#K'Tinga Class

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner… by Andrew March

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Klingon D7/K'tinga Battlecruiser continuity DEEP DIVE!

Where it all began in TOS, designed by W. Matt Jeffries. The name D7 was an on-set in-joke between Shatner and Nimoy which stuck.

When Star Trek rebooted it's Klingons for The Motion Picture, they added tons of surface detail to the Klingon Battlecruiser too. The name "K'tinga" was given in the TMP blueprint pack (although the model was called "Koro class") and it stuck. This was considered the Klingons' equivalent to the refitted Enterprise seen in the movie.

Deep Space Nine's "Trials and Tribble-ations" crossed DS9 over with TOS' "The Trouble With Tribbles", and the DS9 VFX crew built all-new physical models for visual effects - and Greg Jein chose to add a green tint and K'tinga-style surface detail to the TOS D7 battlecruiser, making us all wonder if they were really meant to be the same ship type all along.

Voyager's "Prophecy" would show us a Klingon "D7" battlecruiser in the Delta Quadrant. Although called a D7 in the script, the CG model is clearly based upon the TMP K'tinga, with the extra hull detailing.

Doug Drexler designed this ⬆️D4 Battlecruiser for Star Trek: Enterprise's "Unexpected" as a predecessor for the ship seen in TOS. But The Powers That Be decided the ship didn't have enough windows (yes, really) and requested the D7/K'tinga CG model from Voyager be used instead⬇️ putting it's first appearance 150 years earlier in 2151.

For the TOS Remastered HD TOS project, the original look for the Klingon D7 Battlecruiser was retained, albeit in a somewhat low-poly PS2-ish form

The Klingon Warbird, seen during the Kobayashi Maru sequence of the 2009 reboot movie (and more so in the deleted scenes, surrounding the damaged Narada before Nero's imprisonment at Rura Penthe), was literally the TMP K'tinga with extra stuff bolted on and smaller windows implying an upscaling to match the enormous Starfleet ships in the Kelvin universe.

The Pike-era novel Children of Kings would reconcile the huge Klingon Warbird by saying it was a larger version of the Battlecruiser (of course, Klingons are no strangers to upscaling their Bird of Prey) and most feared ship in the Klingon fleet

Fast forward to 2017. Star Trek: Discovery has rebooted the look of the Klingons again and this time their ships as well, ten years prior to TOS. And in "Choose Your Pain" this ship ⬆️ (called Sech-class in behind-the-scenes art) is called a D7. But then fast-forward to season 2, when 5 concurrent series' of Trekspam were planned out, tying more closely into previous canon and Discovery backpedaled somewhat on it's unique designs - and a "new" D7 battlecruiser (a more modest updating of the Klingon D7/K'Tinga design, upscaled like the Kelvinverse version to match the bigger Discovery/Strange New Worlds ships) was planned as a unified design to united the 24 Klingon great houses, ignoring ENT: "Unexpected" and Disco's own "Choose Your Pain":

So yeah, the D7 class may or may not be the same as the K'tinga class, and it appeared "first" in 2151 and again in 2257.

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i think the klingon k'tinga and d7 classes look so damn silly but i don't say that as a negative thing. those are animals to me. they look like they've got silly little hats on

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The Fleet Museum "The Bounty"

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Klingon Battlecruiser

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Name: I.K.S. K’Tanco

Type: K’Tinga-class Battlecruiser

Year: 2310

Captain: Kang

Background: Rendezvoused with the Enterprise-B at Qadyaq, a Klingon colony. The Starfleet vessel was on a relief mission coordinating with the Klingons there when they found out from the planetary governor that their aid was unnecessary, they were now thriving. Kang later found out from an colonial guard - Mazka - that the governor had turned to piracy and raiding neighbouring Klingon worlds, a dishonourable act. By the following morning, Mazka had slaughtered all four thousand inhabitants of the colony with nothing but his d’ktang. Kang believed the guard had done what had been needed in order to restore honour, even if Starfleet didn’t see it that way.

Appeared in Star Trek: Alien Spotlight: Klingons, IDW Comics

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So Star Trek Online is doing an event where if you make a new Klingon-Faction captain, they get all sorts of little perks right now. I already have a properly Klingon captain, but he’s an Engineering captain so he flies around in a big ol’ cruiser. But one of the perks for new captains is a really nice bird-of-prey that scales with you as you level, so I made a tactical captain to take the most advantage of that. 

