Earlier this week, an new starship design went live in Star Trek Online. This is the Horizon-class Science vessel, a remaster of one of the launch-era Research Science Vessel variants. It was designed by @scorpiondesign.bsky.social, modeled by Tobias Richter, with in-game work by @pundus.art 🧵 - ThreadSky

thomasthecat.bsky.social • 139 days ago

Earlier this week, an new starship design went live in Star Trek Online. This is the Horizon-class Science vessel, a remaster of one of the launch-era Research Science Vessel variants. It was designed by @scorpiondesign.bsky.social, modeled by Tobias Richter, with in-game work by @pundus.art 🧵

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setalia.com•115 days ago

Wow, she's beautiful. 😍

uruzrune.bsky.social•139 days ago

Looks like a cross between a Yeti snowball microphone and a personal massage device

autumnraventree.bsky.social•134 days ago

That is GORGEOUS!!! I admittedly wasn’t a fan of the original or many of the STO-original designs. But going back and redoing them had produced some truly beautiful ships! And switching up the eras has been great. This and the revamped Shi’Kahr are truly brilliant!

autumnraventree.bsky.social•134 days ago

I’ve not been on STO recently, but I definitely need to hop on soon to give this one a try. She’s so pretty!

electrumleopard.bsky.social•139 days ago

When you guys remaster these old designs, what is your thought process to keeping a design element? Like, in this case you guys kept the "shield bubble" saucer but changed it into a full saucer dome thing. When do you find it best to junk design elements like with the Quasar And Nova?

thomasthecat.bsky.social•139 days ago

This was @scorpiondesign.bsky.social's first ship for STO and we definitely started them off with a challenge! While I had a lot of problems with the original Horizon's design, I knew we couldn't abandon the big glowing sphere, as that's central to the original ship's character.

thomasthecat.bsky.social•139 days ago

As for the "era" to choose, I felt like the classic film (TMP-STVI) era made a lot of sense given the shape of the original Horizon's nacelles, and I also felt like that was the style that would support a big glass sphere structure most easily given its Art Deco influence.

thomasthecat.bsky.social•139 days ago

@scorpiondesign.bsky.social did some incredible work bringing this pastiche to life and threading the needle of honoring some elements of the original STO ship while also creating something that fits right in next to the Excelsior Refit and Oberth-class ships of the same era.

thomasthecat.bsky.social•139 days ago

Ideally, when we add a new ship from a "classic" era to
Star Trek Online, our goal is to trick you into thinking it was always there with the other canon ships of that era, just off screen. One of the ways you do that is to get a pro like Tobias Richter to model it for you, and he sure delivered!

liliumbrickyards.com•139 days ago

I have to say I really love how STO has been expanding on earlier eras recently, it's very nice and I'm really excited to see more!

thomasthecat.bsky.social•139 days ago

More are coming!

thomasthecat.bsky.social•139 days ago

Tobias' model turned out fantastic, and @pundus.art did a great job bringing it into the engine and making everything worked with the other Olympic variants. I'm very proud of the new Horizon and grateful to everyone who put so much skill and effort into bringing it to life in STO!

foxman860.bsky.social•139 days ago

That's a lovely tail :)

qthulhu.bsky.social•138 days ago

Personally I love the golf ball, because Silent Running is a great film and it makes a great disco ball when using the separation console. For folks who don't, though, a kitbash with the Olympic's globe looks great too. 👍

spacedrakecf.bsky.social•138 days ago

Oh, that is a *cool* redesign of the Horizon. Nice work to those responsible!

skybluepleb.bsky.social•138 days ago

I might actually get a Science Vessel now. I am in love.

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