Trekkie Central Magazine Special Summer 2010

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Hailing Frequencies 4

The 22nd

Century

Precursor to History

USS Yorktown 6

Yorktown

USS Yorktown 8

The 23rd

Century

The Angel of Death

USS Azreal 12

Towards a Date with Destiny

USS Grissom 14

Helm. Standard Orbit, Please

USS Lexington 16

Inside the Saladin

USS Saladin 18

Ship of the Line

USS Farragut 20

In for the Long Haul

SS Aurora 22

To Explore the Unknown

USS Lexington 24

Slavers!

USS Tamerlane 26

The 24th

Century

Batavia

USS Batavia 30

An Intrepid Destiny: Chiron IV

USS Intrepid 32

Voyage of Discovery

USS Discovery 34

Down The Rabbit Hole

USS Odyssey 36

Engage Transwarp

USS Osiris 38

Carrying on the Name

USS Excelsior C 40

To Do No Harm

USS Cole 42

Chiron’s Port of Call

Chiron Station 44

Unlikely Rendezvous

USS Federation One and USS Excelsior 46

Ride of the Valkyrie

USS Valkyrie 48

In The Patch

USS Excelsior and USS Helena 50

The Mirror Universe

Ghost in the Mirror

ISS Sudrian 54

Ready for Departure

ISS Imperium 56

Into the Unknown

ISS Sudrian 58

Into the Future

A New Hope

USS Enterprise 62

Flight of the Phoenix

USS Phoenix 64

Captains Log 65

Welcome to another Ships of the Line special issue of Trekkie Central Magazine. Once again we

want to honour the ships that make the adventures we enjoy possible. These sleek and fast

machines take us on journeys to different worlds, different galaxies and even to different times.

Made of metal, wiring, plastic and the odd bit of cable when they come together and leave the

dock for the first time a new entity is born. These ships may not be sentient but they all come

with their own personalities, some are easy to get along with and some need a little coaching.

Sometimes they let you down and sometimes they are just what you need even when you don't

know it. They provide a stable place to be (well mostly) even when the Universe is spinning all

around you. They are your home, your workplace, your school and your Saturday night

entertainment some may even have a disco on board!

However, whatever they look like and how fast is they go “The Ship” is always there for you,

always awake, always listens (well again mostly) and usually never answers back! When you

say go-fast they do, when you ask for protection they try and provide it and when you ask for

more they try their hardest to give it to you.

Join us as we once again give tribute to The Ships of the Line and to those that, design them,

build them, draw them, imagine them and then bring them to us so that we can travel with

them. Without them how would we know what a star looks like close-up, or what colour is the

gas in a nebula, or how a forehead of an alien is different from a humans?

So again, we honour them because without them we would just have to stay home!

Gerri and Eugenia.

Good judgment comes from experience,

and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

Precursor to History:

At the time the Yorktown was a revolution in ship design, encompassing many of the

design features that generations of Starfleet officers and crewmembers – and

generations indeed of Federation citizens – would come to instantly recognize as a

Starfleet standard in design. A design best exemplified in the later (and legendary)

Constitution Class.

Yorktown

Following the success of the NX-01 series vessels - Earth’s first true starships that

would first serve in the precursor to Starfleet and the Federation, and later in its

fledgling years – plans were made and laid down for a class of starship to take

advantage of technological refinements and breakthroughs and to succeed these first

starship classes. Like Enterprise, and the Columbia before it, this new ship was to

have a name lodged in the annals of history – its own legacy it would pass on to the

Starfleet vessel designs that would follow it, as would the legacies of its captain and

crew. The ship’s name – was Yorktown.

My definition of a free society

is a society where it is safe to

be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)

The Angel of Death

The small Saladin Class Destroyers are usually the subject of much discussion and

controversy, its critics pointing out the belief that the plucky little destroyers are

simply too small and too outmatched for anything larger than, say, a freighter. This

has been proven to not be the case, as the destroyers and their crews have

demonstrated time and again with daring actions and quick thinking in the face of

adversity. It is perhaps indicative of the ‘can-do’ and never back down attitude that

Saladin crews have when the name of their ship is the U.S.S. Azreal – the name for

the biblical Angel of Death.

Towards A Date With Destiny:

The Oberth Class may be a small class of vessel, but they are powerful scientific

platforms. Amongst the Oberth Class the name Grissom is remembered for its fatal

encounter with the Klingon Captain Kruge over the Genesis Planet, but the little ship

commanded by J.T. Estaban has its own share of tales of adventure, even as it cruises

towards an inexorable date with destiny.

Helm. Standard Orbit, Please.

