Picturing the USS Dauntless

Marco Palmieri has posted up the story of how the illustration of the USS Dauntless in the latest issue of the Star Trek Magazine came about. The ship, from Palmieri's story in Vanguard: Declassified, if another Masao Okazaki design, but the picture is by Thomas Pemberton; who was asked to contribute an existing image but made a new one especially instead:

Read the full story on Palmieri's blog.