USS Saratoga in Deep Space...

A mysterious repeating beacon is detected by Starfleet Command, and the USS Saratoga, a Miranda class vessel, is ordered to investigate ..Show more

This iconic starship class was first featured in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Kahn as the USS Reliant. Originally, this was intended to just be a set of updated flyby shots of a Star Trek model I made back in 2005, but after I put some sound and music to it, I thought I might use it as a possible prelude to a short story arc.

Regarding the model, I originally created it using Maya's NURBS modeling toolset, and its now been converted to polygons, the UVs redone, and retextured using Substance Painter. For animation, lighting, and rendering, I used Unreal Engine 5.

There's an very old image from when I had just finished the modeling work, you can see it in my old (and now abandoned) Renderosity gallery here:

https://www.renderosity.com/gallery/items/1009627/miranda-class-wip