Greetings! This is my take on a TOS era Dedication Plaque. The PROVIDENCE was laid down about ten years after the ENTERPRISE. I figure the style in dedication plaques had evolved some from the rather sparse "Starship Class - San Francisco Fleet Yards" description of the NCC-1701. I am not a 3D modeler, so you won't see the beautiful relief renderings the Reverend has posted. I did this in a DTP program.
I posted this is another thread, but this is a dedication plaque I did for my Yorktown-Class USS Yorktown:
Photoshop guru, call it whatever you like, he knows stuff. I asked him how it's done upthread, and his answer was "it's easy, just use (technobabble), (technobabble) and text!". Marian
Thx. The PROVIDENCE's mission is NOT "to seek out new life, new civilizations..." The Loknar CLass was designed by the Andorians for system defense. Lots of punch for the displacement, and no fat underbelly full of science stations and meeting rooms.
For the love of Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, would it be possible for you to correct the spelling of "K.Z. Tsiopkovskiy" on the plaque? I know that the misspelling originates from the actual prop, but it is annoying (albeit a gorgeous annoyance.)
I think the only thing you could do to irritate him is to try and sell it, but then you'd risk the wrath of Pocket Books also.
Here are some quotations I found which I thought would sound good for ship's mottos: "For great aims, we must dare great things." (Carl von Clausewitz) "Thrust in fearlessly: however foreign a man may be, in every crisis it is the high face which will carry him through." (Homer) "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." (Admiral John Paul Jones) "There are occasions when daring, and risky operations, boldly exectued, can pay great dividends." (General Matthew B. Ridgeway) "The outcome of the greatest events is always determined by a trifle." (Napoleon) "You may be whatever you resolve to be." (Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson) "In all great actions there is risk." (Duke of Wellington) "Let it not be thought that the age of chivalry belongs to the past." (Winston Churchill) "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because...it is the quality that guarantees all others." (Winston Churchill) "To every man, posterity gives his true honour." (Tacitus) "The man who is prepared has his battle half fought." (Cervantes) "Never take "No" for an answer. Never submit to failure." (Winston Churchill) All these I got from a dictionary of military quotations, which I thought went well with the Starfleet ethos. I shall follow up with more metapoetical/physical ones a bit later.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --Hamlet, Act 1, scene V Marian
In an upcoming novel, it will. BoxWhatBox: What does the CSS mean? As for quotes, Portia's speech in The Merchant of Venice has one of my favorites:
Ever since I read The Golden Compass in Fifteen Minutes I've wanted an excuse to use the word lamesauce. Thanks for providing one. Marian