Total time taken: 7 Hours.

“She’s a fine ship, you treat her right and she’ll always bring you home”

Wonderful words, spoken by a much missed character and actor of the trek universe.

Of course, Admiral McCoy was talking primarily about the Enterprise-D. But, as she was a Galaxy Class starship, I thought it was enough of a link to use the words for this MSD. I have made a fully detailed MSD for the Galaxy class, but the thing is so big, it just looks cluttered. So here is a simplified engineering display for ya’ll to enjoy.

Having the Ambassador round for dinner

Another well liked class of starship that was never officialy given a proper MSD. Oh we all saw a schematic like drawing on the Bridge of the Enterprise-C but there has been nothing coming close to an MSD from official channels.

So, I made myself one