Saturday 22 October 2011

Starfleet Uniforms 2340s

Before I begin publishing the stories, I thought it might be interesting to publish the Starfleet uniform guide I put together for the various timeframes pertinent to the Warrior series. So, here are the uniforms that cover the period of the 2340s (which is some years before the series begins, but within the living history of some of the characters – for example, these are the uniforms in use when Blakeney was at the Academy).


OFFICER’S DUTY UNIFORMS

[From Left to Right]
- Command
- Operations and Engineering
- Sciences
- Medical

O.R.’S SUTY UNIFORMS

[From Left to Right]
- Command
- Operations and Engineering
- Sciences
- Medical

CADET’S DUTY UNIFORMS




[From Left to Right]
- Formal uniform
- Training uniform


These uniforms were eventually retired from service and replaced with a new design in 2354.


A new combadge design was also introduced in the 2340s; a style that would remain in service for almost three decades.


Tuesday 18 October 2011

The Captain and the Q

As stated in my last post, here are some screencaps from the Warrior film I made at university. The story involved the captain receiving a visit from a villainous Q who transported him to an alternate universe (hence the Dalek)…



















































Monday 17 October 2011

Genesis

It was a Winter Term in the 1990s; my chums and I had just started another year in our ongoing school education and in between our Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, our Magnum Opus was born.

The Star Trek Warrior series started out as a creative endeavour that I and a number of my school chums developed at around the time we started our GCSEs. It was all just a bit of fun to write stories about characters based on ourselves that were set in the Star Trek universe.

Here is the opening paragraph from the first story that was written all those years ago…

Captain’s log: Stardate 47988.2. The U.S.S. Titanic has been diverted from our scheduled stop at starbase 16 and ordered to the Cardassian Demilitarised Zone. We are to investigate the alleged disappearance of the Starship Rapier, a prototype ship for a new Rapier-class vessel. Starfleet Command suspects that the Maquis are involved, and given their recent increased activity, it wouldn’t surprise me.”

Alongside the written stories, I even drew a few comic strips of the Warrior characters. Here are a few select pages from a variety of those strips (as you can see, I never got round to colouring any of the comics – or even finishing others!)…










One February half term my Warrior chums and I gathered at one of our houses and tried to make a movie with an old camcorder (although we never got further than filming one scene!)…




And when I went to University to study Film & Animation, I even used the Warrior setting for one of my many film projects. The plot involved a mischievous Q transporting the Warrior’s captain to an alternate universe. These are some production stills…



















Maybe I’ll post some screencaps from the actual film at some point. Incidentally, if you want to see a video of some of the outtakes, click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRBpjMCgGGU&feature=channel_video_title

But that was about a decade ago, however, and since then I had almost forgotten about the Warrior and her crew, having moved on to other projects. But not long ago I rediscovered those old adventures and have set about rewriting/rebooting/reimagining and updating the old stories. The purpose of this blog is to publish the new adventures of the U.S.S. Warrior...