#kavok

[kavook]

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[amarearts]

Just a bunch of sketches and studies I've done lately

[the-drowsy-captains-art]

Somehow every time I draw Ica they get more bat-like… also bonus Kavok

[adibkhorram]

love that lower decks parodied this amazing game too

Guess what I’m playing tonight…

The best invitation I have ever received

[allstartrekgames]

Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Klingon Challenge

Original Release: 1994

Developer: Decipher

Publisher: Decipher

Original Platform: Board Game

On the surface, this is another roll and move board game. The Enterprise has been taken over by a Klingon called Kavok. As the ship was undergoing upgrades, only a few unnamed crew are on board. It’s up to them to get access to the Enterprise computer and stop Kavok from starting a war between the Federation and the Klingons.

Do do this, they need to collect 5 isolinear chips and a phaser and get to the bridge. To do this, you need to collect computer access card by landing on spaces and hopefully drawing a card that mentions a specific room (or, if you’re lucky, any room) – however, some of these cards are just bonuses. Once you get to the mentioned room, you earn your next chip.

If the game was just rolling moving and doing what it says, it would be boring. But this is a VCR board game, which makes the experience a lot more fun (albeit a bit silly). While playing, you watch the footage and Kavok (played by Robert O’Reilly, known for playing Gowron) will pop up every now and then. He’ll address a player (usually the one currently moving, sometimes based on rank) who has to respond with “Yes Captain Kavok!” and then gets told what to do, which is usually getting trapped in a stasis field (so they can’t move), spinning the Klingon Dagger for a random chance or to EXPERIANCE BIJ!

While Kavok gets more and more excited to say the words, it just means drawing a Bij card and doing what it says. This will usually be something negative. Sometimes a “Low Level Malfunction” will pop up on screen when you EXPERIANCE BIJ which means you get a reward instead.

It’s a silly game, but fun. It’s easy to lose track of things, but the rules even expect this and say to quickly pick a random person and carry on playing because you’re against the clock. If time runs out, you’ll have to watch the Enterprise get destroyed.

[actionfigurebullshit]

Some recent action figure bullshit.

I referenced these pictures. I wanted to do something to make Moxie's office out of wood paneling and green art deco clam shells, but the idea was flawed from the beginning because of the height of the "wall" not working right with the size of the action figures- I'm rusty.

There were more pictures of Moxie with test set, but it's more of the same, except for the fact that I replaced the duct tape arm band on Moxie's right arm. I've had to replace it a number of times over the years- stops being sticky, gets sticky in the wrong places, gets hair and other fine fibers embedded into it, so on and so forth.

Replacing the arm band is like a turning of the page, I guess. Are we really in a new age of AFB? It's not the only piece I'll have to replace. Little hands got on Douglas and Trent at some point and we lost some of those pieces I use to cover up the Star Trek logos. I'll have to study some frames to get as close to the original accessories as possible. All for the best, as those pieces were also suffering from similar issues. Another issues is that the duct tape comes apart, and then you get this gross stringy stuff sticking out.

Then there's the TNG proper stuff, which I usually reserve for other blogs, but whatever I do with this is going to be a close neighbor to AFB. I think some of this is new to this blog. I did discuss my killer deal for this bridge playset. It's not perfect, as far as a collector's item goes, but for a maquette to make stupid videos? It's perfect.

Three of these action...

FOUR of these action figures have been modified. That poor Wesley Crusher action figure has been through hell and back, drawn on with a Sharpie, strange scratches on it- it always had odd scratches on it. I remember a time I was considering harvesting this action figure for spare body parts for Moxie. I've hated the pose they gave Cadet Troi, a pose they also gave the Lily and Seven of Nine action figures- were they trying to make them look sexy or something? Just makes them useless as ACTION figures.

