Contest: VOTE June Art Contest: Pride Month!

[SCE2Aux]

Vote here for the June art challenge! It's wonderful to see that there's been a great bunch of entries again this month. The values of Star Trek and Pride are clearly being well reflected here.

Here are the entries:

Cyfa:

Donnewtype:

Finn:

gazomg:

Michael:

SCE2Aux:

Starscape:

The poll will be open for three days. It's certainly going to be a hard decision who to vote for!

 

[Michael]

Congratulations on another win, @SCE2Aux! And thank you to whoever gave my entry a vote!

 

[SCE2Aux]

I think Michael might have accidentally misread the vote tally, and I'm very happy to share the win . What do you say @Cyfa , shall we brainstorm some ideas for next month's art challenge?

 

[Michael]

Oh, dang, I didn‘t study the results close enough. Sorry for the confusion. Yes, both @Cyfa and @SCE2Aux won this one. Congratulations again!

 

[Starscape]

Congrats to the winners!

Nice to see so many entries this month and the spread of the votes just goes to prove the overall quality. Well done, all!

 

[Cyfa]

Wow, this is a surprise! Last time I looked my entry only had two votes, so thank you to those who voted

I'm very happy to share the win . What do you say Cyfa , shall we brainstorm some ideas for next month's art challenge?

- I'm happy with that, too! I can't think of any ideas off the top of my head, but there are these in the "Can I suggest an Art Contest" thread from a couple of months ago? I also had some vague thoughts about a food-related theme. Have you got anything in mind, @SCE2Aux?

 

[SCE2Aux]

Food related sounds very intriguing, there are lots of possibilities. Food has been important in all Trek series. Kingon Gagh, Romulan Ale, Tilly making snarky comments at the passive aggressive food slots... there's no shortage of scope.

An idea that I've had knocking about for a few weeks is something based around a Museum of the Federation. If you had to curate such a place, what artefacts would you have? The Federation Charter? Zefram Cochrane's jukebox? A dilithium crystal from the first commissioned starship? A Federation starmap?

I don't know, I think the food one has more potential straight out the box, maybe the Federation Museum idea needs a little longer to gestate.

 

[Cyfa]

All I can think of now is Tilly muttering "Shut your food slot" in the manner of Scotty's "Up your shaft!" to the Excelsior's turbolift in TSFS

If we do go for the food theme (although I do quite like the museum idea), shall we leave it quite open, such as food from any Star Trek era or race to give it that wide scope you mentioned?

 

[SCE2Aux]

I think keeping it broad would be a good idea, yes. From Aldebaran Whiskey to Zylo Eggs: Food in the Star Trek Universe!

I found this page which could be useful, if people want some idea prompts:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Foods_and_beverages

 

[Finn]

Me like

 

[Cyfa]

From Aldebaran Whiskey to Zylo Eggs: Food in the Star Trek Universe!

- Sounds good to me! Would you like to do the hosting again, @SCE2Aux, as you've actually done most of the thinking for the theme?

* wonders if Deanna Troi will share her chocolate sundae recipe *

 

[Finn]

Baby Deanna drinking out of a chocolate milk bottle

 

[SCE2Aux]

Sounds like we were all thinking about doing something on Troi's chocolate fixation!

- Sounds good to me! Would you like to do the hosting again, @SCE2Aux, as you've actually done most of the thinking for the theme?

I'll set the thread up later this morning.