#hermes-class

[chernobog13]

Someone, bless their heart, colored a page from the Starfleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph.

This page depicts a portion of Starfleet Headquarters, which Joseph imagined as a large staircase in orbit over Earth. This later became, albeit with major design changes, the Spacedock facility seen in various Star Trek films and series since Star Trek lll: The Search For Spock (1984).

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

One of the books I’m reading (I’m rotating through four? Five???) is a Trek novel called The Captain’s Oath by Christopher L. Bennett. It’s a Kirk-centric piece that focuses on his life before the Enterprise, including his first command, meeting Bones, and basically all the events and life lessons that made Kirk the person we saw in The Original Series. One of my favorite bits is that Kirk’s first command was a Hermes-class starship called the Sacagawea. Why is it one of my favorites? Let’s take a look at the Hermes-class:

It’s a fricking weird looking ship. I’m not dissing the Hermes because it’s weird, but also neat? I just would love to have been a fly on the wall at Starfleet when whoever designed the Hermes presented it for the first time, like “What if we took the saucer of a Connie, but just like stuck a nacelle to the bottom of the neck instead of a secondary hull?”

Anyways, the book isn’t bad. My only complaint is that every flashback leads to another flashback. It’s flashbackception.