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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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In the Original series Khan Noonien Singh only appeared in the Space Seed episode and the 2nd movie..... those stories are now obsolete in the timeline of this mod.

The only ship we saw in Space Seed was the Botany Bay and that ship will appear in the mod..... however I needed to work out how Khan would have a whole range of ships and where he would get them.

The answer is simple..... he simply stole them from other travellers he and the Augments encountered.

Khan has a mix of spaceships , mostly older models and these have now been created but need some photoshop work before they are finalized....adding previous battle damage and others scars on the ships.

As the events of Space Seed did not happen Khan never met Captain Kirk or the Enterprise but he has a deep hatred of the Federation and everything it stands for.

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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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At this stage I have 12 Federation leaders , soon to expand to 18, that will guide Starfleet from Stardates 2233 to 2294.

The first President of Starfleet will be President Madza Bral, a female Trill who served 2 terms as President and was the first President in office who was not from the first five founding worlds of the Federation.

There are no pictures of Madza Bral as she was never seen on TV so I have created a character picture for her which will be shown on a Viewscreen when she is mentioned in the mod.

To get the Transparent background picture correct, the trick is to make a negative of the picture and fix the issues shown in the negative and then transform it back to a normal transparency image.



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which program do you usually use to make a negative of the picture ?
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which program do you usually use to make a negative of the picture ?



I use Photoshop but if you don't have that then paint.net also works.
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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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Let there be pirates.

I have fully tested the new galactic map for the alpha and beta quadrants and am happy that it works well when playing any race you choose to play.

This afternoon I am looking at adding pirates to the mod and at this stage I am looking at adding 7 races as pirates.....


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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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Preview of work on a Federation character prior to adding to the mod.









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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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.... and with Starfleet Insignia fixed. Next step is to add this picture with a transparent background to the Starfleet Viewing Screen and then merge the 2 figures together so it does not look like one image pasted over another.




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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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Last night I created 157 different pictures that will be used to show the different characters that will be encountered in the mod...... the picture below shows the viewscreen image of one of the screens prior to adding the character into the viewscreen.

Depending on the character and which race they are the pictures will be different ..... Federation characters for example will have different views either on board a starship or at starfleet head quarters. Klingons will be on their bridge but each at different view angles.




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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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For example I can add Captain Pike to the above picture , then go into photoshop and smooth out the issues for example on the Captain's face and then add this picture to the mod.



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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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which program do you usually use to make a negative of the picture ?



I use Photoshop but if you don't have that then paint.net also works.

thank you Rjord1, I will try both [:)]
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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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With the Galaxy Map being worked on with 75% of systems in the Alpha Quadrant now completed and every system in the Beta Quadrant completed, following is a list of planets which you will see in the map. These are a list of planets that are specifically seen in the Original TV series with Kirk or with the movies up to and including Generations.

Each of these systems has anywhere up to 10 planets in each system, or as few as 1, and any number of moons.


Aldebaran
TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Aldebaran III
TOS "The Deadly Years"

Alpha 177
TOS "The Enemy Within"

Alpha Aradoni II
TOS "Wolf in the Fold"

Alpha Carinae V
TOS "Wolf in the Fold"

Alpha Majoris I
TOS "Wolf in the Fold"

Alpha V
Colony world
Home to relatives of Charlie Evans
TOS "Charlie X"

Altair VI
TOS "Amok Time"

Antos
TOS "Whom Gods Destroy"

Antos IV
TOS "Whom Gods Destroy"

Argelius II
TOS "Wolf in the Fold"

Argus X
TOS "Obsession"

Arianus
TOS "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

Arret
TOS "Return to Tomorrow"

Axanar
TOS "Whom Gods Destroy"

Babel
TOS "Journey to Babel"

Beta Antares
TOS "A Piece of the Action"

Beta III, 6-11
TOS "The Return of the Archons"

Beta XII-A
TOS "Day of the Dove"

Camus II
TOS "Turnabout Intruder"

Capella IV
TOS "Friday's Child"

Cestus III
TOS "Arena"

Ceti Alpha V
TOS "Space Seed"

Ceti Alpha VI
Destroyed
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"

Cheron
TOS "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

Delta IV
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"

Delta Vega
TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Deneb II
TOS "Wolf in the Fold"

Deneb IV
TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Deneb V
TOS "I, Mudd"

Deneva
TOS "Operation -- Annihilate!"

