USS Akhenaten

I've been fascinated with the great Egyptian pharoah Akhenaten for a number of years. His advocacy of a single god is the first form of monotheism known. Regarded as a heretic after his reign, his records were erased. If it wasn't for the beauty of his wife, Nefertiti, he might have been forgotten forever. His achievements - beyond the revolutions he caused in Egypt's religious, social, and economic spheres - are perhaps best seen in the amazing stylized naturalism he ushered in to Egyptian art. The Amarna period of Egyptian art brought about some of the greatest works of creative genius known to exist in any time.

Click here for an awesome site on Akhenaten.

In any case, I've been interested in using the stylized forms that appeared in the Amarna period artworks as inspiration for a Star Trek ship design. Below is one of many sketches I've made. The most important aspect of the design for me is the angled saucer and engineering sections. The sketch seen here is something I'd like to build at some point, particularly because of the design points it shares with the Galaxy and Ambassador Classes that are my favorites of the Star Trek line. I realize that a USS Akhenaten does exist in the Star Trek fan universe... I just think it should be cooler.




Below is just one of many variations I've made on this general Akhenaten theme. This particular ship, like the USS Flying Dutchman idea shown below, is meant to be a stealth craft - perhaps used by Section 31.






Update:

I've constructed a new variation of the Akhenaten based directly on the sketch seen above. Check it out.

USS Imhotep

The USS Imhotep is named after the famous Eygptian architect who built Egypt's first pyramid. Imhotep is "often recognized as the world's first doctor, a priest,. scribe, sage, poet, astrologer, and a vizier and chief minister, though this role is unclear, to Djoser (reigned 2630–2611 BC), the second king of Egypt's third dynasty."

I concieved of the USS Imhotep as an updated Mirdana Class spacecraft. I realize that the Nebula Class and its variants took up the mission of the Mirandas, but I really liked that "rollbar" look and decided to bring it back.

USS Flying Dutchman

The USS Flying Dutchman is basically just a design configuration and name idea that I've sketched out a few times. I like the name, which refers to the classic story of the doomed Dutch shiptrying to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Click here to check out the legend.

Given the phantom nature of the legendary ship, I envisioned the USS Flying Dutchman as a covert or special operations craft, perhaps using specialized stealth technology.

In terms of the design, I wanted to incorporate aspects of Intrepid, Prometheus classes of ships, Additionally, I wanted a strange transition to Engineering and a downturned nacelle profile. I haven't built this one yet, but I've tried a few times.

USS Kuiper

This is the USS Kuiper was named after the Kuiper Belt, a "disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune extending roughly from 30 to 50 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. It is considered to be the source of the short-period comets."

Meant to be a light cruiser, the semi-experimental design more fully integrates the "saucer" and "nacelle" sections of the ship in an effort to limit spatial damage caused by warp fields in susceptible regions of space. This ship's small size (51 meters), however, meant that its warp field displacement was negligible anyway.