Well, it's arrived!
And it doesn't disappoint.
I thought I'd go through each month and describe the image (or what I think is going on), picking out the bits I find most fascinating. I've even included some (very poor quality) scans of a few images. Only snippets, mind, not the whole image (except for the centre-spread image which has been easily accessible online since 2012) otherwise who would bother to buy the calendar when they could just gawp at it here for free?
Cover: Vanguard Down, by Doug Drexler
The original Constitution-class USS Enterprise defending Starbase 47, aka Vanguard, against Tholian fighters.
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January: Explorers, by Jenny DeSalle and Ali Ries
The Columbia-class SS Enterprise passing a stellar phenomenon.
February: Xindi Reptilian, by Jenny DeSalle and Ali Ries
The Columbia-class SS Enterprise travelling with two Xindi-Reptilian ships.
March: Zero Hour, by JohnEaves
April: Prowling, by Douglas E. Graves
A Klingon D'ama-class battlecruiser flying over a cratered moon.
May: Leif Ericson, by GabrielKoerner
In close proximity to a ringed gas giant planet, the USS Enterprise holds position with the Leif Ericson.
June: U.S.S. Titan, by TobiasRichter
The Luna-class USS Titan approaches a Watchtower-class space station in orbit of a class M planet.
Center: Starbase Bajor Proposal, by Doug Drexler
This temporary station is being put together by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers as a base of operations and support hub for the imminent construction of Starbase Bajor, the replacement of the destroyed Deep Space 9.
This image is similar to the Typhon Pact novel Raise the Dawn's cover image from 2012. The main difference is that this does without the Sphinx workpod above the Rio Grande in the lower left.
* The registry number of the second runabout is actually NCC-72452, the same as the Rio Grande's, so, as it's barely legible, I've taken the liberty of changing the 4 to a 7 as it's the least recognisable number in the sequence.
July: Assault on the Moons of Nibia, by D. M. Phoenix
* Memory Alpha assumes Nibia is a planet, but Khan's little tirade gives no indication that this is so. I rather think Nibia to be an individual, perhaps a self proclaimed queen of the star system or area where the moons exist.
August: Joint Operations, by Alain Rivard
The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A's type-4 shuttle, Galileo, departs the Miranda-classUSS Reliant's shuttlebay 1, leaving behind a travel pod and a couple of workbees.
September: WOLF 359 + 8 days, by AndrewProbert
The Annie, DT-2015, and two of her sister ships along with numerous Sphinx workpods, retrieve lifeboats and ship wreckage from the aftermath of Starfleet's battle with a Borg cube at Wolf 359.
October: Occupation, by Alain Rivard
Three K't'inga-class and two D5-class battlecruisers docked at Deep Space 9.
November: Romulan War, by Dan Uyeno
December: Sisters, by Michael Wiley
SS Enterprise and USS Enterprise side by side above a class M planet.
And there you have it. Another amazing selection of starships from some very talented artists. I can't wait for next year's now!
Right. I'd better go as I can feel that unpleasant tingle that means Witchface is about to reappear...