She’s an Orion, but rather than either the TOS era ‘slave girl’ grossness or the ENT era ‘no honest they run things and just ACT like ‘slave girls’ grossness, I just gave her a fancy outfit incorporating armor, a punk-rock hairdo, and set her loose upon the galaxy.

Since ‘Orion Marauders’ are a thing, and Klingons are all about the marauding like the space-mongol-vikings they are, I figured she needed a suitably piratical nom-de-guerre. So her actual name is Nevala Shasi, but she’s known to Federation petaQs as “Vala Synne”.

Anyhow I’m having way too much fun flying around under cloak only to de-cloak and obliterate someone with a disruptor and torpedo barrage on their rear flank, all while listening to this:

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I know the copy-paste fleet from PIC's Et in Arcadia Ego, Pt. II tends to get a lot of people riled up, but honestly, I feel like it makes a lot of sense from an in-universe perspective.

Like, one of the big issues Starfleet had in the TNG and DS9 eras was that basically any time a new threat rolled up at the border, their threat response was just whichever ships they could call up at short notice. This was one of the bigger reasons why the fleets in episodes like The Best of Both Worlds, Redemption, Pt. II, and the Descent two parter were a mish-mash of different classes: from Starfleet's perspective, it was quite literally just whoever they could drum up in the moment, not which ships were actually best for this job.

During the DS9 era, there was a shift from fleets being just whoever they could drum up to being actual formalised big fleets that consistently did maneuvers together. This is why it went from DS9 getting seven ships as reinforcements during the battle in The Way of the Warrior to there just being hundreds of ships that operated together a few seasons later. This is apparently a trend that continued after the Dominion War, too: in Nemesis, the fleet the Enterprise-E was supposed to link up with towards the end was referred to as Battle Group Omega.

I think having a couple hundred Inquiry-class ships operating as a single fleet would make sense in this context. A lot of the ships that were in service during the TNG/DS9 era would have been decommissioned or destroyed by this point, and Starfleet would have had to replace them with something. In seasons two and three of Picard, we've seen some of the other ships that have been introduced over the intervening decades; having a few rapid response units would also make sense.

This wouldn't necessarily square with Starfleet's exploratory and scientific missions, but I don't think it'd necessarily need to. Even in TNG, there were more military-focused officers like Captain Jellico and Admiral Nechayev who were very concerned with the Federation's security, and they didn't get in the way of the Enterprise-D's exploratory, scientific, or diplomatic missions.

The same would be true of the late 24th/early 25th century of PIC's first season: they could easily have both the heavily militaristic officers and the more pacifist officers working different missions for the most part. It's just that the part of the fleet we saw was the military part.

Plus, from a thematic point of view, this would tie into why Picard left Starfleet to begin with. In Remembrance, Picard straight up says he left because he felt that Starfleet wasn't Starfleet anymore. Having a noticeable chunk of the fleet set up to be the immediate military response to a new threat would make sense in that context. Picard's traditionally been the kind of guy who prefers peace and diplomacy (though he is a capable military guy when the chips are down), so Starfleet immediately being able, and potentially willing, to respond to everything with deadly force really would rub him the wrong way.

The other reason I don't mind there being a fleet of hundreds of Inquiry-class ships ready to go is because of the makeup of the Romulan, Klingon, and Cardassian fleets during DS9. While these powers did have some varieties in their fleets, for the most part they're just as guilty of flying copy-paste fleets as Riker was in Et in Arcadia Ego, Pt. II. While Starfleet was flying fleets with a large variety of ship classes, the Romulans were almost exclusively flying D'deridex-class warbirds, the Klingons mostly Vor'cha- and Negh'var-class battle cruisers with the occasional bird-of-prey and K'tinga-class, and the Cardassians exclusively Galor- and Keldon-class ships.

This doesn't necessarily mean that these are the only ships these powers had available, but they were very much the backbone of their battle fleets and were clearly considered to be the most capable of combat. Their other ships were probably made for much more specialised purposes.

