[Art!] I blame ECSNorway for this

[M Fnord]

N. Tyson, maybe?

Nope, that's http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/]Neil deGrasse Tyson, aka "that one dude who's on Colbert all the time," director of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC & Carl Sagan's spiritual heir. ECS is right, the joker's http://www.atomic-robo.com/]A(tomic). Robo. Anyway, the full list of names is:

Starfleet Command: nBSG leadership
Vehicle Development: Rocketry pioneers, with an emphasis on Russian/Soviet rocket gurus.
Spaceframe Engineering: TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT-era Art Department people
Propulsion Systems: Various Sparks
Mission Ops: Prominent astronomers & one comic book character
Imaging & Sensor Technologies: Hollywood directors
Orbital Ergonomics: Production crew members from Trek XI
Flight Test Crew: Not surprised nobody got this one, they're the crew of the USSR Alexi Leonov from Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two
Flight Software: Mangaka, esp. mangaka who've done work involving robots, AI etc. in the past.
UESPA: As is tradition with Trekkie dedications, if enough people are listed one must give credit to the Great Bird et. al.

Last but not least, here's some more dedication plaques. The first two were requested by Rob:

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This is a redone version of the original Gagarin plate, plus one done for a sister ship:

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And these last three are just me screwing around.

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Despite all sanity, the offer's *still* open, if you want a plaque done.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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