In Association with MODEL DESIGNS COPYRIGHT © 2008 JOHN E. PAYNE EXCEPT WHERE NOTED COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY COPYRIGHT © 2008 JOHN E. PAYNE MOST BACKGROUND PHOTOS © NASA, BORROWED WITHOUT PERMISSION Hovering over a distant Gamma Quadrant starbase, the cruiser USS Val'Walo awaits the arrival of a runabout carrying mission specialists for her current assignment. USS VAL'WALO JANUARY 2009 New Year's Day Gregorian Calendar Earth Kwanzaa Ends (Earth, United States) Weight Loss Seminar Starfleet Medical Health Program Kirstie Alley's Birthday Moon Shuttle Martin Luther King Day Conductors' Day Earth DeForest Kelley's United States Civil Rights Leader Birthday New Year Earth, Chinese Calendar Year of the Ox Australia Day (Earth, Australia) The cargo pod transport USS Sultana delivers crucial supplies to a new colony world, under escort of the battleship USS Coeur de Lion. USS SULTANA FEBRUARY 2009 Groundhog Day Earth, United States nItlh SoH jaj UFP Science Seminar Traditional Spring Ritual (Scapegoat Day) “Terraforming from Scratch” Little Life Form Day Klingon Blame-Diverting Tradition Bibi Besch’s Brent Spiner's John Shuck's Birthday Birthday Birthday Talaxian Bake-Off Abraham Lincoln's Delta Quadrant Tradition Birthday Ethan Phillips United States President Valentine's Day ’ Earth (Traditional) Earth (Traditional) Birthday Melkot (Adopted) Delta IV, Betazed (Adopted) Presidents’ Day Earth, United States Traditional Tribute Hair Style Show Presidents' Day Theme: Tricks with Banana Clips United States LeVar Burton's Birthday Earth Whalebone Corset Boss’ Girlfriend’s Day Dabo Day Invented Hollywood Tradition Ash Wednesday Quark's Bar, DS9, Bajor Sector Jeri Ryan's Majel Barrett's Earth Chase Masterson’s Birthday Birthday Christian Religion Birthday The Exploration Cruiser Artemis Rendezvous with the frigate USS Peregrine at Saturn USS ARTEMIS MARCH 2009 Artificial Engineers' Day Enhancement Day Starfleet Tradition Vulcan Bionics Conference Jimmy Doohan's Jolene Blalock's Birthday Birthday Mawlid al-Nabi Earth, Muslim Religion Muhammad's Birthday Purim Commonwealth Day Earth Earth, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK Jewish Religious Celebration Burn Awareness Day St. Patrick's Day Starfleet Safety Program Earth, Ireland, Britain, US Connor Trinneer’s Traditional Drunken Celebration Birthday IDIC Festival Take Pause Day Vulcan Philosophical Gathering William... Shatner's... Leonard Nimoy's Birthday Birthday Women Drivers’ Day Starfleet Safety Program Marina Sirtis' Birthday USS Soryu's shuttle #12, "Voyager," surveys the burned out ruins of a city on Miri's planet HEAVY SURVEY SHUTTLE APRIL 2009 April Fool's Day Earth Traditional Day of Practical Joking Captains’ Conference Subject: Sexual Harassment Grace Lee Whitney's Birthday Palm Sunday Passover Begins Good Friday Earth Earth Earth Christian Religion Jewish Religion Christian Religion Easter Passover Ends Earth Earth Christian Religion Jewish Religion Joystick Day Traditional Helmsmen’s Holiday St. George's Day George Takei's Earth Day Earth, England Birthday Earth (Duh) National Day Replicated Coffee Appreciation Day UFP Kate Mulgrew's Birthday The Val'Walo disables a Cardassian scout ship as it tries to evade them in a gas giant's ring system. USS VAL'WALO MAY 2009 May Day Earth, Great Britian Traditional Spring Festival Visakah Puja Cinco de Mayo Beltaine (Buddha Day) Labour Day Earth, Mexico, United States Earth Liberation Day Earth Earth, Australia Traditional Festival Pagan Festival Earth, France Buddhist Religion Mother's Day Armed Forces Day Earth, United States Earth, United States Commercial Military Tribute Victoria Day Earth, Canada Technobabble Day Starfleet Seminar Memorial Day Colm Meaney's Birthday Earth, United States Military Rememberence Michael Piller's Birthday The hospital ship HOPE comes to the aid of the stricken destroyer USS Shaitan, damaged in the Orion blockade of Coridan in 2267. USS HOPE Saladin Class Destroyer Copyright © 1975 by Franz Joseph Designs JUNE 2009 Foundation Day Earth, Australia Silly Putty Invented Dunsel Day Earth Starfleet Tradition D-Day Rene Auberjonois' Anthony Montgomery’s Earth, US and Europe Birthday Birthday War Memorial Day of Payne Earth, New Jersey Replacement Training Seminar Flag Day Robin Curtis' Earth United States Birthday Bendii Syndrome Awareness Day Father's Day Vulcan Earth, United States Tim Russ' Commercial Birthday Jeri Taylor’s Birthday The Essex late in her career, when the noble old warhorse had been reassigned to shuttle pilot training. Here she is imaged over Cait, with young Caitian shuttle pilots practicing landings. USS ESSEX USS Essex Copyright © 1987 by Mastercom Data Center JULY 2009 Canada Day Earth, Canadia Pineapple Cake Day NX-01 Enterprise Tradition Dominic