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25th Anniversary of EAS
The world of Star Trek was a very different one in the mid-1990's, a full generation of fans ago. I will always remember this as the one and only Golden Age, although after the end of TNG "only" two series, DS9 and Voyager, were on the air at the same time. I had to wait for the episodes at least half a year until they were released on VHS, but it didn't feel like I was left behind. It was a great time to be a Trek fan, especially if you were a nerd. The emerging internet was populated by tech-savvy people like me, who were sitting in front of bulky CRT monitors and were more or less patiently waiting for their downloads to complete. I personally had the advantage of a much faster connection at my university, but generally video streaming and most of the bandwidth-consuming pastimes of today were still a dream in the age of the 28.8 kBit/s modem. Every byte of data we could obtain was somehow precious. Smartphones or social networks would not exist until a decade later. Yet, information on Star Trek was relatively easy to come by if Altavista was your friend. While the studio and the network still mostly relied on traditional communication channels, plenty of fan websites provided pictures, episode reviews, production news and links to other sites. Star Trek in Sound and Vision, Sector 0-0-1, The STArchive, Maximum Defiant, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Mr. Video Productions were among my early favorites.
Following the previews and the speculation on the upcoming feature film "Star Trek: First Contact" and particularly the evolution of the Enterprise-E design in 1996 was my probably most impactful early internet experience. My real-life friends and I used to look up the news almost every day. This arguably fueled our anticipation of a new movie like never before and never again. Then "First Contact" was released, and we loved it! And that was just the start of the madness. It may be hard to believe in the digital age, but after purchasing the VHS cassette, my friend Thorsten and I knelt in front of TV, freeze-framed the movie and tried to sketch up the new ships with pencil and paper. After discussing the ship classes from "First Contact" and other technical issues with other fans in newsgroups and forums, some time in 1997 I felt like sharing my Trek knowledge and creating my own site. Incidentally, I had just started a job as a research assistant in the field of microelectronics. I argued that our university institute shouldn't be the last one without a website, and so my professor assigned the task to me. I began to learn a bit of HTML, or rather how to use the WYSIWYG editor Microsoft Frontpage, so I could kill two birds with one stone.
On 21 January 1998, I uploaded an effectively nameless site "Star Trek - by Bernd Schneider" to the university server - actually to an obscure sub-directory of the new institute website so it wouldn't raise too much unwanted attention. This initial version of the site consisted of pictures of six starships designed by me, a review of the Enterprise-E model (which I had bought in the NASM shop on a trip to an electronic devices conference in Washington D.C.), an outline of my later time travel analysis, a short list of inconsistencies (not even including the Klingon foreheads) and a few jokes. There were 43 files with a total size of 314 kilobytes.
Read the rest of the story: 25th Anniversary of EAS.
Bernd Schneider

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Tendi, Mariner and T'Lyn are on a fun trip to the Orion homeworld, which is a first time in Star Trek. Here is my review of LOW: "Something Borrowed, Something Green".22 Sep 2023
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The conversion to HD screen caps is complete on the following pages: The Emblems of the Federation Founding Members, The Evolution of the Starfleet Medical Emblem and The Emblems of Earth Starfleet and Earth Starfleet Command.16 Sep 2023
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Here is my review of the latest Lower Decks episode LOW: "In the Cradle of Vexilon".15 Sep 2023
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Many new entries and images in the article with Observations in TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds I". Keep watching Jörg's Twitter account, where he is currently investigating Part II.10 Sep 2023
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Here is the missing review of LOW: "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee", which I liked better than the season premiere. I am also updating various articles with facts from the recent episodes.09 Sep 2023
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Lower Decks returns with an episode that strives to celebrate all things Voyager. Here is my review of "Twovix". I have to postpone "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" until I find time for it.08 Sep 2023
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New or improved images can be found on the following pages: Starship Gallery - First Contact Vessels, Starship Gallery - Son'a, Redresses of the Type-9 Shuttle Cockpit and a few more with smaller changes.03 Sep 2023
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There are several new high-quality images in the Xindi Starship Gallery. I have also improved many old scans of Other Starfleet Ship Interiors, especially of the Defiant and Voyager.28 Aug 2023
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Here is a new article about Redresses of the Arkonian Warship. See how this CG design became the familiar Tellarite ship as it appeared only recently on Prodigy.27 Aug 2023
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While I'm further improving the galleries, here is a new essay by Andrew Gilbertson on the chronology and topography in Voyager's first two seasons: Fallen Federation - A Closer Look at Voyager's Early Journey.26 Aug 2023
