Brian Pimenta’s NCX – 2701 concept starship

I have an Enterprise so unique and different that I couldn’t tell you where it would belong in Star Trek lore. Let’s just say that it could’ve been a design proposal that never got off the ground. And here is how it started.

The year is 1984 and Star Trek III has just been released in early June. Now, everybody knows that the Enterprise is destroyed in the course of saving Mister Spock. And sadly, a great many of the fans were highly upset by this but it had the opposite effect on me. Oddly enough, it spurred me on to redesign a new ship that was entirely of my own imagination.

The idea was originally just a drawing exercise for myself but eventually, I toyed with the notion of constructing a four foot model out of it. My problem at the time was how am I going to build it? Well, after many hours of thought, I finally decided to use common, readily available materials such as cardboard, foam board, wood, plaster and spackle.

So from May of 1985 to May of 1987, this four foot model took a great deal of my time and patience: especially in the paint preparation department. Just in the priming alone, I must’ve used 20 plus cans of Dupi-color Scratch and Fill Primer just to give the smooth finish that I wanted. And as for the paint, it was given two coats of Rust-oleum Satin White with Rust-olem Flat Black and Rust-olem Silver for the smaller sections (the gray metal color was created by mixing black, silver and white) And finally, to the lettering and technical markings, I used a dry transfer microgramma font and the decals are from a 1984 Revell/Ceji kit named “ZOLTEK” (some kind of Japanese robot).

Then by May of 1987, NCX – 2701 was finished.

Brian Pimenta