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Past Updates 1999
23.12.99
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year 2000. I will be gone until January 3rd, but
hopefully I will return with some new stuff and new ideas.
21.12.99
The Asia class and a few more images are new in the Starfleet Museum. Some updates in the ASDB too.
16.12.99
Added a few links and banners and made some minor modifications. Thank you to
Paul van Garderen who has created a nice 3D model of my R-4 raider design. See his website, Star
Trek Avalanche, for much more of
his work. Masao has added details to my Asia class. Looks far better than my humble approach. Finally,
thanks to Danny Evenwel who has provided a couple of images from
the Star Trek
World Tour one year ago. His
website, Data's Domain, is
definitely worth a visit.
15.12.99
Several new ship badges added
to the Starfleet
Museum.
14.12.99
Added an about page with general remarks and credits.
10.12.99
A new page with scans of ship
schematics is ready. Click and enjoy.
08.12.99
There are several additions to
both the Starfleet
Museum and the ASDB. New ship scans from Star Trek: The Magazine
and the Star Trek Fact Files are being prepared. I'm
also working on an extensive Voyager episode guide and review
section which might be ready in a few weeks.
30.11.99
There are a couple of new
graphics in the Starfleet
Museum.
26.11.99
Spock's Mind wins the Ex Astris
Excellentia Award for
December 1999. Congratulations!
24.11.99
Added a coarse schematic of
the Nova
class and updated the Federation fleet chart.
23.11.99
Still a few more changes to
the ASDB. The first chart to be updated is
the shuttle size chart.
22.11.99
I have updated the links and made some small additions and corrections. The ASDB has been updated and extended. I am also working on
new versions of the fleet charts. Furthermore, several new scans
from the Fact Files and Star Trek: The Magazine
will be available this or next week.
18.11.99
Several modifications,
especially to the index page, are supposed to provide a better
distinction of the single sections without abandoning the
principle of shortcut links. Although I've been thinking about it
for a long time, I don't think the new design is finished yet. I
would be grateful for any kind of suggestions. In case you're
missing the little people icons, I have removed them because the
original author doesn't approve of website use, although my site
is probably the least commercial Trek site there is.
10.11.99
Thanks to Will's Star Trek
Page for bestowing the Mr. Spock
Award upon my site. It seems the awards keep coming today.
Thanks go to Sektion 31 for the
(you guess it) Sektion 31 Award and to Bad Guys of Star Trek
(yeah) for the Gold Star Award. The ASDB site is updated. Enjoy a couple of new or improved
ship designs. The Starfleet
Museum has some new ship emblems.
04.11.99
Thanks to Frank, Boris and Dax
for suggestions and for pointing out errors in the ship size
figures which are now corrected.
03.11.99
A few corrections and updates
were necessary in the starship articles.
There are a few new graphics in the Starfleet Museum.
02.11.99
A major update to the starship
articles, including two new pages, one about the size of the
Akira class and another one
compiling and comparing the different ship size
figures given in the official
literature.
28.10.99
The winner of the Ex Astris
Excellentia Award for
November 1999 is Garak's Star Trek Tailor Shop. Congratulations, Elim! Furthermore I have
completed the Ambassador-class page
with several renderings by Pedro. It's not exaggerated if I tell you they are a
must-see.
26.10.99
Ambassador class page
updated. Two size
comparison charts for my ship
designs are available.
25.10.99
A number of additions (ship
emblems) to the Starfleet Museum. The ASDB has been updated. Furthermore, there is a complete
account of Voyager shuttle losses
in the inconsistencies section.
18.10.99
Several changes on the links page and a new article about my favorite trash
episode, "Threshold".
15.10.99
Visit my "Special Awards"
section. Thanks a lot to Andrew
Christian for the U.S.S. Destiny Captain's Choice Award (this one being real).
13.10.99
Thanks to The Nexus for awarding me the Nexus Award.
12.10.99
A few small corrections and
additions to the Starfleet Museum.
