#generational starship

[fenmere]

Finally managed to apply a texture to the Garden that makes it look like there might be trees there, and gives it an accurate-ish sense of perspective. You might have to zoom in to see it.

[stra-tek]

Some very sad news, Lora Johnson, author of several hugely influential Star Trek and Star Wars technical manuals, has passed away.

Her books were a huge part of my childhood, I adored Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. Elements of her work have shown up in numerous technical books, novels and her unreleased TMP Enterprise deck plans are the basis for the Roddenberry Archive's version of the classic movie ship. Even some of my most popular posts here were pages of her work. Rest in peace.

[akendara]

to space 💫

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Lower Decks "The New Next Generation"

[lycan-exe]

Six Characters Challenge (Starkid Edition Pt. 2)

Second round of drawing six starkid characters, this time featuring some non-Hatchetfield characters!

Once again requested characters from my friends!

[hadeswearsprada]

Captain Jean-Luc Picard being just a little guy

[federationgothic]

[chernobog13]

I sincerely wish I had the time, patience and skill to build, paint, and light my Enterprise models like this.

[ncc-60205]

starships of wolf 359

[overseer-picard]

Another self-indulgent ask because I'm curious and incorrigible: What is your favorite one liner from Picard and why? (Feel free to put any others from different captains or characters if they come to mind)

Bonus: If you had to choose your favorite outfit our boi Picard has worn, which would it be? (Also Beverly because her fits slay)

You are spoiling me with these asks!

I have so many favorite Picard quotes but I think the one that has always stuck with me is his final line from "All Good Things".

"The sky's the limit."

It has multiple levels of meaning depending on how you want to interpret it but to me it encapsulates so much of what his character is about as well as the ever-present theme of the entire show: hope.

"Encounter at Farpoint", ends with Picard saying "Let's see what's out there." and the entire show ends with Picard saying "The sky's the limit". What beautiful bookends for a show built upon the premise of infinite possibilities and led by characters of infinite optimism.

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As for the second part of your question... this one's easy.

It's the Velour Jodhpurs of Justice.

As for Beverly-

it's the cerulean weaponized clavicles sweater.

[warpfactor9]

jean-luc you are never beating the horse girl allegations

[Video Description: A fifteen second clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Starship Mine." At a small party, Hutchinson's small talk drones on, "If the weather were better, we could take horses to the southern promontory and visit the nesting grounds-" He's cut off when Picard's politely disinterested expression abruptly shifts to give his full, rapt attention. "Horses?" Hutchinson pivots to answer. "Yes, we have a network of trails through the plains. Unfortunately, it's not very pleasant right now—cold, muddy, not a soul for kilometers." Breathlessly, Picard instantly returns, "Sounds perfect." End Description.]

[fenmere]

This is still too fast, and we're going to refine it further, but here's an animation of our starships that we're working on that shows the relative sizes of the three spacecraft we've been modeling. The moon is in the background for scale.

This was all done in Blender in one scene, and we kind of pushed the boundaries of sizes that the the program is designed to handle.

These ships are side by side, so this is really how big they are relative to each other. The Sunspot is 2,500 km long, Anchor is 3 km long, and Spindrift is 45 meters long (about the size of the space shuttle).

The habitat cylinders of both the Sunspot and Anchor are spinning at their correct rates, and Anchor's Bussard spires are unfolding from their docked position. Though the movement of the camera may create the illusion that it's all static.

It's 10 seconds of video, and it takes ten minutes and forty seconds for the Sunspot's cylinder to make a full rotation, and one minute and change for Anchor's to rotate once.

We have Spindrift lifting away from Anchor and rotating too, so that you can see it from different angles as the camera approaches.

The quality of the modeling and textures is about on part with Babylon 5, and we want to refine them to make them all look better. But we have a lot of learning left to do yet to figure that out.

There's a certain point at which it looks like the camera is speeding up. It's not!

That's actually just an optical illusion created by the curvature of the Sunspot's hull. The camera is actually increasingly slowing down throughout the entire video. Though at one point it sharply gets much slower to ease past Anchor and zoom in on Spindrift.

To get the appearance of scales we were going for, the camera starts at what would roughly be Earth's surface and travels as a dolly shot toward Spindrift. The ships are at Earth-Luna L1, and the Moon is where it should be. And we could not focally zoom the camera in any more. It was at its maximum zoom setting. So we had to move the camera.

The camera is moving hundreds of thousands of kilometers in ten seconds! So, yeah, it's gotta slow down as it gets closer to all three ships, or they fly by super fast.

[stra-tek]

Jeffries Tubes, my beloved

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Lower Decks "The New Next Generation"

[kimberlychapman]

Reality sucks so show me your favourite spaceships. Mine is above (the Enterprise D from Star Trek TNG).

Please fill my tumblr timeline with spaceship joy. Remember to tell us all what the ship is and from what source. Post as many as you like. This is about joy.

[maeamian]

Becoming deeply radicalized against the idea of crewed Mars missions, y'know how the Rovers keep sending back better and better data what if instead of that we made an even bigger one and devoted nearly 90% of its capacity to holding a guy in a bubble on top of it instead of sending back useful data, but wait! They'll eliminate like a half hour of latency and also almost certainly contaminate the landing site and possibly the entire planet, so it's not all downside.