The script for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s third season episode “The Search” called for a new class of warship which it described as “a little clunky.” The vessel “was built primarily for battle,” it said, “not exploration or science.”
The reason for introducing the ship was that executive producer Ira Steven Behr and the show’s writers felt that mere runabouts couldn’t be expected to defend the space station from the Dominion who had shown themselves capable of destroying a Galaxy class starship in the season two finale “The Jem’Hadar.”
“We had all these plans for this Dominion,” said Behr […] “and what were we going to go after them with? Shuttlecrafts?” He added, “You know, it just seemed ridiculous. So we needed a ship.”
Zimmerman’s request for something unique was certainly met: theDefiant was the first Starfleet vessel without external warp nacelles.
Martin didn’t quite recognize the impact it would have at first. “”When you’re in the art department and you’re doing the job from episode to episode, you don’t really think, ‘Boy, this is really going to revolutionize Federation design.’ You’re getting a design out of the way. It’s only after the fact that you think, ‘Wow, that was a different idea.’ I’m glad we took the chance to take a little bit of a departure.”
The name Valiant was dropped in favor of Defiant out of fear that it would conflict with Star Trek: Voyager and its titular starship.
[Source: Designing the Defiant]
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Most days I play a game called “How long will it take Tumblr mobile to make that post and will it still be relevant when it does?”
When this moment comes, I will be ready.
I have actively fantasized about this. “Don’t want to hire me? No? What if I sang Part of Your World right now? IN GERMAN. That won’t do it for you? How about something from Les Miserables in Japanese? An Uzbek cover of a song originally sung in Ukrainian?I’m ready, hit me.”
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do you want a cute “best friends” style ship?
do you want an age gap ship?
do you want a mortal/functionally immortal ship?
do you want a ship with hot evil doppelgangers?
do you want a ship with a ludicrous amount of casual physical contact?
do you want a ship that never actually becomes canon but was written long enough ago that it avoids that greasy “deliberate slashbait” feeling?
do you want a ship that ends in the most heartbreaking way possible?
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Russian artist Svetlana Petrova has an awesome marmalade cat named Zarathustra whom she photoshops into famous works of art. No matter the renown of the artist or beauty of the subject matter, Zarathustra’s ample tabby frame immediately becomes the hilarious center of attention. He melts alongside Dalí’s clocks, cuddles up to Vermeer’s milkmaid, da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Mona Lisa, and even Whistler’s Mother. We particularly love his use of modesty tail whilst lounging in Edouard Manet’s Olympia and the tip of the tail positioned in place of Adam’s hand in Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam.
Petrova is currently exhibiting artwork at The Barn at Stonehill House, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in a show entitled Russian Extremes – From Icons to I-Cats. The show runs through June 5, 2014.
Follow the ongoing high art hijinks of Zarathustra at Svetlana Petrova’s website, Fat Cat Art.
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I have the best hairstylist ever
That’s fucking amazing
damn
Kudos to the colorist
HOW
That’s awesome.
Eden I thought this was you for a second.
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