It is what it is, though. Whatever we do with Moxie, it has to be done with the limitations of this broken Cadet Troi action figure, and in recent years, I decided to give this action figure a season 2 look, in addition to trying to fix the paint job. Wesley's hair was lightened, as it was Sharpie'd black, and his eye were changed from blue to brown, since Wil Wheaton doesn't have blue eyes. On that note, why did they give Gowron brown eyes? I've got about four of them, one of them should get baby blue eyes. Another one should be tweaked a bit and made into Captain Kavok. IYKYK.

Some of the modifications on the other three are more subtle. I changed the shoulders on Riker. Imagined these uniformed action figures as having a black triangle on top of their department color which goes with the black on the shoulders- they supposedly call that the yoke. Call it what you may, but I didn't like how that triangle lined up with the rest of the yoke, so I repainted it.

Riker's beard is also painted on and a slightly different color. Black isn't the right color, and Trent actor "Wyatt" mused on how it looked different- not to criticize, but maybe I thought I deliberately went with a different look.

Actually, I took off the beard with acetone so I could have a season one Riker. I've seen a number of mods onilne where they've used Cadet Riker (Douglas in AFB), but it looks wrong, as Cadet Riker looks more like a kid than a 29 year old played by a 35 year old. Using a regular old Riker head does come with problems, though, as the beard is sculpted into the face, but just barely. I don't have faith in myself to be able to file away the beard without destroying the head. Similarly, I leave his hair alone, though I'd like to reduce the volume on it. What we have here is definitely mid series. I have wondered if I should add to it, which isn't what we saw in the show, but what we did see in the hilarious YouTube mash up "Acid Trek".

I'll just leave it all one, with this 80s TNG Riker able to switch between seasons with a slight paint job.

I did add to Data's hair, which was all over the place throughout the series- pick any season and you have episodes where his hair is longer, and episodes where he looks like he just got a haircut. I believe his hair was the longest in season 2, though. Weirdly long. Data's hair is extended with cotton from cotton balls and black paint. This makes the texture on Data's hair look wrong, but with the cameras I'm using, it probably won't be noticeable.

Further back is something I'm surprised I haven't yet encountered on the internet- season 2 Worf. When they released the season 1 Worf, it was a lazy re-sculpt, like everything else. None of these season 2 Picards, Data, Rikers, La Forges, etc. look like they're wearing those ridiculous spandex jumpsuits. The uniforms are still basically the two piece outfits from season 3 onward, but with no collar and shoulder piping. This is a larger problem with Worf, whose baldric is basically the one from season 2 onward painted gold. Nothing about it looks like what he actually wore during the first season, which was an identical version of the baldrics worn by higher ranking TOS Klingons, save for two episodes where he was wearing a shitty version, which looked a piece of burlap sack.

By putting this action figure in the proper security division colors with a silver sash, this action figure becomes a decent season 2 version of Worf. Funny they never did this, but decided to release a season 2 Geordi, which is basically what I did.

I did this paint job a few years ago, so the color has flaked off, and I'm not sure if I can mix it properly again. It's not perfect, but then again, Data and Geordi don't quite have the exact shade of mustard yellow green, either.

I still don't know what little video I should make out of this, but I wonder if the plot and story are less important than the angles, which I think will really sell it. Though there's always an ever increasing attempt to mix things up as the series progressed, for the most part, many of the shots of the bridge are basically the same or follow the same rule of thumb. I should simply try to recreate these shots, the make my story around those available shots.

If I get serious about this, though, I will do them in proper 4:3, which I found out too late, is actually a better choice for doing action figure shit, or at least that's how I feel about it today. If I had to redo everything made for Chaos Corridor, I would do them in fullscreen format. Similarly, you can't do a TNG video in widescreen. So many of those shots must be old school because it's the reason things look the way they do, the reason people have to stand so uncomfortably close to each other, which is perfect if you're filming action figures. It allows you to worry less about the background, what's in it, and you get more of the action figures you're wanting to film, front and center.

