             Star Trek: The Next Generation tile set
                      By Clyde Massey-Ford

        I'm not going to bore you with all that nonsense
about this being my first tile set. All I'm going to 
say is that I am a super serious "Trekkie." I have an 
extreme interest in anything that has to do with Star Trek. 
I have had fun using other Star Trek tile sets and decided 
to try my hand at creating one. I had a lot of fun doing 
this set! 
        For those of you deprived individuals who don't 
follow Star Trek as regularly as the rest of us 
"Enlightened" people, an explanation of each tile follows.
        Oh, by the way, in case my last name sounds slightly
familiar, it's because Steve and Charlotte Massey-Crouch, the 
creaters of the MESSIAH tile sets, are my parents.


 1- Star Trek The Next Generation logo (seen on all 
    official Star Trek products).

 2- Warp Probe (a deep space probe housed in a 
    modified photon torpedo casing) (it's a highly 
    technical thing that does a lot of neat stuff)

 3- Dilithium Crystal (powers the Enterprise and helps 
    it go bye-bye)

 4- Warp Core (matter/anti-matter reaction chamber) 

 5- Holo Diode (creates a variety of special forcefields)
    (makes a holographic rock feel like a real rock)

 6- Holodeck (creates pure holographic images)

 7- Isolinear Chip (futuristic equivalent to our present 
    day computer disks)

 8- Warp Nacelle (the engines on the starship)

 9- Replicator (makes 4,500 different varieties of food) 
 
10- PADD (Personal Access Display Device) (a smaller, 
    more compact version of our present day 
    laptop computers)

11- Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge (Chief Engineer 
    of the Enterprise)

12- Beverly Crusher (Head doctor on the Enterprise)

13- Lieutenant Commander Data (an android with a positronic 
    brain. He is the science officer on the Enterprise)

14- Lore (Data's evil twin brother)

15- Lieutenant Worf (Chief of Security on the Enterprise)

16- Deanna Troi (Counselor on the Enterprise) (she's a 
    Betazoid. She can sense emotions in other people)

17- Guinan (Bartender, she's at least 500 years old!)

18- Commander William Riker (First officer on the 
    Enterprise)

19- Locutus (Captain Picard as a Borg)

20- Captain Jean-Luc Picard (dressed as Dixon Hill, his 
    holodeck detective character)

21- Spot (an untrainable fuzzy little cat owned by Data)

22- Livingston (Captain Picard's Lionfish. Livingston lives 
    in Picard's readyroom)

23- 3-D Chess board (in the original series, this was 
    Spock's favorite game. Data and the other characters of 
    the Next Generation play this game from time to time)

24- Enterprise NCC-1701D (the name of the ship currently 
    under Picard's command)

25- Type 15 shuttle (smallest short-range sublight shuttle)

26- Type 15A shuttle (light, short-range sublight shuttle)

27- Galor (most widely used class of warship in the 
    Cardasian fleet)

28- Vor'cha (the largest and most advanced Klingon vessel)        
                            

29- Ferengi Symbol (a merchant race whose only mission 
    in life is to make a buck)

30- Gorn Symbol (this race of beast-like people perfected 
    space-warp techniques)

31- Federation Symbol (represents a group of many worlds 
    [including ours] known as the United Federation 
    of Planets)

32- Klingon Symbol (these warlike people were once 
    the Federation's worst enemies. In the later 
    series they are our allies)

33- Tholian Symbol (this race is known for its unbreakable 
    energy webs which can capture entire starships)

34- Federation flag (means the same thing as #31. 
    This is the official flag of the United 
    Federation of Planets)

35- NCC-1701 (the first of the Federation class starships. 
    It was first Commanded by Captain Robert April, then by
    Captain Christopher Pike, then Captain James Kirk. 
    It was finally destroyed in 2284 defending 
    against a Klingon attack)

36- NCC-1701A (Captain James T. Kirk's second starship)

37- NCC-1701B (this version of the Enterprise mapped over 
    142 star systems) 

38- NCC-1701C (under the command of Captain Rachel Garett, 
    she was lost in 2344 while defending a Klingon 
    outpost from a Romulan attack)

39- Star Trek The Next Generation Communications 
    Badge/Insignia 

40- Original Star Trek insignia

41- Different version of #39

42- Different version of #40


If you should wish to write to me I can be reached at:

Clyde B. Massey-Ford
363 Ford Hill Road
Berkshire, NY 13736


                I hope you enjoy the tile set!!!
