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Ported to OBJ from the fan created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original filming model created by Apogee, Inc. for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (TMP) and as reused in later TMP era movies and other Franchise productions and licensed media. Maya class name comes from the Jackill's series of fan publications by Eric Kristiansen. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS.

Noted fan CG artist Dave Metlesits has done his own take on this, which is both high poly and filming quality, and which he has made available absolutely free for all fellow Trek fans everywhere. Here's the link:

Standard Starfleet drydock for its Class I starships, as seen at the start of TMP and seen again in TWOK (via recycled TMP footage) and in later media. There hasn't been much released about this by the Franchise itself, as it's pretty much taken for granted there; however, there's a whole lot of fanon material out there set at the start of the TMP era either about it or that makes reference to it. For example, this can fit any Class I starship up to dreadnought class (FFSFC, FRS), its official Starfleet designation is the Maya class (Jackill's), and you can also attach workshop and office modules to its sides similar to the ones you see on the space office complex in TMP (FRS). All of that material is fanon, of course, and the only thing that's canon is what you see on screen, but still ....

BTW, for those of you by some insane reason might have missed it or for all my fellow Trek fans who love this and perhaps (like me) can remember watching it for the very first time way back in 1979, here's a YouTube clip of the drydock sequence from TMP:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQTzY…

This is most definitely canon. 'Nuff said.

TRIVIA 1 - FYI, here's an interesting article on how this got created in the form you see in TMP.

www.startrek.com/article/forgo…

TRIVIA 2 - The original filming model was later modified to represent the larger Starfleet space drydock you see at the start of the feature film Generations, from which the Enterprise-B launches on its maiden voyage.

ASIDE - These actually come into Starfleet service at the tail end of the TOS era if you do the dating, although they're always associated with the TMP era because of the TMP movie connection. You would also be justified in using this for the early part of the post-TMP era, but not for the TNG/DS9/VOY era. There's new designs for Starfleet space drydocks by then, as seen on screen in the various related media.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original filming model created by Apogee, Inc. for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (TMP) and as reused in later TMP era movies and other Franchise productions and licensed media. Maya class name comes from the Jackill's series of fan publications by Eric Kristiansen. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS.

Noted fan CG artist Dave Metlesits has done his own take on this, which is both high poly and filming quality, and which he has made available absolutely free for all fellow Trek fans everywhere. Here's the link:

Standard Starfleet drydock for its Class I starships, as seen at the start of TMP and seen again in TWOK (via recycled TMP footage) and in later media. There hasn't been much released about this by the Franchise itself, as it's pretty much taken for granted there; however, there's a whole lot of fanon material out there set at the start of the TMP era either about it or that makes reference to it. For example, this can fit any Class I starship up to dreadnought class (FFSFC, FRS), its official Starfleet designation is the Maya class (Jackill's), and you can also attach workshop and office modules to its sides similar to the ones you see on the space office complex in TMP (FRS). All of that material is fanon, of course, and the only thing that's canon is what you see on screen, but still ....

BTW, for those of you by some insane reason might have missed it or for all my fellow Trek fans who love this and perhaps (like me) can remember watching it for the very first time way back in 1979, here's a YouTube clip of the drydock sequence from TMP:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQTzY…

This is most definitely canon. 'Nuff said.

TRIVIA 1 - FYI, here's an interesting article on how this got created in the form you see in TMP.

www.startrek.com/article/forgo…

TRIVIA 2 - The original filming model was later modified to represent the larger Starfleet space drydock you see at the start of the feature film Generations, from which the Enterprise-B launches on its maiden voyage.

ASIDE - These actually come into Starfleet service at the tail end of the TOS era if you do the dating, although they're always associated with the TMP era because of the TMP movie connection. You would also be justified in using this for the early part of the post-TMP era, but not for the TNG/DS9/VOY era. There's new designs for Starfleet space drydocks by then, as seen on screen in the various related media.