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Ships of the Line 2022

Ooh. Is this the first time the initial January announcement and preview images actually used art from the calendar, instead of placeholders from previous years?

And this is interesting: "Bonus spread for September–December 2021." The description also mentions the traditional "monthless" bonus image in the middle, so are they adding an extra page/image to the front, for a total of 15 rather than 14? (That's twelve months, the centerfold, the cover, and potentially the September/October/November/December 2021 image.)
 
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Giving this thread a bump since all the images for the calendar are now available, which you can view by clicking the Amazon link in the OP of this thread. But to review, there's a lot of new designs this time, unless they're from STO, which I'm not really that familiar with. They are as follows:
January: Enterprise A with some sort of space station.
February: New ships from TOS movie era.
March: New 24th century ship.
April: Rear view of an Ambassador class ship, with shuttlebay open.
May: Cover image from The Fall: Revelations and Dust with Galaxy class USS Robinson and an Excelsior class ship at the new DS9.
June: Another new 24th century ship.
Centerfold: Cutaway of Shuttlecraft Galileo.
July: Original Enterprise as seen from Captain Christopher's cockpit from Tomorrow is Yesterday.
August: Enterprise A and Excelsior.
September: I think that's an STO ship flying by original DS9.
October: Movie era Constitution class and a D-7 at the Starfleet Museum.
November: Early TNG era shuttlecraft landed at some planetary facility.
December: New ship from TOS movie era.
 
Giving this thread a bump since all the images for the calendar are now available, which you can view by clicking the Amazon link in the OP of this thread. But to review, there's a lot of new designs this time, unless they're from STO, which I'm not really that familiar with. They are as follows:
January: Enterprise A with some sort of space station.
February: New ships from TOS movie era.
March: New 24th century ship.
April: Rear view of an Ambassador class ship, with shuttlebay open.
May: Cover image from The Fall: Revelations and Dust with Galaxy class USS Robinson and an Excelsior class ship at the new DS9.
June: Another new 24th century ship.
Centerfold: Cutaway of Shuttlecraft Galileo.
July: Original Enterprise as seen from Captain Christopher's cockpit from Tomorrow is Yesterday.
August: Enterprise A and Excelsior.
September: I think that's an STO ship flying by original DS9.
October: Movie era Constitution class and a D-7 at the Starfleet Museum.
November: Early TNG era shuttlecraft landed at some planetary facility.
December: New ship from TOS movie era.
So other than the STO image, nothing post-2001? Okay.

Licencing issues, or is it just that the target audience (ship nerds, basically) hate anything recent?
 
I suppose it could be a licensing issue. There have been DSC and KT images in the past, but usually only one at a time (and who's to say what MKF's TOSified versions of the Discovery and Buran in this year's edition "count" as, legally), so maybe they require special permission for each modern image. More likely, it's just that there's a lot of Trek, and it's hard to be representative all the eras. My instinct, though, is that it's the talent pool. The calendars, not unlike the novels, have a stable of regular, reliable contributors, and whether they're fan-artists, Trek-alumnai, fan-artists-turned-Trek-alumnai, they all tend to predate ST09, so whatever assets they have, whether they're screen-used or self-made, are also from the pre-modern era. And the newer stuff can be complex for a single person to replicate. I could probably model an attractive and accurate Mushroom Spacedock, but there's no way I could recreate Starbase Yorktown, no matter how much I want to.

Now, there are solutions to this. There are fan artists who've done excellent versions of KT and DSC ships, and have even made those models available. Eaglemoss has commissioned a comprehensive library of high-quality 3D models of every ship ever seen on Star Trek up to the present day, which I can only assume is horribly legally encumbered somehow since no one seems to actually want to use this incredible resource for anything aside from the half-dozen images for the magazine that comes with every ship. I'm not sure how the calendar editors go about recruiting new talent (I'd hoped the open-submission 50th anniversary edition was a step towards that, but I've never gotten any follow-up from that, and I can kind of see why that experiment might not have been viewed as an unmitigated success).

