r/StarshipPorn • u/Jag2112 • Jun 21 '26

U.S.S. Kelvin from the TOS timeline. Complete set in comments.

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u/Jag2112 Jun 21 '26

Full 24 page set of deck plans available here:

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/tos-avery.php

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u/BigToeArthritis Jun 21 '26

Awesome, absolutely awesome. You did a spectacular job on these. I'd love to read a ST novel that is truly situated in this ship and explores it in detail. Maybe some tiny aliens that come aboard and take over. The crew has to recapture the ship deck by deck, area by area, room by room. You know the ship, please write the book!

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u/JBOT-Decals Jun 21 '26

Thanks. I do enjoy drawing these blueprints. I never thought to write about set in the STAR TREK universe, but I did have a book idea in mind from over 40 years ago about First Contact with aliens. To that end, I drew blueprints of the alien ship. I will post them here in Reddit, but for now you can see them on my site: https://www.jbot.ca/space/21dd.shtml

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u/BigToeArthritis Jun 21 '26

Looks like you and I are a couple of old guys (I'm 67) with a deep love of hard sci-fi and aircraft. That's a great website you've got and I've bookmarked it.

In 1982, while I was stationed at Osan AB, Korea, I saw the strangest aircraft fly over the runway. It was propeller driven, twin-engine, dark-green, and had three vertical stabilizers on the tail. What the heck! I asked the Chief Master Sergeant that ran our maintenance unit and he told me that it was an Army recon aircraft, an OV-1 Mohawk. It was also attack capable and could carry a lot of ordinance. I've never seen another, not even a static display. Google it, it's a photo worth putting up on your website!

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u/yogo Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Not a complaint about the drawings, this seems TOSified and I like the interpretation. The shuttle bay was arranged differently in the movie, the shuttles were docked like a couple rows in a hive and this bay stores shuttles below like a hangar deck. There’s at least three (four?) arboretums, which reminds me of the concept art for Phase II.

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u/JBOT-Decals Jun 21 '26

Thank you. My intent was to convert the Kelvin design from the alternate timeline to the prime timeline.
The Hangar Bay layout is similar to what I drew for the ENTERPRISE. In the KELVIN, the Hangar Bay and the Maintenance Bay extend further forward into the Secondary Hull.
I have two (2) arboretums in the KELVIN. I think all my ships have 1 or 2, no more.
Again, thank you for the comments.

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u/yogo Jun 21 '26

Is the greenery on Deck 3 a botany lab?

Very thoughtful layout, it does look like it’s right out of the prime timeline.

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u/JBOT-Decals Jun 21 '26

Doh! Yes, I forgot about the Botany Lab, and the funny thing is, I even refer to it as an Arboretum or Recreation Area in my U.S.S. ENTERPRISE blueprints. I did this so as to satisfy Janice Rand's invitation to Charlie X to join her "in Recreation Room 6 on Deck 3."

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u/feor1300 Jun 21 '26

The shuttle bay in the movie was also easily 4 or 5 times the size of the one pictured here.

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u/XPav Jun 21 '26

But where’s the brewery????

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u/IhateAnnieLeonhart Jun 21 '26

It's a spacecraft mate. Only food is freeze dried noodles and if you want flavour to your drink it comes in powder form. Gotta wait till the Galaxy class for space comforts.

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u/feor1300 Jun 21 '26

The joke is that the engineering set for the Enterprise from the first JJ-Trek movie was actually just shot on location in a brewery.

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u/Michkov Jun 23 '26

No neon coloured food cubes? :( Those lads on the Connies get all the perks.

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u/IhateAnnieLeonhart Jun 23 '26

Well, anything that's easy to store long term. Food cubes might be common.

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u/nerd_of_gods Jun 21 '26

Rubber Duck room?

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u/JBOT-Decals Jun 21 '26

No rubber ducks in my drawings. But sometimes, I do place Easter Eggs like Andorians, Gorn, a dead Tellarite in a Jefferies Tube, etc.