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This year’s TrekAdvent project has come to an end, and I hope you all found some enjoyment in it. Don’t forget to check out the Star Trek Holiday Projects page to see the sets from 2019, 2020 and 2021. And let me know what you’d like to see as the theme for 2024’s project by leaving a comment or sending an email to scott@planetrisecreative.com.
Happy Holidays everyone!
It’s another double post because hey, sometimes sleep has to come first. Apologies to the fan who has consistently liked most if not all of the images in this Advent Project. (I’m looking at you DirtySciFiBuddha.)
The Borg have paralyzed multiple quadrants in terror with their singular objective to assimilate all they encounter. With their efforts repelled more than once by Starfleet, the Collective sought new means with which to achieve their goals. Thus they chanced upon the Epsilon Erdidani system and there what the Borg Queen would describe as “two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal…all alone in the night.” With dozens of races and their disparate technologies housed onboard the Babylon 5 station the Borg were able to add the inhabitants’ distinctiveness to their own and tremendously increase their power. But the worst was yet to come, as the Borg Queen turned her sights below, to the Great Machine beneath the surface of Epsilon III. Soon Zathras heard a chilling voice echo through the cavernous facility, “Resistance is futile.”
After a long night of story, song and bloodwine, Worf made an uncharacteristic wager with Chancellor Martok. If Worf were to best Martok in a B’aht Qul challenge he would win the right to select a ship design of his choice to serve as Martok’s new Capital Ship. After a fraught competition, Worf was victorious and, having already decided on his choice, his bellows of laughter were heard throughout DS9’s Habitat Ring. Some weeks later the vessel finally arrived at the station; the ancient Terran vessel Discovery 1. Martok was enraged and hurled epithets at his comrade all the way to the ship’s bridge, where the Chancellor immediately ordered for departure. The computer replied sedately “I’m sorry, Mark, but I cannot do that,” and shut down all engines. As Martok rose to berate Worf yet again the tactical officer shouted that a Klingon vessel was entering the system; a newly constructed D9 Dreadnought flying the Flag of the Empire. In short order the crew transported to the Dreadnought which towed the Discovery 1 to a safe distance before Martok used it to test his new flagship’s targeting systems. And never did he allow Worf the honor of a B’aht Qul challenge again.
Having gotten a glimpse of Starfleet’s attempt to curry favor with kind-hearted brigands in the form of their new Firefly Class ships, the Klingons are taking a cue and constructing an analogous vessel intended for use by bounty hunters and soldiers of fortune. Inspired by the ship used by a fighter of great skill and cunning, the Razorcrest Class will bring honor to the empire through the exploits of lone warriors seeking their own glory.
The Dominion has grown and thrived for over 10,000 years according to certain Vorta, and has gathered information on many ancient civilizations. It is no surprise that The Ancients would be one of them. Deciding that the Dominion would best be served by quietly seeding itself across the stars, the Founders drew inspiration from the Ancients and recreated one of their Seed Ships, originally used to plant Stargates across this and other galaxies. The Dominion’s Destiny Class starship deposits cloning facilities for Vorta and Jem’Hadar along with the necessary materials to construct Ketracel White refineries and shipyards. Within a year there will be a battle-ready detachment of ruthless soldiers with ships to command, minded by loyal Vorta patiently waiting for their gods to return with instructions.
The Cardassian Union expands their fleet once again on Day 16. As previously mentioned when they co-opted the Daedalus design from Stargate Command, plans were already in motion to create a vessel capable of housing the Starfury fleets constructed by Central Command, making the hangar bays on the Daedalus Class unnecessary; this was their solution. Having closely examined an inoperative Klingon Raider adapted from the Cylons, the Cardassians discovered a homing signal deep in the code of the Raider’s synthetic mind and traced it back to an abandoned Cyclon Basestar. Salvage and retrofitting operations began immediately in the Orias System, where construction took place for the fleet used in the ill-fated attack on the Founders many years ago. Once completed, the Cardassians possessed a Basestar Class vessel intended to unleash a swarm of Starfuries against Klingon forces while simultaneously using its technological connection to the Raiders as a way to confound the Klingon attack efforts.
Wait, while I state, that eight is great. Day 8 of TrekAdvent is upon us, as is an unstoppable wave of Klingon warriors in yet another “borrowed” class of starfighter. Here we see a craft familiar to members of the Rebellion; the X-Wing. After deciding that the sounds and overall adorableness of the pre-installed astromech droids were a bit too reminiscent of tribbles, the KDF extracted them and replaced them with the reprogrammed heads of A500 androids, having stolen many storage containers of their deconstructed parts after the rogue synth attack on Mars in 2385.
On this 3rd day of TrekAdvent we turn our eyes to the Cylons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. Cold, calculating machines of violence and deception who decimate their human enemies with no sense of honor. But what if Raiders, the living ships of their attack fleet, were co-opted for use in glorious battle by the Klingon Empire? How would the Klingon Defense Force change these vessels in order to fight alongside K’t’inga, Vor’cha and Bird of Prey class warships?
So I entered a T-shirt design contest. The winners are chosen by the number of votes their designs receive. The winner(s) receive a cash prize, and likely their design on a t-shirt that people can actually buy and wear! In public and shit! It’s rather amazing! And oh yeah…it’s a Star Trek design contest.
Here’s the thing; I don’t have many friends, and could use some help with the whole ‘getting votes’ thing. I am including links to all five of my designs, and would love some votes to help me out.
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