Earth, Sol
TOS

Eden
TOS "The Way to Eden"

Eden
"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"

892 IV
TOS "Bread and Circuses"

Ekos
TOS "Patterns of Force"

Elas, Tellun
TOS "Elaan of Troyius"

Eminiar VII
TOS "A Taste of Armageddon"

Epsilon Canarus IV
TOS "Metamorphosis"

Excalabia
TOS "The Savage Curtain"

Exo III
TOS "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

Gamma II
TOS "The Gamesters of Triskelion"

Gamma VII-A
Destroyed
TOS "The Immunity Syndrome"

Gamma Canaris N
TOS "Metamorphosis"

Gamma Hydra II, Gamma Hydra
TOS "The Deadly Years"

Gamma Hydra IV, Gamma Hydra
TOS "The Deadly Years"

Gamma Trianguli VI
TOS "The Apple"

Genesis, Mutara Sector
Destroyed
"Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"

Gideon
TOS "The Mark of Gideon"

Holberg 917-G
TOS "Requiem for Methuselah"

Iotia
TOS "A Piece of the Action"

Izar
TOS "Whom Gods Destroy"

Janus VI
TOS "The Devil in the Dark"

Kelva, Andromeda
TOS "By Any Other Name"

Korridon, Korridon
TOS "Journey to Babel"

M-113
TOS "The Man Trap"

Makus III
TOS "The Galileo Seven"

Markus II
TOS "Requiem for Methuselah"

Markus XII
TOS "The Enemy Within"

Memory Alpha
TOS "The Lights of Zetar"

Merak II
TOS "The Cloud Minders"

Minara
TOS "Turnabout Intruder"

Nabier
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"

Neural
TOS "A Private Little War"

Nimbus III, Neutral Zone
"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"

Omega IV
TOS "The Omega Glory"

Omicron IV
TOS "Assignment: Earth"

Omicron Ceti III
TOS "This Side of Paradise"

Ophyicus III
TOS "Mudd's Women"

Organia
TOS "Errand of Mercy"

Orion
TOS "Journey to Babel"

Pollux IV
TOS "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

Praxis
Klingon moon
"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"

Psi 2000
TOS "The Naked Time"

Pyris VII
TOS "Catspaw"

Regula, Mutara Sector
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"

Regulus V
TOS "Amok Time"

Rigel IV
TOS "Wolf in the Fold"

Rigel V
TOS "Journey to Babel"

Rigel VII
TOS "The Cage"

Rigley's Pleasure Planet
TOS "The Man Trap"

Romulus
TOS

Sarpeidon, Beta Niobe
Destroyed in sun nova
TOS "All Our Yesterdays"

Scalos
TOS "Wink of an Eye"

Sherman's Planet
TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles"

Signa XIV
TOS "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"

Talos IV
TOS "The Cage"

Tantalus Five
TOS "Dagger of the Mind"

Tarsus IV
TOS "The Conscience of the King"

Taurus II
TOS "The Galileo Seven"

Thasus
TOS "Charlie X"

Theta VII
TOS "Obsession"

Tiburon
TOS "The Savage Curtain"

Triacus
TOS "And the Children Shall Lead"

Triskelion, M-24 Alpha
TOS "The Gamesters of Triskelion"

Troyius, Tellun
TOS "Elaan of Troyius"

Tycho IV, Tycho
TOS "Obsession"

Vega IX
TOS "Mirror, Mirror"

Vendikar
TOS "A Taste of Armageddon"

Veridian III, Veridian
Destroyed by star collapse in alternate timeline
"Star Trek: Generations"

Veridian IV, Veridian
Destroyed by star collapse in alternate timeline
"Star Trek: Generations"

Vulcan, 40 Eridani A
TOS "Amok Time"

Yonada
Astroidal body
TOS "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

Zeon
TOS "Patterns of Force"
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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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The previous post lists 104 planets seen or mentioned in the Kirk era and these are all featured in my mod as major planets in major systems. Characters seen in the first 3 years of Star Trek, in the first 7 movies and in the 3 movies made after 2009 will hopefully appear in the mod at the correct locations.... need to research how to do this.

Characters and races seen in the Archer Years will also be added unless their race was wiped out.

Characters and races seen in TNG or DS9 will not be in the mod unless they are proven to have existed in the Kirk years.

