Macpherson Class USS Lagrange

[Zardoz]

Looks like a Mirandization o the Galaxy class, a alternative to Nebula class...

[bernard guignard]

William Buck Krause you old starfleet dog How are you? I remember you from my early years in Starfleet international and ordering a copy of the USS Lagrange Blueprints and being a long distance member of the Lagrange back in the early Nineties when Adm Tim was Co of the Lagrange. Nice to see you around.

[SDGreywolf]

Legolas, nice piece of Starship work you have there

[Legolas25]

Thanx. All the credit goes to Buck for his original work, I'm just trying to spruce the thing up a bit. Still wanna add some windows and more pods and such, but that's taking awhile. Hopefully I can get a picture with the secondary hull added in this weekend.

[SDGreywolf]

Looks good and I like the Bridge module

[evil_genius_180]

I saw this ship over on the Blueprints page a few times and sort of ignored it, but it really is a great design. And your version really looks good. I like the bridge. Is that from the plans or did you do that by yourself?

And what's with the banana in the middle of the conference table?

[AdmiralBuck]

Originally Posted by bernard guignard

William Buck Krause you old starfleet dog How are you? I remember you from my early years in Starfleet international and ordering a copy of the USS Lagrange Blueprints and being a long distance member of the Lagrange back in the early Nineties when Adm Tim was Co of the Lagrange. Nice to see you around.

Hi Bernard! Yes, I thought I saw a familiar name here. I do recall your distant correspondence and interest in the Big L designs from back in the day. I remember when the chapter started in '82 she began life as a TOS era transport and we were faced with the task of upgrading along the basis of an inspired WOK Reliant platform which served us well for years.

By 1990, a little reverse engineering of the Lagrange Class transport provided us with a development chart of the transport series from Ptolemy, Keppler, Doppler to finally the Dolland class Heavy Transport of which the original Lagrange belonged. Pat Lichty and I produced a full set of the Dolland plans before forging ahead with a TNG era Lagrange transport in '93.

This seemed to be a class of starship ignored by just about everybody. For years, Lagrange was the only transport in all of Starfleet (international) so we felt quite at liberty to explore and design our own lineage, taking natural cues from contemporary vessels as we saw them without getting too unrealistic.

The Macpherson class was of course inspired from the Nebula class as evident from its large AWACs deuterium tank above the hull but it also took a nod from its predecessor in its stepped 'poop' deck and swept nacelle pylons. It was decided to keep the tow pad in the same size/configuration of the Galaxy's separation footprint to maintain a universality in possible tow packages whether in pods or stranded secondary hulls. It can be noted that this lead vessel and subsequent others were named in recognition of famous Victoria Secret and Sports Illustrated models of the early '90s ie: Hunter, Ireland, Crawford, Porizkova, Seymour, Everhart... The cutaway deck by deck also contains the usual hidden gems such as the Mach 5, cheese, mice, dogs, rabbits, seals, Concorde, dolphins, Chim-Chim and the all-important BoskoTron 4000. Well, we thought it was funny at the time.

The pods were not overly developed, but more as a last minute addition to illustrate a possible design configuration. The Lagrange class, however, had several liners, a medical ship and shuttlecarrier.

~Buck

[AdmiralBuck]

Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

I saw this ship over on the Blueprints page a few times and sort of ignored it, but it really is a great design. And your version really looks good. I like the bridge. Is that from the plans or did you do that by yourself?

And what's with the banana in the middle of the conference table?

I hate to point this out but the bridge shape <coughs> (and more noticable from the exterior top view) has a distinct phallic symbology. College humor, circa 1989. I'm formally apologizing. The conference table was always nicknamed as the 'banana' because of its overall shape. The clipart applied to the plans was another stupid inside joke to bring it home. There's also a soft serve/soda dispenser on the starboard side auxiliary console on the bridge.

~Buck

[evil_genius_180]

Originally Posted by AdmiralBuck

I hate to point this out but the bridge shape <coughs> (and more noticable from the exterior top view) has a distinct phallic symbology. College humor, circa 1989. I'm formally apologizing. The conference table was always nicknamed as the 'banana' because of its overall shape. The clipart applied to the plans was another stupid inside joke to bring it home. There's also a soft serve/soda dispenser on the starboard side auxiliary console on the bridge.

~Buck

Yeah, I sort of noticed that about the shape of the bridge, but I didn't say anything because I didn't know if it was done intentionally and there's no point of making an ass of myself any more than I usually do. Sometimes people do stuff like that by accident, sometimes not.

Great ship design, Admiral. You've got a great talent and you seem to do TNG-era very well.

[BolianAdmiral]

Man, I love this ship, and I don't know why! LOL... something about it screams 1st season TNG, in a very good way. I love what you've done with the plans.