Starfleet Design 🖍🖖

Cover "A" of IDW's Star Trek: Lower Decks #17, art by Vernon Smith.

Inside front cover and first page from IDW's Star Trek: Lower Decks #17, with credits, art and dialogue.

My favourite art and dialogue page from IDW's Star Trek: Lower Decks #17. Writer Tim Sheridan, with artists Vernon Smith and Charlie Kirchoff knock this contemporary issue right out of the park, giving us exactly what we would expect from these beloved characters. A+.

Now at your LCS, @idwpublishing.com Star Trek: Lower Decks #17, edited by @heatherantos.bsky.social.
Writer @timsheridan.bsky.social gives us some of the absolute best writing ever for these characters.
Combined with art by @vernondraws.bsky.social & @charliekirchoff.com, this series is a must own🖖

Boot kink or a way to avoid having to draw feet? 😄

I honestly hadn't considered that, but I bet you're right!

Originally recorded in 2014, this 3 part video tutorial on designing an epic starship is available for the first time for free on youtube. Same technique I use to make my starship hull images. Check it out: www.youtube.com/@ArtOfSoulbu... #arttip #spaceship #starship #photoshop

Incredible!

Kathryn Janeway, Starfleet's ultimate weapon
#StarTrek

The original Starfleet Command or whatever it was called in Enterprise…

Eight simplified Star Trek icons: 1. 22nd C Starfleet emblem 2. TOS delta 3. TNG emblem/combadge 4. DS9/VOY emblem/combadge 5. ENT NX patch 6. SNW delta 7. DIS 32nd C tricom 8. SFA Athena tricom

Made some cute icons for a thing, but may not end up using them.

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” —Douglas Adams; a man after my own heart.

More doodles and progress. This wide Nacelle stance I like, definitely the way I’m heading. Want to do something different with the deflector dish. The main dish is still up for change. ✏️

#WIP #StarTrek #vehicledesign #Spaceship #sketchbook #pencildrawing

This is why you don't wanna mess with Sam
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #SFA

Interstellar comets are a thing, though I can't imagine one would have gotten far in even 1000 years.

He played a Michael on Stargate Atlantis, so I bet that's why. 😄

Some cast and crew of Star Trek Enterprise dressed in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" gear, c. ~2004 Let's do the time warp again!

Goodnight

Oh, for sure. Safety first. I sometimes forget the amount of BS that women have to put up with. Honestly, I shouldn't be giving out ANY social advice, full stop. 😅

True. I guess I learned a while ago to let other people sit in the awkwardness they are responsible for. It doesn't bother me so much any more. 😅

Definitely. It's not perfect, but there's nothing else I'd want to switch to.

I just need to get the newer remote! I've got the awful touch one. 😅

Looks like it. Kabel (but not ITC Kabel). I've seen it in quite a few things.

LOTR is one I have on disc too. Even then, I usually just watch a digital copy.

Good point!

With the exception of Amazon Prime, which feels like it goes out of its way to make finding things difficult, I much prefer digital.

That said, I think I the Apple TV box is one of the nicer experiences. Whenever I have to use someone's smart TV interface it's a different story!

Get rid of them, IMO. If you don't want to give them the time of day on social media, you absolutely shouldn't IRL.

I have a few of my very favourite movies or rarities on disc still, in one format or another. But it's like a dozen in total. The convenience of digital just wins out for me.

I don't trust that my digital purchases will stick around forever either. Backups are the solution to both problems. Invest in a RAID home server and ideally online backup too. One is none.

The biggest problem that leaves is figuring out what to do with all the shelf space you'll free up!

I'm not as big of a fan of physical media as many people seem to be. DVDs could last you a lifetime, sure, but that assumes that the discs are high-quality and stored in ideal conditions. Not to mention potential scratching. And if the discs are already decades old when you get them… well.

I really meant release order. Keep it simple. Though I do agree that production order has a lot of merit, perhaps the only place it's really worth the effort is early S1 TOS.

Haha. We're definitely on the same page here.

You'd start with a bunch of random scenes, like Q hiding Voyager in the Big Bang and then Q showing Picard how life failed to begin on Earth in 'All Good Things'…

Heh, exactly!

Now make an edit of everything in perfect chronological order, scene by scene! You'd watch the middle of First Contact very early on and the have to watch all of TOS, SNW, TNG etc before you got to the start of the film…