This is probably a design philosophy Starfleet probably took as well. Instead of having most of their larger ships be jack-of-all-trade ships, they spent more time having specialised ships for specialised purposes. The end result of this is that they could have 200 Inquiry-class ships ready to go for this purpose rather than just have dozens of different classes that might not be the best for it, but would do in a pinch.

I feel like this is also something people would have warmed to a lot more over time, had the Picard writers not immediately try to back peddle in season two's opening episode, The Star Gazer. Had they just said, "Well, this is a new era, both of production and in-universe, and this is how Starfleet does battle fleets now," it might still be a contentious thing but people would eventually get used to it.

The other thing they probably should have done--and I still think they should do this at some point--is have a show set during this same period that focuses heavily on a five-year mission during this period. That'd allow room for an explanation that the copy-paste Inquiry fleets are mostly just for emergencies, and that other ship classes exist for different purposes. (I know eventually someone will say, "Yeah, but Lower Decks and Prodigy exist", but keep in mind they're set twenty-ish years prior to Picard.)

I think this would allow for starship classes to clearly be for much more set purposes rather than just be the jack-of-all-trade ships they've traditionally been. While there's been exceptions to this like the Oberth- and Nova-classes mostly being science vessels, the Defiant-class being a warship in all but name, and the Olympic-class being a medical ship, but these are mostly the exceptions.

Classes like the Constitution- and Excelsior-classes are nominally explorer classes, but have been shown to be used for military missions as well for example, and that tends to be the general rule for larger ships. For the most part, if they're a medium-to-large ship for the era, then they're used as a jack-of-all-trades ship rather than for a specialised purpose.

So really, the writers on Picard had the opportunity to really do something interesting with how starship classes get used and having a set canonical purpose for each new class, but then they chose to not do it because it didn't really gel with a lot of people. I feel like this is ultimately an unfortunate thing.

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Why does gougar look like a k'tinga class ship

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Ships of Star Trek

Note: These are not the ships of Star Trek, but from the civilizations featured in those series from the 20th and 21st centuries, where the majority of play takes place. A few tweaks are needed (mostly speed and shields) to get to the later eras.

Name: Early Battlecruiser (Rutan Host/Skrull/Changeling) Size: 6 DC: 2800 Toughness: 2 Crew: 4 Acceleration: 5 Accuracy/Sensors: 7 Armor Value (Hull): 160 Shield DC: 2000 (Regenerating) Handling: 1 Range: Minor Inter-Stellar Max Speed: NA Additional Builds: Emergency Measures: 4 Point Extra Space: 3 FTL Capacity: Warp 3 Guns: 12-14 Phaser Banks (300 Phaser Damage), 2-4 Torpedo Launcher Other Equipment: Intellect 5, Medical Facilities

In one corner of the galaxy, the Rutan Host/Founders/Daemonites/Dire Wraiths/Skrulls use these ships to enforce their order in their territory. Only they have the resources to build such ships while limited by Warp speeds.

Name: Cruiser (Federation Constitution-class vessel, Klingon K'Tinga or D7, Bajoran Freighter, Jem'Hadar Flagship) Size: 5 DC: 2100 Toughness: 2 Crew: 4 (Full Crew) Acceleration: 3 Accuracy/Sensors: 6 Armor Value (Hull): 150 Shield DC: 1500 Handling: 1 Range: Minor Inter-Stellar Max Speed: 600

Additional Builds: Emergency Measures: 6 Point Extra Space: 3 FTL Capacity: Warp 4

Guns: 4-8 Phaser Banks (300 Phaser Damage), 2-6 Torpedo Launcher (Photon) (200 Torpedoes total.)

Other Equipment: Intellect 5, Medical Facilities, Transporter

Most ships in the Original Series or earlier eras were around this size. Many science vessels and cruisers are in this size category as well. A full crew component is needed for these ships.

In the late 20th/early 21st century, this is the top-of-the-line ship of the various non-Goa'uld civilizations. The Draconians (Klingons), The Cappellan's/Iridonians, Kree and their various subspecies, The Nestene Consciousness, Yaut'ja/Predators, the refugee fleet of the Denizens of Yaddith, and the Rutan Host/Changelings.

