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Published: 2010-06-01 20:45:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 1951; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 94
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The Strelka lands at Wilhelmina colony, also known as the Slum Asteroid.I composited the Walled City of Kowloon onto a Martian crater to create the background.
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That is one compact outpost. Love the visual effect of the descent.
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Is it supposed to be all out of focus on the edges? It's pretty awesome...
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Yupp, I wanted it to have the effect of rapid descending.
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A slum? In outer space? On a distant world? In the Federation? How can this be so, and can you explain why?
Another song has come to mind about this picture, with slightly altered lyrics (all apologies to John D. Loudermilk);
Wilhelmina Colony (sung to the tune of 'Tobacco Road')-John D. Loudermilk (Lou Rawls version)
'Cause I was born in a dump
My mama died and my daddy got drunk
He left me here to die in poverty
In the middle of Wilhelmina Colony
I grew up in a crappy ceramic plastic shack
Raggedy clothes, and a spacesuit that was wack
The Fates know, how I can't bear to be
In this place called Wilhelmina Colony!
But it's a home, yeah
The only life I'll ever know
And The Fates know, how I can't bear to be
In this place called Wilhelmina Colony, yeah!
I'm gonna leave and get a job
With the help and the grace from above
Save my money and get rich, you all see
And bring it back to Wilhelmina Colony!
Bring explosives and robot cranes
Blow it up and start all over again
And I'll rebuild everything, make it a thing of beauty
That deserves the name, Wilhelmina Colony!
'Cause it's a home, yeah, yeah-
The only life I'll ever know!
And I despise you, 'cause you're filthy-but I love you because you're my home!
Hey, Wilhelmina, hey Wilhelmina,
Now you're dirty and you're filthy
Tobacco Road
I'm gonna get me some explosives
And I'll bring me a crane
And then blow it up
I'll tear down and start out all over again
Hey Wilhelmina,Wilhelmina Colony
I love you, yeah
Because you're my home
But you're dirty and you're filthy
Wilhelmina Colony
I'm gonna blow you up
I'm gonna tear you down
And I'll build me a town
That I will be proud to show
But I'll keep the name
I'm gonna keep the name
I'm gonna keep the name
Wilhelmina Colony, Wilhelmina Colony
Wilhelmina Colony, Colony, Colony, Colony
I'm talkin' 'bout
Wilhelmina Colony, Colony, oh yeah!
(Here's the original version:
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Man, that's so good!
A slum on an asteroid in space, yeah. What you see in Trek are mostly core worlds, but this is the poor and underdeveloped Western border, all too near to the Kzinti border, also the Tholians and the Gorn. At this place, you find slums, white trash and hope. Lots of hope!
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Gene Roddenberry would have a hear attack if he ever found out you have a poverty stricken place in his perfect universe! (Just sayin')
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Gene Roddenberry made a sterile, inhuman universe. But all utopies are lies. Welcome to the "real" Federation
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Kowloon looks like a circuit board lego building.
Nice pic!
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Way kewl. But I can only hope they've got good air brakes. As they look like they're coming in, in a very steep nose dive....PULL UP!!! PULL UP!!!
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Was that the primary buffer panel?
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Whoa! I feel like I'm going to fall right in (and that's just the small view). Great one.
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Thank you very much!
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nice, always a pleasure to see the captains gig in action
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Thank you!
She's a standard shuttle, not a Captain's shuttle, though.
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Shuttlecraft 12 of the starship USS Electra, captain's gig. A real pleasure for you to loan her to me
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Have lots of safe journies with her, Captain.
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