Dedication plaques

[Epsilon IX]

Here are some more quotations which I thought would make good mottos. These are more metaphysical/poetical.

"O struggling with the darkness all the night, and visited all night by troops if stars." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"Thence we come forth to see the stars again." (Dante)

"Pure and ready to mount to the stars." (Dante)

"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory." (Sir Francis Drake)

"Hitch your wagon to a star." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started,
And know the place for the first time." (T.S. Eliot)

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." (Sir Isaace Newton)

"Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns." (Alexander Pope)

"This grey spirit yearning in desire,
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." (Tennyson)

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." (Tennyson)

"The shape of things to come." (H.G. Wells)

More coming soon!

 

[Epsilon IX]

Here are a few more:

"Into the eternal darkness, into fire, and into ice." (Dante)

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is, and has been is but the twilight of the dawn." (H.G. Wells)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." (Albert Einstein)

"Not all who wander are lost." (J.R.R. Tolkein)

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas)

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards, and leads us from this world to another." (Plato)

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testin point, which means at the highest point of reality." (C.S. Lewis)

"I do not seek, I find." (Wole Soyinka)

"My exalted head shall strike the stars." (Horace)

"Remember to be calm in adversity." (Horace)

"Courage conquers all things." (Ovid)

"A spirit superior to every weapon." (Ovid)

"Whatever chance shall bring, we will bear with equanimity." (Terence)

Let me know what you think!

 

[USS Jack Riley]

^^Epsilon IX - These are great, where did you find them?

 

[Epsilon IX]

In answer you your question, USS Jack Riley I found the majority of them in various dictionaries of quotations uttered by various people. I tried to find ones with mentioning of themes such as Courage, Curiosity, Astronomy and anything that really mentioned stars and planets and anything else I considered important to the Starfleet ethos. The tolkein one I actually found on a greeting card when I was searching for an appropriate birthday card.

 

[Mysterion]

Here's a quote I think would be good for a more combat oriented ship (akira or Defiant class):

"Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis"
("In all things, whoever spares the bad injures the good")

Not sure from where it originated, but I've always liked it.

 

[Pegasus Elite]

Kimo_Storm_10@yahoo.com


Hello. I am new to this. I have been trying to findout how to make you own dedication plaque for my starship. I am not exactly very smart on the computer. I was wondering if someone will be willing to at lease show me how to make one and not copy from someone else. I would really appreciate it alot. Whoever is willing to help, I will make sure that the person does get full credit and when I get my ships page up, that FULL CREDIT will be mentioned there as well. Thanks!

 

[Gagarin]

"A ship is safest at port, but that's not what ships are for..."

 

[Pegasus Elite]

"Ask not what your country can do for you... ask what you can do for your country..." John F. Kennedy

 

[friedebarth]

WOW!!!

Stuff like that is amazing!!!

"No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place" - Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax by Andrew Marvell

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
-Isaac Asimov

 

[hellsgate]

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
-Isaac Asimov

This one would be for the U.S.S. Mandela in one of my eternally-WIP fanfics. (She's a Legacy-Class, designed by Galen & Suricata.)

 

[S'kai]

Kimo_Storm_10@yahoo.com


Hello. I am new to this. I have been trying to findout how to make you own dedication plaque for my starship. . .

You need to have access to a drawing or photograph manipulating program. Corel is an example. Less expensive is Photoshop Elements. In a pinch, one might be able to do it with Microsoft Publisher. You can do a fine job with a cheap program; it just takes more effort.

You need to learn how to make shapes, mostly rectangles, and do shading, and color things in. Finally use the Emboss command to give the 3-D effect to your letters and frame elements.

Probably the most complicated part for someone without much computer skill is getting the emblem copied and pasted in to the plaque, and manipulated to blend in with the rest. If I were doing it, I would do it all in gray, then put the color in last.

Others here with more experience and different tools would do it differently.

 

[hellsgate]

From the U.S.S. Vonnegut's dedication plaque.

"Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops."
— H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956.

 

[kryptoknight]

I really appreciate those who tried to explain how it's done, but I haven't found any of the advice all that helpful.

Couldn't somebody post a photoshop template or something or the kind, to make it easier?

 

[M'Sharak]

Here's a quote I think would be good for a more combat oriented ship (akira or Defiant class):

"Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis"
("In all things, whoever spares the bad injures the good")

Not sure from where it originated, but I've always liked it.

Publilius Syrus may be the one. He at least wrote it down among his Maxims.

 

[Jimi1971]

I really appreciate those who tried to explain how it's done, but I haven't found any of the advice all that helpful.

Couldn't somebody post a photoshop template or something or the kind, to make it easier?

I found this template by Furyofaseraph, it should help.
http://furyofaseraph.deviantart.com/art/Starship-Dedication-Plaque-PSD-27314482

 

[Epsilon IX]

Another quote I thought would be fitting, this time uttered by Doctor Who in his fifth incarnation:

"There's always something to look at if you open your eyes."

 

[Epsilon IX]

Here are some more quotes I found. These ones were, for the most part, written by sci-fi authors:

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. (Jules Verne)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens)

Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop. (Murray Leinster)

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. (Ray Bradbury)

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. (Arthur C. Clarke)

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into - that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for it. (Robert A. Heinlein)

The spirit of adventure, the lure of the universe, the thrill of a gallant quest. How very grand indeed. (Norton Juster)

These lands are not always calm. We may have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts. (Poul Anderson)

Sometimes the mind needs to discover things for itself. (Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter)

Don't dream it - be it. (Richard O'Brien)

We have a tradition of freedom, personal freedom, scientific freedom. That freedom isn't kept alive by caution and unwillingness to take risks. (Robert A. Heinlein)

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. (J. R. R. Tolkein)

You're all astronauts on some kind of star trek. (Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore)

Our knowledge of our own limitations is one of our most powerful weapons against the universe. (John Brunner)

 

[S'kai]

I found this template by Furyofaseraph, it should help.
http://furyofaseraph.deviantart.com/art/Starship-Dedication-Plaque-PSD-27314482

Thank you for this link! I was able to put together a plaque for the Zhang Heng rather quickly:

 

[Kaziarl]

Are we allowed to make requests? I'd love to have a few of these for my stories.