The Changeling Ships have an additional weapon, a Phased Polaron Disruptor which deals 300 Plasma damage.

Name: Defiant/Heavy Fighter/Transport (Jem'Hadar Attack Ship, Klingon Bird of Prey, Romulan Bird of Prey, Bajoran Assault Vessel) Size: 3 DC: 800 Toughness: 3 Crew: (4) Acceleration: 5 Accuracy/Sensors: 6Armor Value (Hull): 130 Shield DC: 500 Handling: 3 Range: Minor Inter-Stellar Max Speed: 600 Additional Builds: Emergency Measures: 4 Point. Extra Space: FTL Capacity: Warp 4 Guns: 2 Pulse Phasers (200 Phaser Damage, 2 hits per shot, -2 to hit), 2 Phaser Banks (300 Phaser damage) 2 Torpedo Launchers (8 Photon 300)

Other Equipment: Intellect 3, Medical Facilities 3, Transporter

Heavy Fighters, large cargo haulers, and other ships too small to be cruisers, but too large to be fighters or shuttles. Skrull/Rotan Host/Changeling vessels are also equipped with a Phased Polaron Cannon which deals 200 Plasma damage. Also, Romulan Birds of Prey Torpedo deal Plasma damage

Name: Fighter or Large Shuttle Size: 2 DC: 560 Toughness: 2 Crew: (Pilot, Gunner) Acceleration: 5 Accuracy/Sensors: 6 Armor Value (Hull): 70 Shield DC: 400 Handling: 3 Range: Minor Inter-Stellar Max Speed: 600

Additional Builds: Reduced Armor Emergency Measures: None Extra Space: FTL Capacity: Warp 3 Guns: 2 Light Phasers (200 Phaser Damage), 1 Torpedo Launcher (8 Torpedoes, 300 damage) Other Equipment: Intellect 4, Medical Facilities 3

Fighters are rare in the Federation, and many others powers see little use for them. They remain effective, however, it's just that society and economics work against the building and training of Fighter craft. More often, a weaponless captain's yatch or shuttelcraft.

Name: Runabout Size: 0 DC: 200 Toughness: 0 Crew: (Pilot) Acceleration: 5 Accuracy/: 4 Armor Value (Hull): 55 Shield DC: 200 (Original Series era. Add 100 for Next Gen, subtract 100 for Enterprise era) Handling: 5 Range: Minor Inter-Stellar Max Speed: 600 Additional Builds: Reduced Armor Emergency Measures: None Extra Space: 0 FTL Capacity: Warp 2 Other Equipment: Intellect 4, Medical Facilities 3 A glorified escape pod, really, also used for exploration when the transporters are not fully functional.

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Observations while watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Robert Wise Dir Cut)  (PROFANITY WARNING....   There’s profanity in this.)

Okay... That Goldsmith theme only bigger with a full on bass orchestra secion behind it.  That's the shit right there.  The theme so nice they used it twice.

Starting your 1979's Sci Fi with a sweeping shot of some starships looking badass:  Klingon Squadron of K'Tinga Class Heavies... CHECK.

All those threads about you get to pick this many spaceships.  What ones do you pick?  The Voyager Spacecraft/Cloud Array is underserved in these threads.  No style, but in terms of power, there ain't no substitute.  This thing could one-shot a death star.

Okay...  hats off to Mark Lenard's Klingon Captain.  He's lost two starships and he's about to go off to Sto'bo'kor.  He's making a tactical retreat... but he's firing the whole time.  Even as the digitization plasma ball hits them, he's still firing his aft torpedoes.  He did not go down like a bitch.

Actually welled up with some manly tears for Spock, picking up the fallen medallion of Kolinahr where the elder dropped it.  He worked so hard.  And he got such predjudice for being half human.  And but for the v-ger signal he was receiving telepathically, he'd have achieved the highest level of mental discipline in Vulcan society.  POOR GUY!

MEANWHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO!!

Shatner:  I'm not wearing jammies... I'm not wearing a space 1999 uniform.  Listen to the tone of my voice.  I AM SRS CAPTAIN!

Oh Sonak... you ain't reportin in to shit.

You know... we need a station for Regula 1 in the next movie.  "NO SWEAT!  WE'LL JUST TURN THIS ONE UPSIDE DOWN!"

