Mark Rademaker is a digital artist who has contributed five images to five consecutive Ships of the Line calendars, all but one of which have featured original starship designs. His design for the Vesta-class USS Aventine has also appeared on the cover of the Typhon Pact novel Zero Sum Game.
The Vesta-class also appears in Star Trek Online as a purchasable vessel available individually and as a three-pack bundle, the "Vesta Pack". The Vesta-class is considered a "multi-mission surveillance explorer", with the other two vessels, the Aventine-class and the Rademaker-class, based off of conceptual alternative designs by Mark Rademaker.
Star Trek bibliography[]
- Ships of the Line 2008: "Ice Station Alpha" (May image)
- Ships of the Line 2009: "Around the Quadrant in Eighty Days" (August image)
- Ships of the Line 2010: "Aventine" (October image)
- Ships of the Line 2011:
- "Enterprise XCV - The Great Experiment" (January image)
- "XCV-330" (Center image, with text and fleet project patch by Michael Okuda)
- Ships of the Line 2012:
- "USS Planck - Shakedown" (May image)
- Merian-class (Center image)
- Ships of the Line 2013: "Pathfinders" (March image)
- Ships of the Line 2014: IXS Enterprise - "Mars in One Minute Twenty-Five Seconds" (October image)
- Ships of the Line (reprints of images up to and including the 2014 edition))