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— Azur Lane: Enterprise NCC-1701 Conversion (Part 3)
#aircraftcarrier
#enterprise
#ncc1701
#starship
#ussenterprise
#star_trek
#cv6
#shipgirl
#kanmusu
#azur_lane
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As I've said in the previous submissions; before I go further, I would like to reiterate that this piece of fanart is a response to the pervasive jokes among the "Azur Lane" mobile gacha game's fandom regarding the first official ship-girl of any iteration of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the representation of the World War 2 aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise (CV-6). She is one of the key protagonists of the game's story, as well as one of the most popular ship-girls in the series.
Of course, since the exploits of the U.S.S. Enterprise (CV-6) were what convinced Gene Roddenberry to change the name of his fictional starship from S.S. Yorktown to U.S.S. Enterprise, there was no way the "Star Trek" jokes weren't going to be made about Enterprise-chan and they've been getting made. In particular, what I've drawn here is a response to this specific piece of artwork, which was posted here on Deviant Art and got shared on the "Azur Lane" reddits:
www.deviantart.com/azalanz/art…
It is also an expansion and revision - in better quality, of course - of the previous posts:
www.deviantart.com/galaxy1701d…
www.deviantart.com/galaxy1701d…
Please refer back to the previous submissions for more details regarding what I did and why I did it, if you are interested in seeing my train of thought; I left an exhaustive and detailed description of my design process in the notes for the rough drafts (the first link) for how to transform Enterprise-chan into her mighty future self, the Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701).
Objective: to upgrade "Azur Lane's" Enterprise-chan from the CV-6 aircraft carrier to the Federation starship NCC-1701
Design Basis: U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) from "Star Trek (2009)" and "Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)"
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With introductions out of the way, this post is actually meant as a follow-up to the preceding sheet of white paper drawings. Although I basically had the design done in that sheet, it still bothered me that I had not at least tried to do multi-angle depictions of all of the major Kanmusu parts that were going to be involved in transforming Enterprise-chan from CV-6 to NCC-1701 (2009/2013). I had been hoping to possibly commission fanart in the future of "Azur Lane's" Enterprise in this outfit, and I figured that an artist may want additional views of the new parts for further reference.
I should state right now that I have extremely little experience doing hand drawings of the J.J. Abrams interpretation of the Starship Enterprise and that it made this project an extraordinary challenge for me - I hated doing this sometimes - because the reboot movie Enterprise, for as organic and sleek as it appears on screen, is made up of a lot of complex shapes, subtle curves and little details that makes her Hell to draw schematics for.
I've provided multi-angle views for Enterprise's Phase Cannon/secondary hull weapon, one of the nacelle-sword concepts (#3, the cane-sword style weapon), and the large saucer-shield. While I was at it, I also gave some estimates for recommended sizes of some of the parts if they were real-world objects. The Phase Cannon's overall length is not to exceed 2.5 feet, including the big warp engine nacelle mounted on top of it. The saucer-shield is scaled similarly to the Phase Cannon; I believe that it should be somewhere between 2 to 2.5 feet in overall diameter. All three interpretations of the nacelle-sword are scaled the same: roughly 36 to 40 inches in overall length. This is roughly equivalent to the overall size of an average 19th century infantry officer's sword, although I should add that because the nacelle-hilt is so large, it really means that the blade is going to be a bit undersized, but I don't think that will be a big concern, considering how heavily armed Enterprise-chan is in this form.
(Seriously, she may have lost her aft torpedo launcher but she's packing heat: six rapid-firing twin-turret Phaser emitters and one Photon Torpedo launcher on the saucer-shield, plus one hand-carried nacelle-sword/beam saber, one giant warp-powered Phase Cannon and a hangar that can launch up to twenty shuttlecraft or jumpships, which means that she still retains some of her carrier abilities from her original form, CV-6. This is one powerful ship-girl.)
I also tried to speculate about what all the different pieces would look like put together with the Enterprise miniskirt uniform to make a complete outfit. I have been putting a lot of thought into trying to make sure that NCC-1701's layout matches up as much as possible with CV-6's original layout. If you look at Enterprise-chan in "Azur Lane," underneath that loose-fitting overcoat, CV-6 wears a sleeveless, white button-up dress shirt with a black belt and a white Navy dress cap. So as NCC-1701, Enterprise-chan wears Uhura's red sleeveless Starfleet miniskirt, with a black utility belt and a red cap.
The cap is actually NOT a canon accessory. It doesn't exist in the movies. It's actually based on a piece that I have in my own collection that I sometimes use when cosplaying Captain Hikaru Sulu at formal occasions like convention dances and it was made by taking a custom resin-cast steampunk Starfleet Command badge made by a fellow who goes by "lord veska," and pinning it onto a British Army surplus dress cap from the Queen's Royal Lancers regiment. It just so happens to match up nicely with the white hat that Enterprise-chan wears in her original CV-6 form.
However, while I was doing this, I realized a potential problem that might occur if I tried to put this outfit together for someone to cosplay in real life. One of the things about the ST:2009 and ST:ID duty uniforms that I complained the most about was the fact that the uniforms had these hideous dye-sublimated repeating Starfleet delta-shield (arrowhead) patterns running in rows all over them. It was supposed to give the uniform some visual texture from a distance and make it harder to counterfeit (fat lot of good that did for Paramount as the Chinese cosplay shops figured it out anyway), but I thought it was "unmilitary" and made the uniforms look like baseball jerseys. Moreover, the repeating delta shield pattern would clash visually with the flat red of the real-life hat.
So, to get around this, I decided that Enterprise-chan can also adopt the newer 2016 version of Lieutenant Uhura's red Enterprise miniskirt from "Star Trek: Beyond" as an alternate costume instead. The 2016 uniform is a completely different design that, although it does have sleeves (so the "sleeveless" thing no longer matches up between CV-6 and NCC-1701), lacks the repeating delta shields and is just made up of two different flat shades of red with black accents, and consequently would match up very nicely with the red cap.
Now, I just have one more question to ask myself for now... whether to suffer through the extra effort of getting my colored pencils back out and colorizing these two sheets for reupload...
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P.S. - I did a little more research, and I don't think my attempts are the first try to convert "Azur Lane's" Enterprise-chan character into the Starship Enterprise after I found this artwork:
i.4cdn.org/vg/1546322584678.jp…
The way the parts are laid out on the girl, combined with her blue-grey eyes and grey-white hair, make me suspect that she's also inspired by the "Azur Lane" version as the way the AL Enterprise ship-girl has her carrier parts laid out is very distinctive and unlike what most ship-girl characters tend to do. However, this version uses a very different U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) as its base: the Dan Uyeno/Madkoifish variant:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imAfoY…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1y1N3…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvi0dA…
Also, my interpretation is far more conservative, in a sense, with how I laid the parts out - again, note my focus on not having anything sticking out of Enty-chan's body and instead making the ship-parts clip-on or hand-held accessories, something sort of born from necessity as these parts were designed to be easily built for cosplay purposes.
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