Snakes Lair || Hakka's reign

Title: Star trek edits: SNW crew
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (new trek)
Characters: All main and a couple of recurring.
Rating: G
Tagline: The USS Enterprise senior crew and additional officers by 2259.68.
About the edit: This is the crew from the Season 1, pre-All Those Who Wander so to include Hemmer, who we didn't deserve to see die so early.
Notes 1 I left out all the named crew members that were seen only in an episode.
Notes 2: The tv show uses the old Stardate method. But according to Memory Alpha, 1x01 takes place in either 2259.42 or 2259.55 (there's a note about the episode occurring in the same day the events of Into Darkness happen in the AOS timeline.
Notes 3: Number of crew complement from a ship overview/scan seen in Discovery.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Not satisfied. Everything looks better with the AOS colors (gray background).
Also, there aren't much pics of the sets to play with. Some had to be taken from the tv show, which means dark sets.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Text about the Enterprise lifted from Memory Alpha's page of the U.S.S. Enterprise here. Enterprise model by F. Passaro (Meshweaver). UFP logo from Star Trek Design Project.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: Memories from the betrothal
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Pairing: T'Pring/Uhura
Characters: T'Pring, Nyota Uhura, Hendorff, Gaila, Darwin, Hikaru Sulu, Leonard McCoy, Carol Marcus. An OC (Uhura's sister).
Rating: G
Tagline: Two captured moments of T'Pring and Nyota Uhura's betrothal ceremony.
About the manip: In a future post Beyond, where Spock accepts the ineluctable truth of being subject to James Kirk's gravitational pull and stops resisting, Uhura discovers that she really is meant to marry into Vulcan, just on the opposite site of the biological spectrum she planned.
Jim, Scotty, Chekov and cadet ensign Jaylah are somewhere trying to drink each other under the table. Spock is very embarrassed by his mate and is probably closed in some bathroom asking to his own reflection why again he decided to get himself lured by the captain's tempting mind after he and Nyota parted ways - and yes, perhaps why he let Nyota go in the first place.
Notes: Something thrown together for 2022 uhuramonth.
Notes 2: The girl smiling at the arrival of the couple in the first manip is Cisley Saldana, Zoe's sister: I wanted to manip Zoe's mother as Uhura's mother on that woman raising the glass, but Asalia Nazaro has a very different body structure, and it felt disrespectful to place her head on a "fitting" body, when she's plus size. So I decided to include Zoe's sister and turn her into Uhura's sister.
Notes 3: In this house, Gaila is alive and eventually returns to the Enterprise (as hinted in the comic series), and Darwin and Carol (and 0178) weren't cancelled in the rush to erase all Into Darkness existence for Beyond (in this house we love Into Darkness, but it's has become a very controversial statement to make). I'm ready to fight on this. (ง'̀-'́)ง
Notes 4: Killjoys is basically a go-to for Star Trek manips. Seriously, take a look at the gallery at . When I've seen pics from this specific scene my mind went to T'Pring and/or Vulcans, but I didn't know how to use them. Actually, the purple/blue dress would be perfect for Amanda (she has a hairstyle that I'm sure Amanda, either TOS or Discovery, had) but, alas.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Foreword, at first it was just one manip, the second. It was a challenge but nothing was particularly harder. It did take me a good hour to hunt down Zoe and Kristin pics (and eventually I found that I had a better Zoe saved on and old Stock folder, duh!), especially Kristin was hard to find from that specific view/side: actresses tend to take pics either front, turning back, or side-view with head slightly turned to the camera.
The idea to turn the other characters into Star Trek characters came a day later, when I was actually starting with the manip (day before I researched pics and did a unrefined attempt to see if they fit). I'm actually pleased for how Cho looks - the perfect pic happened in the search first rows! - and Aisha Hinds/Darwin looks so hot.
The idea to make another piece - the first posted - came right one day before the date to post. I love how Uhura turned, very regal - it took me a while, and only a stock photo with all the logo plastered on it, but I found the perfect Zoe both for angle and facial look. I also love how T'Pring turned out, and I even managed to replicate TOS!T'Pring's eye shadow.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manips themselves.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart (part 1, part 2), Tumblr.

Title: Star trek edits: AOS crew [updated]
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Timeline: Main AOS
Characters: All main and recurring, plus some TOS recurring and an OC.
