Tos/Tas style art

[Henoch]

The Aquashuttle only fired its phasers at the sea monster when above the surface of the water (no bubbles). There was some iffy water ripples that was probably just poor animation layering. I think phasers used underwater would vaporize the water (lots of steam bubbles) in its linear path to its target.
https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x13/theambergriselement_017.JPG

 

[Scott Kellogg]

As screwy as it sounds, I think the only time we actually saw a shuttlecraft fire it's phasers*,
it was the Aquashuttle. Now, if the Aquashuttle is the only one armed with phasers, it would be kind of silly that they wouldn't work underwater, it's primary mission.

*(Yes, I think Spock did something with a standard shuttlecraft to the giant space ameboa, but it wasn't clear what... I'd almost assume phasers, but if the standard shuttlecraft has 'em, why didn't they use 'em in "Galileo 7?" So, I'm not sure.)

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Ship's Log Stardate 4202.9, Lt. Birdsong recording.

I was able to get through a maintenance hatch and into the partially flooded interior of the IKS Krash.

No survivors.

The remains of the crew were pretty fresh. Whatever happened apparently happened only a few days ago.
Everything else appeared fairly normal, except for some anomalous chemical warnings from my tricorder. I set it for chemical alarm and kept going.

I made my way down the corridors and entered what appears to be the Engineering Section to examine the S-2 Graf units. That's the Klingon equivalent of our Warp Drive Units.

That's where I found the remains of an unknown humanoid species in some sort of uniform. White hair, blue-green skin... At first I thought they were Andorians, but they had no antennae. They were armed and appeared to have been a boarding party.

The Klingons must have been overwhelmed, because they used the ship's supply of theragan nerve gas as a last resort to keep the aliens from taking their ship.

The entire ship appears to have been contaminated. My chemical alarm began blaring and I swam for my life...

 

[Henoch]

*(Yes, I think Spock did something with a standard shuttlecraft to the giant space ameboa, but it wasn't clear what... I'd almost assume phasers, but if the standard shuttlecraft has 'em, why didn't they use 'em in "Galileo 7?" So, I'm not sure.)

Maybe Spock gave the space ameba an electrical shock through the shuttlecraft hull...repeat of the Galileo Seven tactic.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Hadn't thought of that!

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Captain's Log Stardate 4203.1 Captain Corcoran recording.

The USS Hood arrived, and I explained the discovery of the Klingon wreck to Captain Dodge.
The Klingon cuiser, 'IKS Krash' as we've named it appears to be mostly undamaged but
flooded on the surface of Priplanus. The ship is contaminated with nerve gas, so I've
not allowed any further explorations of the interior.

We've begun preparations to tractor the wreck into space. We're too close to Klingon space
here, and if they were to discover our salvage operation, they would almost certainly go to
war to prevent our examination of their technology. This will be a tricky operation as the
water in the hull will certainly cause damage. From here the Hood will tow her to an asteroid
belt near Starbase 8. Far enough from civilization that no one will find her and the crews
can work on her quietly.

We've welded some grates over the open hatches in the hull to act as strainers when the water
and atmosphere drain out of the ship.

Captain's Log Startdate 4203.3

Disaster.

Between the Quasar, The Hood, and all our shuttlecraft, the Klingon battlecruiser
couldn't stand the strain of being lifted to orbit by the multiple tractor beams.
The 'IKS Krash' broke in two.

Well, Intelligence is just going to have to be satisfied with a wreck that's more wrecked.

Captain Dodge thinks we may be in for a commendation. Sadly, if it does make it through
channels, it will be classified of course. Our small crew has performed very well in this
incident. Even if Intelligence won't officially recognize them, I do.

 

[DinoTrek]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/W26zeD
USS Discovery in TOS style, not mine.
I wonder, if there is Discovery in TOS style
Is there is Enterprise in Discovery style?

 

[Sgt_G]

Love the story. Wish I could do art like that.

Oh, there are ways to word a classified medals package to say "he did something important and did it very well, but he can't tell you what he did."

 

[Sgt_G]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/W26zeD
USS Discovery in TOS style, not mine.
I wonder, if there is Discovery in TOS style
Is there is Enterprise in Discovery style?

Nice find. I *still* have watched any but the first episode of Discovery.

 

[publiusr]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/W26zeD
USS Discovery in TOS style, not mine.
I wonder, if there is Discovery in TOS style
Is there is Enterprise in Discovery style?

