Wow what is this ship from the ship of the line calender?

[P0sitr0nic]

^ Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. They would have to reverse engineer the Slipstream to make it an effective piece of equipment.

Very true. I honestly would like to see this referenced in future books. Starfleet working on Slipstream drive. It makes a lot of sense, and as Q said to Janeway, Starfleet would be tooling around the Delta Quad just a mere 100 years later.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Events from the calendars sometimes make their way into the novels (the discovery of Columbia crashed in the Gamma Quadrant is getting a novel trilogy) so you never know. But I think we have a way to go before we'd get that novel. Destiny - the most recent in the Trek series - takes place in 2381.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Events from the calendars sometimes make their way into the novels (the discovery of Columbia crashed in the Gamma Quadrant is getting a novel trilogy)

Actually, the pic of the Columbia in the calendar may have nothing to do whatsoever with its fate in the novels. It doesn't have to. The calendar isn't "canon".

 

[nx1701g]

Spoiler: Destiny Spoilers

At the same time, in the Gamma Quadrant, a new captain and her crew investigate the wreck of a starship missing in action for more than two centuries.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Spoiler: Destiny Spoilers

At the same time, in the Gamma Quadrant, a new captain and her crew investigate the wreck of a starship missing in action for more than two centuries.

Coincidence?

In any case, the novel writers *can* use the calendar image if they want, but they don't have to.

 

[Amaris]

Not unlike the Captain's Yacht from the Ent-E.

That's what I thought too when I first saw it. Either that or a private yacht, something a very, very affluent person would have.


J.

 

[Captain Leslie]

It looks totally "Gerry Anderson"" Very Captain Scartlet!

 

[BrotherBenny]

Looking at the stern, it looks as though the nacelle pylons and that bizarre spoiler actually retract back into the hull.

Is this Starfleet's Super Pursuit Mode?

 

[P0sitr0nic]

^ Events from the calendars sometimes make their way into the novels (the discovery of Columbia crashed in the Gamma Quadrant is getting a novel trilogy) so you never know. But I think we have a way to go before we'd get that novel. Destiny - the most recent in the Trek series - takes place in 2381.

9 years before the prototype Slipstream vehicle. It could be mentioned... lol

 

[nx1701g]

Spoiler: Destiny Spoilers

At the same time, in the Gamma Quadrant, a new captain and her crew investigate the wreck of a starship missing in action for more than two centuries.

Coincidence?

In any case, the novel writers *can* use the calendar image if they want, but they don't have to.

True. But, in this case, the editors revealed that they took inspiration from the calendar image in the TrekLit forum back when Destiny was first announced. They don't have to follow the calendar images as canon, but sometimes they use them. Did I ever say in the thread that calendar images were canon?

 

[Mistral]

Um, which way is it going? Is it heading towards us or away? The nacelles seem to suggest one, but the basic orientation of the ship seems to suggest the other.

Nevermind, I found the delta shield and pinstriping.

But now the damn thing is staring at me as it flies by.

Its not staring at you-its watching you with a predatory gleam in its eye. So relax.

 

[Sector 7]

I like it! It looks like a small, light, fast ship. I can imagine it as a diplomatic courier for emergency negotiations, once it is developed after testing. Or my personal ship for running around the galaxy!

 

[Forbin]

I smell a kitbash coming on.
The whole forward section looks like the ass-end of some other starship turned around.