Ships of the Line 2020

[The Wormhole]

Images from the 2020 Ships of the Line Calendar have been made available.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Sh...the+line+2020&qid=1552950595&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Images are:
Cover: Mirror Enterprise 1701 and Nomad
January: Voyager and Species 8472 Bioships
February: Defiant and two Starfleet ships of a new design
March: New shuttle design from TOS TV era
April: Enterprise NX-01 amongst Vulcan and Andorian ships.
May: Grissom and Klingon BoP
June: TOS TV era style Miranda class with Tholian ships
Centrefold: Cutaway of Daedalus class
July: Enterprise C and Romulan warbirds
August: DS9 with wormhole in the background
September: Voyager flying over Starfleet Command
October: Saratoga and the Probe
November: Klingon D-7s or K't'ingas with a Romulan warbird
December: Enterprise E and Borg Cubes

 

[David cgc]

The ships with the Defiant in February's image are D.M. Phoenix's TNG-ified Sabre-class. The shuttle in March is a physical model. There are some other tidbits at the Trek Collective.

I think from some of the things MKF mentioned while he was working on his TOS Miranda that the June image is dramatizing the battle with the Bombay in the middle of the first Vanguard novel.

 

[Mysterion]

Can't wait to get a closer look at that Daedalus cutaway!

 

[Leathco]

I'm looking forward to some NX-01 love (seriously, the entire Enterprise era was under rated because it was a dud at first, than the third season was fantastic but the view base was gone). Also I really liked the E-E, more of a military ship for a darker time for the Federation.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Any reason why there isn't any Discovery pictures? They had the "Discoprise" last year, but I assumed, especially with Discovery in such popularity and the current iteration, that you'd get some ships from that era (maybe even mixing with TOS ships).

 

[David cgc]

Any reason why there isn't any Discovery pictures? They had the "Discoprise" last year, but I assumed, especially with Discovery in such popularity and the current iteration, that you'd get some ships from that era (maybe even mixing with TOS ships).

Probably not enough time. The calendar images are nailed down well in advance, generally, and most artists use their own models for SotL, or ones from colleagues or the community. If there's no one on the current VFX team working with the calendar, then we're waiting on the regulars to create their own versions of the ships from Discovery.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Any reason why there isn't any Discovery pictures? They had the "Discoprise" last year, but I assumed, especially with Discovery in such popularity and the current iteration, that you'd get some ships from that era (maybe even mixing with TOS ships).

Possibly a rights issue. The license to have Disco ships may cost more than the TOS/Berman era ships.

IIRC we only had the Kelvin universe ships feature in one SOTL calender.

 

[SPCTRE]

Disco not canon CONFIRMED dot dot dot question mark thinking emoji galaxy brain dot png

 

[Mage]

June: TOS TV era style Miranda class with Tholian ships

This seems to be directly inspired by a scene from the first Vanguard novel; the Bombay vs Tholians!

 

[tomswift2002]

I like the September image with Voyager and the Delta Flyer flying over the Palais de Concorde.

 

[The Wormhole]

I like the September image with Voyager and the Delta Flyer flying over the Palais de Concorde.

It's actually Starfleet Command they're flying over. Note the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

 

[Tuskin38]

"The USS Saratoga meeting the cetacean probe - By Michael Wiley"

Nice to see more work by Wiley, I've been following him for years, he used to make mods for Bridge Commander, and one of his original ship design is in the Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire.

Interesting take of a Mirror TOS Enterprise on the cover.

That Starbase on the 8472 image is from Star Trek The Experience isn't it?

 

[The Wormhole]

That Starbase on the 8472 image is from Star Trek The Experience isn't it?

I thought it was the station where their Starfleet Command replica was in Voyager's In the Flesh?

 

[David cgc]

It's probably supposed to be the space station from "In the Flesh," but that one looks different, while the station in the image is definitely Copernicus Station from the Borg Invasion ride (which I see was modeled by Doug Drexler, which explains why he had it handy).

 

[publiusr]

The Discovery D-7 would be nice.

Being 2020, maybe we could see a tiny figure of Hugh Downs

 

[DEWLine]

Based on reports from people on the Sci-Fi Blueprint Group on Facebook, I believe that copies are now available for purchase "in the wild"...?

 

[Mysterion]

Based on reports from people on the Sci-Fi Blueprint Group on Facebook, I believe that copies are now available for purchase "in the wild"...?

Received mine from Amazon this past week. Nice crop of images this year. Loving the Daedalus cutaway in the centerfold - we really need to have a book of Trek cross-sections along the lines of the Incredible Cross-Sections books they've done for Star Wars.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

February: Defiant and two Starfleet ships of a new design

I think those two starships are both saber class

 

[DEWLine]

Yes. DM Phoenix's spruced-up version of the Saber. Liking it a lot.

 

[DEWLine]

Just bought my copy today!

June - NCC-1926. I didn't see a name painted onto that hull, though.