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Description The Excelsior is threatened by the Borg...

Excelsior by , Borg demons's tooth by Andrew J. Hodges
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bomsteinam [2017-07-27 03:00:05 +0000 UTC]

Did she survive the attack by the Borg????????

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Lifeaura2 [2008-05-28 07:27:32 +0000 UTC]

give me an idea why dont you ^^

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davemetlesits In reply to Lifeaura2 [2008-05-28 09:59:55 +0000 UTC]

?

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Lifeaura2 In reply to davemetlesits [2008-05-28 21:28:16 +0000 UTC]

random i know....by the way when did the borg ship first apear

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davemetlesits In reply to Lifeaura2 [2008-05-28 21:44:24 +0000 UTC]

In canon? The fist Borg ship appeared in TNG: Q Who.

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Lifeaura2 In reply to davemetlesits [2008-05-28 22:38:29 +0000 UTC]

i remember the episode but i must have blinked and missed the ship

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davemetlesits In reply to Lifeaura2 [2008-05-29 00:17:55 +0000 UTC]

Nay, this is a non-canon render...

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sevenofeleven [2007-11-10 15:31:59 +0000 UTC]

Looks pretty good.

If you can, do the special effects in the app first and then photoshop the results. It will look better that way.

The plasma stream and the energy beam could be faked in the app so you get the right lighting effects. Should be some orange light shining on the doomed ship and the energy beam from the borg ship should light up the front of the ship. At the point of contact maybe you should have orange and green energies there.

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davemetlesits In reply to sevenofeleven [2007-11-10 18:12:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you and thank you again for the pointers.

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Darth-Synge [2007-10-13 09:16:05 +0000 UTC]

I've seen the Demon's Tooth design a lot in fan productions, espescially fanfics. Does this guy have a website?

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davemetlesits In reply to Darth-Synge [2007-10-13 13:23:08 +0000 UTC]

It was on the old Star Trek Australia webstie, I got it from there. The site doesn't exist any longer...

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Darth-Synge In reply to davemetlesits [2007-10-13 20:29:58 +0000 UTC]

Pity...

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DeepChrome [2007-10-06 05:00:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow nice, particularly with the nebula and Borg concept ship here.

I like the use of greens and the Movies vibe here.

BTW, I'm not sure if this is where you got your concept for the Borg ship, but I recall from a Star Trek book that the studio went through a few variations on Borg ships before settling on the Cube in First Contact. One of the concepts was a Washington-Monument-shaped obelisk with the Sphere mounted up in the tip. This ship idea of yours reminds me of that since the bottom half has some weird perspective issues that makes me think it's receding off into the distance.

However, I do agree with the others about that plasma stream. It doesn't look detailed or subtle enough. Either it needs some texturing and some varied glowies going on in there, or to be made very faint. Personally I think you might've done better to just have that part of the nacelle be sliced clean off, as if by a Borg cutting beam. Then you could have it drifting away, and smoke spewing out of the holes in both the ship and the nacelle. It'd look a little more convincing.

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davemetlesits In reply to DeepChrome [2007-10-06 16:55:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the advices. The Borg ship is from the now-defunct StarTrekAustralia website.

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DeepChrome In reply to davemetlesits [2007-10-07 01:30:20 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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Iwinky [2007-10-04 16:34:53 +0000 UTC]

The borg vessel kind of looks like a blending of two things... the Death Star, and A G'ould vessel from Stargate.

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davemetlesits In reply to Iwinky [2007-10-04 17:05:27 +0000 UTC]

I took the merging big beam idea from SW, but I have never watched Stargate

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TonyGCampagna [2007-10-03 16:49:46 +0000 UTC]

Shields down to 40% aft, Sir!

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davemetlesits In reply to TonyGCampagna [2007-10-03 18:50:52 +0000 UTC]

"She cannae' take much mo' of this!"

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RedWingnut [2007-10-03 16:36:48 +0000 UTC]

"Tis just a flesh wound."

"But you're missing a nacelle!"

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davemetlesits In reply to RedWingnut [2007-10-03 18:50:29 +0000 UTC]

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SeiwaGenji [2007-10-03 13:08:34 +0000 UTC]

great work

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davemetlesits In reply to SeiwaGenji [2007-10-03 14:41:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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butchen [2007-10-03 00:31:47 +0000 UTC]

great work on this love the hole look of it

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davemetlesits In reply to butchen [2007-10-03 14:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks dude!

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butchen In reply to davemetlesits [2007-10-03 14:48:49 +0000 UTC]

you know I love your work sorry just cant them all but I look at each and every one

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section42 [2007-10-02 23:46:53 +0000 UTC]

Uh oh, it's pretty dangerous to get hit in the nacelle, remember "Cause and Effect"?

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davemetlesits In reply to section42 [2007-10-03 14:41:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the pood Ent-D was pwned

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fraterchaos [2007-10-02 20:36:02 +0000 UTC]

really gorgeous work there, but one small criticism, the plasma stream (?) might be a little too visible. not alot, but if it had been just a bit more transparent it may have looked more realistic, but overall great job

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davemetlesits In reply to fraterchaos [2007-10-02 20:46:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. This is my first attempt at a plasma trail, it is of some 15 layers in Photoshop

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fraterchaos In reply to davemetlesits [2007-10-02 20:59:50 +0000 UTC]

wow, 15 layers? that's intense. I think, what I would have done, once you had all the layers as you liked them, merged them down (but not the last layer, just the ones of the plasma trail) then it would have been only one layer, and you could adjust the transparency of the whole thing at once... but that's just me...

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GuardEzio [2007-10-02 20:27:37 +0000 UTC]

if ther not curfull thely blow and anyway whats it doing in the delter cuadrant

boss pic

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davemetlesits In reply to GuardEzio [2007-10-02 20:45:47 +0000 UTC]

The Borg isn't operating solely in the Delta Quadrant. Remember Best of Both Worlds and ST: First Contact?

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GuardEzio In reply to davemetlesits [2007-10-02 21:07:50 +0000 UTC]

[i take it best of both worlds is the enterprise episode but anywho]

heres the borg timeline:

enterprise-E stops borg at first contact

Nx-1 encounters surviving borg from first contact [the sphere was shot down over the arctic hense where the fround them in stuse] where the borg steale a ship. but the nx-1 stops the borg only after they have sent out a call to the delta quadrant which we are told after will take about 200 years to reach [so it will reach ther about the 24th centuary]

enterprise-D encounter the borg where they asinilate pricard [saddly i aint seen them episodes [i prefer tos but tng is boss as well]

which leads us back to....

the Enterprise-E encounters the borg at first contact

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BigMac1212 [2007-10-02 20:03:42 +0000 UTC]

Right in the nacelle...

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davemetlesits In reply to BigMac1212 [2007-10-02 20:09:33 +0000 UTC]

Yupp. Where it hurts..

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