CHOKING HAZARD - No Small Parts

 Brace yourselves: This is a self-indulgent dumping ground for my latest Star Trek fan art, so either nod & smile until you get to the end, or just click away now and wait until I post something more interesting (athough that could take a while...)

 

 Diving straight in, here is the result from August's 'bonus photo' in my Cloud Mouth post: August's Art Challenge: "Hailing Frequencies Closed" (in honour of the dearly departed Nichelle Nichols at the end of July)

 

 

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 I had an idea for September's "TOS Anniversary" Art Challenge theme - the Ardanan floating city, Stratos.  That didn't pan out - the sketch on the right is as far as I got - so I ended up submitting a sculpture-type thing of the TOS operations & engineering insignia instead.  I cobbled it together from old, broken & seaworn roof tiles on a wander down to the beach to blow away the frustration that Stratos had built up.

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 Someone from the TrekBBS discovered that StarTrek.com had a fun Lower Decks 'Replicate Yourself' tool, so of course I had to have a go:

 

 I always fancied myself as being in the sciences division (should I ever have found myself in Starfleet) as science blue suits me MUCH better than command red or operations gold, but I realised while choosing all the bits & bobs for this avatar that I'm really more suited to be in engineering/ops.  Ah, well...

 

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 The preliminary ideas and sketches for October's "Pre-Warp History" challenge theme can be found in my Knicknacs and Odds-n-Sods post, and here is the as-finished-as-it's-ever-going-to-be effort:

 

 As almost nothing has been shown of Betazed's culture (in televised Star Trek), I didn't have a lot to choose from to make this recognisably Betazoid (I know, excuses, excuses...).  However, TNG: "Menage a Troi" did supply the muktok plant (right), the tall pink plant (left), and the architectural style of the 'castle'; TNG: "Genesis" supplied the frog (as Troi was 'devolving' into some sort of amphibian); and Lwaxana's comment in TNG: "Half a Life" was the entire basis for the bewigged aristocrat.  Oh, and the asymmetry of the dress's neckline is taken from Troi's turquoise dress. 

I didn't do a background because I was tired, which meant that I'd have almost certainly ruined it with the attempt.

 

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 Keeping with the LDS art style... It was Blogger Crush & Coven Member Tim's birthday on 10th November, so I turned him into a Lower Decks captain (he's a bigger Trek nerd than me!)

 

This was based on a photo of him from a couple of months back.

I did apologise to him for the boggly eye...

 

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 Having given up on my original My Little Pony idea for this month's Toy-based Art Challenge, I found inspiration from an idea I had earlier in the month, which was based on Kimolu's and Matt's insistence that Sam Rutherford (and his broad, sweaty shoulders) join them in the Cetacean Ops tank (from LDS: "First First Contact"):

 

[Screencaps from Cygnus-X1.net]

  I started work on Rutherford splashing around with Kimolu, but soon got distracted with November's fan art challenge, "Toy Trek", so I didn't finish the picture below:

 

 However, I couldn't get the foxy engineer out of my head, so I quickly dumped the My Little Pony idea I had (MLPs with Star Trek-based names and cutie marks), and made Rutherford himself the toy!

I imagine that Rutherford replicated (or made - he's pretty handy) himself

a life-size action figure box with which to tease those cheeky Belugas.

 And here's my finished entry: Rutherford offering himself up as Kimolu's and Matt's plaything! (Because he felt guilty that he didn't have time to "splash around" with them in "First First Contact")

[Oh, gods, I wish I had this toy!]

 For the uninitiated, "No Small Parts", "Moist Vessel", and "Room for Growth" are all episode titles from Star Trek: Lower Decks; a T88 is a diagnostic tool; Rutherford's broad shoulders & sweaty body being a draw for Kimolu & Matt were established in "First First Contact"; and Hans Federov is the 'Towel Guy'.

 

 Other denizens of Cetacean Ops can be found here (Gallamite), here (Narwhal), and here (Humpback whale).

 

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 Well done - you've reached the end!  You can go and have a cup of tea now - or something stronger to take the edge off...