God damn, the original star trek movies? On my danbooru? Its more likely than I thought.

This bears the uss_reliant tag...Wrath of Khan?

Jerry Goldsmith's original Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme (used as The New Generation's opening years later) banging in my ears while watching this...

"second star on the right..and straight on till morning!"

Tagging again as Starbase 74. While I agree that technically it couldn't be that station because according to ST canon is located in another part of space away from Earth, the one depicted here looks just like the 74 in ST III: The Search for Spock.

"Daddy, you made it back safe..."
"Daddy, come back safely..."

(EDIT: Moved to Artist's commentary field)

Apparently, the registry number and name of the Constitution-class starship in the story is Inui's invention.

EDIT: In some Star Trek fanfiction and elsewhere in the franchise, the registry number NC-1766 appears as the USS Kestral, USS Aurora, or URR Lemuria.

henmere said:
「パパ、無事に帰ってきて」

"Daddy, you made it back safe..."

A slight correction: This line translates to "Daddy, come back safely..."

Thank you, 風鈴. You are right.

Kronnang_Dunn said:

Tagging again as Starbase 74. While I agree that technically it couldn't be that station because according to ST canon is located in another part of space away from Earth, the one depicted here looks just like the 74 in ST III: The Search for Spock.

Starbase 74 wasn't in Search for Spock, but Earth Spacedock was, and I'm pretty sure 74 was modeled after Spacedock. Changing the tag...

Oh, boy, I hope this doesn't dissolve into a back-and-forth argument... We do that enough times with Touhou on Danbooru, I don't want to end up doing that with Star Trek!

colBoh said:

Starbase 74 wasn't in Search for Spock, but Earth Spacedock was, and I'm pretty sure 74 was modeled after Spacedock. Changing the tag...

Oh, boy, I hope this doesn't dissolve into a back-and-forth argument... We do that enough times with Touhou on Danbooru, I don't want to end up doing that with Star Trek!

The in-universe explanation is that Starbase 74 and Spacedock are the same class of station (though it hasn't yet been named on screen as yet; IIRC Jackhill's Reference sheets call it the Ournal-class). As for why Tarsas III looks like Earth, that's simple: footage from Star Trek III was re-used for 11001001, with the simple difference of the 1701-D docking instead of the 1701 (according to Memory Alpha, the D was simply superimposed over the 1701 in the VFX editing room; reason for the footage re-use was simple: TNG's VFX budget, while obviously being higher than that of TOS, didn't allow for new footage to be created at that point in the series run). The Star Trek Encyclopedia explained this away as Tarsas III being a very 'Earth-like' planet (complete with a moon).

henmere said:

Artist's commentary:

Apparently, the registry number and name of the Constitution-class starship in the story is Inui's invention.

EDIT: In some Star Trek fanfiction and elsewhere in the franchise, the registry number NC-1766 appears as the USS Kestral, USS Aurora, or URR Lemuria.

So this would be an attempt to explain the infamous refit Connie wreckage at the Wolf 359 graveyard...

carguy1701 said:

So this would explain the infamous refit Connie wreckage at the Wolf 359 graveyard...

And would that qualify this for the Harsher In Hindsight pool?

Skribulous said:

And would that qualify this for the Harsher In Hindsight pool?

I guess it would. Added it to that pool.

iamnototbeknown said:

This bears the uss_reliant tag...Wrath of Khan?

I don't think this image is intended to be about Wrath of Khan, especially per the artists commentary. I'll delete the Enterprise and Reliant tags, as neither ship is explicity identified here.