#sleeper ship

[chernobog13]

The Enterprise and Botany Bay models waiting to be filmed in the studio.

[grayrazor]

While the Zephram Cochrane story in First Contact is great, and I like Star Trek Enterprise more than some, I do miss the stage in the development of the lore when Star Trek had a pre-FTL space exploration era like classic sci-fi tended to, like in Buck Rogers, Forbidden Planet, Card’s Ender series, Niven’s Known Space, or Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle.

Granted, maybe it still happened, and a bussard ramscoop-powered sleeper ship was out encountering the people of Alpha Centauri at the same time WWIII was raging back on Earth.

[shotattheshow]

[PHOTOS] Master Boot Record @ Rickshaw Theatre

Shots by Jacob Zinn

[alphamecha-mkii]

Sleeper Ship by Vadim Sadovski

[ship-o-rama]

Botany Bay

Profile: Sleeper ship built in Australia's Botany Bay, used by Khan and his followers to escape Earth at the end of the Eugenics War.

Pictured: Botany Bay on the launch pad.

Appeared in Star Trek: Khan, IDW Comics

[spockvarietyhour]

The starship Avalon, on a 120 year journey to the new colony world of Homestead II. Crew: 258 Passengers: 5000

[siryl]

“A Relic from the Past” by Dave Metlesits, based on the original Star Trek episode “Space Seed.”

[oldschoolsciencefiction]

Sleeper ship

A sleeper ship was a late 20th to early 21st century Earth space vessel in which the crew could be placed into suspended animation for all or part of the journey. At least some DY-100-class ships were sleeper ships. As Marla McGivers put it in 2267, sleeper ships were "necessary because of the time involved in space travel until about the year 2018. It took years just to travel from one planet to another." (TOS: "Space Seed") Despite this, around 2210, Harry Kim's "uncle" Jack piloted a...

Good news, folks. According to Star Trek, starting next year we’ll no longer need to put spaceship crews into suspended animation for interplanetary travel.