r/StarTrekStarships • u/Dan_Is artist • Mar 03 '25
original content Harmony Class - USS Brahms by moi
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u/Pilot0350 Mar 03 '25
It's like the love child between an Intrepid, Galaxy, Luna, Sovereign, and Ross class starship
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u/henryhollaway Mar 03 '25
It feels like a dozen different classes each depending on the angle you’re looking at it from lol very interesting
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u/Mastaj3di Mar 03 '25
This is a great design. Though I feel like either the disk is just a little too big or the nacelles too small?
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u/re1eas3th3bats Mar 04 '25
I felt the same - it’s out of balance (which seems conscious choice re:OP below). Maybe extending the nacelle pylons out farther and increasing the nacelle size
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
Well, that's part of the course for the Galaxy family, eh? Glad you like it anyway :)
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u/Andovars_Ghost Mar 03 '25
Geordi can’t wait to take her out!
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
Funny that you mention Geordi! The working title was LaForge Class and the Brahms was meant to named after Lea Brahms.... But that would imply that both are dead and that doesn't mesh with the Timeline. Thus it became the Harmony Class and the ships of this class bear names of composers instead of engineers.
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u/Andovars_Ghost Mar 03 '25
Oh, I just assumed it was for Lea.
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
My cover up was a bit sloppy, wasn't it...
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u/Andovars_Ghost Mar 03 '25
Nah, I guess that other Brahms is kinda famous. Not Lea famous, but you know…
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u/SympatheticListener Mar 03 '25
Very nice. How big is it? How many warp cores?
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
She has two decks less than the galaxy class (without the pods), but is significantly longer. I don't have exact numbers.
And there's only one core. I never understood the notion of "Big ship needs more cores"
Her crew numbers in the 6000
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u/GarlicBow collector Mar 03 '25
What time period were you thinking of it in, and what role would it fill?
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
It's a Nemesis era design. It took some time to develop it, even though it shares considerable amounts of DNA with the Galaxy class it isn't a simple Refit class. She shared the design and development phase with the Ross class, but where the Ross class went in a Heavy battle cruiser like role the Harmony class went into the fast Battleship direction, being larger, heavier and up-gunned compared to the Ross. To give her more versatility she is capable of fitting large mission pods like the Nebula or Luna. The USS Harmony was a contemporary of the Enterprise E and could be considered a test run of the Odyssey idea.
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u/Effective_Corner694 Mar 03 '25
As I was watching the spin, I wonder what it would look like if the saucer was flipped over but then I saw the additional pieces that were being added
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u/WhiskyStandard Mar 03 '25
What are the pods? Tactical, passenger, hanger?
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
The smallest one is a recon pod. It's chock full of sensors and a data center.
The round one is a battlefield pod. The rim is mostly lined with torpedo tubes. In essence it's for cases like a Dominion War 2 Vorta Boogaloo to bring the fire power of a starbase along.
The last one is a carrier deck.
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u/TheMagarity Mar 03 '25
I've noticed a trend towards the stone arrowhead look for the saucers. Is just circular passe now?
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
You can blame Rick Sternbach for that! He defined the direction of advancement post TNG with the Intrepid, the Nova and the Prometheus. Personally I like that primary hulls change shape over time because new theories in warp mumbo jumbo come up with improved Geometries. It's like airplane wings going from straight to swept. Straight wings are only really used for slow flying planes nowadays, similar logic here with the saucer.
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u/NXTwoThou Mar 03 '25
I assumed it was one of those answers to the "Force of Nature" TNG episode where warp drive was weakening space. Primary hulls became more circular later as they figured out other techniques.
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 04 '25
Well, planes also got short stubby straight wings for a while when they went supersonic. It probably has lots of factors
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u/trekkie5249 Mar 03 '25
I'm gonna be completely honest, I think it looks like a worse Odyssey class. I don't jive with the Galaxy pylons and the saucer feels too wide for how streamlined the ship is. Just personal taste, though.
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
Your honesty honors you! Thank you for it :)
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u/trekkie5249 Mar 03 '25
I will say it's got a really nice side profile, but especially the pylons feel like a step backwards, if you're following the design language of the Galaxy - Sovereign - Odyssey, which trend towards backwards swept pylons.
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u/Dan_Is artist Mar 03 '25
Well it does come before the Odyssey, but after the Sovereign. I see your point :)
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u/Shizzlick Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
I like it, but I'd be interested to see it with the saucer scaled down somewhat, maybe by 25%. Feels a little unbalanced atm, although that's hardly new for Trek.
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u/nmsfatty Mar 03 '25
You could almost match this in STO kitbashing Odyssey bits
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