Keating's Birthday Restocking Day Independence Day Torpedoes Delivered Yesterday Earth Alan Ruck's Birthday United States Universal Translator Invented 7/7/2005 Earth, Japan/Korea Earth, Great Britain Linda Park's Memorial for Terrorist Victims Birthday Capt. Picard Day Annual Enterprise-D Event Patrick Stewart's Bastille Day Birthday Earth, France Dance of the Orbs Youth Science Fair Bajoran Dance Festival Federation-Wide Event Nana Visitor's Wil Wheaton's Birthday Birthday A Klingon loses a game of "chicken" with Artemis as her phasers track true, laying a beam across the cruiser's path. USS ARTEMIS AUGUST 2009 Lughnasadh Earth Pagan Harvest Festival Stem Bolt Day Picnic Day Hiroshima Day Self-Sealing Variety Earth, Australia, Earth, Japan Cirroc Lofton's Jellystone Park Rememberance of War Birthday Timeline Violation Mothers’ Day Awareness Day Vulcan Starfleet Security Program Jane Wyatt's Brannon Braga's Birthday Birthday Great Bird Festival Ramadan Begins Federation-Wide Tradition Earth, Muslim Religion Cochrane Day Gene Roddenberry's Birthday UFP Work Holiday Photography Seminar Glenn Corbett's Johnathan Frakes' Birthday Subject: Nudes and Technology Birthday Diana Muldaur's Birthday Kim Cattrall's Birthday Dancing Doctors’ Day Annual Federation Talent Show Gates McFadden's Birthday Sultana heads out for her next pick-up after delivering two cargo pods to a Starbase orbital warehouse facility USS SULTANA SEPTEMBER 2009 Genesis Day Mutara Sector Merritt Butrick's Birthday 9/11/2001 Earth, United States Memorial for Terrorist Victims Anger Management Labor Day Starfleet Health Seminar Earth, United States Roxann Dawson's Birthday Inwention Day Earth, Russia Annual Technology Fair Battle of Britain Day Rosh Hashanah Begins Id al Fitr (Ramadan Ends) Walter Koenig's Earth, United Kingdom Earth Earth Birthday War Memorial Jewish New Year - 5769 Muslim Religion Childberth Seminar Int’l Day of Peace Officer Emergency Training Earth Rosalind Chao's Rosh Hashanah Ends United Nations Birthday Doomsday Yom Kippur Begins System L374 Earth William Windom's Hatching Day Jewish Day of Atonement Birthday Andorian Fertility festival Exploring the performance envelope at warp seven USS COLUMBUS OCTOBER 2009 Emissary Day Bajoran Religious Observance Avery Brooks' Birthday Gazelle Appreciation Day California Pretentiousness Society Labour Day Scott Bakula's Earth, Australia Birthday Thanksgiving Day Coridan Day Earth, Canada Coridan System Celebrates Columbus Day UFP Membership Earth, United States Mark Lenard's Orion Day of Mourning Italian-American festival Birthday Dilithium Market Crash of 2267 Ira Steven Behr's United Nations Day Birthday Earth Holographic Rights Day FCLU Annual Holo-Rally Halloween Robert Picardo's Earth Birthday Pagan Festival In the confused meleé during the battle for the Chin'toka System, the corvettes of the Arminius class take a beating while USS Surak and her destroyer escort move in to attack enemy capital ships. Arminius and her sister USS Vercingetorix maneuver to attack lighter Jem'Hadar units, while at lower right USS Hamilcar burns, and USS Boudicca tumbles from a crippling hit. USS ARMINIUS NOVEMBER 2009 Lobe Festival Election Day Ferengi Ritual Day Earth, United States Armin Shimerman's Futile Political Excercise Birthday Armistice Day Earth, France Military Rememberence Rememberence Day Earth,Canada Interstellar Hat Festival Salamander Day Military Rememberence Theme: Least Practical in a Samhain Warp 10 Achieved Veterans' Day Confined Space Earth Robert Duncan McNeill's Earth, United States Whoopi Goldberg's Celtic/Pagan Festival Birthday Military Rememberence Birthday Face Marking Day Robert Beltran's Name Confusion Day Birthday Siddig Al - er... Terry Farrell's Alexander Siddig's Birthday Birthday Mogh Day Klingon Effigy Burning Oil Slick Day John Larroquette's Birthday Vagra 2 Environmental Rally Eugenics War Day Thanksgiving Day Denise Crosby's Earth, War Memorial Earth, United States Birthday Ricardo Montalban's Birthday Traditional Holiday St. Andrew's Day Earth, Scotland National Day USS Coventry joins in the effort to move the dead hulk of the "Planet Killer" to a secure location for study. USS COVENTRY USS Coventry and USS Essex Copyright © 1987 by Mastercom Data Center DECEMBER 2009 Targ Day Pearl Harbor Day Klingon Pet Show & Barbeque Hanukkah Begins Earth, United States Michael Dorn's Rights Day Earth Military Rememberance Birthday Earth Jewish Religion Underachievers' Day Theme: Ensigns Forever! Wright Brothers Day Hanukkah Ends Garret Wang's Earth, International Earth Birthday Technological Milestone Jewish Religion Kwanzaa Begins Slug Swapping Day Earth, United States Trill Holiday Christmas Day Nichole DeBoer's Earth Boxing Day Birthday Christian Religion Canada, Australia Boxing Day Earth, Great Britain,