Best Covers

[Jono]

The Millennium omnibus - Very exciting with the red wormhole ripping one of DS9's upper pylons to shreds and the little people getting sucked into it.

The Left Hand of Destiny, Book 2 - Dramatic with Martok holding up the Sword of Kahlee while surrounded by dozens of cheering Klingons.

Prophecy and Change - Two Siskos on one cover.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Does Keith Birdsong still do Trek covers?

I believe Birdsong's last cover was To Reign in Hell, back in January, 2005. So it looks like the Pocket at department decided to "go another direction" over the last 4 1/2 years.

Birdsong had a good run -- his first Trek covers were back in 1990 (although he only did a handful of covers in the '00's)

 

[BolianAuthor]

Since I started a thread about Trek covers, I decided to make another about what you think the best covers are/were?

I like almost all of the covers from the original James Blish adaptations, as well as any cover for a TNG novel done by Keith Birdsong.

 

[Steve Roby]

Yeah, some of the Blish covers were quite nice. So was the cover for Pocket's TOS anthology, Constellations, which was inspired by some of those Blish covers.

 

[Rosalind]

I love the Crucible covers

 

[Greg Cox]

At the risk of playing favorites, the Khan books have some of the best covers I've ever lucked into.

Outside of my own stuff, I really liked the cover for IMMORTAL COIL.

 

[Man of Steel]

Okay, here's something:

Do you like the early covers when they were paintings or do you like them now as CGI? (Are they even CGI)?

 

[JD]

I like the new photoshop and CG ones better.

 

[TenLubak]

I always thought #33 Balacnce of Power was the most beautiful cover EVER. Also "Tooth and Claw w Worf and Riker in the Deep Space and TNG unis in the jungle looked cool. Firestorm #68 TOS W movie Kirk and Uhura looked so cool with the volcano lava flowing down to get them!
Deep space #2 The Siege also look so cool with a pissed off sisko and early makeup Odo, and goofy hair only seen in Emissary on Kira before she cut it off in to look like aboy in the early seasons1,2, and 3. Q, Picard and Laxwana on Q-in Law is priceless. As is the #22 ds9 Vengence. it looks like Kurn's about to stab O'Brien in the back and kill him!!!

The short lived Do Comets Dream? and Garth of Izar covers were very pretty as well. Also Genesis Force looked very contemporary and pretty.

Also Ex Machina captures everything about Motion Picture era Trek! the Lost Years covers were pretty neat looking as well. I wish they'd stuck with em for subsequent Lost Years novels like Buried Age.

Vagurard's are nice, but all kinda look the same, as someone else noted. Wish I could see Deigo or someone for a change.

All in all Trek cover art is damned good. Mr. Birdsong is tops!! I would like to buy that man an Orange Crush! (get it a wesley crusher)..eh never mind.

 

[JD]

the Lost Years covers were pretty neat looking as well. I wish they'd stuck with em for subsequent Lost Years novels like Buried Age.

I think you mean The Lost Era. The Lost Years was a TOS miniseries covering the period between the series and TMP.

 

[Aubergine]

Okay, here's something:

Do you like the early covers when they were paintings or do you like them now as CGI? (Are they even CGI)?

I think it depends on the artist and the cover. After all, there have been some recent covers that are quite lacklustre, but many amazing ones (which have all been mentioned; I, too, like the Titan ones especially).

 

[Thrawn]

And Avatar, which is a digital composition, has amazing covers. Both techniques have amazing artists that use them.

 

[Daddy Todd]

They've been mentioned a couple times, but I want to log another vote for John Picacio's Crucible triptych.

I really like Picacio's work. His vibrant colors and excellent likenesses really stand out.

 

[TenLubak]

the Lost Years covers were pretty neat looking as well. I wish they'd stuck with em for subsequent Lost Years novels like Buried Age.

I think you mean The Lost Era. The Lost Years was a TOS miniseries covering the period between the series and TMP.

yeah, thats what i meant

 

[Tino]

But The Never-Ending Sacrifice also has a very good one.

Yeah ... this one's the best! Very dramatic and epic!

 

[Kirks_Flying_Wig]

I love the Crucible covers

I love those to bits, especially the Provenance of Shadows cover.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The best covers are often the ones that stand out across a crowded bookshop. A very different experience to holding the book in your hand, and that across-the-bookshop effect is no doubt one of the factors considered when covers are being commissioned out and designed.

I love "Immortal Coil" and "Imzadi" (didn't it once win a "Best ever cover" PsiPhi Award?), "New Frontier" #5 and 6 (the main cast across two covers), and the original, funky, diecut "double covers" on "Enterprise: The First Adventure", "Strangers from the Sky" and "Final Frontier".

 

[Kopernikus]

One very pretty one that hasn't been mentioned here: Stargazer: Enigma.
Another favourite of mine is the Corps of Engineers omnibus Grand Designs.

 

[Man of Steel]

Anyone ever get a cover framed?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Anyone ever get a cover framed?

I trimmed spare covers of "TNG: Eyes of the Beholders" and "DS9: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit" to frame up two gum card-sized images of the Andorians depicted.