Dating some pictures
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1978/1979? Is that the The Motion Picture warp drive room?
Age-wise he looks like this might have been closer to 1986–1990, around the time TNG premiered, perhaps when he was shooting the intro for the “Cage” TV premiere. It’s not part of the larger collections at either Getty or Alamy. This seems to be from the same general period and it’s dated 1988. According to IMDd it comes courtesy of Majel Barrett Roddenberry and is copyrighted by The Roddenberry Estate. Maybe something @Jules / OTOY from the Roddenberry archive can find out?
The background is not engineering per se, but a matte painting that I think was used in The Motion Picture to extend the forced perspective set. Here’s a larger version where you can better see that it’s a painting.
The background is not engineering per se, but a matte painting that I think was used in The Motion Picture to extend the forced perspective set. Here’s a larger version where you can better see that it’s a painting.
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I'm sure that pic in front of the warp core forced perspective painting was on the VHS of either Star Trek IV or "Encounter at Farpoint" or some 25th anniversary (1991) VHS I had at one point.
Sure looks like Gene around 1986 - but I cannot see that forced perspective shot. Cool video because you can see the TMP sets haven't yet been converted to TNG style and there's what appears to be some Phase 1 sets visible too. He's not wearing the same clothes in that video either - so exactly when it was taken is still unsolved!
I 'dated' a picture of Raquel Welch for a while when I was teen... Oh, wait, I see.
You beat me to it!
I'd always date people and not pictures!
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