While you're preparing for this month's challenge on "The Catwalk" take the opportunity to practice your pout and sashay over to check out our list of Themes for May. Then don't forget to vote for the most stylish choices in the poll. 
Please feel free to vote whether you intend to create an entry or not, we want to generate as much interest and participation as possible. And let us know how you've voted below and why: what piques your interest about each theme, what do you think we might see? You never know, your thoughts could just be the spark that lights someone's imagination and leads to a new piece of Star Trek Art.
We have Fourteen Themes suggested by Trek BBS members for you to choose from and you have until the poll closes on the 1st May to vote for your THREE favourites.
Three Themes, which scored the lowest average in the polls, have entered THE NEUTRAL ZONE and are in danger of being eliminated from future votes.
Details for each suggested Theme are as follows:
Remember you can choose THREE!!
Thanks for voting, have fun!
* - THE NEUTRAL ZONE
Please feel free to vote whether you intend to create an entry or not, we want to generate as much interest and participation as possible. And let us know how you've voted below and why: what piques your interest about each theme, what do you think we might see? You never know, your thoughts could just be the spark that lights someone's imagination and leads to a new piece of Star Trek Art.
We have Fourteen Themes suggested by Trek BBS members for you to choose from and you have until the poll closes on the 1st May to vote for your THREE favourites.
Three Themes, which scored the lowest average in the polls, have entered THE NEUTRAL ZONE and are in danger of being eliminated from future votes.
Details for each suggested Theme are as follows:
- Specific Show -- Deep Space Nine
Dedicated to art inspired by one specific Star Trek show or era. Each month you have the opportunity to vote for a different era cycling through: TOS/TAS --> TNG --> DS9 --> VOY --> ENT --> MOVIES --> DSC --> PIC --> LDS --> PRO --> SNW --> TOS/TAS --> ...
- The More Things Change
Time may move at warp speed, but not everything does. Show us how something Trek has changed over the years - landscapes, buildings, ships, people, beliefs.
- Tall Tales
Or, a funny thing happened on the way to Delta Vega. Dedicated to those adventures that are the most bizarre and unbelievable, the ones where if you described them to someone they'd reckon you'd done a little too much LDS - Abraham Lincoln floating in space, holograms taking over the Enterprise, being shrunk to the size of a toy, evolving into a lizard?! Or perhaps you can think of something even weirder than those we've seen on the show.
- Deep Space Dine
Fancy yourself a chef? Create your version of a classic Star Trek food (include your recipe, if applicable) and plate it with perfection in a photograph or invent something brand new. Alternately, if you're a kitchen nightmare, draw us the perfect mouthwatering (or gag-inducing, depending on who you ask) meal.
- Fish Out of Water
Oh no! Somebody has kidnapped one of your favorite historical figures or fictional characters and brought them into the Trekverse. Or perhaps they accidentally traveled through a portal. Whatever. In any case, they're having more than a little trouble adjusting to their new surroundings. Show us what difficulties they're encountering.
- The Laws of Physics
Trek may not be able to change the laws of physics, but it sure can bend them! In keeping with that, bend the laws of art by warping the perspective, coloring outside the lines, and blending multiple discordant styles and techniques.
- The Old Collage Try
Get out your glue sticks and paste together a Trek image using magazine pages, photographs, fliers...whatever you've got lying around the house! Or copy and paste something together on the computer. Let's see your mosaics, conspiracy boards, posters, and puzzles.
- Warp Signatures
Everybody puts a little of themselves into their art. For this challenge, your artwork must contain a self-reference, whether it's your face somewhere in the crowd, your name plastered on a ship, or something a little more subtle, such as color choice, artistic style, or favorite medium. It shouldn't take a complete sensor scan to figure out who's responsible for your work this time around.
- Product Spacement
Sometimes Trek media goes out of its way to put real-world products front and center. Your entry must feature a product or brand, real or mentioned in Trek. So give a real soda brand a futuristic flavor makeover, or name a Trek character the new spokesperson/model for a popular fashion label. Include a catchy slogan, or re-brand it for the future customers.
- It's Reigning, It's Pouring
Every species has its own concept of royalty - hereditary monarchies, battles for supremacy, lavish ceremonies and all the kingly and queenly trappings: castles, crowns, jewels, thrones and royal robes, to name a few. Create a diadem to die for, paint a royal family's official portrait, or invite us to the wedding of the century.
