Tos/Tas style art

[Scott Kellogg]

Howdy Folks,

I'm new around here, and still struggling to figure out how folks work together.
My friend Redfern suggested I try the fan art forum, so I thought I'd try posting some artwork and see how it goes.

Scott
Just a landing party doing some survey work.

Addendum:
I originally was thinking that one of the problems with Star Trek was their field work.
6 people would beam down to one site on a planet and walk around exploring it with a few hand tools.
Here we see a sophontologist operating the equivalent of a TOS Era "Camera Trap."
Something you could leave operating on the surface of a planet for years or decades recording data on life, atmosphere, temperature, what have you.
I based it off the Recorder Marker from "Where No Man has Gone Before."

 

[Cyfa]

This is a fun piece! I love the style of the recorder marker-based equipment, and had never really thought about Starfleet leaving drones/probes/scientific equipment on a planet to collect data - what a good idea.

 

[trynda1701]

I originally was thinking that one of the problems with Star Trek was their field work.
6 people would beam down to one site on a planet and walk around exploring it with a few hand tools.

Yeah, that finally jumped out at me when I started playing the standard FASA RPG, before I got any supplements. My players started to ask for more equipment than the standard communicator/tricorder/phaser trifecta!

Is the further away landing party member using a James Bond style jet pack? Probably antigrav augmented, of course!

Nice artwork scene @Scott Kellogg !

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Yeah, that finally jumped out at me when I started playing the standard FASA RPG, before I got any supplements. My players started to ask for more equipment than the standard communicator/tricorder/phaser trifecta!

Is the further away landing party member using a James Bond style jet pack? Probably antigrav augmented, of course!

Nice artwork scene @Scott Kellogg !

Thank you! Yes, I was thinking of the old Bell Rocket Belt, like Thunderball, Ark II, and Lost in Space.
It would certainly cover more ground. After all, when planets only get visited once in 20 years, wouldn't you do more than just spend an afternoon hike?

I drew some more where I was trying to figure out what a Starfleet Scuba equipment list would look like.
Surely, they did some exploration with the Aquashuttle, because not every planet would have all the interesting bits on land!

 

[Redfern]

Your crewperson with the flying pack reminds me of something I drew during the Spring of '77. I depicted Kirk and Spock with flying harnesses, but being a wee lad of just 14, I used a feature that in retrospect is just absurd. The flight packs had miniature nacelles! yup, they looked like mini warp engines! Oy...silly me!

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Here's my rendition of a Class 4 Survey Vessel, like the SS Beagle from "Bread and Circuses"

I figured I'd try something a little different from the Enterprise variants that one sees, and tried to make a variation on the only other Federation design we saw in the original TOS. It's an Aurora variant ala "The Way To Eden."

This being the USS Quasar, that I dreamed up for my little Fan Art run.

It was pulled out of the mothball fleet for use as a sensor package experiment.
The idea was kind of inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Hubble sits in orbit gathering light into it's instruments for long periods of time.
But imagine if you could run your ship at Warp 1 with a great big sensor dish to gather in light much faster than you could just sitting in orbit? You'd make intergalactic astronomy a lot easier.

So, she's slow, small and not formidable in any way, but she's got a sensor suite that's hard to beat.

The engine nacelle design I nabbed from the "USS Bonaventure" from TAS "Time Trap."

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Speaking of TOS era Star Liners, I drew these a while back. The artwork is old, but it captures my attempt at a Luxury Liner variant similar to the TAS "Huron"
The story was going along the lines that the liner was stopped by a Klingon Scout Ship. When the Klingons attempted to "Manhandle" a Starfleet passenger aboard, she took them out, commandeered the engine room and then used the Liner's Impulse engines to attack the Scoutship.

 

[BorgMan]

Lol, exactly the kind of campy stuff that happens in saturday morning cartoons. Love it! The broken scout shop does give me a good idea for a Rommy scout though...

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Lol, exactly the kind of campy stuff that happens in saturday morning cartoons. Love it! The broken scout shop does give me a good idea for a Rommy scout though...

Thanks!

You know when you think about it: Impulse drives would make a really effective weapon.
They've got to move thousands of tons of starship around up to fractions of the speed of light.
Assuming they're not reactionless drives (As the word "Impulse" would seem to imply)
They'd have to be shooting particles out the back at a very high fraction of the speed of light.
That's make for a Very Effective Weapon.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Not all cybernetic life forms are humanoid.

First contact with a space going species of Cybernetic Nautili.
(Not every race in the universe is Humanoid, folks.)

Interesting thing about these Nautiloids, their eyes are adapted for living under the ocean, which means they're practically blind to the color red. Red wavelengths are absorbed heavily by the ocean that they evolved in. Blue is the predominant color of their vision, even after they've emerged from the oceans.

But, in going into their environment, you'll find:
Microgravity and Microskirts don't mix.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

I got my 2nd Covid shot yesterday, and I feel like garbage.
So, I took the day off work and decided to post something:

Lt. Birdsong, the Sophontologist of the USS Quasar freezes for a moment in a surprise encounter...

 

[Scott Kellogg]

There's an Early episode of "Lost In Space" where they come across a giant cyclops.
Well, I read that there was originally supposed to be a whole race of giant cyclopses (Cyclopsi?) on the planet.
I admit I was kind of disappointed that they never went there, so this is my little fan fiction idea of that.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

While the TAS Enterprise carried an Aquashuttle, it occurred to me that they would clearly need some diving equipment. The only equipment the Enterprise crew used at the time were life support belts, but they did stress their limited range and capabilities. So, I went ahead to design equipment that would be useful for underwater or high atmospheric pressure exploration.