Number One, James Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov, Keenser, Hendorff, Carol Marcus, Darwin, Kyle, Moto, 0178, M'Benga, Christine Chapel, Gary Mitchell, Gaila, USS Enterprise (human!Enterprise), Janice Rand.
Rating: G
Tagline: The USS Enterprise senior crew and additional main crew at the start of the year 2261.
About the edit: This is the crew post-Into Darkness, with the addition of few characters that were never included in the Kelvin timeline but were recurring in the Original Series.
Original publishing date: August 16, 2016.
Chronology of the editings: Edit first modified in July 2020, to replace a Tumblr fancasting (Gina Torress) with Discovery/Strange New Worlds's Number One, Rebecca Romijn. To me the two shows above are closer to the Reboot than the TOS: Majel Barrett's Number One will always be the only TOS Number One, Rebecca is and will be my AOS Number One.
Edited again in December 2020 to add two additional characters that I should've never left out the last time, namely Kyle (the character played by Chris Doohan) and the relief navigator Darwin.
Just to be known, the initial reason for putting my hands on this edit again was the discovery that, according to Nichelle Nichols's autobiography, Uhura is "head of Communications", and I wanted to reflect that; contextually, I was working on another fandom in Star Trek edit in which I had more than one communications officer potentials and I needed to differentiate the "Uhura" of them and the relief/other one.
Another edit (I'm a George Lucas...) in February 2021, as I noticed that the logo for the UFP I've been using was strictly the TOS/Prime timeline one, and that in AOS it was slightly changed and the colors were switched (blue logo on white, when originally was white on blue). While I were at it, I changed the Enterprise into a composition that I will be able to keep without any change needed in other edits that will feature a constitution class but aren't the Enterprise. I also decided to add Lieutenant 0718 and Lieutenant Moto.
The edit was tweaked again here and there until officially the final version, with the lengthy characters presentations, was released on December 2021.
One last, and I mean LAST time (heard me, Hakka??!), in early March 2022 (published March 06), when I completely revamped the graphic to try to make these edit a bit shorter when there’s a big crew cast (to then discover Tumblr has upped the max height size to 3072 -.-).
Fixed in early April 2022 to remove the "G." as "Geoffrey" for M'Benga's second name, as Jabilo M'Benga has been canonized in a poster has his name.
Fixed again in early November 2023 because Strange New Worlds has canonized "Joseph".
Notes: Most of the non-canon (as in "non specified in the movies") bits for the main characters comes from either the Star Trek movie script, the Star Trek movie app, from the two IDW comics series or official novels, and can easily found on either Memory Alpha or Memory Beta. Rest is explained in the "addendum" post (see below).
Notes, additional: Jaylah will definitely be kidnapped by Jim and the crew offered a position on the Enterprise as soon as she's finished the Academy, although by then the mission should be ended. :(
About the "made up" roles: Liaison Officer, Computer Officer, Armory Officer and Security Chief don't exist in either canon or non-canon Star Trek and were made up by me. See more at this post.
About assignments, ranks, names and other changes: Since the post was exceeding Livejournal's limits (also, already very long textwall), these have been collected at this additional post.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): I hate Paramount because they stopped to release HQ promo pics. I managed to get my hands on some decent quality Into Darkness promo pics (well, the only ones they did - the ones used for the Empire cover - thanks to the site of an Italian small editor but they were all watermarked. :()
You might recognize Mitchell, M'Benga, Chapel and Rand from manips I already released. I made a brand new Cupcake because he deserves to be there, poor Cuppy; the same for 0178 - although the quality of the latest leaves a lot to be desired. Rachel Nichols is beautiful and "Orionize" blondes is always funny.
Keenser... well, I cheated because he comes from a screencap. :D
My Silver Lady. It was much fun to make her.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart (edit, text), Tumblr (old version).

Title: Mom's pride
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Characters: James Kirk, the Kirk family
Rating: G
Tagline: Winona Kirk's tweet for Jim's 29th birthday.
Series: Tweets from the Enterprise
About the manip: Momma Kirk is very proud of her puppy.
Notes: More about the Human!Enterprise here.
Notes 2: I meant this one to be set after Beyond events, but I'd have to change the uniforms in the avatars so... no, thank you.
Anyway, Gaila has become part of the Enterprise crew in 2262.335, according to the comic books, but let's forget this detail, shall we?
Notes 3: One of the name given to her in the past by official-not-canon material was Marjorie Wimpole. I kept it as second name.