- Ready, Aim, Fire At Will!
We've seen all kinds of weapons on Trek - sticks and stones, various types of blades, and all manner of guns, projectile and phaser. Craft/depict your favorite Trek weapon, or design something brand new. Is it for attacking your enemies, defending your allies, or just looking cool? (Show us how it's used if it's not immediately obvious.)
- Mail Call!*
It's always exciting to get something in the mail, no matter what century you live in. What does mail look like in the future? A new take on stamps and envelopes? Transwarp parcel post? Subspace messages? Singing holograms? Runabout express? Drop TrekBBS a few lines and colors and prove to us that neither wormholes nor space amoebas nor badmirals nor Borg cubes will keep these couriers from delivering their cargo.
- IVth Wall*
Every now and then, Trek breaks the fourth wall. So get meta: pick up your sledgehammers and bust your favorite bulkhead with a well-placed stroke of a paintbrush. Call out your pet peeves with a few clicks on the computer.
- Alien Alias*
Some missions require a change of species, either to avoid breaking the Prime Directive or to hide covert activity. You might also occasionally run into an alternate universe where your counterpart is a different species. Give your favorite character an alien makeover.
Remember you can choose THREE!!
Thanks for voting, have fun!
CHRISTMASTIME THEMES:
VALENTINE'S DAY THEMES
- That Rings A (Jingle) Bell
"Hmmm...I remember this, but I can't quite put my finger on where I've seen it before." Place something that looks uncannily Trek in a place you'd never expect to find it. Bonus replicator credits if it's hiding in a holiday-themed setting.
- Every Problem Has A (Re)Solution
What New Year's resolutions are your favorite characters making for themselves and each other? Depict your favorite Trek characters facing their fears, learning a new skill, or quitting an old habit.
- Season's Greetings
Show us what you imagine our favourite Star Trek characters might send or receive in the way of gifts or greetings cards at the this time of year - a family picture of the Rikers, a Quark's Bar gift voucher, a personalised coffee mug?
- Christmas Crossover
Taking inspiration from your favourite festive stories, movies, music videos (?) show us how they might manifest if they played out in the Star Trek Universe. Which character would be your choice for Scrooge or what would happen if Wesley was left Home Alone?
- Make It Snow
Weather permitting, snow and ice are this month's medium of choice. If your local climate refuses to obey orders, cotton balls, construction paper, bits of glass, tinsel, etc work, too. Create something wintery that will have us reaching for a cup of raktajino just looking at it. Let's see your frosty Ferengis, snowy starships, and icy IDICs.
- If Wishes Were Horses
What do you wish to see in Star Trek? Or, what might your Trek character of choice wish for? Draw or make a Star Trek wish come true at this magical time of year!
- Tinsel Trek
Everything seems to sparkle a bit more at Christmas, doesn't it? Bedeck your Trek in tinsel, garland, red and green, mistletoe, holly and ivy, candy canes, popcorn chains, etc. Let your art shimmer like a star.
- Sweater Weather
Nothing says Christmas like an ugly Christmas sweater. It'll never become a uniform variant (hopefully!) but it sure looks festive. So get out your pen, stylus, or even your knitting needles, if you've got a knack for it, and whip up something that'll keep your favorite characters warm and cozy on a snowbound holiday away mission.
- The Santa Claus Paradox
Santa Claus, not only does he deliver presents to every child across the world all in one night he also collects and stores masses of information about who wants what and also who is naughty or nice. It seems impossible, right, perhaps even paraxodical? Well, it does to us... but surely there's lots of technology and strange alien races in the Star Trek universe that could achieve these goals. Show us how you would solve the Santa Paradox from a Trek point of view: clones, robots, transporters, warp drive, god-like aliens, time-travel... what will you choose?
VALENTINE'S DAY THEMES
- Where My Heart Is, Beyond Antares
How do characters/species show their love for each other? Friends, parents and kids, true loves...anything you want.
- Hearts and Flowers
Happy Valentine's Day! Incorporate imagery of hearts and flowers into any Trek-themed project you choose. (Doesn't necessarily have to be directly related to Valentine's Day)
- Be Mine, Space-Time Valentine
What kind of Valentine cards and candy would Trek species dole out? Design a card or gift, alien/Starfleet style.
* - THE NEUTRAL ZONE
