Art Trek: New Look Next Gen

 I bet with all the beach posts lately you thought I might not have found time to fart-arse around with Star Trek art? Well, surprise!

 Don't worry though - there's not a lot to try and take in, and the end result is a rushed, sub-par sketch that you needn't look too closely at.

 I said:  Don't look too closely at it!

 Anyway, here we go with the theme so you know what you're letting yourselves in for...

What I'd like for us to do in July is to forget the somewhat stagnant design lineage between 2293 and the TNG era, and come up with concept art of how dramatically different in-universe Trek could look - at either the beginning of the TNG era in 2364 (71 years since the end of the TOS movies), or in 2399 (20 years or so after the end of the TNG era). As Norsehound says for 2399:

The challenge is to create a New Look/feel/set staging completely different from the TNG universe. Leave behind LCARS, one-piece uniforms, and organic looking ships. Treat TNG like yesteryear's TOS (Or appropriately, TMP) and design for us an alternate 2380 {2399} that is just as dramatically different as the early trek movies are from TOS.

For example, one of my bugbears are the massive consoles (conn, ops, and all the others). Why are they so bulky?? I know that in the real world they have to contain all the styrofoam rocks, explosives, CRT monitors, and lighting equipment required for the show, but in-universe shouldn't they be wafer-thin, floating in mid-air, firm to the touch yet yielding to a fall or impact?

I want to see your take on a no-holds barred, totally futuristic 2364 or 2399. In the words of MisterD:

What do you think Federation ships/technology of that era should look like? I want to see it all. Ships (outside and inside), LCARS, uniforms, equipment (phasers, tricorders etc.).......all that stuff and more.

Or, to put it slightly more succinctly (as I said to a fellow board member):

...amongst all that waffle, what I'm trying to say is: redesign the TNG era. Get rid of all the old TOS/TOS Movies trappings and make it completely different.  I mean, they're still using warp drive, and phasers, and tricorders, and navigational deflectors, and those corridors and transporter pads have been around for ever! It's old news, dahling.

Yikes - I'm beginning to sound like Edna Mode  

 Or, if you don't want to change TNG's style, then change Picard/2399 style instead - it's just too similar to what came before.

 Despite setting this theme myself (because I "won" the In Times of Crisis challenge in June), I was devoid of ideas - except for a flying saucer-esque Enterprise-D which languished in my notebook until 19th July when I finally sketched it out...

 Then, on deadline day - 1st August - with no other ideas, and barely any impetus, I sketched VERY crude depictions of Captain Picard, Commander Riker, who quickly became Rai क, to add a little diversity (from Assam rather than Alaska - and if I've got this right, the क [Devanagari "ka"] is also used as the number 1 in Āryabhaṭa numeration), and Counsellor Troi, all garbed in redesigned Starfleet uniforms (which were first seen back here, along with a narwhal in a spacesuit...).
 Faces and likenesses are not my strong suit, hence the bored-looking, swollen-headed Picard, squashed-head Rai क, and punched-in-the-lip Troi...

 While the characters may have been recognisable enough as sketches, I then coloured them in...
 Poor Troi is not having a good day: First, she was putting her make-up on when the ship got caught in an anomaly and was nearly shaken apart at the seams; Then, during the photoshoot, Rai क dropped one and Troi's nose caught the leading edge of the wave just as the photo was taken!

And then I coloured it in a bit more to create the final piece:

You may now breathe a sigh of relief as its all over with for another month or so.
(And the theme for August isn't even Star Trek!)

~o~

Previously on Art Trek (née It's a Faaaake! Not The Art Of Star Trek):

June 2020 - Aefvadh
May 2020 - Princessium and the Po
April 2020 - Into the Arboretum
March 2020 - Brighter Future
August & September 2019 - Artwork does exist, but I haven't published it on the blog yet (I don't know if I'll ever get around to it?), so here are the links to their existence on the TrekBBS: And it was *this* big! & Under the Sea... (August 2019), and Spytember (September 2019)
July 2019 - Blue Food (and the warm up: Baby Plastic Sperm Whales...)
June 2019 - Boldly Go in Infinite Diversity
May 2019 - (the leaked final scene) X Marks The Spot, and the main attraction: Treasure Map
April 2019 - Oops-A-Daisy!
March 2019 - Disco78
January 2019 - Caught Red Handed
October 2018 - Anomalous T-Shirt
September 2018 - Two Soups
August 2018 - Wild Things (and its prequel: Seeing Double)
July 2018 - Revenge of the Baby-Sat
June 2018 - Making Money
March 2018 - Murder On The Dancefloor
February 2018 - Narwhal in a Spacesuit
December 2017 - Unfinished Business
November 2017 - Let's See Your OC!
October 2017 - Celebrate Good Times, Come On!
July 2017 - Walk Like An Egyptian
June 2017 - Foreign Relations
May 2017 - Driven to Distraction
February 2017 - Of Prophet's Tears and Verteron Nodes (plus the warm up: The Celestial Temple Cries Golden Tears)
December 2016 - "Did the plan fail, Edward?"
November 2016 - Winter Solstice
October 2016 - Twisted October: Star Trek Art Challenge

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 For other Star Trek art, see:

Adventures in Star Trek Scribbling, and Further Adventures in Star Trek Scribbling from October 2017

 and:

Star Trek: Voyages That Never Were VI  (March 2016)
Star Trek: Voyages That Never Were V  (July 2013)
Star Trek: Voyages That Never Were IV  (March 2011)
Star Trek: Voyages That Never Were III  (March 2011)
Star Trek: Voyages That Never Were II  (February 2011)
Star Trek: Voyages That Never Were  (January 2011)