#uss menippe

Hiya, Jackie here again! Post 2/2:

This time it's some neat props I wanted to take a stab at. I liked the idea of redesigning some things like hyposprays and tricorders to fit the needs of our ship, and also to help me and Nick better describe items when we write so it feels more grounded. My wheelhouse is usually in storyboarding and character drawing, so I was very pleasantly surprised at how satisfying the process of turning objects around in my brain is for me now, as well as trying to design around function. Props are something I used to struggle with it a lot, so I'm really happy with how these turned out. *Also, just noting that I did not illustrate the screen displays- I've yet to wrap my head around how to design and customize LCARS UI displays, so everything here is illustrated by me except the content on the screens. Those images, I pulled from lcars.org.uk [please note this website has great resources, but is a bit old and is therefore not quite secure. Some pages will give you a popup to download the images displayed as soon as you click, which I recommend you deny. After that you should be free to scroll the page without any further prompting]

Welcome aboard the USS Menippe!

Started by two artists and friends turned partners, this blog features logs detailing the story of a Starfleet science research vessel commissioned roughly between 2381- 2391, captained by Ekett Loq.

It’s a Star Trek fan work (not official- please Paramount we’re just having fun don’t come for us lol) of our Trek OCs and the little world we decided to build for them when the doodles and brainblasts grew to be far bigger than what our heads could hold. 

We’ll be running the blog tag-team style, and will be sharing mostly art and writing. We may also share other folk’s Trek OC’s and stories, so if you want to find our work more streamlined, you can use #USS Menippe in the search or sidebar. 

If you’d like to know more about us (Jackie [they/them] and Nick [they/he]), you can find us on Tumblr here and here, and our websites here and here. 

Also before we depart, so our fellow trekkies can know where we’re coming from: we’ve seen all of TOS and TNG (all films included + Kelvin timeline) Lower Decks, and are currently working our way through TAS and DS9, with Enterprise and VOY on deck! One out of the two of us has also seen Picard and is working their way through DISCO. Also on the wishlist is The Orville, and all fan productions (did watch prelude to Axanar and holy shit that production quality was niiiiiiiice).  Will be updating this as we move along lol. 

Thanks for visiting and we hope you’ll follow along with our crew’s journey! 

Hi friends, Jackie here! Sorry this account has been quite for so long, needless to say we've been swamped between regular life stuff, new jobs, freelance, doing a huge move which we're still in the middle of, and trying to continue working on our fan crew on top of it. But I wanted to pop in and share some stuff I've been working on before I forget!

this will be 1 of 2 posts, so for this first one, I got some sketches for crew quarters. Mostly referenced off of TNG quarters, I wanted to keep the slight curvature in the windows of the bigger units, and also maintain a hierarchy of allotted space designated by rank.