I created these matte paintings for the STAR TREK: PHASE II episode "Origins: The Protracted Man"



Wait, is that the Watergate you put the Starfleet pennant on?
Nice! I did them all! And really like those little details like the 3 shuttles against the older building in the last picture. I love stuff like that and can never see enough.
Wait- is there a forth one coming in for a landing? It's hard to tell against the grey water. What a blah day! Heh.
Maybe the focus of that destruction was along the east coast? NYC and DC certainly do seem to be targets of choice for present day enemies in our own timeline. If WWIII was fought between the U.S. and a similarly equipped enemy, like the U.S.S.R., then the naval facilities in SanFran would be a first strike target - but maybe it wasn't that kind of war. Maybe in the Star Trek timeline the Bay of Pigs scared the crap outta everyone so bad that they largely did away with nuclear armaments, so any nuclear exchange was much more limited. Or maybe it was asymmetrical warfare, like that between the U.S. and Iran would be, and the smaller power didn't have the armaments to destroy all of the population centers of the larger.Lovely. But WWIII must have been a lot less destructive than I would have thought.(I have this same opinion of professional Trek as well, btw.)
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