All this said, I hope I was still able to convey the sensibilities of those shots from 35 years ago. Take, for instance, the wide shot of the bridge. Note how every face is perfectly visible, not obscured, no mergers. In fact, it doesn't look too far off from a TNG shot, or perhaps like some of the ones we saw in Star Trek Picard- and I feel like some of those shots looked weird or not quite TNG because it wasn't in the old aspect ratio and they were using a replica of a set that was meant to be filmed with that ratio in mind. Voyager's bridge might work a lot better in widescreen, as it was a wider bridge, and as result, I feel like the 4:3 ratio didn't do the set much justice. I wonder if they filmed the show "action safe" for 16:9 as they did for season 3 onward for DS9? The reason you can never do TNG in widescreen is because the idea of widescreen versions of TV Star Trek weren't seriously considered this far back, and so with the original film negatives, sure, they were in widescreen, or at least, you could expand out to widescreen, but you'll see a bunch of film equipment.

This is more about Star Trek than the action figure stuff, and I want to keep to the action figures.

Oh...

For what it's worth, before I hit "SAVE" and all this text appears with these photos...

I got double stick tape.

Typically, I've not bothered much with animating walking, and I'll probably try to film around it if I do stuff for these TNG action figures, but I might try to give more of a hint of walking, and if I have to raise a leg, the tape will come in handy. It's been a long time since I used it. Is it corny to blog about it? My excitement for dollar store double sided tape!?!?

[sshbpodcast]

Who has the most honor: The best Klingons in Star Trek

By Ames

Prepare for battle because this week we’re moving onto one of the most prolific and developed alien races in all of Star Trek: the Klingons! There’s a lot of honor to go around as we’ve been visiting these space baddies since the very beginning in TOS; brought crewmembers into the main casts of TNG, DS9, and VOY, thus deepening the depiction of their species; viewed more of their history in ENT and DIS; and glimpsed them in many non-canon sources as you’ll see in one of the most obscure references we’ve made to date!

Join A Star to Steer Her By as we pick our favorite Klingons. You’re going to see A LOT of overlap this week, so there was no need for a gik’tal for a change, though my mek’leth is ever at the ready. Today is a good day to read on below, follow along in the podcast coverage (discussion starts at 1:03:07), and grab up some gagh to munch on as we celebrate some of the finest warriors of the galaxy!

[images © CBS/Paramount] 

Jake – No petaqs allowed!

Martok

Kor

K’Ehleyr

All of Jake’s Klingon picks are more than just badasses with bat’leths to back them up. We see the complex past of Martok who lifted himself up by his own massive bootstraps and even survived a Jem’Hadar prison to finally become Klingon Chancellor, we get practically the whole life story of Kor who made tentative peace with James Kirk in TOS and had a bombastic friendship with pretty much every version of Dax in DS9, and we share some bloodwine with Worf’s Par'Mach'kai K’Ehleyr and not for the last time…

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Ames – Klingon girls get it done

K’Ehleyr

Grilka

L’Rell

I’m using my three picks to shout out to all my ladies of Q’onos. We’re still not done lauding K’Ehleyr for being one of the best all-around Klingons whose halfbreed nature filled out her character with diplomacy, brilliance, empathy, combat skills, and a sense of humor like none other. Let’s also raise our warnogs to Grilka, who fought against the sexist Klingon laws by using those same laws to her advantage by marrying Quark, and to L’Rell, the mother of the Klingon Empire who rose to become Chancellor of the Klingon High Council!

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Chris – The Genesis of Klingons

Kruge

Martok

K’Ehleyr

Chris’s favorites really set the standard for what comes to mind when we think of a modern Klingon. When we meet Kruge in The Search for Spock, the whole race really comes into its own, stepping away from the mostly one-dimensional Klingons we met in The Original Series. Without Christopher Lloyd, we wouldn’t see the big personalities, obsession with combat, and strict warrior codes that we see throughout the rest of the franchise, especially in Chris’s other honorable faves whom we’ve already discussed!

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Caitlin – Experience bij!

