I'm almost sure I remember some paperback books printed in the sixties or seventies where the image of the Enterprise was upside down. Anyone recall what those might have been? 
Books with the Enterprise pictured upside down?
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I don't recall seeing any books or paperbacks with an upside down Enterprise, as such, but I remember a few of the rougher sci-fi pulp magazines (printed on recycled newspaper, no less) doing a feature here or there on Trek....and they'd sometimes screw-up and post a picture of the Enterprise that way.
Once I came across a paperback...maybe about 1975 in an obscure little Canadian town. It was purple, it wasn't about Star Trek at all but rather a collection of sci-fi short stories and on the cover was an AMT Enterprise (sliver) altered to give it a weird futuristic look. I remember instinctively being drawn to it but despite my age at the time (9), I knew enough that it had nothing really to do with my beloved Trek...and that my dollar and change was better spent on other entertaining things.
Once I came across a paperback...maybe about 1975 in an obscure little Canadian town. It was purple, it wasn't about Star Trek at all but rather a collection of sci-fi short stories and on the cover was an AMT Enterprise (sliver) altered to give it a weird futuristic look. I remember instinctively being drawn to it but despite my age at the time (9), I knew enough that it had nothing really to do with my beloved Trek...and that my dollar and change was better spent on other entertaining things.
Wait, I think it's come back to me! It was some of the ads printed in the back pages of the Bantam paperbacks in the seventies listing other Star Trek books. They had a big upside-down Enterprise at the top. It was either that or a Ballantine ad for the Foster Log books. Mystery solved! Anyone else remember that?
Is it possible you're thinking of the cover of The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers? It had an Enterprise turned upside down on its cover.
Personally, I was always bothered more by mirrored stills of the ship and the crew. As a graphic designer I can certainly understand the need to flip an image here or there to make it fit better into the layout. As a Star Trek fan, however, I hate to see the insignia on the wrong side.
Personally, I was always bothered more by mirrored stills of the ship and the crew. As a graphic designer I can certainly understand the need to flip an image here or there to make it fit better into the layout. As a Star Trek fan, however, I hate to see the insignia on the wrong side.
Not the Enterprise, but the first original Next Generation novel, Diane Carey's "Ghost Ship", had an upside-down Battlestar Galactica on the cover
It's definitely those publisher's ads I was thinking of.
Had a similar experience in the late 70's, but for some strange reason I've never forgotten the name or cover. It was this:
I was like "C'mon!!! It's the Enterprise for fucks sake!"
Adding the little bar across the engines and the lights totally makes it somehow not the Enterprise!
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"Up" and "down" would be arbitrary in outer space.
Ummmm... did you ever see the Enterprise depicted upside down in the series? I don't think so. It doesn't make sense to show it upside down in printed media either.
Wow, that corruption of the Enterprise on the Galaxy 666 cover is astoundingly awful!
Wow, that corruption of the Enterprise on the Galaxy 666 cover is astoundingly awful!
Especially that 2 inch penis where the bridge was.
I thought that an early issue of TVGuide showed an upside-down photo, but that may be a piupular myth.
TV listings ad:
http://spirkbookclub.tumblr.com/post/22617102207/kindly-note-the-tastefully-upside-down-enterprise
Early Matt Jeffries concept:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/6013028484_cd0760d05a_b.jpg
http://spirkbookclub.tumblr.com/post/22617102207/kindly-note-the-tastefully-upside-down-enterprise
Early Matt Jeffries concept:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/6013028484_cd0760d05a_b.jpg
You're not imagining things, BoredShipCapt'n.
I remember seeing them, too.
So far I've only tracked down one example:
"Mudd's Angels" by J.A.Lawrence.
First Printing in May 1978
It's one of the Bantam ads in the back of the book
advertising their other Star trek titles.
The top line reads: "THE EXCITING REALM OF STAR TREK"
and right below it is the upside-down drawing of the Enterprise.
I remember seeing them, too.
So far I've only tracked down one example:
"Mudd's Angels" by J.A.Lawrence.
First Printing in May 1978
It's one of the Bantam ads in the back of the book
advertising their other Star trek titles.
The top line reads: "THE EXCITING REALM OF STAR TREK"
and right below it is the upside-down drawing of the Enterprise.
I had that one, but don't particularly remember the inverted Enterprise. Must dig it out sometime and see...
You're not imagining things, BoredShipCapt'n.
I remember seeing them, too.
So far I've only tracked down one example:
"Mudd's Angels" by J.A.Lawrence.
First Printing in May 1978
It's one of the Bantam ads in the back of the book
advertising their other Star trek titles.
The top line reads: "THE EXCITING REALM OF STAR TREK"
and right below it is the upside-down drawing of the Enterprise.
That's the very ad! Got to find my old ST books... not lost, just slightly mislaid.
Err, which picture are you referring to? The AMT model kit also had prominent grid lines, and that was the basis of the book cover printed above.
Wow, that corruption of the Enterprise on the Galaxy 666 cover is astoundingly awful!
Especially that 2 inch penis where the bridge was.
What a cock up! Must be the USS Enterthighs.
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