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25 years ago, I began to scan images from publications. At the time, I didn't recognize that they usually had a greenish hue or I didn't compensate enough for it. Anyway, I have reworked over 600 gallery images by now, notably all of the popular Starfleet and alien bridge diagrams. Most of these are not simply color corrected but reconstructed from lossless master files, often also with higher resolution, that I found in an ancient backup.24 Aug 2023
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New screen caps and other updates in a few more articles: A Close Look at 22nd Century Technology, Locating Starfleet Buildings in San Francisco, Biography Inconsistencies.19 Aug 2023
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The starships from Strange New Worlds season 2 are in the database now: Discoverse Federation Ship Classes, Discoverse Klingon Ship Classes, Discoverse Alien Ship Classes.16 Aug 2023
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A small new article looks at the Redresses of the Mazarite Shuttle, with observations by Jörg and illustrations by Alice.15 Aug 2023
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Many new images in the Romulan Starship Gallery, in particular high-quality orthographic and angled views. There are also updates on more than a dozen pages with facts from recent episodes.14 Aug 2023
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The Gorn are back in the SNW season 2 finale "Hegemony". I appreciate that the episode comes with a good deal of action for a change. But there are some story and character developments that I'm not happy with.11 Aug 2023

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25 Sep 2023
I like the digressive comments in places, they open the door to the real world and show that Star Trek is only a fictional universe in the end.
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24 Sep 2023
Replaced SD with HD shots where necessary.
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24 Sep 2023
That is indeed an idea to consider although I think the official explanation still is that the upgraded BoP is how the ship always looked, also in the reimagined original timeline. We will never know if SNW adheres to canon concerning the whole Romulan thing.
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24 Sep 2023
Added Enterprise-F and -G, as well as the latest episode information. Resolved some formatting issues and replaced a number of gallery pictures with better ones.
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23 Sep 2023
True, but there are also people who just describe overall progressive ideals as 'woke.' And it certainly seems as if he was saying that this episode goes overboard with certain ideas, not that such ideas are, themselves, unnecessary.
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23 Sep 2023
"including unusually sexist comments about men from the two non-Orion women."
This has been a trope I've observed since at least the early 90s, and Sliders. Whenever they do a matriarchy 'role-reversal' story, they also way-overexagerrate all the behavior to try and make a point, but usually just end up make it filled with stereotypes and caricatures.
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23 Sep 2023
Saratoga was also a battle in the American revolutionary war, as well as several places in the US, besides the carriers.
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23 Sep 2023
Worth noting, HMS Hood was itself named after the admiral Horace Hood.
Besides the RN amphibious assault ship, there's been 6 other HMS Fearless-es. -
23 Sep 2023
From this tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media...
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23 Sep 2023
"Tendi's personal journey in "Something Borrowed, Something Green" is both delightful and insightful, although it comes with unnecessary wokeness."
Are you for real
I really hope you're just not aware of the kind of people who regularly use that word nowadays because otherwise grow up and stop whining about a Star Trek cartoon of all things (or ANYTHING) being "woke".
There are certain people who describe the idea that LGBT people and women deserve rights as "woke" or the idea that racism is bad as "woke". (Sorry for the formatting, it keeps removing line breaks)

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Amazing Wolf 359 reconstruction (including latest canon facts) 𝗜𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗦... It's stardate 44002.3, the Borg have arrived in the Wolf 359 system where Admiral Hanson's fleet is waiting. Part 1 focuses on:- Sisko a...24 Sep 2023
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Review of LOW: "Something Borrowed, Something Green": Tendi, Mariner and T'Lyn are on a fun trip to the Orion homeworld, which is a first time in Star Trek. Here is my review of LOW: "Something Borrowed, Something Green". Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 episode guide and reviews22 Sep 2023
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More Old Articles Improved: The conversion to HD screen caps is complete on the following pages: The Emblems of the Federation Founding Members, The Evolution of the Starfleet Medical Emblem and The Emblems of Earth Starfleet and Earth Starfleet Command. A complete overview of all emblems of Earth, Vulcan, Andor(ia) and Tellar16 Sep 2023
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Review of LOW: "In the Cradle of Vexilon": Here is my review of the latest Lower Decks episode LOW: "In the Cradle of Vexilon". Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 episode guide and reviews15 Sep 2023
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New Observations in TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds I": Many new entries and images in the article with Observations in TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds I". Keep watching Jörg's Twitter account, where he is currently investigating Part II. Observations about sets, props and visual effects in TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds I"10 Sep 2023
