Not much to say here. Just having fun. More practice for further characters.

24th-century medicine could solve most vision issues, but I would like to imagine I would be vain enough to keep wearing glasses. Anything to look smarter, really.

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More Lower Decks fun. Also, the Ferengi are a lot of fun to draw. I appreciate the dirty sense of humor in the design with the piercings, as the earlobes are canonically erogenous zones for the species.

Kilara of Cerix is part of the underground Ferengi feminist movement and was smuggled off the world of Ferenginar. She grew up with an interest in Starfleet and currently works in Cetacean Ops. She also has some sort of history with Quark and hopes to take down his business aboard Deep Space Nine one day.

And that is what we know so far from Session Zero. We’ll see where her story goes, alongside Ryder Dai. Perhaps other members of the team will appear as well in the sketchbook. We are both absurdly into Star Trek and pepper in a lot of Trekkie references day-to-day. It was fun to surprise her with a drawing of her character.

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I am a huge fan of Lower Decks, When my Sunday monthly group decided to run Star Trek Adventures for a while, I was immediately thrilled we were doing something akin to Lower Decks. I may write a bit about the campaign or write Starfleet Ensign Ryder Dai’s tragic backstory (it involves an accidental centaur) and how it dovetails into the creation of the “Dai Saddle,” one of his chief contributions to Starfleet.

As for the Starfleet Equestrian Division, I noticed that there were a lot of horses in Star Trek, so I decided to play on that. In a broader sense, he is the “animal handler” and has some skills with xenobiology and animal husbandry. Also, he hails from Corpus Christi, Texas, and was kind of peer-pressured into the Starfleet Equestrian Division due to his family’s ranch.

Drawing in the Lower Decks style is a ton of fun. As you can see, I have also included my original drawing of the character that I did on my character sheet. It was done from memory at the time. I realize a lot of details are off with the uniform, but it still very much feels like Star Trek.

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