Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2021)

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Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2021) is the 2021 edition of the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series.

Summary

Blurb: Star Trek: Ships of The Line 2021 Wall Calendar 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.

Cover: "NX-01 - The First to Warp Five" – by Doug Drexler and Ali Ries.
January: "Let's See What's Out There" – the USS Enterprise-A departs Spacedock (from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home), by Alain Rivard.
February: Refit-Enterprise NX-01 MSD with technical call-outs, by Bryant Critcher.
March: The USS Enterprise-E ignites a pocket of metreon gas, disabling a Son'a battle cruiser in the Briar Patch (from Star Trek: Insurrection), by Michael Wiley.
April: "Deflectors Say There's Something There, Sensors Say There Isn't" – The USS Defiant is entangled by an unusual anomaly, by Doug Drexler.

This title is a reference to a quote from Spock as the Enterprise approached the galactic barrier in "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

May: The refit USS Enterprise in drydock (from Star Trek: The Motion Picture), by Marty Miller.
June: Two officers on a planet following the crash of a Saber-class starship, by D.M. Phoenix.
Technifold: a cross-section of a Romulan Bird-of-Prey, by Matt Cushman
July: An NX-class comes head to head with a foe, by Matt Boardman.
August: Two starships investigate the explosion of Praxis, by Dan Uyeno.
September: A starship and shuttlecraft investigate an asteroid belt, by Bill Krause.
October : "The Dominion Conflict Goes Hot" – The USS Akira (β) and a Centaur-type starship engage a Jem'Hadar battle cruiser during the Dominion War, by Tobias Richter.
November: The Phoenix warp ship among displays at the Smithsonian, by John Eaves.

Note: this image is a painting rather than CGI, as is customary for Eaves.

The cover featured repurposed imagery that Doug Drexler had originally created in 2013 as box cover art for a model kit (No. POL902) from Polar Lights.
The starfield background of Cushman's technifold is created by Ali Ries, and is accompanied by orthographic size comparison blueprint views of the Bird-of-Prey and the original USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), created by Gary Kerr and Petri Blomqvist.
This was the first outing in the Ships of the Line calendar series that did not see a variant edition release by Danilo Promotions Limited for the UK and the Commonwealth since this version's introduction in 2013. It is not known whether or not this was a conscious company bussiness decision or that the release waiver was in any way related to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

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