As much as deep space exploration is the bread and butter of Starfleet’s mandate of

discovery, the prospect of setting foot upon strange new worlds is always counted

amongst the greatest adventures – and among the most difficult challenges, that a

crew can face. Here the U.S.S. Lexington puts into standard orbit whilst her landing

party prepares to beam down to the surface below.

Inside The Saladin:

Although small in comparison to their larger cousins, the single-nacelled destroyers

of the Saladin Class are no less complex in their design, and often, as this schematic

shows, are far more complex than engineers from larger classes of vessels may well

be prepared for!

Ship of the Line:

Of all the ships in Federation history, perhaps none has more stories and legends to

their credit than the ships of the Constitution Class. The U.S.S. Farragut and Captain

Carter certainly have seen their share of adventures and the proudly take their place

in the few vessels of this famed class of explorers.

In For The Long Haul.

If Starfleet ships are the defenders and explorers of the Federation, then it is the

trader ships that are its backbone and lifeblood – hauling goods, supplies, and

colonist from one end of the frontiers of the Federation to the other. Here the S.S.

Aurora and the S.S. Lone Star cruise close aboard to each other.

To Explore The Unknown.

Starfleet has always had the spirit of exploration close to their hearts, their ships

range far and wide across the known galaxy seeking out those places that none have

gone before in journeys of discovery. The U.S.S. Lexington, like her sisters of the

Constitution Class, have been upgraded time and again for just this purpose, and as

she cruises the stars the Lexington and her crew uphold this grandest of Starfleet

traditions.

Slavers!

Even in age of technological wonder and enlightenment there is still the capacity

for evil and malice to be done to others. Out on the fringes of the Federation

there are groups who wage war for profit, and gain from the misery and

suffering of innocents, these predators ply the spacelanes and remote planets -

on the lookout for their latest victims. Starfleet officers are sworn to uphold the

values of the Federation, and to prevent these acts whenever possible. It often

falls to patrolling ships such as the U.S.S. Tamerlane to respond to these acts of

piracy and villainy as the Tamerlane and her crew engage an Orion slaver ship!

I am among those who think that science has great

beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a

technician: he is also a child placed before natural

phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

Batavia

The Nova Class was originally designed as a planetary survey and scientific research

vessel, and ships of this class, like the U.S.S. Batavia, excel in their role. The Batavia

emerges from the darkness of the planetary night side into the breaking light of its

sun, having completed yet another successful survey missions and having pushed

Starfleet’s knowledge of the galaxy around them ever further.

An Intrepid Destiny:

Chiron IV.

To some in the Federation it may only exist as a name and number that designates one of

the Federation's newest and farthest flung colonies, but to those colonists who set foot

out into the stars Chiron IV is home. The assignment to the Chiron IV Colonial Convoy as

its escort was seen by many in the U.S.S. Intrepid's crew as a 'cupcake mission' and

'babysitting' duties at first. But between entanglements with Orion pirates, tensions

between Starfleet and the Federation Merchant Service, and the appearance of the

mysterious organotechonological race known as the Surai, the crew of the U.S.S. Intrepid

and her commanding officer - Captain Daniel Hunter - have quickly discovered that life out

at this frontier colony has yet to be anything but an easy mission. Here the U.S.S. Intrepid

cruises out from orbit of Chiron IV, carving out her legacy - fulfilling her destiny - in this

far-flung region of space.

Voyage Of Discovery.

Years ago the U.S.S. Voyager returned from a perilous trip through the Delta

Quadrant. Now, in the present day, the U.S.S. Discovery – the first of her class - is

going back on an expedition to return to the Delta Quadrant. Her travels will take

her to the furthest reaches of our galaxy, into territories barely touched by the

travels of the U.S.S. Voyager. Her captain and crew knowing that this is what it

means to be Starfleet.

Down The Rabbit Hole:

In a daring mission to stop the Archein invasion of our galaxy, the Klingons and the

U.S.S. Odyssey – utilizing experimental quantum slipstream technologies, to go down

the rabbit hole and cross the chasm between the Milky Way and the Andromeda

Galaxies. It is a mission from which only the Klingon vessel will safely return and the

U.S.S. Odyssey, trapped in the Andromeda Galaxy with the untested Lt. Commander

Ro Nevin as it Captain, makes a daring journey of its own to find its way back home.

Engage Transwarp!

Ships of the Amun Class, like the U.S.S. Osiris, were designed to take advantage of the

newly redesigned transwarp drive – capable of accelerating the vessel to tremendous

speeds. With her destination set, the Osiris prepares to engage her transwarp –

hurtling off into the unknown.

