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LEXLOTHOR — Shuttlecraft Galileo
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More of my astronomical and space travel art can be seen in my DA "Space Art" gallery:lexlothor.deviantart.com/galle…
This is a card in a series I have done that is inspired by "classic" space ships and scenarios from science fiction television and movies.
The softest spot I have in my head for the original "Star Trek" TV series from the 1960's. I have been a Trekkie (f*ck that "TrekkER BS) since Day One.
When the crew of the Enterprise visited new worlds I always wanted to be there. So here I present a Sheldon Cooper day dream.
I was pleased to learn that the original Galileo stage prop from the original series was recently restored to factory new condition.
Isn't it peculiar that most of the "M-Class" planets seen on "Star Trek" have no visible means of generating an oxygen atmosphere?
Shuttle Craft Galileo & "Star Trek" characters (c) Paramount
art (c) me
2.5" x 3.5" art card rendered in Prismacolor pencils, Tombow markers & acrylics
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And above all else lets never talk about "Warp Speed"
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Well it is an irony that most of the M-class planets have no logical ways of getting oxygen. But, as they say, Star Trek is a Space Fantasy series, so it's doesn't always have to follow the laws of science all the time.
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Gene Roddenberry's ignorance of science is all over Star Trek. He confused the Herztsprung-Russel term M-Class star with a nonexistent planetary system classification. The NCC-1701 on the Enterprise is probably derived from "NGC" New General Catalog for nebula that replaced the Herschel and Messier systems. To his dying day Roddenberry denied that Dr. Benjamin Spock was the source of the name "Mr. Spock", but I refuse to believe him. He was a blatherskite of the first magnitude.
It was Frank Herbert who had no excuse when he created "Dune". He gave a lot of verbiage to planetary ecology, but Arakis has these giant sandworms and a breathable atmosphere but no plant life to speak of.
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Actually, there is a complex reason why there's NCC. Your reason is definitely not it.
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By all means enlighten me and convince me it wasn't something that was not conceived retroactively.
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Star Trek was being aired in the 1960's which was during the cold war. The US decided to designate all it's commercial ships with NC. Russia designated theirs with CC CC. The makers of Star Trek decided to combine them and made NCC.
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Understand, like for a planet to have a Earth like biodiversity of life. It must be pretty close to a star and not too far away.
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