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chernobog13 · 1 month

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Schematics of the Sovereign-class USS Enterprise-E by Gilso's Schematics @cygnus-x1.net

#Star Trek #Star Trek: First Contact #USS Enterprise #NCC-1701-E #Sovereign-class #Starfleet #starships #schematics #Gilso's Schematics

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cansoc · 1 year

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Starfleet justifying military action (2161-3189)

#star trek #the original series #the federation #spirk #starships #star trek tos #star trek the next generation #star trek deep space nine #ds9 #voyager #enterprise #lower decks #the next generation

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providence-park · 7 months

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The T-6 shuttle, also called the T-6 Jedi Shuttle, was an unarmed transport used by the Jedi Order. An older design, it saw greater use during the Clone Wars. By the time of the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire, the shuttlecockpit was used in the design of the A/SF-01 B-wing starfighter.

AHSOKA

Season One

#mygifs #star wars #scifi #swgifs #science fiction #the mandalorian #starwars #ahsoka #t-6 shuttle #ships #starships #spaceships

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frostymj · 5 months

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Okay, well, I had some time, so I made some fan promo images for fun. They may not be great quality, but if they're okay, feel free to post 'em everywhere.

#star trek prodigy #star trek: prodigy #star trek #netflix #science fiction #sci fi #space #uss protostar #starships #janeway #dal r'el #gwyndala #rok tahk #jankom pog #zero #murf #fan work

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rounderhouse · 8 months

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#microfiction #rounderwords #writing #scifi #starships

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spockvarietyhour · 1 year

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The Fleet Museum "The Bounty"

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frakyeahbattlestargalactica · 1 month

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Battlestar Galactica art by RJB / Mallacore

#art #battlestar galactica #bsg #spaceships #starships #Star fighter

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onikasbarbie · 11 months

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#nicki minaj #barbz #femalerapper #black beauty #starships #music video #nicki wallpaper #pink wallpaper

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80s-music-tourney · 3 months

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#80s music tourney #starships #we built this city #frankie goes to hollywood #relax #80s #polls #Youtube

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webdiggerxxx · 2 months

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#nicki minaj #pink friday #starships #cd #display #tower records #shibuya #tokyo #japan #pink #flickr #oldweb #old web #2012

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groundrunner100 · 11 days

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Don’t forget to reblog your FAVORITE starship!

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chernobog13 · 3 months

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Relative sizes of the Constitution-class refit and Galaxy-class versions of the USS Enterprise.

#Star Trek #Star Trek V: The Final Frontier #Star Trek: The Next Generation #USS Enterprise #NCC-1701-A #Constitution-class refit #NCC-1701-D #Galaxy-class #Starfleet #Starfleet starships #starships

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theindustrycalledrap · 8 months

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#nicki minaj #queen of rap #barbz #barbz4life #barbzforminaj #pink friday #pink friday 2 #roman polanski #roman holiday #starships #onika #harajuku barbie #dolce & gabbana

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providence-park · 2 months

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ANDOR

S1-EP3 | Reckoning

#mygifs #star wars #scifi #swgifs #science fiction #starwars #andor #andor gifs #futuristic #futurism #starships

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weerd1 · 9 months

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Yet another tale of how much I owe Star Trek

So this is something I haven’t talked about in years, but I was feeling nostalgic today and wanted to capture something. I wanted to write down how Star Trek got me through adolescence.

Now, I’d already begun decoding Trek and it was already untying the knots my conservative upbringing was instilling from a young age. I can talk about “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” being so on the nose, but 11 year old me NEEDING to see that message about skin color so badly. However, this is not about Trek making me a better person (which it did); this is about Trek helping me learn how to BE a person. Much more after the jump...

When I was in sixth grade, in about 1984 (I’m 50 now for reference) I got a copy of the old FASA Star Trek role-playing game. Please keep in mind that at this point, there is TOS, TAS, three movies, the novels, and a few comics, but that’s about it. I was consuming and reconsuming them voraciously when I got this game. As a small-for-his-age, nerdy, poor kid living in a trailer, the idea that I could roll a few dice and…BE in Star Trek was a potent elixir.