I come from a country (Italy) where the wife doesn't and can't take the husband's surname (I woman I knew signed her checks with her husband's name, but that's it. Legally, you have the surname with which you were registered at birth). This to say that a part of me cannot accept the whole "Winona Kirk" thing, because she should just be Winona Davis (apparently that's her surname) or, if ever, Winona Davis Kirk.
With the kind of past she has, I would never see her keeping the "Kirk" surname, especially because she would never want to draw attention on herself and her tragedy.
Notes 4: I decided to turn the manip into a part of the Twitter series because, as stand alone, it sucked. It's not bad, but I just wasn't satisfied by the final result with the Iowan background: the finished piece just looks... fake?
Notes 5: Edit modified in July 2020. Replaced a Tumblr fancasting (Gina Torress) with Discovery/Strange New Worlds's Number One, Rebecca Romijn. To me the two shows above are closer to the Reboot than the TOS: Majel Barrett's Number One will always be the only TOS Number One, Rebecca is and will be my AOS Number One.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Background coming from a (dropped) wip manip of mine, in which Jim Kirk was posing with the Kirk farm in the background. Composed by the construction and other three pics merged together.
Funny, though, that - months later - I've seen the same farm used as the Kirk farm in an "official" comic book (a memory of Spock Prime going to visit Jim's grave in Riverside. The prequel to ST XI perhaps?). XD
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart (tweet, photo), Tumblr.

Title: Star Trek AUs: Olympics
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Timeline: Olympics AU
Characters: James Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy, Nyota Uhura, Montgomery Scott, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov, Carol Marcus, Jaylah.
Rating: G
Tagline: The Enterprise Olympics team.
Series: Star Trek AUs, Olympics AU
About the manip: The Federation Olympics? The Academy Olympics? Whatever.
Notes: I was keeping the tv on and they were showing the Fencing semi-finals (with the Korean bronze winner), and I immediately thought of John Cho/Sulu and then it occurred to me… what about a Star Trek AOS Olympics AU?
This is the result.
Notes 2: Slightly edited in July 2021.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: Lieutenant Kijani Uhura
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Timeline: AOS Genderbend AU
Characters: Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Tagline: DB Woodside as male!Uhura.
Series: Rule 63 Trek
Notes: I love DB Woodside's eyes. It's just... well, it was love at first sight since his first time in 24. The cut of his eyes (not well shown in this pic, though) reminds me of Zoe's, that's why I picked him. I know he's a little bit too old, compared to Zoe: I did my best to remove some sign of age from his face.
About the name: In "Parallel lives" (Star Trek #29/#30), the male Uhura is called Nnamdi Uhuro: frankly, I have no idea if it makes sense that "Uhura" becomes "Uhuro" (does Uhura have a male form?), nor I have searched what Nnamdi means.
For a WIP of mine, way before this comic came out, I genderbent Uhura, so here's the reason for my name choice: there’s no specific male form corresponding to Nyota (“star”) but apparently the name also means “warrior”: the male name Kijani (pronunciation KEE-jah-nee) means warrior.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): There are so few decent costumes/replicas for the uniforms out there: of these few, not all have decent quality pics and, most important, they are worn by real models and the model doesn't look ludicrous and stiff.
This one was decent enough for posture, and of good quality. Sure, pants and shoes and the undershirt are wrong, and the metal pin was a fabric patch (so I had to change it) and the phaser replica is a perfect replica but... all white (WTF??) so I had to find a pic of the real replica that could fit the particular position and was big enough to do so (nightmare indeed). But, hmm, not bad result, in the end.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: The fab six
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Characters: Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, M'Benga, G.P. Hendorff
Rating: G
Tagline: All the Enterprise's head departments, minus Science and Medical. Chekov joined them because is part of the senior crew on the bridge and M'Benga because he's McCoy's second in command, 'nuff said.
Notes: So sad that there's no pic in this photoshoot to do the fab 3, aka the triumvirate. :( I found three pics: this one, that one I used for Uhura and Carol, and one that features two women and a man, so no triumvirate. ç_ç
Notes #2: Yes, I've accepted the fancanon that reboot M'Benga is Michael Early.
Notes #3: I so hate using people with tattoos.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): You have no idea how masochist one has to be in order to even start working on a manip like this one, starting with the fact the original pic featured only four model plus their (very covered) coach. Had to remove the latter and add the fifth half-naked guy. Not happy, I even decided later that Mr. Hendorff could not be left out!
