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This is an update to my previous post. Wasn't really planning on adding significant detailing, but the Hallmark Enterprise D does look a bit plain (last pic), so I decided to go ahead with adding full aztecing to the hull with my custom decals (adapted from ones found here https://starshipmodeler.com/tech/cz_mask.htm).

I've done this before on the Playmates model, and I ended up liking the results, so thought it would be worth trying again. Just this time everything is on a miniature scale in comparison! This does present some new challenges, so not sure how much more detailing I will add. However, I do have a full set of custom detailing decals for the AMT 1/1400 Enterprise D that I bought an eternity ago and that I scanned and scaled down for this, so I will see how it goes.

Unfortunately, being so old, the original registry markings pretty much just fell off the Hallmark on the ventral saucer. They looked like they were just about to disintegrate on the dorsal side as well, so I went ahead and scraped them all away. I will use this opportunity to add a custom registry this time around, I'm thinking of going for the U.S.S. Galaxy. Let me know what you think!

This is an update to my previous post All Star Trek Universe Logo Intros from 2022 - 2026 from a few months ago to include the new SNW version of the 60th Anniversary bumper that debuted with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

This online resource was helpful in listing all the different versions, and I used some of the descriptions below from there: Star Trek - Opening Sequences & Closings Archive

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The USS Enterprise is the ship in the animation.
• Star Trek: Picard (Season 3): The USS Titan-A is used.
• Star Trek: Picard ("The Last Generation"): The logo is corrupted by the Borg assimilation from the previous episode "Vox". and the Borg cube appears in the sequence. The TNG crew's Enterprise-D starship from Star Trek: The Next Generation replaces the Titan-A for this episode only, reflecting the ship bringing brought out for one more time.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (Post-Season 3): The USS Cerritos is used in this variant. Additionally, the Great Koala, a frequently referenced being in this show, is briefly seen in the cloud background.
• Star Trek: Very Short Treks: The intro is animated in the style of Star Trek: The Animated Series, the Enterprise as seen on the aforementioned show draws the rainbow trail.
• Star Trek: Discovery (Season 5): The USS Discovery is used in this variant, appearing via its spore drive instead of flying into frame.
• Star Trek: Prodigy (Post-Season 2): The Protostar is used in this variant.
• Star Trek: Section 31: The trailer has the insignia appear in purple and yellow.
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: 60th anniversary bumper featuring hero ships from the TV series and the movies, notable exclusions are the Enterprise E, the Cerritos, the Protostar, and the alternate timeline Kelvin Enterprise.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4: The 60th anniversary bumper was cropped to match the 2.35:1 aspect ratio for SNW, and the SNW Enterprise trades places with the U.S.S. Athena to feature last, which makes sense here.

Original piece is untitled.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10161159525302856

>“When we had about two walls covered with those sketches, we called Roddenberry in and he looked them over,” Jefferies told Stephen E. Whitfield for his 1968 book The Making of Star Trek, which remains one of the best accounts of the development of the show.

>“Damn it, but he can be irritating. He liked only a piece of this one or a small part of that one, but none of our ideas had what he really was looking for. So we did twenty-some more designs, using the few elements he had said he liked.”

>Jefferies had several unconventional ideas. One was to split the ship into several distinct sections – i.e. the cylinder and the rings. Jefferies didn’t know what Roddenberry’s “warp drive” was, but he figured that the engines would be powerful, and therefore had to be kept away from the occupied sections of the vessel.

>He also wanted to avoid a flying saucer shape, and so he used a sphere instead. But over time the sphere flattened into a disk, which he was not quite happy about. He took all his refined material to Roddenberry.

>“By the third time around he had two sheets of eight or ten drawings, plus a half-dozen good-sized renderings. One of them was the beginning of the design finally chosen and one that I liked very much… an upper, saucer-shaped hull, a cigar-shaped lower hull, and two engine pods.” One sketch of a ship with the saucer and “engine pods” angled backwards had the notation, probably from Roddenberry, “looks like a duck.”

From Star Trek Magazine No. 35, Jul/Aug 2011

This is a screen capture of the Enterprise in Earth Spacedock taken from the 4K release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country which I currently have as my desktop background, so thought I would share.