WHO WAS THAT TRANSPORTER CHIEF??  CUTE!

Kirk:  They gave her back to me, Scotty. Scott:  Gave her back?  BULLSHIT, JIM!

LET THE STARSHIP VIDEO CENTERFOLD COMMENCE!  CONSTITUTION II HEAVY CRUISER PROTOTYPE!  STOP!  I CAN ONLY GET SO ERECT!  SHUVENJALIS WARP NACELLES!  NO THERMACOAT TURNING IT BLUE.  Then they turn and the music swells as the man sees the TRUE love of his life in her new skin...  ORGASM MOMENT.  OHHH BABY.  THERE'S the reason the C2 always makes my every top 5 when it comes to favorite starship lists.  THIS 2 or 3 minutes RIGHT HERE!  And Scotty, you slut.  You took the long way around on purpose to get Kirk all aroused.  I'd say shame on you, but we don't kinkshame in this house.

People say this movie's cinematography was over-indulgent and boring.  And I say those people are un-romantic pieces of stone.

LEGS HANGING FROM THE CEILING.

Ahhh my favorite bridge set.

Ohhh lookit all these practical effects.  

Do not ask for whom the engineering section calls...  It calls for thee, Sonak and Kirk's Wife!  The ship's a jealous girl.  And she won't have the woman that took her captain away on board.  (In the novel, that woman who screamed in the transporter accident married Jim after she finagled him into accepting promotion.)

Jim:  "Will, you best be gettin' up outta my grill."

They really shouldn't have got rid of the original alert klaxon.  I liked that one.

HEY RAND!!

JAYSIS FUCK THAT'S HORRIFYING!  That used to scare the hell out of me when I was 9.  The way Mrs. Kirk's final dying scream is just cut OFF.  ANd then he looks around at the nearly ALIEN ship around him.  Lost in the halls of the thing that just killed his wife.  AND NOW DECKER GIVES HIM SHIT??  Ohhhhh you got bad timing my man.

Tricky perspective shot on the meeting room!  All the short folk in the back and tall folk in the front to make the room look bigger!

Over two AU's in diameter.  Note for my non-scientific friendlies out there.   AU is an Astronomical Unit.  Which is to say, the distance between the earth and our sun.  Take that distance, double it.  And that's the size of the VGER Cloud.  This thing could one shot STARKILLER BASE.  It should have a a magnetic field strong enough to interfere with our sun's heliosphere!  The northern lights back on planet must look amazing just now!

Interesting all these uniform variants.  For a bit, Sulu got this kinda kimono-tunic dealie.

Uhura:  She's... Deltan, captain.   (TURBOLIFT OPENS.  EVERY MAN ON THE BRIDGE SMILES AND REACTS IN OTHER BIOLOGICAL WAYS FOR THE PHEREMONALLY ACTIVE LT. ILIA.)

DISCO McCOY IS IN THE HIZZOUSE!!!!

"Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to Starfleet-"  "I'MMA BEAT YOUR ASS, CAPTAIN, SIR!!"

*Cue muppet theme*  "It's time to get ships mo-ving.  It's time to light the lights!  It's time to get things started on the Enterprise tonight!"

THASS MY GIRL!!!!!  *Clearly in love with the Enterprise*

Engineer:  "ORIGINAL IN BEFORE THE LOCK MEME!"

Warp .5 doesn't sound that fast til you take into account that's half the speed of light.

Captain's log:  Beginning my read from the original pilot script for Phase II:  The God Machine.  Feels like the old show to me already.  Did Freiberger do this?  I still got issues over that Native American episode.  Settling in.  Leonard's giving me shit in front of my command staff.  Kick his ass later.

Digging Sulu's ginchy warp drive shifter stick at the helm.  NOT DIGGING THIS NEW ALERT NOISE.

All Seated Command Staff, engage chair arm seat restraints!  All standing staff... you're on your own.

The Time Dilation effect here in the wormhole sequence is actually kinda neat and somewhat plausible.

In the DC Comic, there was actually a plotline where the Klingons had developed a warp drive technology that was unstable, but much faster.  Based on the premise of intentionally creating wormhole instabilities.  It may be the closest the property ever got to having a jump or hyperspace drive.