Why do they look like kindergarten toys? Well, under about 100 feet, it not only gets dim, but red light starts to fade out. Red, underwater looks grey. Which is why so many undersea creatures are reddish in color. A black dropped piece of equipment is a LOST piece of equipment, so they're brightly colored. Also, wearing gauntlets will reduce your dexterity, so the controls are necessarily larger.

All the equipment is pressure sealed and can not be opened in the field without breaking it's integrity. It is rated for 1000 Standard Atmospheres, even if the scuba gear illustrated is not.

The Throat mic Communicator also monitors the wearer's blood chemistry and is telemetrically linked to the The Dive Tricorder. The Dive Tricorder can calculate the diver's nitrogen levels and monitor decompression to warn of gas pressure absorption problems like the bends or nitrogen narcosis.

The Dive Tricorder functions as a science tricorder as well as a medical monitor. It will display the time of the dive, the depth attained and the time the diver must decompress if it is necessary.

The Dive Phaser is primarily a tool rather than an offensive weapon. It has less destructive power than your standard phaser II, but greater battery power for long periods of cutting or welding. It seems to me that the Phaser IIs can be opened up fairly easily, and they don't appear to have seals that would hold up very well, either to water, or a corrosive atmosphere. So, in such case, the Dive Phaser would be more useful.

The dive knife also contains a small, low powered short range phaser to cut away obstacles that are too tough for the blade.

And of course, a sea scooter to get where you're going.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

A phaser? Underwater?

(LOVING the artwork though!)

 

[Scott Kellogg]

A phaser? Underwater?

(LOVING the artwork though!)

Thanks!
Why not? The beams travel through air without difficulty. They'd probably have to be tuned somehow.
I seem to remember the TAS Aquashuttle was armed with phasers to stun sea creatures.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

It’s just that when I saw those weapons, I immediately thought of this exchange between Scotty and McCoy in “The Immunity Syndrome”:

SCOTTY: We have no power for the phasers…

McCOY: We couldn’t use it if we had it—we’d cook ourselves along with that mess of protoplasm out there!

 

[Scott Kellogg]

It’s just that when I saw those weapons, I immediately thought of this exchange between Scotty and McCoy in “The Immunity Syndrome”:

SCOTTY: We have no power for the phasers…

McCOY: We couldn’t use it if we had it—we’d cook ourselves along with that mess of protoplasm out there!

Well, since we really don't know how phasers work...
<spoiler>(real explanation: The writer's whim.)</spoiler>
If phasers work like normal light and lasers, we can guess that like light frequencies on different lasers will have different penetrations based on what sort of medium they're travelling through (green muddy water vs brown muddy water vs red muddy water) we can say that in this case, the phaser automatically reads a sample of the surrounding medium, and adjusts the phaser's frequency to compensate.

Which, would only make sense for regular phasers to do.
They won't always be firing in vacuum or on a class M Planet with a clear atmosphere in the visible spectrum.
if you're firing through a cloud of red-orange dust, you don't want it exploding in front of you
as if your phaser has itself set for a clear medium or blue-green dust.

Handwavy enough?

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Oh I’m a big fan of handwavium when it’s in the service of a good story.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

And now something to use that equipment for...

Captain's Log Stardate 4202.9, Captain Corcoran recording.

Taking a break from astronomical observing, we've taken time to survey planet M119, "Priplanus".
Anomalous sensor readings have found a wrecked Klingon Battle Cruiser. Analysis of the wreck show it has been under water for about 6 months. Plenty of time for the Klingons to have noticed her missing. Unknown what she was doing this far into Federation Space.

Our small ship is insufficiently equipped to fully investigate a find of this magnitude. I have therefore requested the USS Hood divert here. I did not broadcast the reason for the diversion. I told Captain Dodge we needed his ship's surgeon for an emergency appendectomy. I'll apologize later.

I just hope we need the Hood's science labs more than we need her guns. Should the Klingons discover our salvage operation, the Quasar would be badly outgunned.

Until Hood arrives, I've ordered the crew to investigate the wreck to learn as much as we can in case we're cut short.

Priorities are their Library Computer and as much data as we can get on their S-2 Graf Units. Klingon warp technology is vastly different from ours. I'm sure our engineers would love to get a chance to tear them apart. Lt. Mauggie, Lt. Birdsong, and Lt. Whittle volunteered to take the Aquashuttle to investigate the wreck that the crew has dubbed the "IKS Krash."

It's a calculated risk. We don't know where the Klingons are, and more pressingly, we don't know what wrecked the Krash. At this point, I'm not willing to risk my crew beaming aboard blind.

What happened to her crew? Radiation? Plague? Mutiny? Too many questions.

No answers.



(Artist's Note on the Aquashuttle: I added a drop down ramp on the aft end of the design. It only makes sense for an aquatic exploration craft. Divers must come and go easily. There's also a hatch on the underside of the passenger compartment that would allow Divers entrance while underwater.

The small Quasar carries only one shuttlecraft, so I gave her an Aquashuttle. The "Voit". To explain the joke, the 1990s TV show "DSRV seaQuest" got their dive equipment from the "seaQuest" dive equipment line from a French Manufacturer. I assume it was 1990's product placement. I had a seaQuest wetsuit at one point. Now, the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" show used AMF-Voit dive equipment. Thus the name is a small joke that's so obscure it has to be explained.)

 

[publiusr]

I seem to remember phaser beams surrounded by bubbles in TAS