This is also a good time to link to this spectacular video which I keep returning to again and again: Enterprise Leaves Spacedock with James Horner Score - Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10159021976876713

Christopher Cardwell is a contributing artist to the Ships of the Line calendar series.

From Star Trek Magazine No. 35, Jul/Aug 2011:

>In summer 1977 [Jefferies] was asked to redesign the Enterprise for the Star Trek Phase II television show that Paramount was then developing. He produced a sketch labeled “1701A.” It preserved the overall layout of the Enterprise with some modest refinements. The secondary hull was smoothed out a bit, and the big dish was replaced with a different structure. A notch was added near the bottom of the neck, the new location for the photon torpedo tubes. The most obvious change was to the engine nacelles, which were no longer cylinders but had straighter sides and tapered to the back. The design was refined slightly, and soon artwork was produced for the production, which had transformed into a movie.

>Jefferies’ modified Enterprise is not the one that ultimately ended up on the screen in Star Trek The Motion Picture. That Enterprise was heavily influenced by Jefferies’ redesign, particularly the elimination of the sensor dish and the adoption of boxier engine nacelles. The movie Enterprise was sleeker and more elegant and more graceful, but it still possessed the bold and revolutionary shape that Jefferies had developed 14 years earlier.

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/natti888/art/Star-Trek-XCV-Enterprise-620547840

Source of images: https://www.marcbellvfx.com/projects/L41r4r

From Marc Bell's Instagram

>Welp... it's been months since I've been able to touch this, but I finally found some time to pick it back up.
I've officially started the texture work on the Probert Enterprise-C. She's probably only around 40% complete at this point, but I think the overall visual language is finally starting to come together. My goal isn't to recreate Tobias Richter's excellent interpretation, but to develop my own take while keeping that unmistakable TMP-era DNA. Still a long road ahead, but I'm really happy with the direction it's heading.

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/mallacore/art/Star-Trek-Constitution-III-Class-989647687

Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ybD1J9

Source: https://www.dustyabell.com/products/star-trek-the-next-generation-30th-anniversary-print-set

Epic set of posters for TNG's 30-year anniversary (long sold out since)--which was almost a decade agoa few years back.

EDIT: Link to hi-res key.

From the 2019 Ships of the Line Calendar: https://trekmovie.com/2018/04/08/check-out-uss-enterprise-from-star-trek-discovery-in-2019-ships-of-the-line-calendar/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140630104328/https://deadendthrills.com/future-imperfect-the-lost-art-of-westwoods-blade-runner/

Duncan Harris (deadendthrills.com) is a professional game capture artist who is a wizard at what he does. Most of his gallery is no longer available online, but luckily, the Internet Archive still has a lot of it, including this feature of Westwood's seminal adventure game from 1997. I thought you might enjoy seeing these images, especially at this quality and resolution.

More stills here.

I like the lighting here.

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Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/eleLL6

These are the original concept sketches for the SNW shuttlecraft by Ryan Dening. Some of these are pretty out there! I like this one in particular, but the TNG-inspired ones are also great, just maybe not quite TOS-enough. I do like the final design they went with for the show, though.

I thought she looked familiar from somewhere, but I couldn't place her. Then I realised she reminded me of a girl who I used to work with in the officeDevil Kazumi from Tekken 7.

I made a second hypothetical Star Trek model kit box by Tamiya in their iconic white box style, this time featuring Lewis Niven's amazing render of the Connie Refit U.S.S. Yorktown here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YK9oa6

A new CGI model of the Constellation-class was built specifically for this scene from the episode. Interesting to note that the Constellation-class was the first new Starfleet design to be shown on-screen since STIII: The Search for Spock (discounting the Enterprise-D).

From: Constellation class model | Memory Alpha | Fandom

>In 2012 a new CGI model was constructed at CBS Digital of the Constellation-class for use in the aft shot of the USS Hathaway in the 2012 remastered version of "Peak Performance", simply because, "Some footage was just plain missing [remark: for upgrading the footage to High Definition]. The only time we felt justified to replace an element.", as then Technical Consultant Drexler put it, adding, "The Constellation was built by Sean Jackson".