Jim:  "I don't mind if you tag along, Bones.  I'mma kick both your asses."

Miss World Persis Khambatta ladies and gentlemen!  The beginning of who knows HOW many people's thing for a woman with a bald pate.  Including mine.

Uhura:  A shuttle wishes to come alongside and lock on sir. Kirk:  "For what purpose." Me:  IT COMES BURDENED WITH GLORIOUS PURPOSE!

HARDSHELLED SECURITY GUY!

Kirk:  SPOCK!  ALL MY BESTIES ARE HERE! Spock:  "Commander, if I may..." Decker sitting at the console SPOCK DESIGNED:  "OH!  Shit.  Sorry!  Here!  Geeze!"

Spock leaving the bridge:  "Man... I am just BUFFETED by all these emotional people having feels around me here..."

Captain's log.  Spock found the problem.  It was in the engineering disco lights.  He found it using an old film camera.  Where did we even have those on board the ship?  Anyway.  Thought I'd give the camera a sexy wink.  The director let me keep it in.

Spock: "Nor have you doctor... as your incapacity for my newfound level of sass indicates." Kirk:  "WILL YOU SIT THE FUCK DOWN??"

Now see?  That Spock came all the way out here cos he felt VGer all the way out on Vulcan?  That's more advanced high sci-fi concept.  A lot of folks didn't get a lot of the stuff in this movie.  This was operating on a higher level, subtextually than a lot of people were ready for.

THIS DAMN REPLACEMENT KLAXON!

"Full mag on viewer."   Bridge Crew:  "D'AH!!" "Okay... less mag on viewer.  Jeeze!"

"Shall I go to battlestations, Keptain!?" Chekhov predating Worf's bloodlust ten years early.

VGER:  **I'M NOT PLEASED!!!!**

Ilia:  "I can stop his pain." Chekhov:  "HOLY SHEET DID SHE EVER!!" Chapel:  "Thanks, lemme spray some 40 year old vegetable oil on it."

Ugh.. .my kingdom for a steadicam.

Exterior shot of plasma torp disappearing!  NOICE.

Ugh.. .old bridge noises.  That was cute and unnecessary.

One of the biggest improvements of the dir. cut.  A straight cut of a minute or two of the long staring at the main viewer sequence as the go through the outer v-ger cloud array.  I will admit... THAT was over-indulgent.

Mmm.. bit of pipe organ there.

Jim:  Zoom out again.   Sulu:  "CANNOT ZOOM OUT ANYMORE."

Enterprise:  IT'S COMIN' RIGHT FOR US CAPTAIN! Chekhov:  "ARMING TORPEDOES!" Kirk:  "DOWN, MR. CHEKHOV!  DOWN!"

Little known fact... they all had to have something to stare at on the main viewer to react to.  More often than not, some wit would put up some centerfold.  Insensetive as shit to the women on the bridge set.  But funny as hell when Koenig had to say stuff like, "What is it, Keptain!?"

Ain't gonna lie... this is really making me want to fix my broken Enterprise model.

The abduction of Ilia sequence.  The one that got Fantasy II fired for ILM.  They tried doing this as a big tube of lit bubbling water on the bridge as a practical effect.  It exploded.

Spock breaks the science panel.  Beam Probe:  OH IMMA KICK YOUR ASS NOW!

Beam:  *sniffsniff*  HOLD ON A MOMENT.  A MORE MATURE SPECIES!  LEMME GET A LOOK AT YA.   OH YEAH!  YOU'LL DO!  ZAP!

Yeah... that scared the hell out of me at the age of 9 too.

Kirk:  Xo, get Bjo to man the Navigation station.

OH HELL YEAH!  ILIA PROBE!  ONE OF THE ORIGINS OF MY ABIDING ROBOT / GYNOID FETISH!  THE PEOPLE ALL AROUND HER ARE SAYING STUFF.  AND PRESUMABLY IT'S IMPORTANT.  BUT HONESTLY I'LL READ UP LATER.  I SEEM TO BE DISTRACTED BY THE BALD ROBOT ON SCREEN WEARING KHAMBATTA'S SHAPE.

Decker:  "WHAT'S MY DEAD GF DOING HERE??" Chapel:  "And even the smallest body functions are duplicated.  Even the exocrine system" Every man in the room:  "WE KNOW."

