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After drawing Lt. Kedair, I felt compelled to attempt to portray the rest of the crew of the USS Aventine from the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy of novels.

Top row, left to right:

Doctor Simon Tarses; chief medical officer
Lieutenant Mikaela Leishman; chief engineer
Lieutenant Commander Gruhn Helkara; chief science officer
Lieutenant Oliana Mirren; operations manager

Bottom row, left to right:

Commander Sam Bowers; first officer
Captain Ezri Dax; commanding officer
Lieutenant Lonnoc Kedair; chief of security

A large motivation in doing this came simply from my fascination at the idea that Ezri became a captain. On the face of it, if you only know her from the show, it seems implausible, but that's why it interests me so much. An unlikely character displaying that level of growth is appealing.

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I don't know what was trickier: trying to capture the likenesses of the characters that have been seen on screen or deciding how to draw the characters that appear exclusively in the books. At first, I tried looking through this thread pertaining to literary casting choices on TrekBBS, to try to get an idea of what others thought these people should look like, but I ultimately opted to just do my own thing.

Most of the non-canon characters I didn't base on anyone specific. I used Phil Morris as my model for Bowers, but didn't try super hard to make him look exactly like the actor.

Also, I originally drew Mirren to sort of resemble Angela Kinsey, but I belatedly discovered she wasn't just a character invented for the books; she had in fact been in an early episode of TNG. Apparently, author David Mack had forgotten this as well, which was why he turned her from dark-haired to blonde. My Mirren ended up looking nothing like the actress who had played her.

For a few moments, I was like, "Meh, who cares?" Then I noticed that my Leishman looked more like the TV Mirren than my Mirren did, so with a few alterations, Leishman became Mirren and vice versa. Actually, I prefer Leishman's new look. If I came at all close to how she's supposed to look in the books, though, I have no clue. I couldn't even find a reference to her hair color. I guess it doesn't matter. This was just a small project I did for my own amusement when I should have been working on more important things.

Description
After drawing Lt. Kedair, I felt compelled to attempt to portray the rest of the crew of the USS Aventine from the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy of novels.

Top row, left to right:

Doctor Simon Tarses; chief medical officer
Lieutenant Mikaela Leishman; chief engineer
Lieutenant Commander Gruhn Helkara; chief science officer
Lieutenant Oliana Mirren; operations manager

Bottom row, left to right:

Commander Sam Bowers; first officer
Captain Ezri Dax; commanding officer
Lieutenant Lonnoc Kedair; chief of security

A large motivation in doing this came simply from my fascination at the idea that Ezri became a captain. On the face of it, if you only know her from the show, it seems implausible, but that's why it interests me so much. An unlikely character displaying that level of growth is appealing.

_________________________________________

I don't know what was trickier: trying to capture the likenesses of the characters that have been seen on screen or deciding how to draw the characters that appear exclusively in the books. At first, I tried looking through this thread pertaining to literary casting choices on TrekBBS, to try to get an idea of what others thought these people should look like, but I ultimately opted to just do my own thing.

Most of the non-canon characters I didn't base on anyone specific. I used Phil Morris as my model for Bowers, but didn't try super hard to make him look exactly like the actor.

Also, I originally drew Mirren to sort of resemble Angela Kinsey, but I belatedly discovered she wasn't just a character invented for the books; she had in fact been in an early episode of TNG. Apparently, author David Mack had forgotten this as well, which was why he turned her from dark-haired to blonde. My Mirren ended up looking nothing like the actress who had played her.

For a few moments, I was like, "Meh, who cares?" Then I noticed that my Leishman looked more like the TV Mirren than my Mirren did, so with a few alterations, Leishman became Mirren and vice versa. Actually, I prefer Leishman's new look. If I came at all close to how she's supposed to look in the books, though, I have no clue. I couldn't even find a reference to her hair color. I guess it doesn't matter. This was just a small project I did for my own amusement when I should have been working on more important things.