Well the blog plans for the week have been shifted slightly because I have to get drawings done for DEG this morning, No time to scan anything new, so with that said you get an unannounced treat of seeing some the early designs for the Riverside ship yards from ST XI. I was still working on the Perpetual ST online when I started on the new Trek movie and during the ship phase of the project, Todd Ramon, Ryan Denning, and I were contemplating the designs for the Earthbound San Francisco ship yards. this was June and the research shows some of the older US Navy vessels in the various docks for construction or retrofitting. The actual SF shipyards are on the San Francisco side of the Harbor and from The satellite picture The Enterprise-E stands in on the Alameda side of the Harbor.. There is physically more room across the Harbor for such a huge construction facility and to have it placed on the city side where the existing yards are would destroy the aesthetic beauty of the cityscape. one month later work on the movie begins and one of the first assignments I had on my desk was the Riverside fleet yards in the outback of rural Iowa. Based on an old train engine turntable idea came the first layout of what the ship yards could be.. And incredibly large construction facility that housed various material and electronic manufacturing facilities that were easily accessed from every dock. My friend Mike Hamby works in the US navy sub yards back East and he helped me with a lot of research with those construction yards, and so the Hamby complex was named in his honor shown here in the turntable illustration. Obviously to grand of an idea the focus funneled down to seeing a single dock scenario for the construction of the new “E” . the first couple of passes have the ship somewhat below ground level and for the film the ship was pulled out of the semi subterranian dock and set elevated off the ground. By doing so the effect would be a much grander view of this massive Starship against an Earth bound setting which really has not been seen before. OK enough chat have to run so here are some new things to look at.
Enjoy!!!
the big poster
here is the first reference photo found that started the yard architecture for the designs.
what a massive amount of acreage,, or seacarage for this one. note the USS Enterprise CV-65 on the far right.the Enterprise is in the foreground here and you can see the bay bridge and treasure Island in the BG. this is the Alameda side of the Harbor.
the same port from the previous shot, just below the Enterprise-E is the CV-65 Enterprise docked parallel to each other.
the turntable layout
reference for a single dock idea
icu2
and the massive ship from the film
icu1
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