TMP Era Theseus
Concept art for Star Trek: Online
This was a super exciting piece to work on, it was a fun challenge to 'retro-engineer' a futuristic design backwards into something befitting of an earlier style- the idea here was to match the TMP Theseus as seen in a couple of frames of the IDW comics, whilst keeping the ship customiseable with the existing version we have in-game.
The headcanon I came up with whilst I was designing is that the actual core of the ship here is just the impulse deck, aft of the saucer- to which Starfleet would 'clamp' prototype components to- ie the saucer, pylons, and engineering hull- although I like the idea that this configuration wasn't necessarily fixed, and you could attach different components however engineers required across this versatile basic spaceframe. Obviously- that can't be done in-game, and this isn't official canon, but it gave that section of the ship a very utilitarian feel that I ended up really liking for that 'experimental' vibe.