Furthermore, I have added descriptions of the starship design
eras to Bernd's
Fleet Yards pages.
11.10.99
I have won Jeri's Approval Award.
Thank you, Mike!
08.10.99
Presenting a completely new section with
a distinctive design, the Starfleet Museum. Masao Okazaki, who has been a Trek fan for many
years, recently contacted me to talk about starship design, and
he sent me a number of excellent drawings of
"historical" starship classes along with extensive
descriptions. I liked them so much that I decided to create web
pages for his Starfleet Museum project. This new section is
supposed to be frequently updated, so keep visiting. Furthermore,
the ASDB section is updated with a few new ship designs.
07.10.99
I have been asked to post a
notice about the Galaxy Ball, a charitable event for the support
of the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles. The Galaxy Ball
is hosted by Robert Beltran and features several other renowned
guests. Please spare a few moments and go to their web
page for further information.
04.10.99
My site has received the
monthly Outstanding Trek Site Award. Thanks a lot to Matthias!
01.10.99
A new page with scans of ship
schematics is ready. Click and enjoy.
Thanks to the Omega Lcars Database
for their Silver Award.
29.09.99
The winner of the Ex Astris
Excellentia Award for
October 1999 is LCARS: Federation Databank. Congratulations! I have sorted my ship designs by
eras and created the new Bernd's Fleet Yards
index page. Six more ship designs have been added, that's all for
now. I don't think I will be able to draw more ships in the near
future, but maybe I will improve some of the existing drawings by
adding more details. I'm planning to make one or two size
comparison charts for my ship designs. Some links have been changed.
23.09.99
I have won the Legion of
Honour Award, the highest rank of the Starfleet
Honour Awards. Thank you very much
to the jury!
21.09.99
Thanks to Trekmac for awarding me the Real Trek Award. There are
still more updates on the BoP page.
20.09.99
Two new awards and a couple of changes on the links page. Although online for only a few days, the
pages on the BoP and Kazon ship sizes have already been updated. More images
are on the way.
17.09.99
The two versions of the Ambassador
class are described on a
preliminary page, illustrated with several photos of the studio
miniatures. This page will be extended so as to provide a
complete Ambassador-class modeling reference.
15.09.99
A new page with fun.
13.09.99
Big update! There are four new
starship
articles. Several other pages have
been slightly modified or corrected.
10.09.99
The decision for the Ex Astris
Excellentia Award is made.
Finally. Congratulations to Star Trek
Dimension!
09.09.99
ASDB section updated with a number of new ship designs,
some modifications and corrections. I hope I can finish several
new features within the next few days.
Important
notice: This server will
probably be down for a couple of hours on September, 11th.
06.09.99
I'd like to remind everyone
that it's Star
Trek Day this week. Unfortunately I
will be gone for a few days, so I can't put up the planned new
features, including three or four new ship articles. The decision
for the EAE
Award winner and an ASDB
update are due too, I will try to get them online next week.
26.08.99
Site redesign finished,
including a new logo. The small Akira image in the upper right
corner of every page will serve as a place-holder until
individual illustrations for the single sections are available.
25.08.99
I support the idea of a Star Trek Day. Go to Captain.net for
further details. As a first step toward a new look for my site I
have changed the color scheme.
23.08.99
Thanks to Captain
Picard for awarding me his Gold
Award. The ASDB section is updated with three new ship designs.
20.08.99
I have scanned a schematic of
the Sovereign class from the Fact Files and corrected
its major errors, so this one is far better than the small image
from the Encyclopedia. Thanks to Starbase
147 for their Gold Award.
19.08.99
My site has received the LCARS
Databank Award and the Personal Award from Ambassador Spock.
Thank you very much! The links have been
updated. You may have noticed that some images from Tripod
servers don't load on non-Tripod pages, for instance on my
webring page. It seems they are going the same way as recently
XOOM. I hope the respective webmasters can fix it or change their
provider.