Other people around me were growing up. Toys cast aside, actually interacting with other people in nascent romances; I was rushing home to watch GI Joe and Transformers after school. I was playing with Star Wars figures. I was now going through Starfleet Academy, and all it took was a pencil and 2D10. (Sidenote- the FASA RPG system remains one of my favorite RPGs second only to Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars system.) It was a way of adding the unknown to fanfiction I was already writing through my MEGO Trek figures.

I created a character, a descendant of my own (the biggest fantasy at that time being that I would ever find someone with whom I could start a line of descendants), promoted them to Captain and looking in the “Federation Ship Recognition Manual,” picked out a starship: the NCC-1754 USS Kitty Hawk.

My adventures had begun. Borrowing PLENTY from my heroes, my character was half-Vulcan, and 100% self-insert. To me, this was the POINT of an RPG. It was me, but the version of me I wished I could be.

As the year went by, I picked up MORE novels and managed to find more TOS episodes (mostly on videodisc at a local place called “Movies to Go”). My sixth grade teacher, Mr. Toresdahl, was a Trekkie and would spend time he probably should have spent convincing me to do homework talking trivia. I would pick up the supplemental bits of the RPG: The Star Trek III Starship Combat Game, the miniatures, modules, reference books.

Probably the most important was when I got “The Romulans” which were certainly my favorite Trek villain. This was helped along in NO small part by Diane Duane and her novels starting with “My Enemy, My Ally,” and later “The Romulan Way.” Without a whole lot coming out of Paramount for Star Trek at the time, there was a lot of borrowing between the existing media.

The RPG borrowed from the novels. The DC Comics series which started after the film “The Wrath of Khan” borrowed from the RPG.*

There was a congruence of some sort forming, and being as into the RPG as I was, it made me pretty well versed in all the lore. I started finding (and eventually writing for) fanzines at that point. I scoured “Starlog” magazine for Trek news and opinion. I was dead set that I would not rest until I knew all there was to know about Star Trek.

When I started 7th Grade, there was a shift in the world around me. Junior High meant multiple classes and even “electives.” Again, the whole physical specter of preteen sexuality was unfolding (and the examples around a young boy in the mid-eighties were seldom the healthiest). It was like I’d landed suddenly after the summer on a whole new planet, and I wasn’t sure how to cope with it all.

But luckily, I had access to a version of me for whom landing on strange, new worlds was old hat.

And so, I began what I can only now call LARPing life. I decided I WAS Captain Daomer. I invented an intricate “campaign” for myself, where 23rd Century Romulans (thanks again, Ms. Duane) had come back to Earth’s past to change our history, prevent the Federation from forming.** Just luckily, the Kitty Hawk was monitoring tachyon emissions in a singularity adjacent to the Sol system, and picked up the coming changes to the causality chain. At the last minute a hasty slingshot maneuver around the black hole had taken me and my crew to the time and place of the primary Romulan incursion: Southern Arizona in 1985. Of course.

Now, was this just a protective shell inside my head where I would pretend to be Captain Daomer pretending to be Daniel dealing with the intricacies of social interaction in the 7th grade? Of COURSE not. I told anyone who would listen the whole story.

For about the next six years.

I was in a small enough town that my school, Palominas Elementary, was a K-8. I’d been with the same folks and staff more or less my entire school career. So, when I had to take a bus 30 minutes away to the nearest town to begin attending High School, did I change the story? Did I keep it to myself? Oh no; if anything I became MORE flamboyant about it. Still a skinny nerd, I wasn’t picked on. Why? Because that kid’s the “Spock Guy,” and why would anyone mess with that Spock Guy?

