#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.

[gophergal]

Behold, the sloppy sketch from early* this morning

*actually more like from around 10 am but I normally draw in the evenings, so cut me some slack

[akendara]

to space 💫

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek The Next Generation "The Battle"

[chernobog13]

Just to give you an idea of the relative size of the Enterprise-D.

[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!

[ncc-60205]

starships of wolf 359

[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.]

[federationgothic]

[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.

[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

[sandimexicola]

The Navigator checks the flight path.

Midjourney prompt: A photograph of a Steampunk starship Captain, reclining in his very complicated captain's chair that is curved with ancient Hindu scripts, full-body shot, hyper-realistic, intricate details, highly detailed, high resolution. Background contains holographic data displays in ancient Hindu script. --personalize sigfew1 --style raw --stylize 1000 --chaos 100 --weird 1000 --quality 2 --no breasts, cleavage, makeup --v 6.1

[spockvarietyhour]

USS Stargazer, "The Battle"

[thesilly-goose]

why the fuck did no one tell me picard was gonna mind meld with spock’s fucking dad what the fuck

i’m just

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what

huh