I have always been a fan of Star Trek, from the original series to Deep Space Nine. Star Trek has always been a go-to when I wanted to find something to watch on TV. So, when I saw that Fandom Stitches had a paper piecing quilt pattern, I knew that it was time to learn a new sewing skill. I started by searching YouTube for videos on how to paper piece. No joking around, I probably spent 20+ hours watching videos until I felt I was ready to give it a try. I'm not crazy, though I didn't start with the Star Trek one, but picked a pattern on their site that said it was easy to start with. After a few restarts and a lot of seam ripping, I finally felt I was ready to give it a try.
I have to give credit where it is due, so here is a link to the Famdom In Stitches website where I found the pattern. http://www.fandominstitches.com/2011/04/star-trek.html
To start this process, I printed off all the patterns and got them organized by each series. This was important because I knew that I wanted to do one series at a time. Next, I bought lots of grey tone materials in the quilter's blocks, which I got at Joann's and Walmart. I also organized all my scrap material by color so that it was easy to find the colors that I might want to use, and then shopped some more to fill in my color palette. 
This project ended up taking me about 3 months to complete, working on it in my spare time. It's still to this day one of my favorite quilting projects that I have completed.
P.S. for reference, my daughter who is holding it up is 6 feet tall, this a a huge blanket.
This was the point where I knew that I wanted to make the background black color two different ones so that each series had a different black background. I also didn't want to run out of the black, so I found two that I liked and bought bout 3 yards of each, figuring a yard for each series of the Trek franchises.
I was now ready to start working, and while some of the series went quickly, others were more difficult to finish. The key was that I took my time and enjoyed the process, because when I tried to go quickly, I always messed up. Here are some close-ups of the blocks before they got all sewn together.
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