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Enterprise Rising

Posted on Sep 30, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Remember the scene in Star Trek XI when the Enterprise hides within the atmosphere Saturn's largest moon, only to majestically emerge out of its cloudy skies like a breaching submarine?

Okay, so some artistic license was taken with those visuals, as astronomer Phil Plait (a self-professed Trekkie) describes — but it was still immensely cool. Now, Diamond Sky Productions, a "small company devoted … to the scientific, as well as artful, use of planetary imagery and computer graphics", has made available for download some extremely high-resolution images depicting that scene:


Star Trek XI: Enterprise Rising

These pictures, originally courtesy Cinefex magazine, are just a few of the gorgeous intergalactic images to arise from Gene Roddenberry's universe. For others, check out the "Ships of the Line" 2010 wall calendar, or even the latest Star Trek trade paperbacks, like Open Secrets.

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Tags: Andrews McMeel, calendar, Cinefex, Dayton Ward, desktop, Diamond Sky Productions, Doug Drexler, photography, Saturn, Star Trek XI, Titan, wallpaper

1 thought on “Enterprise Rising”

  1. GeneD says:
    Oct 2, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Yeah, I had seen these not too long ago, and made that image my desktop! Live long and prosper…

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