But these 104 planets listed below are not all that are in my Galaxy Map.

Every planet mentioned in Star Trek : Enterprise is also in this map
Every planet mentioned in Star Trek : The Next Generation is also in this map
Every planet mentioned in Star Trek : Deep Space 9 is also in this map
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RE: Star Trek : The Return of Khan (TOS Era)

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An interesting fact I had only just picked up


In Kirk's first appearance in Star Trek "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Kirk says he's been worried about Mitchell "ever since that night on Deneb IV."


In Picard's first appearance in Star Trek "Encounter at Farpoint"
The episode with Q takes place on Deneb IV, home of the Bandi.
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Final statistics of planets appearing in my Galactic Map.

192 planets mentioned in Star Trek are not included as they were mentioned in Voyager and are located in the Delta Quadrant which is not part of this map

For mapping the individual systems according to coordinates on the Star Trek Star Atlas I have the Galactic Map divided into 12 sections going across and 13 sections down.... Total of 156 sections.

Each of the sections may have anywhere up to 10 systems such as Sol or Vulcan in each section.

Total number of 795 planets have being entered as systems into the Galactic Map in the correct position compared to other planets and the systems these 795 planets are in may have anywhere up to 10 planets or moons also in that system.

About 25% of the Alpha Quadrant is still to be mapped which will complete the map but estimating that there will be between 3975 and 5565 stars, planets or moons added to this map and correctly positioned in relation to other planets and stars in the Atlas.

This means if you are based in Sol you will discover systems such as Vulcan, Andoria and Antares long before you find Klingon or Romulan space and even longer before finding Cardassian space.
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when do you think that this IMPRESSIVE classic Star Trek mod wil be available ?
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when do you think that this IMPRESSIVE classic Star Trek mod wil be available ?


No ETA as yet.... but work is being done daily so hopefully in next few months there will be the initial v1 release.

However lots needs to be done still including a complete update of the Galactopedia ..... preview of this in May
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A lot of research has gone into the galactic map to make it as close to official Star Trek material as possible.

For example, yesterday I spoke of the planet Deneb IV.

Using the Star Atlas I know it's position but how many planets are in that system.

Research came up with

Deneb or Alpha Cygni (primary)

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Deneb I
Deneb II
Deneb III
Deneb IV

So with Deneb I have 4 planets added with the names as above.


When adding Vulcan it was a more complex situation as the Vulcan System is made up of 3 stars, a giant primary called 40 Eridani A, a red dwarf star called 40 Eridani B and a white dwarf called 40 Eridani C.

The planets are associated with 40 Eridani A so for the purposes of the mod the red dwarf and white dwarf are excluded.
40 Eridani A is renamed Vulcan so the map shows the Vulcan system not 40 Eridani A

Planets included in the Vulcan system are


Vulcan I
Vulcan
T'Khut
Delta Vega


Delta Vega of course is the planet from which Spock Prime saw Vulcan be destroyed in the alternate Trek movie 2009
Delta Vega is also the planet Kirk left Gary Mitchel on in the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before

Below is a sample picture showing how Delta Vega will appear in my mod..taken from the remastered version of TOS
The picture also shows Delta Vega's lithium cracking station from the tv show. When you watched this episode did you realize it was in the same system as Vulcan?

I also assume this Dilithium station was where Kirk met Scotty in the 2009 movie.



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ORIGINAL: Hattori Hanzo

when do you think that this IMPRESSIVE classic Star Trek mod wil be available ?


No ETA as yet.... but work is being done daily so hopefully in next few months there will be the initial v1 release.

However lots needs to be done still including a complete update of the Galactopedia ..... preview of this in May

great news, thank you Rjord1: I anxiously await for the v1 release [:)]
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Kirk's battle with Khan in the Mutara Nebula was one of the highlights of Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan and this would not be a Star Trek mod unless the Mutara Nebula was in the mod in the correct location.

The picture below creates the look of the Mutara Nebula on the right using the image on the left of the picture.

After this a few more steps and the Mutara Nebula is in the mod.





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Will Praxis be destroyed in this mod?

Praxis was destroyed in the opening of the 6th movie leading to an end of hostilities with the Klingons.

Praxis was also seen to be in pieces above the Klingon homeworld in the Into Darkness movie and was apparently destroyed by Khan.

I have a story line around Praxis which I want to try and bring into this mod......



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