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5 comments about Star Trek: Ships of the Line: 2009 Wall Calendar.

1. I was rather bummed by this calendar. A lot of the closeups do not have the kind of detail that I would expect, given where we are in our current level of cg illustration technology, there was not a very good representation of ships from the five live action series, particularly in the individual month illustrations: there was only one illustration of the Voyager, NONE of the Defiant or DS9, yet FOUR different months were devoted to either the NX-01 from "Enterprise", or other ships from that show! (The only appearance of the Defiant from DS9 and a second of Voyager, was in the "Ode to McCall" spread between June and July, which wasn't really much of a "scene", so much as a lineup of various ships.) They even had a couple of ships from the animated series, none of which looked detailed or interesting, so I'm totally confused by how they made these choices.
   
   The decision to include a couple of ships never before seen onscreen was somewhat interesting: An Earth transport ship flying at the scene of the discovery of the Borg Cube remains in "Regeneration(ENT)", and that Ice Station Alpha TNG era ship for May was really nice looking (I'm wondering if it's intended to have been used off-camera during the events of "Timeless(VOY)").
   
   Still, I was looking for more detail in closeup shots, and a better distributing of ships from the various series. It's okay if you need a calendar, and some spreads are really nice, but I expected better.



2. The ships of the line calandar is the other calandar on my wall. I love the artwork!



3. Thats the only thing that bugs me about these series of calendars.
   I'm trying to forget that goddawfull show ever existed.
   Along with Kathryn Lameway.
   It doesn't take 78 years to cross the galaxy,
   not if you are aware of the Mandel scale
   ie Star Trek Maps' Introduction to Navigation.
   In contrast to the dweeb who wants to see less
   of TOS I want to see more including derivative
   designs from and similar to the blueprints and original as from
   the New Voyages with a only sprinkling of TNG & DS9.
   Those of you aka Joshua Bell who like to kiss
   Micheal Okuda's [...] you forget that in traditional
   publishing it is those that publish FIRST who win.
   Only in trek fandom do you it get backwards!!!
   Mainly by newbies. (except Shane Johnston who just has his dates wrong)
   Other than that this is a fine work, even that part where
   the artist went conceptual rather than going the commercial/industrial
   art route.
   Finally since the dweebs have me good and angry,
   the Reliant (WoK) is an Avenger class Frigate, not a so-called
   Miranda.



4. As always an excellent Ships of the line calendar. I have been purchasing them since 2001. This year is mixture of pre generations and beyond star trek art though the emphasis is on the rather forgetable tv series Enterprise(for some odd reason) and the orginal star trek(very understandable because of the upcoming movie). As always some of the art is really very appealing while some are rather forgetable but as always brings out the star trek fan in me. I especially like the wide-screen layout which really brings out the best of the art by displaying it in paranomic format. My only gripe is(and has been for last 3 years) is the non-photo realistic but rather a drawn aspect of the pictures. Theses calendars really used to stand out when an emphasis was put to make the art photo realistic like the TV shows and movies.
   
   Well I think the calendar was worth the purchase price but they are rooms for improvement namely photo-realism and moving away from Enterprise era.



5. While my hubby prefers a desk calendar (not to be found anywhere this year) this calendar is his next choice for it's awesome imagery.