Probe:  I have recorded enough here.  YOU will now assist me further. Kirk:  D'AH!!! Decker:  PFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

Woot!  All the old Enterprises!  If they do another retool of this later, will they add the Enterprise NX-01 and whatever that thing is in Discovery?  Or is Discovery part of the Abrams-verse?

Decker:  "What kind of recreation do your people enjoy?  Are you gamers?  Do you stream?" Probe:  "This unit can make you Twitch." Decker:  *TWITCH*

Spock turns the sassiness up to maximum.  Pinches the thruster suit bay guy. Guy:  "OH AWESOME!  *thud* Spock:  "Excellent.  Now for his wallet and his pants..."

Chapel:  "Ilia once wore this.  On Delta." Decker: "She also wore this lingerie-" McCoy:  "COMMANDER."

VGER:  "OHHH.  YOU were trying to get intel on me through my probe!  You tricky little carbon blobs ya!"

Spock activates the thruster suit:   Spock:  "I REGRET NOTHIIIIIINNNNNG!!!!!!!!!!!"

I note they got rid of the funny little instruction recording for the thruster suit.  Awwww...

MISS PIGGY!

Spock:  "Captain... I am now quite convinced that all of this is V'ger.  That we are inside a living machine....   Ilia...  I believe I've found its clitoris, Captain.  I must try to mind meld with it."

Notes that one of the images that flashes on Spock's visor is the instructions from Dr. Sagan's gold record on the actual Voyager 1 and 2 probes.

VGer ship spits Spock out.  *PTOO*

Awww, Jim was gonna go out an get him.  That's love, right there.

Spock:  "LOL!" Everyone:  "WTF??"

Now see?  I don't really see too much of a difference between this and Space 1999 in terms of weirdness of concept.  Yeah he was responsible for a lot of the later doofy episodes of season 3 of ST.  But Fred Freiberger wasn't TOO off the mark.  Especially considering the direction Trek seems to take AFTER his departure for 1999.

Kirk:  "SHOOT THE JUICE TO THE GUY CHRISTINE, I NEED POINTS ON POINT ON THE BRIDGE!"

Aww yeah.  Exterior shot of the V'Ger ship!   Me:  "V'GER!  HIS SHIP UNCLOUDED!"

Probe:  "The creator has not responded." VGER:  "Y'ALL DONE FUCKED UP NOW."

Spock:  "Captain.  V'ger is a child.  I suggest you lie your ass off to it." McCoy:  "Yeah, that tracks.  You're good at that." Kirk:  "I feel so attacked right now." Decker:  "BAAAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!"

Probe:  "Kirk unit!" *INITIATING MAXIMUM PHEREMONAL EXCRETION* Probe:  *softer tone*  "Kirk unit.  Why do you not disclose the information?" Kirk:  "Damn... my one weakness..." McCoy:  "One??  Who are you kidding, Jim?" Kirk:  "Silence, fiend." Decker:  *RESTRAINED LAUGHTER!!*

Okay... these uniforms zip up the back.  HOW DO THEY GET DRESSED IN THE MORNINGS?

Looks like they mean to do Destruct 1.  Not destruct 0.  Good thing he didn't have to do that in earth orbit.  He'd have razed the facing hemisphere of the planet and killed everything on the surface.  I figure he believes if the earth is to die, HE'S GONNA DO IT, NOT V'GER.

Nice of them to give us the forming hex plain outside the ship they all went to walk on.  And the Vger bridge from a distance.  And they improved or tried to improve so much for this release...  And best of all, they FIXED that doofy butt matte painting that was all out of perspective they used to have when they come out onto the command section's deck.  This was freakin' NICE.

Bold of them to assume back in 1978 that the Voyager Program would get funding for four more probes.  Too bad...

Guys... GUYS.  DON'T GET TOO NEAR THAT THING!  THAT'S GOT AN ACTIVE MINIATURE NUCLEAR REACTOR ON IT!  Oh dear heavens, I can feel them going sterile from here.

V'GER:  "YES YES, THIS IS ALL VERY INTERESTING.  TICK TOCK, JIMMY."