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Review of LOW: "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee": Here is the missing review of LOW: "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee", which I liked better than the season premiere. I am also updating various articles with facts from the recent episodes. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 episode guide and reviews09 Sep 2023
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Review of LOW: "Twovix": Lower Decks returns with an episode that strives to celebrate all things Voyager. Here is my review of "Twovix". I have to postpone "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" until I find time for it. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 episode guide and reviews08 Sep 2023
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New Starship Images and Screen Caps: New or improved images can be found on the following pages: Starship Gallery - First Contact Vessels, Starship Gallery - Son'a, Redresses of the Type-9 Shuttle Cockpit and a few more with smaller changes. Gallery of the four new Starfleet classes from the Sector 001 Battle in "Star Trek: First Contact"03 Sep 2023
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New Xindi Ship Images and Improved Interior Diagrams: There are several new high-quality images in the Xindi Starship Gallery. I have also improved many old scans of Other Starfleet Ship Interiors, especially of the Defiant and Voyager. Gallery of Xindi starships from ENT season 328 Aug 2023
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New Article: Redresses of the Arkonian Warship: Here is a new article about Redresses of the Arkonian Warship. See how this CG design became the familiar Tellarite ship as it appeared only recently on Prodigy. All appearances of this CG ship model from Enterprise27 Aug 2023
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New Essay on Voyager's Early Journey: While I'm further improving the galleries, here is a new essay by Andrew Gilbertson on the chronology and topography in Voyager's first two seasons: Fallen Federation - A Closer Look at Voyager's Early Journey. CMS ohne Datenbank - CMSimple ist ein Content Management System, das keine Datenbank braucht.26 Aug 2023
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Bridge diagrams and hundreds of other pictures improved: 25 years ago, I began to scan images from publications. At the time, I didn't recognize that they usually had a greenish hue or I didn't compensate enough for it. Anyway, I have reworked over 600 gallery images by now, notably all of the popular Starfleet and alien bridge diagrams. Most of these are not simply color corrected but reconstructed from lossless master files, often also with higher resolution, that I found in an ancient backup. Official illustrations or accurate reconstructions of alien bridges24 Aug 2023
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More Old Articles Updated: New screen caps and other updates in a few more articles: A Close Look at 22nd Century Technology, Locating Starfleet Buildings in San Francisco, Biography Inconsistencies. Investigating the continuity and plausibility of the technology in Star Trek Enterprise19 Aug 2023
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Starship Database SNW Season 2 Update: The starships from Strange New Worlds season 2 are in the database now: Discoverse Federation Ship Classes, Discoverse Klingon Ship Classes, Discoverse Alien Ship Classes. Listing of Federation starships that appeared in Star Trek Discovery and Strange New Worlds16 Aug 2023
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New Article: Redresses of the Mazarite Shuttle: A small new article looks at the Redresses of the Mazarite Shuttle, with observations by Jörg and illustrations by Alice. All appearances and variations of this CG shuttle model from Enterprise15 Aug 2023
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Numerous New Romulan Starship Pictures: Many new images in the Romulan Starship Gallery, in particular high-quality orthographic and angled views. There are also updates on more than a dozen pages with facts from recent episodes. Gallery of canon Romulan starships of all eras14 Aug 2023
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Review of SNW: "Hegemony": The Gorn are back in the SNW season 2 finale "Hegemony". I appreciate that the episode comes with a good deal of action for a change. But there are some story and character developments that I'm not happy with. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 episode guide and reviews11 Aug 2023
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Updates: Re-Used Costumes and Re-Used Badges & Jewelry: The revision of all articles about props is nearing its completion. The most recent updates are in Re-Used Costumes and Re-Used Props - Badges & Jewelry. The same costumes, worn at different times in different corners of the galaxy07 Aug 2023

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Another addition to my Wolf 359 fleet, the Springfield class USS Chekov. Built it in around a week. Will be released in due time, as always!04 Feb 2023
Models by me
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Starfleet map in Picard.30 Jan 2023
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A typical corridor on the USS Astraea, part of the deck 12 interior originally commissioned by arvistaljik. More info on the ship and its crew: USS Astraea - Ship and Crew.07 Feb 2023Modelled and rendered with Blender.Based on and inspired by original designs from:
- arvistaljik
-Star Trek (Paramount)
-Star Trek Online (Cryptic)Resources used:
-Textures: 3D TEXTURES, ambientCGCommission date: August 2022
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09 Mar 2023
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