Carrying On The Name

Amongst Federation starships, the Excelsior has a long and storied history: From the

dubiousness of the ‘Great Experiment’ to famed ship commanded by the equally

famed Captain Hiraku Sulu. It became the class ship of the Excelsior Class, a

workhorse of Starfleet for decades. Now, in the modern age, the Sovereign Class

NCC-2000C carries on the name, and the legacy, of Excelsior!

To Do No Harm.

Starfleet vessels are designed for a variety of purposes ranging from combat to

exploration. The ships of the Olympic Class, however, are designed to be spacegoing

hospitals and medical research center. They are welcome ships of mercy for those

who need their services as they uphold the ancient physicians oath to ‘Do No Harm.’

Chiron’s Port of Call

Outpost, Research Station, Defender of the Chiron IV Colony, and Port of Call. Chiron

Station is all of these things and more. Home base to the Starfleet operations in the

Charybdis Sector and home port of the U.S.S. Intrepid commanded by Captain Daniel

Hunter, life at Chiron Station is usually anything but dull thanks in part to its

prominent role in this frontier sector.

Unlikely Rendezvous

With the threat of the Archein growing, the Federation Presidential starship

Federation One and the Galaxy IV Class U.S.S. Excelsior rendezvous with a powerful

Warbird of the Romulan Star Empire to discuss the future of the galaxy!

Ride of the Valkyrie:

In any time, in any universe, Starfleet stands to explore and protect Federation

citizens, the dagger shaped primary hull of the U.S.S. Valkyrie and swarm of small

craft leave no doubt to the ship’s foes that she is well prepared to carry out missions

of peace as well as missions of combat with equal prowess as she cruises near the

cradle of humanity – Earth.

In The Patch:

Before its dissolution the ‘Briar Patch’ was an unpredictable area of space even for

the experienced Starfleet officers and ships that were assigned there as part of the

contingent of space station Deep Space 12 in the orbit of Ba’ku. Here the Galaxy III

Class U.S.S. Excelsior and the U.S.S. Helena cruise together against the crimson swirl

that is the currents and eddies of ‘The Patch.’ Little did anyone know that in a few

short years the Helena and her crew would be on the run from Starfleet and the

Excelsior would be leading the fight against invaders from another galaxy.

The outcome of the war is in our hands;

the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

Ghost In The Mirror

Wherever beings put to space, much like the seas, there are stories of derelict ships,

ghost ships, and legendary vessels lost to the stars or to the waves. One such ship is

this, the I.S.S. Sudrian, orbiting a dead world – its fate unknown, unrevealed, and its

hull entombing its secrets – until now.

Ready for Departure:

The cradles of orbital and deep space spacedocks serve the purpose of providing a

starship with a place to repair, rearm, and possibly allow the weary crew to travel for

shore leave whilst their ship’s needs are tended to by a small army of technicians,

laborers, and support and supply vessels. And across the mirror in this Dark Frontier

it is no different. But, the time always comes when the call to put to space is sent

out, and these mighty ships once more come to life as if awakening. Here the I.S.S.

Imperium begins to power up for another mission.

Into The Unknown

Exploration can be a dangerous business at times, even when that exploration takes

place on one of your own vessels! Here a Terran Empire Runabout is on approach to

the long lost I.S.S. Sudrian – and its mysteries.

The best way to predict

the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

A New Hope:

Far into the future – after the detonation of Omega Molecule devices leaves large

swaths of space impassable to warp drives - the Federation has turned from its

mandate of exploration to one of fierce isolationism. In this new reality young

Captain Alexander Chase and his crew serve aboard the heavily armed patrol cruiser

U.S.S. Enterprise. But in every generation’s darkest hour there is hope, and the

yearning to once again be out amongst the unknown stars, to rediscover the

universe, to carry on the legacy of exploration and discovery that their vessel’s name

has been so long associated with in the past – to boldly go where no one has gone

before.

Flight Of The Phoenix:

At nearly 1400 meters long and with nearly 10,000 crew aboard her, the enormous

U.S.S. Phoenix is a striking sight whether viewed from space, or from the planet she

cruises over as this gargantuan starship, commanded by Captain Avari, pushes back

the boundaries of Federation technology

Starships, be they large or small, play an important role in any Star Trek series whether they be

canon series or fan films.

From the Enterprise through to the Excelsior or even the Defiant without them no crew of a Star

Trek series would be able to ‘Bold Go’.

So I’ll finish this Captains Log by quoting one of the best known paragraphs in Star Trek history:

‘Space, the final frontier,

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise,

It’s continuing mission,

To explore strange new worlds,

To seek out new life and new civilizations,

To boldly go where no one has gone before’