Well no wonder Decker did the crazy thing.  HIS HEAD IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE REACTOR!  He got brain damaged.  *remembers the bit from the book.  Decker thinking, "Crazy.  I've got crazy.  Crazy Decker, just like his father."*

McCoy:  The creator does not answer. V'GER:  BORED.  WITH.  THIS.

Decker:  And the final sequence- POW!!! V'Ger  "YOOOOW!!!  OKAY THAT ACTUALLY REALLY HURT A LOT!  THAT WAS EXCEPTIONALLY STUPID OF ME."

Kirk:  The antenna leads are melted away.  *reaches for it.* Spock:  "Yes, Captain, just now-  WHAT PART OF ANY OF THIS SAYS TO YOU THAT THIS IS SAFE TO TOUCH???"

McCoy:  "You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human?  Is that possible??" Decker:  (ALL RIIIIIIGHT!)  "Let's find out." Ilia Probe:  [ALL RIIIIIIGHT!]  *stare*

Decker:  OOOH IT'S ALL WARM AN TINGLY AND STUFF!

Spock:  "Come on, Jim." Kirk:  "BUT THEY'RE HAVING SEX!  I'M THE CAPTAIN THAT GETS TO HAVE SEX!" McCoy:  "ON THE DAMN DOUBLE CAPTAIN, SIR!"

Kirk:  "List them as missing..." Okay.  That got me.  I'm choked the hell up.  As someone who hopes to upload outta this dying meat someday, that's actually a really damn moving moment for me.  And when he tells Uhura to list em as missing... he tells her to list CAPTAIN Decker as missing.  In the end, he conceded the rank to him.  Even if it was kinda posthumously.

"Thataway...  "   Translation:  "WARP US OUT BEFORE THEY TAKE THE SHIP AWAY FROM ME AGAIN, SULU!"

BEST WARP DRIVE SEQUENCE EVER!

HRAAAAY!!  TRUMBULL AND DYKSTRA GET TOP BILLING!  ALONG WITH ASIMOV LATER ON!

Grooves to the superduper full orchestra version of the Theme So Nice!

SYD MEAD!  HRAY!!

And that's that!  Have fun folks!  Be safe!

[alphamecha-mkii]

Presumed Guilty by Jetfreak-7

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Another update!

The U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031 as she appeared in "Context is for Kings" way back in season one

And the Klingon D7/K'tinga-class I.K.S. Amar from The Motion Picture

(Also Archer's ready room on the NX-01 is now off a bridge door!)

And and and also this cool mini-documentary about DS9's Promenade, narrated by Quark himself, Armin Shimerman:

This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.

[charles-markov]

USS Anand (Deep dive) Named for the Indian author Mulk Raj Anand of the 20th century USS Anand commissioned into the fleet in 2294, participating in relief efforts in the Klingon empire following the explosion of the moon Praxis. These efforts lasted until 2298, afterwards the ship undertook a cadet training cruise in Vulcan space, completing this in 2300 the ship was then in refit until 2305. The ship next participated in extensive tactical exercises near starbase 5 which took up three years from 2306-2309 and resulted in significant reforms to starfleets tactical doctrine which held until the border wars with the Cardassian union. During these exercises Anand distinguished herself for her accurate firing and prompt maneuvering while in formation. Despite her good marks for her tactical proficiency Anand spent the 2310s and 20s largely in scientific, diplomatic and colonial support missions. The early 24th century being a time of unprecedented peace and stability for the Federation there was precious little for the ship to do combat wise. It would not be until 2346 that the ship would first fire her guns in anger, a full fifty two years after she first entered service. The vessel was engaged by a flight of Cardassian Elkoor class vessels while patrolling the federation-cardassian border. However after this initial bout the ship played very little roles in the successive border wars with the union. Anand spent much of the 2350s on police and law enforcement missions within Federation space, running missions from one starbase to another and generally continuing in the peacetime missions which had till this point typified her career. Sadly the Anand would become a victim of the brief Klingon-Federation war, being destroyed when ambushed by a pair of Klingon K'tinga class cruisers. However the ship would take one of her attackers down with her.

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Captain, they're coming about.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country &

Star Trek: Picard "Imposters"

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Romulan K'T'Inga vs a Federation Refit