I like how you make mention of nog from DS9 but I thought he was discharged after being injured during the conflict with the cardassian/dominion forces and the federation?

Hard to remember all the millions of details, but I see no reason why he couldn't have reapplied during a peaceful interval when normal Academy classes began again.

Love your starship designs, thanks for sharing.

Jesus, Taral, this is amazing! I am eating this up hard core. I wonder if you have what it takes to make me love this unusual future time all over again?

Although I watched the original series and loved it, I stayed lightyears away from trek fandom -- they were too focused on this one science fiction series and seemed to have no perspective. But as the years went by I grew only more fond of it. The depth of its background was quite amazing, when you think about it. What can you say about a Tie-Figher? I don't even know how to spell it for sure, let along how fast they are, who built them, how long they've been in service, what their power source is, or anything else. Star Wars is all about surfaces and appearance -- there's noting there for the grey matter the way there is in Star Trek:TNG or DS9.

The pity is that all the "new generation" who produced and worked on ST after Rodenberry's death seemed to resent being in his shadow. The wanted to piss all over everything to make it smell like them. They despised the "technobabble" for instance. They sneaked in a lot of New Age babble instead. And while the darker quality of DS9 was a worthwhile development, the deferral to religious ideas -- Bajorans more than any -- was so not-Star Trek. Story writing began to get a little sloppy as well. Star Fleet could be all but wiped out in one episode, and you'd seen four Galaxy Class starships in the next. There should never have been many of them in the first place. In TNG season one I think there were only 4 in service. There were only 12 of the original Constitution Class ever built, according to TOS. Size was another problem. Engine parts clearly from a larger ship would be incorporated into a much smaller one, or vice versa. Just swap the parts around, with no consideration for scale, and you have a "new" ship!

But it could all be fixed. Somebody just needs to take all those guys and put them under the iron heel of a new Rodenberry who knows where it should be going -- not into farce and non-stop Speed Racer action. I'd be glad to take the job, *ahem*.

And so would 5,000,000 trekkies.

Well sir, you clearly love this thing enough to want to put up some very tantalizing art. After all, you likely have forgotten more about SF and it's associated problems/perspectives/possibilities et al. Above all things I detect in your work, that simple happiness to just be working through the ideas as they come to you. You are showing us that you genuinely love what you are doing now. If you were to get the opportunity to broaden this out into something complete and doable, that love would set you apart from all others. I think that is what made Rodenberry great; he loved it just as much as we did.

To that, I am just tickled to see you creating like this.

Used to create like that... Did I mention that the notes date from 2001?

Of late I find myself doing very little art. Its as if enough sand has passed through the bottleneck to tip the hourglass over... I write much more than I draw.

Ooops, er, sorry.

I like how it also looks Klingonish

It remains me of the USS Thunderchild an Akira class battleship not bad. If you like to look at my old account's images the name SR71ABCD got some Designs even I will put some more on here soon!