Battlestar Galactica on the front of Ghost Ship
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Yes, I guess it does look rather like Cattlecar Gigantica, albeit upside down.
Then again, as one of the Apollo 11 Astronauts demonstrated with a heaping spoonful of water in a TV broadcast from the translunar coast, "up" and "down" are meaningless in space.
Then again, as one of the Apollo 11 Astronauts demonstrated with a heaping spoonful of water in a TV broadcast from the translunar coast, "up" and "down" are meaningless in space.
That's just a mockup. Surely they'll fix that before the book goes to print.
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Also Colonial Vipers were on the cover of The Romulan Way by Diane Duane.
And in Germany, the cast of The Black Hole are on the cover of a Trek novel by some bizarre mistake.
And in Germany, the cast of The Black Hole are on the cover of a Trek novel by some bizarre mistake.
I wish I'd saved a copy of the Strange New Worlds cover that used an A-Wing fighter from Star Wars as a sci-fi submarine (it was replaced with the Delta Flyer for the final version after that was pointed out when the cover was unveiled). Now, it only exists in our memories. And someone else's hard drive, probably. And maybe mine, I've got a lot of unorganized crap from many years ago, and I almost certainly didn't name it "Strange New Worlds A-Wing" or something easy to find like that.
Still not as bad as the movie Space Mutiny shamelessly using stock effects shots from BSG and then appearing on MST3k
It would only be shameless if they didn't pay for the rights. Lots of low-budget movies and TV shows have reused stock footage.
And I think people today have an exaggerated perception of Galactica's prominence back in the day. It was really kind of a flash in the pan; it started big but quickly lost viewers and got cancelled, then had an embarrassing, mercifully brief revival that nobody wanted but the network bean counters, and then it lived on only in afternoon-movie reruns along with all the other repackaged TV episodes and schlocky B movies that occupied those time slots. So it's not really a surprise that people in the '80s (both Space Mutiny and Ghost Ship came out in 1988) would've considered it obscure enough to be fair game for recycling.
Oh, Roger Corman built whole movies around stock footage from other Roger Corman movies. He did something kind of clever with Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, building a PG-rated, family-friendly barbarian film around action footage from two R-rated, nudity-laden barbarian films he'd made a few years earlier, The Warrior and the Sorceress with David Carradine and Barbarian Queen with Lana Clarkson. He brought back both lead actors as new characters in a new story, but with the same costumes, so he could repurpose fight scenes from the earlier movies as part of the new plot.
Then there was the 1980 Gamera: Super Monster, which built a newly shot frame story around the fight scenes from the original seven Gamera movies, as well as inexplicable interludes of anime footage from Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999. For that matter, several of those original Gamera movies had lengthy stock footage sequences revisiting fights from earlier Gamera movies, since they were very, very cheap.
Very hard to find that angle, I'm not sure it was shown like that on the show. They probably had the original Monogram kit for an example.
Nah it was shameless, even though they did legally buy the rights to the footage from the equally shameless Universal. IIRC, Universal were in a bit of a financial pickle, so they were willing to do anything to make money from their IPs. Even if it meant selling stock footage.
The licensing and purchase of stock footage is a routine practice that's been commonly used since the early days of filmmaking. The only reason it's shameless is that there's no sensible reason for anyone to feel shame about it.
Hah! I thought you were joking. Hilarious! Scroll down at:
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Covenant_of_the_Crown
What is Ernest Borgnine doing on the cover of one of the German translations?
That was kinda the point... the cover erroneously used images from The Black Hole, as @F. King Daniel mentioned. Ernest Borgnine played Harry Booth in The Black Hole.
