Star Trek design influences…

[Warped9]

This looks like it could be a very interesting book and worth picking up.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/07/30/ex...sD9HDcnLyDFJcIbMvRG7u556Ni10SdQY8ekOPot-c31kk

Fascinating that so much remains to be said about a fifty year old television show.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I can't wait to get my copy. I have it on pre-order.

 

[NCC-73515]

More pictures:

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2021/07/non-fiction-books-covers-and-previews.html

 

[scotpens]

Mid-Century Modern design was more than just an "influence" on Star Trek. Sometimes it was a direct steal! Bottom photo is the Palácio da Alvorada (the official residence of the President of Brazil), built in 1958 and designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

 

[Maurice]

Looks neat. I'm gonna have to see more of it before I'm willing to drop $$$ on it, tho.

Minor FACT TREKker nitpick: on one sample page it refers to a "recreation room never realized for Season Three's episode 'Elaan of Troyius,'" which is both true and not. It was built and filmed in, but the scene was dropped. The set was featured in other episodes.

 

[drt]

Funny, I just read an interesting article somewhere on the interwebs about Trek and Midcentury Modernism within the past few days. I can't recall if a post on the BBS linked to it, or just happened to come across it surfing. Wondering if it was written by the authors of the book.

 

[Warped9]

Doug Drexler posted notice of the book on Facebook.

 

[Maurice]

Funny, I just read an interesting article somewhere on the interwebs about Trek and Midcentury Modernism within the past few days. I can't recall if a post on the BBS linked to it, or just happened to come across it surfing. Wondering if it was written by the authors of the book.

This?

 

[publiusr]

Minimalism is a knife edge: TOS nobility one one side, THX 1138 sterility and (Conquest of the) Planet of The Apes brutalism on the other.

The Andromeda Strain sets would have been great Phase II sets.

 

[BK613]

Received my copy today. Haven't read the text but first impressions:
-Book doesn't feel 'cheap' (quality paper and design)
-Names, lots of names for stuff, and a chart in the back
-Background info on the designers of that stuff

Overall, I think it is a worthy addition to the BTS resource library.

 

[Albertese]

BOOK ORDERED!

 

[Maurice]

Received my copy today. Haven't read the text but first impressions:
-Book doesn't feel 'cheap' (quality paper and design)
-Names, lots of names for stuff, and a chart in the back
-Background info on the designers of that stuff

Overall, I think it is a worthy addition to the BTS resource library.

Sounds nice.

 

[Orac]

I watched Dr. Zhivago on Netflix last week which would have been showing in theatres during the production of Star Treks first season and noticed a shot which appears to have influenced Star Trek director Vince McEveety..

From Dr. Zhivago:

From Star Trek: Balance of Terror:

 

[Maurice]

While it's a nice shot it's not a unique one. Furthermore, Finnerman was trained in noir lighting, which that shot of Kirk exemplifies. I doubt the former actually influenced that latter.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Ah, now that I've found this thread, I understand what @Serveaux was recently talking about better.

More pictures:

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2021/07/non-fiction-books-covers-and-previews.html

In this group of pictures is a copy of a page about the captain's chair, shown here:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JVPeJM_u...+Designing+the+Final+Frontier+pages+20-21.jpg

This must have been what @Serveaux was referring to recently in the "Fact Check" thread, quoted below (with additional continuing discussion in that thread).

On page 20 of Designing the Future there's a photo of a Madison Furniture chair which the caption identifies as being the one on which Jefferies based the Captain's chair.

It is not. The caption is wrong. The only element it shares with the Enterprise chair is the wooden arm rests.

In fact there are quite a few photo references extant for the Madison company armchair model that was used; it was used without modification to the padded leather cushions or other upholstered elements.

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[BK613]

@CorporalCaptain That is what @Serveaux was referring to (and where I made a bit of an ass of myself as well.)
THe swivel chair that S was referring looks like the following but with black leather. It's worth noting that it took me a bit of googling to find these images (from an etsy sale.) One reeason is that the other Umanoff swivel chair that appears on Star Trek dominated the search results.

Spoiler: Umanoff swivel chair

 

[Orac]

Thanks for the clarification @Maurice I made a post hoc fallacy.

 

[publiusr]

@CorporalCaptain That is what @Serveaux was referring to (and where I made a bit of an ass of myself as well.)
THe swivel chair that S was referring looks like the following but with black leather. It's worth noting that it took me a bit of googling to find these images (from an etsy sale.) One reeason is that the other Umanoff swivel chair that appears on Star Trek dominated the search results.

Spoiler: Umanoff swivel chair

I have this little idea that the Commodore’s ship from THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER should be the only one with the first/second pilot tall bridge dome to go with his high-backed bridge chair….the bigger dish, spikes on the nacelle. That visual language should go together as “”Command Cruiser” with only Enterprise with the production look to show its advancements—-so that M-5 wasn’t her only edge.

 

[F. King Daniel]

@CorporalCaptain That is what @Serveaux was referring to (and where I made a bit of an ass of myself as well.)
THe swivel chair that S was referring looks like the following but with black leather. It's worth noting that it took me a bit of googling to find these images (from an etsy sale.) One reeason is that the other Umanoff swivel chair that appears on Star Trek dominated the search results.

Spoiler: Umanoff swivel chair

Isn't that Pike's chair from Strange New Worlds?

 

[BK613]

Isn't that Pike's chair from Strange New Worlds?

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