16.08.99
New shuttle
size chart online. Furthermore the ASDB section has been updated and split into five pages
for the sake of faster loading times.
04.08.99
Some new ship schematics in
the ASDB section. Furthermore I have found new arguments
about the Insurrection inconsistencies.
28.07.99
Please direct all e-mail
requests to nx-74205@gmx.net. I
hope this will work better.
23.07.99
The Ex Astris
Excellentia Award for
August 1999 goes to Maximum
Defiant. Congratulations!
20.07.99
I am hosting the preliminary
homepage of a project yakaspat recently
suggested in startrek.expertforum.ricksternbach. The ASDB is a group
dedicated to conceive designs for the starship classes that have
been mentioned but never shown.
19.07.99
Added a page with some general
considerations on starship sizes.
16.07.99
Our local network
administrator found a lot of e-mails that got stuck on our
server. I apologize to all those who tried to reach me, but
didn't get a reply. I usually reply to each single e-mail within
a few days, unless it's spam or really silly. I also found Aida's
message that I have won her Galaxy
Leadership Award in early June. A
delayed but cordial thank you!
15.07.99
My site has received the Final Frontier Award,
which I am very proud of. Thank you, Ken!
14.07.99
Added some small images to
illustrate the movie
reviews.
13.07.99
Movie
reviews finished. Some pictures are
on their way.
12.07.99
My site is featured at Main Engineering.
Thank you! I have updated the links, and perhaps most
interesting, the Starship Schematic Database is back.
08.07.99
Not being content with the TOS pages I have added small images to illustrate each single
episode. The movie reviews will follow within the next few days.
07.07.99
The new pages with a TOS episode guide and review are ready. They still need some fine tuning, and I
wonder if I should display a small image of each episode. Anyway,
I will rather complete the movie reviews first.
06.07.99
I have replaced my schematic
of the T'Pau with a new one from the Fact Files, and I
no longer believe it's an Apollo-class ship. The TOS and movie
reviews are almost finished and will be up this week. Furthermore
I have compiled a size chart of alien ships. A comparison chart of small vessels and shuttles
is being prepared.
02.07.99
Thank you very much to Science Lab
A for awarding me the Excellent!
Award. I have rearranged the inconsistencies
section and added a new index of starship articles that
will hopefully grow continuously. I'm also working on a complete
episode guide and review, but it will take several weeks. Maybe I
can put up the movies and TOS sections next week.
01.07.99
Thanks a lot to Elim Garak for rating
my site "Prometheus" (5 out of 5 pips).
25.06.99
The new page with scans of
ship schematics is finally ready. Click and enjoy.
24.06.99
The Ex Astris
Excellentia Award for July
1999 goes to Daystrom Institute Technical Library. The color scheme of tables and followed links has
been changed to pale turquoise green. The new scans are on their
way. I will need a few more days.
23.06.99
I have received the Starfleet
LCARS Database Network Award. Thank
you very much!
21.06.99
Ex
Astris Scientia has won Guinan's
Bar and Grille Best of the Web Award.
Thanks a lot to Guinan! I'm currently scanning and preparing some
more ship schematics from the Fact Files and will put
them up in a few days.
16.06.99
Added new links and made some changes to the starship list.
14.06.99
DeForest
Kelley 20.01.1920 - 11.06.1999
The Heart of Star Trek has
passed away. Good bye, Bones.
11.06.99
The new fleet
chart (caution: 1060*1060 pixels)
allows a size comparison of all types of Federation ships whose
sizes are known or can be estimated.
04.06.99
The color scheme has been
modified and all yellow (RGB 255,255,0) formats replaced with
orange (RGB 255, 208,0). The first Ex Astris Excellentia Award goes to Medical Log: Supplemental.
01.06.99
I have redesigned the index page and put up a new page for the Ex Astris
Excellentia Award.
31.05.99
I have won the Trek Ladies Gold Award.
Thanks a lot!
25.05.99
Read about the New Orleans
class starship reconstruction on a
new page.