Beauty itself

 

[BorgMan]

Love it! Though the story became pretty dark fast, not sure if this is saturday morning material, but I'm digging IT a lot!

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Love it! Though the story became pretty dark fast, not sure if this is saturday morning material, but I'm digging IT a lot!

Thanks! Yes, it is a little dark, but maybe no more dark than say "Lights of Zetar" where they find all the corpses.

But, it was a bit of a change for me, because I'm normally a comedy writer.
My comic, "21st Century Fox" has been going on since 1998 so doing Star Trek was a bit of a change of pace.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Nice find. I *still* have watched any but the first episode of Discovery.

I was hoping that they'd start showing it on normal TV by now, but no such luck.
I'm afraid the pilot didn't really push me to subscribe.
And the spoilers I've heard over the years didn't tweak my interest either.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Love the story. Wish I could do art like that.

Oh, there are ways to word a classified medals package to say "he did something important and did it very well, but he can't tell you what he did."

Thanks,

To be honest, when I first started drawing, I could draw things, but not people. But, as a friend of mine said:
Everyone has 1000 bad drawings in them. All you have to do is to get that first thousand out, and then you're a good artist.

Really, it's just a matter of learning techniques and practice.
It also takes some willingness to learn new techniques.
(I bought my wife a new drawing tablet and laptop to work it from for Christmas. Here we are in July and all it's done is gather dust. You can lead a horse to water...)

But, honestly. If I can learn to draw, I think just about anyone can!

 

[BorgMan]

I had to stiffle my laugh in a full bus because of those Buzzard Collectors! Very, very nice!

 

[Cyfa]

Ha ha! Yes, the Buzzard Collectors tickled my fancy, too. As did the "Booglie Booglie" sound effects

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Apropos of nothing: I have a friend who actually worked with Dr. Robert Bussard.
(Quite a character) according to him, it's pronounce Bue - Sard (To rhyme with Card.)

 

[blssdwlf]

Maybe Spock gave the space ameba an electrical shock through the shuttlecraft hull...repeat of the Galileo Seven tactic.

Spock had noted that it was "insensitive to interior irritation" but might have done something to the sensitive outer membrane like flying the shuttle into it to re-establish comms. McCoy later says that firing phasers inside the organism would've cooked the Enterprise. However that maybe specific to the properties of the organism and firing phasers underwater doesn't have that same problem.

 

[publiusr]

Ha ha! Yes, the Buzzard Collectors tickled my fancy, too. As did the "Booglie Booglie" sound effects

I think Gold Key had a similar “sound”

Gold Key vs TAS!

 

[Scott Kellogg]

The USS Quasar is an old ship. After a long career, she was placed in mothballs in an extended orbit near Starbase 8 where she tumbled for 11 years.

Dr. Thompson, an emminent Astronomer was responsible for her revival as an experimental platform for long range astronmical observations. A brilliant, but iracable man, Dr. Thompson was developing a new method of data collection for observatories. By travelling in a straight course over a light year, a starship would be able to collect as much light for an exposure as a ground based telescope would in a year. This would greatly enhance images of distant galaxies.

Perhaps if Dr. Thompson had been a bit easier to get along with, Starfleet might have found him a better equipped vessel for his equipment, but his disagreeable and difficult nature worked against him, and it was extremely lucky that he got a ship and crew as it was.

As it is, the Quasar, Captained by Commander David Corcoran, has been modified with an outsized sensor dish to gather highly blueshifted photons while the ship is at warp speed. The telescope's long exposures require the ship to maintain a straight course for long periods of time. Plowing through space, for weeks at a time, going nowhere in particular has left the crew rather bored.

This leaves the ship’s Sophotologist, Lt. Lorelei Birdsong a rather frustrating time. There are few opportunities for plantfall, and few opportunities for her to work in her field, but her career has taken a back seat to Dr. Thompson’s well respected research.

Here we see one of her rare opportunities. Heading in for resupply, the Quasar encountered a small fleet of unknown alien vessels. Slower than light sleeper ships, on automation, with a collection of alien colonists kept alive in hibernation.

They were days away from landing on the human colony of Deneva when the Quasar found them and beamed their Sophontologist aboard.

While the Universal Translator was mostly useless, the Psycho-Tricorder at least determined they weren’t hostile, if a bit confused.