K’Ehleyr

Martok

Kavok

Caitlin is without honor so her answer needs explaining for anyone who hasn’t played the 1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game - A Klingon Challenge. In the thin plot, Robert O’Reilly plays Kavok (totally not Gowron, probably for copyright reasons, wink) and shouts at you at points throughout the game, usually to force the players to “Experience Bij!” as a random roll for punishment. It’s stressful and complicated, like any good Klingon encounter worth its salt, and we’d highly recommend it for Kavok alone.

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So it’s a sweep for our all-time favorite Klingon: K’Ehleyr! Qapla’ and sorry about the whole Duras thing. We’ve still got more alien races to spotlight, so make sure you’re following along with us here. You can also continue on our voyage through Voyager on SoundCloud, do battle with us on Facebook and Twitter, and drink your prune juice – a warrior’s drink!

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

is that Kavok the Klingon?

This is the next Star Trek series Paramount + needs to schedule.

[gabedoodles]

I’ve been trying and trying to draw Zaharian as a Sylvari, but I’ve been failing so much that I’ve decided to draw agent Zah in Elonian clothes from Guild Wars 2 instead. Kind of a “what if” situation haha. It’s a super quick sketch and it’s way too late for me to refine it, so I’m posting it as it is XD

Also yes, Zah in Guild Wars 2 is a Sylvari, haha.

[juczerro]

Tagged by @kaosstar! Thank you for taggingggg!

RULES

italics; apply sometimes bold; applies always or most of the time strikethrough; used to apply, no longer does

Zaharian Kavok (swtor)

FLAWS

moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited | possessive | paranoid | lies | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | spiteful | stubborn | sadistic | masochistic | petty | unlucky | absent-minded | abusive | addict | aggressive | childish | callous | clingy | delusional | cocky | competitive | corrupt | cynical | cruel | depressed | deranged | egotistical | envious | insecure | insensitive | lustful | delinquent | guilt complex | reclusive | reckless | nervous | oversensitive | rebellious | manipulative

STRENGTHS

honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm | protective | proud | diligent | considerate | compassionate | good sportsmanship | friendly | empathetic | passionate | reliable | resourceful | sensible | sincere | witty | funny

SKILLS & HOBBIES                                              

art | acting | astronomy | animals | archery | sports | baking | beachcombing | belly dancing | bird watching | blacksmithing | boating | calligraphy | camping | candle making | casino gambling | ceramics | racing | chess | music | cooking | crochet | weaving | exercise | swordplay | fishing | gardening | ghost hunting | ice skating | magic | engineering | building | inventing | leather-working | martial arts | meditation | origami | parkour | people watching | swimming | puppetry | pyrotechnics | quilting | reading | collecting | shopping | socializing | storytelling | writing | traveling | exotic dancing | minor potion brewing | tricks & trinkets | crow keeping

Since he’s an agent, many of those things apply because of his work background.

Taggginnnngggg (and do it if you want only <3): @amarearts @nerdahnel @darthvronton @mire-inheid @karanan @kadaverr @you!

[kavook]

Happy Persian New Year! 🌿🎉 May the new year bring you joy, health, success, and lots of nature adventures. Let's embrace the beauty of nature and explore more this year. Wishing you memorable and peaceful moments during your nature travels. 🏞️✨ #PersianNewYear #Nowruz #NatureAdventures #NewBeginnings

#kavook #kavok #کاووک

[amarearts]

Happy Valentines! Gotta draw some agents being into each other and also up to some shit.

Zah belongs to @juczerro

[dvdregionseven]

Text message from an ex-cop asking me if I want ketamine. It's legal, they work at a clinic, but I am at a weirder tier of privilege than I'd ever expected.

Also I want shrooms and acid! Ketamine's too quick. An hour is too short. I would like a more leisurely paced trip. I want a three hour tour. I want to experience bij.

[the-drowsy-captains-art]

Presenting Kavok. I have a few different timelines for Ica but I’m particular to Kavok… even if he’s as dumb as rocks.

