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Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2020) is the 2020 edition of the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series.
Summary[]
- Blurb
- The 2020 edition of this fan-favorite HORIZONTALLY-formatted calendar, the Star Trek Ships of the Line 2020 Wall 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: "A Weapon for the Empire" by Doug Shrock – The ISS Enterprise discovering the Nomad probe.
- January: "We Have Engaged Species 8472" by Doug Drexler and Ali Ries – USS Voyager and four Species 8472 bio-ships before what appears to be a Starfleet space station.
- February: "Last Stand at Sector 001" by D.M. Phoenix – The USS Defiant and two Saber-class starships take heavy damage fighting the Borg at the Battle of Sector 001 (from Star Trek: First Contact).
- March: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" by Bill Krause – Two Starfleet officers, taking the shuttlecraft Shackleton from the USS Endurance (NCC-5265), enjoy a campfire with an Andorian man on an alien world.
- April: "Joint Task Force" by Alain Rivard – Two Andorian battle cruisers, a Vulcan D'kyr-type, a Vahklas-type, and a starship approach a red planet.
- May: "The Sad and Luckless Name Grissom by John Eaves – Kruge's Bird-of-Prey surprises the USS Grissom in orbit of Genesis (from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock).
- Note: this image is a painting rather than CGI.
- June: "Not This Time" by Dan Uyeno – A Miranda-class starship (NCC-1926) takes and inflicts heavy damage in a battle with five Tholian ships above a planet.
This apparently is intended to depict the 2265 battle of the USS Bombay (NCC-1926) with six Tholian ships over Ravanar IV from the Star Trek: Vanguard novel "Harbinger."
- Technifold: "Workhorse of the Fleet" by Matthew Cushman (cutaway), Ali Ries (nebula), Karl Tate (mission patch), Doug Drexler (layout), and Mike Okuda (special thanks) – A cutaway graphic of the Daedalus-class USS Daedalus (NCC-129) with historical context, production notes, Romulan ships in the background and LCARS frame.
- July: "Fate At Narendra III" by Matt Boardman – The USS Enterprise prepares to take on three Romulan D'deridex-class warbirds at the Battle of Narendra III (from TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise").
- August: "For the Cause" by Gabriel Koerner – Jem'Hadar fighters and Bajoran interceptors pass Deep Space 9 as the Defiant emerges from the wormhole.
- September: "Starfleet Command - San Francisco - Sector 001" by Doug Drexler – Voyager, Defiant, two Suurok-class ships and a number of shuttles fly low over Starfleet Headquarters.
This depiction of Starfleet Headquarters combines the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant with a distinctive canopy more directly emulating the GM Pavilion of the 1964/1965 World Fair that originally inspired the Presidio maquette seen in "Homefront".
- October: "An Intelligence Unknown to Us" by Michael Wiley – The USS Saratoga before the probe of unknown origin, in 2286 (from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
- November: "Romulan Leviathan" by Tobias Richter – A Romulan warbird and three K't'inga-class battle cruisers orbit a planet.
- December: "The Rock and the Hard Place" by Jeff Summers – The USS Enterprise encounters five Borg cubes in orbit of a planet.
Background information[]
- The January spread featured a space station that was originally a reject for the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise. However, it was later repurposed for use in the film portion of the Borg Invasion 4D attraction as Copernicus Station. The CGI model was built by Drexler from a John Eves design.
- One of the three background Romulan ships in the technifold, concerned an Earth-Romulan War-era starship. Never seen on-screen, it had strong Star Trek franchise connections nonetheless, as it marked a print franchise reappearance of the reference model that Greg Jein had designed and built for Michael Okuda's Star Trek Chronology, where it was featured as such. [1](X) While production staffers had managed to elevate three of the five reference models Jein had built for the Chronology to canon, which included the Daedalus-class model, the Romulan starship was one of the two for which they failed to do likewise. As both this, and the Daedalus models are still in Okuda's possession, it explains the Okuda acknowledgement on the technifold.
- This was the eighth 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 2019 edition, with the same contents, though, again, there were some slight editorial differences, the lack of the centerfold in particular.
Gallery[]
Back cover
February spread
Technifold
December spread
Cover, UK edition
Back cover, UK edition
January spread, UK edition
May spread, UK edition
June spread, UK edition
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