Brandon Bird

I'd just like to take a minute to appreciate Brandon Bird. He's an artist who paints and draws all sorts of pop culture stuff, in the course of which he's done a few amazing Star Trek pieces. The one above is titled "The Death of Jennifer Sisko" and I think it's one of the most intense things I've ever seen. Deep Space Nine's pilot episode includes backstory into the life of its commander, Benjamin Sisko, who was in the infamous and devastating Battle of Wolf 359 against the Borg (Incidentally, my awesome friends over in the UK have a band named Battle of Wolf 359 that you should check out). In a heartwrenching flashback scene, Sisko must leave his trapped, injured/possibly already dead wife on board a ship that is exploding around him so that he can escape with his son.

This gave DS9 some excellent continuity and depth straight away, creating drama between Sisko and Captain Picard of The Next Generation fame, since Picard had been assimilated by the Borg and led them at Wolf 359 against the Federation. Sisko held him responsible for the death of his wife, which may have been unfair since Picard didn't have any control over his actions at the time, but he could barely stand to be in the same room as Picard. This friction set the tone of DS9 early as a show that would in many ways go against the precedents of other Star Trek series to be much darker both in plot and character development. As Sisko would later go on to say to Picard's omnipotent nemesis Q, "I'm not Picard."

At any rate, you should check out Brandon Bird's stuff; there are a few other Star Trek-related things thrown in there, and the rest are great too.