So, in answer to your question, I have no idea. Even if no one (personally or institutionally) behind the scenes involved in the KT movies or the All Access shows wanted to participate in the calendar, I see no reason why they wouldn't keep their fingers on the pulse of the fan community and try to fill out a couple of the months that are currently going to straight reprints of DS9 book covers with some DSC, PIC, or KT stuff, except for an editorial decision (which, you know, I've seen fan-art takes on DSC and PIC that fit in with the "classic" Trek look, so that shouldn't be a huge barrier, and there have been enough AU version of the TOS Enterprise in SotL over the years that it's not a philosophical objection to reimagining designs in general).
 
Giving this thread a bump since all the images for the calendar are now available, which you can view by clicking the Amazon link in the OP of this thread. But to review, there's a lot of new designs this time, unless they're from STO, which I'm not really that familiar with. They are as follows:
January: Enterprise A with some sort of space station.
February: New ships from TOS movie era.
March: New 24th century ship.
April: Rear view of an Ambassador class ship, with shuttlebay open.
May: Cover image from The Fall: Revelations and Dust with Galaxy class USS Robinson and an Excelsior class ship at the new DS9.
June: Another new 24th century ship.
Centerfold: Cutaway of Shuttlecraft Galileo.
July: Original Enterprise as seen from Captain Christopher's cockpit from Tomorrow is Yesterday.
August: Enterprise A and Excelsior.
September: I think that's an STO ship flying by original DS9.
October: Movie era Constitution class and a D-7 at the Starfleet Museum.
November: Early TNG era shuttlecraft landed at some planetary facility.
December: New ship from TOS movie era.

April: That's not an Ambassador, it appears to be a refit/redesign of a fan design that appeared in a previous Calendar, inspired by the Ambassador/Excelsior. Same artist, Dan Uyeno aka Madkoifish
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Balmung

September: Yes that's the Refit Enterprise-F, there's a bigger version of that image in the amazon preview page, and I posted it in the OP :nyah:. Those are STO game models in the render too, not high-res versions.
December: Yeah that appears to be the Miranda concept model, with an asteroid base inspired by McQuarrie's art.
 
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Didn't Bad Robot throw a fit over the use Kelvin Timeline ships the one time they were in one of these calendars, which lead to a separate Ships of the Kelvin Timeline calendar one year?
I don't know about Bad Robot disapproving of being included in the calendar (though it would explain why, now that I've double-checked, there was only the one picture of the JJPrise in the 2011 edition and nothing since), but I've certainly never heard of a second JJverse starships calendar. Maybe you're thinking of the way the UK publisher has their own edition (which is just the US calendar from the prior year)?
 
Maybe you're thinking of the way the UK publisher has their own edition (which is just the US calendar from the prior year)?
Hmm, possibly. A search revealed this post from 2012 talking about a Ships of the Line calendar for the Kelvin Timeline, even providing a link to it from UK Amazon, though clicking on that link now just takes you to their page for the 2013 Ships of the Line calendar.
 
I don't know if she still edits it, but when Margaret was responsible for the calendar, her editorial ethos was to commission the artists to just do what they found interesting.

Is this the fourth time someone has done "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"?
 
It needs to be the Discovery Enterprise chased by a Genie armed Voodoo I tells ya...the unmade version with Phantom J-79 engines just to keep up. That missile fire would be an interesting gif. That’s how the JJ pride was back-engineered with that shoot-down...
 
I don't know if she still edits it, but when Margaret was responsible for the calendar, her editorial ethos was to commission the artists to just do what they found interesting.

Is this the fourth time someone has done "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"?

Oh, sixth, at least, if we're counting Eaves's paintings of the TOS Enterprise flying in formation with the Blue Angels and/or Thunderbirds as "Tomorrow as Yesterday" riffs (he also had one from that series, titled "The Send Off," in 2018).

I'll also cop to contributing to the scourge of drydock images. I'd love to make up for it, hint, hint.
 
The 2022 calendar doesn't excite me. It's a shame too for fans of more recent Trek shows that there isn't anything for them.
 
If I had my way, 2023 would be the same physical layout...but a new image for every week, rather than every month. More room for more stuff to satisfy more factions of tech fandom.

I know that there's likely technical issues that would complicate making that dream a reality.
 
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