Contest: VOTE February 2025 Art Challenge -- Gift Shop Goodies -- Please Vote!

[Starscape]

Welcome to the voting thread for the 235th Trek BBS Fan Art Forum Challenge!

Our Theme for February was Gift Shop Goodies, and described as:

Gift Shop Goodies

Who doesn't love souvenirs? Imagine what visitors, passengers, and tourists might bring home as a memory of their stay on the Enterprise, visit to DS9, vacation on Vulcan, etc. Whether it's an actual piece of the ship, a funny t-shirt, a pretty postcard, or something more outrageous, one thing is certain; it'll always remind you of your visit.

Unfortunately, we don't have any gift shop vouchers to award to this month's winner but they will earn our utmost respect and have the honour of wearing the golden “Fan Art Challenge Winner” badge on their profile for the following month.


We have THREE entries from which you can choose your favourite in the poll:



@Cyfa
Three action figure "goodies" Cyfa would like to find in the Cerritos' gift shop:

@korblborp
Some paperweights inspired by "Catspaw"

@Starscape
An ensemble of Bajoran pilgrim souvenirs.

Thanks for voting!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

We have a clear leader so far.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Is it just me, or do we get more votes when we don't pin the thread to the top?

 

[Michael]

Voted!

Is it just me, or do we get more votes when we don't pin the thread to the top?

I’d say there’s a good chance that that is true. I’ve long thought that pinned threads are actually easier to miss than non-pinned threads. Maybe it’s just me, but I tend to scroll past pinned threads in any given forum pretty quickly to get to the new stuff. Which is why I’m actually against having too many pinned threads. I think four is alright, but five is really pushing it.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The entry threads are one thing, because they have to stay at the top of the page for a whole month. Vote threads can remain as they are because it's only a few days.

 

[Starscape]

Hmmm, that made me curious enough to skim through some of the recent polls results. And we can get between 10-20 voters, so the 14 (so far) is about average.

It could be that if the poll is unpinned we get more early voters, skewing our perception.

Well, this is as tight a competition as we've had in quite some time. A couple of votes could change everything around and there's still ~24 hours until the poll closes if you haven't yet voted.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Last chance to vote!

 

[Cyfa]

And Starscape keeps the badge - Congratulations, @Starscape !! I love that Celestial Temple design!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Congratulations. The embossed one could be called the emissary's thumbprint.

 

[Starscape]

Thanks, guys!

Almost a tie for second place too, a very strong showing this month. Thanks to everyone that entered and voted.