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Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2019) is the 2019 edition of the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series.
Summary[]
- Blurb
- The 2019 edition of this fan-favorite horizontally-formatted calendar is dedicated to showcasing spectacular images of the most famous vessels from the iconic franchise in a variety of iconic scenes and settings.
- The panoramic calendar opens horizontally to maximize the detail and drama of each stunning piece of Star Trek art.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Months[]
- Cover: "Outbound" – The USS Enterprise-E departs Deep Space 9 (II), by Doug Drexler.
- January: "Assignment: Earth" – The USS Enterprise and a United States Saturn V rocket above the clouds of Earth (from TOS: "Assignment: Earth"), by Douglas Schrock.
- February: "Horizon" – the NX-04 and a Vulcan ship, by Tommy Kraft.
- Note: from the fan film Horizon, produced by Kraft.
- March: "An Odyssey's Start" – The USS Voyager at Deep Space 9, with a runabout and a Klingon Bird-of-Prey also visible (from VOY: "Caretaker"), by Alain Rivard.
- April: "Friends and Foes" – A gathering of alien vessels featured in the various series, among them Klingon, Romulan, Borg, and Cardassian, by Doug Drexler.
- May: "Asteroid Survey" – The refit USS Enterprise in an asteroid field, by Jeff Summers and Mark Myers.
- June: "Kobayashi Maru" – The USS Enterprise-A and the burning USS Kobayashi Maru, by John Eaves.
- Note: this image is a painting rather than CGI.
- Technifold: Images and details about the proto-Galileo design.
- July: "U.S.S. Enterprise - Star Trek: Discovery" – The USS Enterprise as depicted in Star Trek: Discovery and the titular USS Discovery (from DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"), by John Eaves and Scott Schneider.
- Note: as with Eaves other image in this edition, this one is a painting.
- August: "Pyrrhic Victory at Maxia" – shuttlecraft and escape pods flee the burning USS Stargazer following the Battle of Maxia, by D.M. Phoenix.
- September: "Relay Deployment" – the USS Balmung (β) oversees the deployment of a subspace relay station, by Dan Uneyo.
- October : "River in the Sky" – an alternate version of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in orbit over a planet, by Gabriel Koerner.
- Note: this is Gabriel Koerner's NX/Constitution hybrid design.
- November: "Shark Tank" – the refit USS Enterprise surrounded by a fleet of Klingon Birds-of-Prey, by Matt Boardman.
- December: "The Beacon of Anakis Prime" – an unidentified Federation starship and unidentified alien vessels over a planet, by Bill Krause.
Background information[]
- The new Deep Space 9 station (Revelation and Dust) appears on the cover.
- Doug Drexler's April spread concerned the back cover he had created for the second 2014 edition of the derivative reference book.
- The USS Kobayashi Maru in the May spread was in effect John Eaves revisiting the USS Kobayashi Maru he, together with Alex Jaeger, had designed for the 2009 alternate reality film Star Trek, having adapted it to a prime universe version by changing the warp nacelles to the ones as seen on the USS Enterprise-A
- The "technifold" featured a full scale replica of the Class F shuttlecraft as originally designed by Thomas Kellogg, on which the definitive one by Matt Jefferies was based. The replica was built by members of the by Bill George headed "the SCI-FI AIR SHOW" foundation. George himself incidentally, had constructed a studio model sized replica for intended use in the calendar, but it was the full scale mock-up that eventually became featured instead. [1] He had commissioned Matthew Cushman to create a detailed cut-away poster to accompany the shuttle's own entry on the foundation's website. [2] Cushman went on as contributor for subsequent outings of the calendar series in similar vein, the first one already being the 2020 edition.
- This was the seventh outing in the Ships of the Line calendar series that saw an internationally released variant edition by Danilo Promotions Limited for the UK and the Commonwealth. As with the previous outing, it was a reprint of the one year prior US 2018 edition, with the same contents, though, again, there were some slight editorial differences, the lack of the centerfold in particular.
Gallery[]
Back cover
March spread
July spread
Cover, UK edition
Back cover, UK edition
January spread, UK edition
June spread, UK edition
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