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.

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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.

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Cover: "NX-01 - The First to Warp Five" by Doug Drexler and Ali Ries.
January: "Let's See What's Out There" by Alain Rivard – the USS Enterprise-A departs Spacedock One (from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
February: "S.S. Enterprise NX01 Refit" by Bryant Critcher – Refit-Enterprise NX-01 MSD with technical call-outs.
March: "The Riker Maneuver" by Michael Wiley – The USS Enterprise-E ignites a pocket of metreon gas, disabling a Son'a battle cruiser in the Briar Patch (from Star Trek: Insurrection).
April: "Deflectors Say There's Something There, Sensors Say There Isn't" by Doug Drexler – The USS Defiant is entangled by an unusual anomaly.

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: "They Gave Her Back to Me, Scotty" by Marty Miller – The refit USS Enterprise in drydock (from Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
June: "Away Team Nine Reporting Perimeter Secured" by D. M. Phoenix – Two officers on a planet following the crash of a Saber-class starship.
Technifold: "Romulan Bird-of-Prey" by Matt Cushman (cutaway), Ali Ries (starfield), Gary Kerr and Petri Blomqvist (blueprints) – A cross-section of a Romulan Bird-of-Prey with size comparison chart.
July: "Take No Provocative Action" by Matt Boardman – An NX-class comes head to head with a foe.
August: "Active Planetary Breakup Survey of M4747" by Dan Uyeno – Two starships on a mission to observe the destruction of planetary system M4747.
September: "Planetary Breakup Debris Field Survey of M4747" by Bill Krause – A starship and shuttlecraft investigate an asteroid belt left in the wake of the destruction of planetary system M4747.
October : "The Dominion Conflict Goes Hot" by Tobias Richter – The USS Akira and a Centaur-type starship engage a Jem'Hadar battle cruiser during the Dominion War.
November: "Human Flight and The History of the Future" by John Eaves – The Phoenix warp ship among displays at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

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

December: "The Triad of Qo'noS" by Alain Rivard – Three Klingon K't'inga-class battle cruisers over Qo'noS.

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 that 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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