Those old book covers

[EnriqueH]

Man, I love those late 70s and 80s Pocket covers.

Most, not all, but most of them have this surreal yet mystical quality that just blows my mind.

Something about them are intriguing and appealing and just fill me with hope that the adventure didn’t really end with Season 3 or TAS.

 

[flandry84]

I know what you mean.There was a mystery and romance about those covers.
I miss the days when Trek was about “strange new worlds”.

 

[Paris]

Those covers in the 80's were awesome. I don't mind what has come since, but that aesthetic is sorely missed, even though it is very outdated.

 

[Desert Kris]

Oh yeah, there's definitely some great ones. They're very evocative. It makes sense that Boris Vallejo's covers have a kind of mysticism about them, he's done so many works of art for the fantasy genre. The inaccuracies of blending movies and television series elements together are an inspiration for how I view the 80's novels in my mind while reading them; the hidden halfway point between the series and the movies.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Man, I love those late 70s and 80s Pocket covers.

Have you seen the retro Pocket cover art mock-ups that were being done for CBS AA's "Short Treks" this season?


Short Treks 5. Q&A by Ian McLean, on Flickr

EDIT: I have the rest stored on my Trek books' Flickr album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/albums/72157630971156924

 

[Mysterion]

Cool. Are there more of those?

 

[Greg Cox]

Cool. Are there more of those?

Yep! They've done them for all of the recent batch of Short Treks.

 

[Mysterion]

Yep! They've done them for all of the recent batch of Short Treks.

Is there a link for these?

 

[tomswift2002]

Have you seen the retro Pocket cover art mock-ups that were being done for CBS AA's "Short Treks" this season?


Short Treks 5. Q&A by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Looks interesting, but because it’s CG coloured, it loses some of that flair that the original hand-painted covers had.

 

[Christopher]

Looks interesting, but because it’s CG coloured, it loses some of that flair that the original hand-painted covers had.

I dunno, I think it captures the color sense (if that's a thing) of a Keith Birdsong cover pretty well. (He worked mostly in colored pencil, amazingly enough.)

 

[Therin of Andor]

Is there a link for these?

I have them stored on my Trek books' Flickr album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/albums/72157630971156924

 

[Desert Kris]

Is there a link for these?

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=37203498@N00&view_all=1&text=star trek short

If this link doesn't work, try clicking on the Ian McLean flickr link...and then use the search option, keywords "star trek short".

 

[Therin of Andor]

If this link doesn't work, try clicking on the Ian McLean flickr link...and then use the search option, keywords "star trek short".

Does the actual album link not work?

Searching "short treks" (with inverted commas) from the user page does trim the search of some unrelated images.

 

[Desert Kris]

Does the actual album link not work?

Searching "short treks" (with inverted commas) from the user page does trim the search of some unrelated images.

I didn't notice, you beat me to it! And more efficiently, too. The link you provide works great!

 

[FreddyE]

I love the old style covers which were beautiful paintings......and hate the newer ones that look like they´ve been quickly photoshopped together from CBSs photo library.

 

[EnriqueH]

Some of the new covers are cool, like Star Trek Captain to Captain. But some of the photoshopped Enterprise in space with a gazillion things going on, aren’t so great.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Heritage Auctions has sold a lot of Keith Birdsong's original art, including many of his Trek covers. You can see his art in their collection here.

 

[thribs]

What’s the Dalek one? Is that a real book?

 

[Therin of Andor]

What’s the Dalek one? Is that a real book?

DS9 Relaunch - Dalek parody by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Nah. That, and the Morn ad, were fan parodies of the ad campaign for the DS9 Relaunch novels. From the good ol' days of Phi Psi BBS.


DS9 Relaunch - Morn parody by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[F. King Daniel]

I love the bizarre quirky stuff like an upside-down Battlestar Galactica on the cover of Ghost Ship, or Colonial Vipers on The Romulan War. Young Tasha dressed like a nurse being led to safety by someone in a Pike-era uniform on the cover of Survivors? Awesome.

My all-time favourite covers though are the Japanese version of Spock Must Die, and it's awesome version of the Enterprise; and the German version of Mission to Horatius painted by someone who clearly never saw the USS Enterprise.