Books with the Enterprise pictured upside down?

[Therin of Andor]

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?

The US edition of "Star Trek II Short Stories" by William Rotsler has the Enterprise upside down. On the front cover:

http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/1982.html#iiss

 

[Silvercrest]

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!

I'm thinking it would be a lot less obvious if they just removed the red lights from the front of the nacelles.

The cover of one Blish novelization of TOS had a fiery exhaust shooting out of the shuttle bay. The artist thought the engineering hull was supposed to be a rocket engine.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^That happened a lot in the old Gold Key comics, too. But, it's stuff like that which gave them their charm.

 

[Valin]

See, Abrams wasn't the first to use lens flares on shots of the Enterprise.

 

[YARN]

See, Abrams wasn't the first to use lens flares on shots of the Enterprise.

He wasn't the first one to make the Enterprise look ugly either.

 

[Christopher]

See, Abrams wasn't the first to use lens flares on shots of the Enterprise.

That's not a lens flare. Lens flares are caused by internal reflections and refractions within the lens itself. That's just an overexposure of light reflecting off of the model, plus a deliberate blur introduced to suggest speed.

 

[TrickyDickie]

I thought that an early issue of TVGuide showed an upside-down photo, but that may be a piupular myth.

At some point, TV Guide did indeed print an image of the Enterprise upside down. It may have been in the Fall Preview issue 1966-67 or another issue. I have a copy of that, but it's in storage a few hundred miles away right now. Anyhow, I think the image accompanied one of their 'Close-Up' articles that went into more detail about an episode. In any case, it definitely exists.

Interesting that Galaxy 666 was mentioned here, as I just posted about that last night in the fan art forum.

Pocket's photostory of Wrath of Khan was seriously messed up. There are two versions. One has a scrambling of the continuity of the story and the second 'fixed' version still has some things incorrectly done.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

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?

Yes!

In my edition of The World of Star Trek by David Gerrold (fourth printing, August, 1974), in the second set of photos, the pictures labeled Romulan ship from "Balance of Terror" and Klingon ships menace the Enterprise are upside down. The second picture is from The Enterprise Incident, so those are actually Romulan ships too, and it includes the Enterprise.