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Old 03-18-2022, 03:11 PM
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I'm sure I've posted the Meco Star Trek theme before, but I want to talk more about the album cover.


Does that look like a valid Starfleet design to you?


My first problem is the purple nacelles. Purple isn't a Starfleet color, that's for the Dominion (which of course didn't exist yet). And while I could see purple as a contrast to the blackness of space, the album cover has an awful lot of blue in it, which washes out the purple.


I find the deflector dish design rather questionable. That vertical strut would interfere with the operation of the thing.



The saucer is actually rather accurate to the Consitution-class refit design.



As another meaningless aside, how much do you like the "brick" pattern of grays and whites for the hull plates? I'm never quite sure how to feel about it. I can't really think of an alternative way to indicate texture, but there has to be one.
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