Changing the registry from 1701-A to 1701 is pretty trivial. Adding Star Trek II / III battle damage? Less so.
And I'm pretty sure those are his meshes, right?
News Ships of the Line 2026 Calendar
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Changing the registry from 1701-A to 1701 is pretty trivial. Adding Star Trek II / III battle damage? Less so.
And I'm pretty sure those are his meshes, right?
Matalas used little models of the Federation class dreadnought in PIC and didn't pay FJ's estate.
Yes, Alain models all his own stuff, which should make it easier to change the name than if he was using someone else’s model that wasn’t designed to have swappable names. On the other hand, he might also have made the models himself in such a way that it’s not trivial to change the names. Whatever his reasons, it’s clearly not a priority for him.
And it shouldn't be. This is just calendar artwork, not something that's going to be shown on screen.
I know the first part. The possibly baseless rumor that I heard was that there was an issue when it was discovered that this was not a thing that Paramount owned free and clear and that it would cost them (a little) money.
From what I understand (and I admittedly could be wrong as well) was that Matalas knew the dreadnought design wasn't CBS's property and used it anyway thinking that nobody would notice. They then had to backpedal and make up some BS about it not being 'exactly like' FJ's design to get out of any legal issues. Which is why I'm asking about the scout/destroyer in this calendar art, and its missing deflector dish.
Memory Beta's purpose is to catalog the contents of tie-in fiction and non-canonical material. I don't see why original calendar art shouldn't be included along with novels, comics, games, etc. Although Beta does have a bad habit of lumping different tie-in continuities together rather than differentiating them by source.
Maybe that's a suggestion you can pass on to the Memory Beta Team who curates the site.
I gather others have already done so with no effect.
*stares at post from a stranger to Memory Beta*
*stares at my terrible experiences on Memory Beta*
*rolls on the floor laughing*
I mean they treat the calendar images as actual lore, not just fun images.
I need to check if they mention mine, even though it was later “Jossed” when Dayton blew up half the Endeavour.
What does "actual lore" even mean here? Again, the specific purpose of Memory Beta is to catalog the non-canonical tie-ins. It's understood that not one word of it is "actual." It's all just for fun.
The calendar images are telling stories, just as any novel or comic or game or fan reference book is telling a story. None of them are purported to be canonical, which is why they're on Memory Beta instead of Alpha. So I don't see why the fiction of the calendars is any less worth chronicling than the fiction of other tie-ins.
Backstory if my contribution for July '26:
Starfleet reads a signal of an unknown anomaly on their long range sensors. The Enterprise as the nearest by vessel was assigned to investigate. When approaching the anomaly a derelict saucer was drifting out of the rift, hull markings show it as the ISS Enterprise. No responses to their hails but energy tendrils shooting out of the rift, catching at the saucer to draw it back in.
Starfleet reads a signal of an unknown anomaly on their long range sensors. The Enterprise as the nearest by vessel was assigned to investigate. When approaching the anomaly a derelict saucer was drifting out of the rift, hull markings show it as the ISS Enterprise. No responses to their hails but energy tendrils shooting out of the rift, catching at the saucer to draw it back in.