Something important DID change between my Freshman and Sophomore year though. Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted. So, I had to update my story a bit. My half-Vulcan character had returned to the 23rd century, continued his career, and in the 24th century, after being promoted to Commodore and as a fleet commander claiming the new Galaxy-Class USS Kitty Hawk as my flagship, had discovered post-Tomed Romulans were up to their old tricks. That allowed me a real coup at one point, as I had caught through some fan publication early wind of Denise Crosby leaving the show, and “accidentally” dropped my knowledge that Lt. Tasha Yar was going to die before it happened on the TV. Proof of future knowledge!

My Junior year, I was approached by a fellow student who was writing for the school paper and wanted to interview me. We spent a couple of class periods talking about my “backstory” and I realized this person knew at least as much—if not more—about Trek than I did. The school paper never did run the interview, but some 35 years later that kid, Will Schwartz (yes, THE Schwartz) remains my best friend.

I had already started to slow the story down a bit the summer before my Senior year, but also that summer, well, I met a girl. We were hitting it off. But when she mentioned going out with me, the school grapevine was quick to ask, “Are you dating that Spock Guy?”

And she didn’t run away. Indeed, when she’d once demonstrated she knew all the lyrics to Neil Young’s “After The Gold Rush,” I figured she was a girl I should talk into marrying me. When she accepted I was that Spock guy, because after all, her Dad was a Trekkie and had an AMAZING collection of science fiction paperbacks, well that clinched it for me. Today, Jennifer and I are celebrating our 33rd wedding anniversary.

So, as I went out into the world after high school, did I never call on Commodore Daomer again? I can’t say never. Sometimes in a military career when facing danger, or briefing an officer with stars on their shoulders, a mask of stoic Vulcan control would come out of that box in the attic of my brain and get me through. But more directly, Star Trek, and my immersion thereof got me through 7th to 12th grade and gave me a broader world view, a friend for decades, and helped me identify the love of my life.

Thank you Star Trek for all of that. Thank you creators for the assist. Thank you fellow fans for helping it be such a rich world, and thank you Commodore Daomer for your 24th Century wisdom.

One little coda. I still watch a lot of Star Trek. Old, new…I don’t like everything that comes out, but I love it all, and that’s something I think some fans struggle with. However, there was a lovely new starship introduced not long ago, and I had to immediately find a fan produced model and make some custom changes.

The Kitty Hawk-A goes boldly... Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.

*The DC series had some wonderful early issues ALSO written by Diane Duane! Who can forget the Ajir and the Grond? Or McCoy accessing Spock’s katra still lurking within? Wonderful. The fact I’m mutuals here on Tumblr with someone who was such an influence to young me is probably the thing about my life now the kid in the trailer would be most skeptical of.

**Thanks to Strange New Worlds for canonizing this, by the way.

#star trek #long post #meta #personal #Roleplaying #starships

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binarytoys · 11 months

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TREKYARDS - Star Trek Starships 101

The USS Ursula NCC-TX07

The Ursula's dedicated design and mission is to Find, Assess, and report on alien aquatic life-forms on any planets deemed suitable for aquatic life.

The Ursula has the unique ability to both sail on the surface or routinely separate the saucer from the rest of the ship and submerge for low clearance deep water expeditions and deployment of her many smaller shuttles, subs, and unmanned probes.

The Ursula has two fully functioning bridges at a single given time so that both sections can be independently utilized for many different uses.

Both sections of the ship are capable of impulse flight in space and on the surface, but she can only reach warp speed when paired.

With a single aft low profile nacelle she originally was only capable of reaching warp 2. But after some tinkering from the starfleet engineering division, she can now reach warp 5.

Specs:

Crew compliment:

-250

Weapon Systems:

-Phase cannons

-Photon torpedoes ×4

-multi-phasic mining lasers

Hangar capacity:

-standard starfleet shuttles ×2

-specially outfitted deep sea exploration shuttles.

X10

-Larger cloakable deep sea observation subs x2

-scientific unmanned probes ×20

#star trek #USS Ursula #NCC TX07 #star trek ships of the line #trekyards #starships #spaceships

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