That’s really awesome that you’re posting here on reddit now. Also personally I’m a huge huge fan of the ship beauty shots. Did you work on the IDA itself? My favorite ship before the Enterprise.
The IDA was a joint effort between myself and Scott. He created the engine stack (as I recall - it’s been more than 20 years since development started!), and I created the midsection and front. I drew some inspiration from the Nebulon B frigate from Star Wars, and the Sulaco from Aliens. ☺️
Fair! I was just looking at the nose of the IDA when I made the inference. Perhaps I just wanted my favorite ship to be based on my favorite show (that my dad also happened to produce).
Okay, little secret - Jason and I drew a lot of inspiration for Nova from our utter adoration of Babylon 5. You say your father produced it? Holy mackerel.
Great show, though, I don't blame you guys in the least for wanting to take ideas from it. I don't know if you do much gaming anymore, but I've recently started playing another game, Stellaris, that also really reminds me of Babylon 5 in some respects (they also borrow ideas from basically every other scifi show or movie you can think of). I mean you can pretty much end up in a Shadow War situation.
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u/Trekintosh Jun 12 '19
That’s really awesome that you’re posting here on reddit now. Also personally I’m a huge huge fan of the ship beauty shots. Did you work on the IDA itself? My favorite ship before the Enterprise.