Anyway, to recap, I had to:
- remove the gallons of ink from Sulu's (and then Cupcake's) body;
- remove the watch from Scotty's and Chekov's body;
- try add that watch-like bracelet Chief Engineer Scotty wears;
- find faces of all actors that fitted (quite a feat, since John, Simon and Anton don't have a dedicated fansite);
- try to change a bit the shape of Scotty's body so it's not a too obvious copy of Chekov's. Probably failed but whatever;
- create some bits of legs for Cupcake's because, to make it taller, I had to move the whole model;
- the damn shadows. I swear;
- fix the background twice because of the added bodies. I swear, my father (who is a construction worker and is very specialized in walls made of rocks, could be proud of me;
- have I said find the faces? Only Zoe and Michael were easy. Michael looks quite awesome, if you ask me;
- damn Jason Matthew Smith. There are literally three pics of him that aren't screencaps. Luckily, the one on IMDB.com worked and was the right size.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: The queens of the USS Enterprise
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Characters: Nyota Uhura, Carol Marcus
Rating: G
Tagline: What if Jim Kirk talked Uhura and Carol into doing a "let's play top models" photo shoot.
Series: Space friends³
About the manip: Who's with me that, in this timeline, Uhura's best (female) friend is Carol? They do hang out and gossip behind Jim's back and annoy him whenever they can (Jim does the same so don't worry).
The title "Queens of the USS Enterprise" is actually the nickname Jim gave them: he so loves his queens. He might be also nagging them to cosplay Storm and Emma Frost sometime in the future.
Notes: Yes, there's Jim Kirk behind the camera.
Notes #2: Uhura looks awesome in her "don't fucking mess with me, see this gal here? Mine!" while Carol... well, she really is aiming for the sexy shoot. (Feel free to insert femslash here, if you like).
Notes #3: The black model has something of Nichelle Nichols, I don't know if she naturally looks like Ms. Nichols or if it's the makeup. Anyway, I would've loved to make this a TOS Uhura/Chapel photo but I wasn't ready for the disappointment to search for pics of 60s actresses and find none that would fit, especially the odd pose of the blonde model that would be Chapel.
Anyway, I found two other pics from this same shoot, with the addition of other people, and I'll do them as well with "secondary" characters from AOS (read = not the triumvirate). I'm actually 80% done with a massive group (the original pic was made of 4 characters, but I turned it into 5 characters).
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip):: You have no idea how I hated this while working on it and how I still hate it. The base was awesome in subject, but not in quality.
The blond model had the face in this weird pose: there is no fansite for Alice Eve and this meant fight with Google Images to find a decent pic that would fit. Nonetheless to say that the one that fitted the most was... not big enough. Anyway, I know she looks odd and the shadows I added don't really fix the issue. I hate this, because Zoe, on the other side, looks so perfect.
Last, but not least: the blond model had a very weird white hue on her skin. I had to "pink-ize" her, would you believe? And I still had to desaturate a bit because she still was too white for Alice's face. Oh well.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: Girls night (aka Space BFF part I)
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Characters: Jim Kirk, Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Tagline: Jim and Nyota kicking back together for some relaxing off duty time.
Series: Space friends
Notes: From this post of my own, I like the idea of Jim and Uhura be best friend and do things together, painting nails included. My headcanon is that Jim isn't just decent but actually quite good at it, so he likes to play with Uhura's perfect nails and Uhura just let him. So he experiments, perhaps does some nail art too.
Notes #2: Who doesn't love the idea of our captain with eyeglass? I was waiting for the chance to put him in eyeglasses and this seemed to me the right time. He doesn't have eyesight issues yet, so these are just resting lenses: I guess that, with all the bright lights that make the bridge, Jim's eyes wouldn't mind to wear some lenses that help them rest. We already have filtering lenses that help people who use bright light device like tablet and stuff so they could have upgraded that technology in the future, given their massive use of lit devices). So yes, have a bespectacled Jim.
Notes #3: Yes, there'll be a part II. I'm still dubious about the result so I'm withholding it, for the moment. :D
Notes #4: Starting to hate giving titles to manips. Co-neuron aleniakalain helped with this one.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Do you think Uhura's skin is dark enough? In the original, the woman was white, so I had to darken the skin. Zoe is lighter than Nichelle and I feel I've picked the right hue, but let me know if you think she isn't dark enough. ;)
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.