18.05.99
6 more starship designs
online. Comments are welcome.
17.05.99
Added a lot of new entries to
the Treknology
glossary part 1 and part 2.
14.05.99
Review of VOY:
"Timeless" added. A
schematic of the (U)SS Raven is
available.
12.05.99
I have added new links and updated some of the other pages. Being
extremely obstinate when it comes to the appearance of my pages,
I have withdrawn my site from the Millennial Trek Award, since it
would have required to place a banner on my index page. I'm
currently preparing six new starship designs. Come back next week
to see them.
10.05.99
Compiled some tips for starship modeling on a separate page.
29.04.99
Added new links and made some minor modifications.
26.04.99
I am proud to announce my site
has been awarded the renowned Vision of Trek Gold Award. There are also two major additions. First, there
is a new page describing how to build the AMT/Ertl Enterprise-C
kit. I will take some images of the
finished model, as soon someone dares to borrow me their camera.
Second, I have put up a page with some guidelines for
"good" starship design.
20.04.99
Ex
Astris Scientia has received
the FSD Best Trek Site of the Month Award and the LCARS "Site to Visit" Award (see award page).
19.04.99
I had to rename my Nova class,
since the new ship in the Voyager episode "Equinox" is
presumably of this class. My design is now called Neptune class and the design history has been changed
accordingly. Furthermore, there are some additions and
corrections to the official starship list.
14.04.99
Links updated, applied for membership in Craig's Star Trek Class Ships Ring and made some small modifications.
09.04.99
Added a page for the
Millennial Trek Award banner.
08.04.99
I have added some new links. The starship list has been
updated and diagrams of the Federation scout and the holoship from
"Star Trek: Insurrection" are available.
31.03.99
The promised new pages with various ship schematics are online. Enjoy.
29.03.99
I have made a few minor
updates and added an FAQ page. A new section with scanned ship schematics
including many interesting "Alien-of-the-week" ships
will be available within the next days. I am currently cleaning
up the images scanned from the Star Trek Fact Files,
removing all the annoying comments like "This is a warp
nacelle", lines and boxes. You find the preliminary scans here, be sure that the final versions will look much
better, and the page will have thumbnails.
24.03.99
Ships of unknown classes are listed.
23.03.99
A page with other (civilian)
Federation ship classes is online.
Ships of unknown classes will be added soon.
15.03.99
Added some links, removed some others. The starship list now features a schematic of the Niagara class. I know it's ugly, but it's canon.
01.03.99
Read about the Cheyenne-class
starship reconstruction on a new
page.
24.02.99
Added the Star Trek:
Insurrection inconsistencies and
made some changes to the links. A page about
the Cheyenne class is currently being prepared.
17.02.99
Besides the usual small
updates, I have redrawn some "real" starship diagrams,
namely the Cheyenne, New Orleans and Sydney to better match
their prototypes.
10.02.99
I have added a few links and made some minor modifications. Some schematics
of Starfleet
ships have been replaced by better
ones.
03.02.99
I have made some small
additions and updated the links.
27.01.99
Ex
Astris Scientia has been
chosen Featured Site of the Month on The Array.
26.01.99
The new site map provides a complete overview of the more than 70
HTML pages of this website.
22.01.99
6 more starship designs are
online.
21.01.99
My Star Trek Website is online
for one year. Starting with just a few topics (inconsistencies,
new starship designs, Enterprise-E, fun and links), I think it is
a fine resource site by now. Thank you to all my visitors, in
particular to those who frequently return. I will continue
extending and updating the site in the future. The seventh page
with conjectural starships is currently being prepared.
20.01.99
The starship list now includes
the Peregrine class and Whorfin classes.
13.01.99
It was about time to update
the links.
08.01.99
A new page with inconsistencies is online and will be frequently supplemented.
04.01.99
Updated the inconsistencies page. New features are currently being prepared for
the upcoming 1st anniversary of my website.
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