[trek-tracks]

Drew a lowly cadet rank boo

It’s beautiful

Here we go

The Enterprise has been hijacked!

By not-Gowron, Captain Kavok.

I think he wants us to experience BiJ…

Guess what I’m playing tonight…

The best invitation I have ever received

[dark-side-laegrinna]

*boomer voice* GATHER ‘ROUND TNG FANS AND LET ME TELL Y’ALL A STORY OF MY YOUTH

My dad got me and my sister @coffeematejc​ into Trek with TNG when I was about 13 or 14. This was the mid-90s - probably before a lot of you were even born. We were obsessed. My mom thought Trek was stupid, so we only watched it with my dad when we visited him on the weekends. It was an escape for me, a socially awkward huge nerd who went through living hell in junior high.

So Dad gave us an amazing Christmas gift - a Star Trek TNG VHS board game.

I cannot even describe how excited we were. It came with rank pip and com badge stickers which we definitely did not wear when not playing the game to pretend we were Enterprise crew members. You would draw ranks at the beginning and getting Cadet (the lowest rank) was the ultimate shame.

So the game starts with the players alone on board the Enterprise as the ship is docked at a starbase being repaired and most of the crew is on shore leave.You play the video and you hear Riker speak about it.

Then the antagonist shows up. And it’s none other than MOTHER. FUCKING. GOWRON.

Except his name is “Kavok.” And you puny humans are to address him as CAPTAIN Kavok. And he’s in full control of the ship, and intends to take it to Qo’Nos and kamikaze that shit to start a Klingon/Federation war. FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE.

You now have 60 minutes to find 5 isolinear chips to access the computer, break into the security room to grab a phaser, and crawl through the Jefferies tubes to the bridge to stop him. Sounds easy, right?

Then THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS. Your anxiety goes through the roof as Gow- er, Kavok will show up at random times and DEMAND you answer him immediately. Then he will taunt you. He will ask you your name, and, scoffing that it’s a child’s name, will give you a new Klingon one. You get “Suvwel” (leader), “Gagh” (his favorite food of course), or “Puj” (weak), depending on your rank. Oh, the devastating shame of being lowly Puj.

When he appears, he will make you take the mighty “Challenge of the Kligon Sword” to determine your destiny, or make you suffer by doing things like putting you in a stasis field, which means your game piece gets trapped in a little plastic tube. Or even better... you get to “EXPERIENCE BIJ.”

“Bij” is, apparently, Klingon for “punishment.” If you get Bij’d, YOU’RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME. However, there's a chance you can evade Bij by a computer malfunction (how the computer affects the deliverance of Bij is beyond me). If you have the tragic misfortune of being Puj, then it’s EXTRA Bij for you.

As the clock ticks away, the tension builds. With about 5 minutes left, Kavok offers the player with the least progress to escape in a shuttle. DON’T YOU DARE CHICKEN OUT YOU COWARD. The ominous music begins. Your anxiety has skyrocketed above the atmosphere, into space, and is now orbiting the moon. More Bij is doled out.

The computer malfunctions again, making it easier for you to get to the bridge, but you have less than a minute. Red Alert is activated and you’re all biting your nails. If only 2 of you are playing and your pal bailed, welp, you’re shit out of luck because Kavok puts the one closest to winning in the time-out tube.

Then the timer hits zero. You’re FUCKED. Klingon Birds-of-Prey appear and Kavok fires on his own brothers. The Enterprise is knocked around and in true TNG fashion he sways comically, accompanied by a primal “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”

BOOM. You’re dead.

....but wait! Ever-so-coincidentially, the Enterprise happened to enter a time loop when they docked at starbase. Now you can warp back in time by rewinding the tape and start all over again!

To this day, Dad, Coffeemate and I still tell each other to “EXPERIENCE BIJ!”

I found it on YouTube if you want to EXPERIENCE BIJ yourself.