Does this looks like Ricardo Montalban to you?
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Khan does not look very well in that painting, positivley sikh.......(sheilds activated). Lol
^^^Khan: We offered the world... mahvelous.
Best I could come up with in the short time since I saw your post.
Best I could come up with in the short time since I saw your post.
Booooooooo!
About the painting, Khan actually declared, "It looks marvelous".
Unfortunately, it wound up on the cutting room floor.
I get what you were trying to do there. But maybe the reference is too obscure.
Where is Billy Crystal when you need him.
Seriously, Fernando Lamas was before my time. I only became aware of the schtick from watching Billy Crystal's Saturday Night Live parody. If not for that, I would have been scratching my head after reading your post; and I would probably have said to myself, "It's (not) a shame to admit it ... but I'm not up on Fernando Lamas".
Anyway, I couldn't find any information about what happened to the painting since the airing of "Space Seed".
It would be a shame if the painting is collecting dust in Paramount Studio's prop room or in someone's attic, because it would really be marvelous if it was on display somewhere where Trek fans can actually see it.
Most likely, the painting was offered to Ricardo Montalban as a souvenir, but he did not consider it a flattering likeness, so he laughed and walked away. Then I suppose it was given to the studio artist who made it. And he probably kept it for a few years as a personal artifact, but eventually it went the way of all clutter.
It was a long time, more than ten years, before non-fans would realize that screen-used Star Trek props had value, and could even be put up for auction. There was no eBay. There was no Internet to aggregate a few people from every town, and make them into a population with reach and connectivity. "Trekkies" were regarded as a minor cult of quirky eccentrics until well into the movie era. If a convention was mentioned on the local news, the tone would be mocking. So whoever took that painting home from the set of "Space Seed" didn't know what he had until it was (likely) long gone.
Yes.
There was also a painting created for use in "Star Trek II", a portrait of Khan, Marla and the toddler whose face appeared in a porthole (cut scene) of Khan's shelter on Ceti Alpha V. It never appeared on camera.
Oh man, if they both still existed and were auctioned as a set, that would be amazing. And sometimes production paintings do get saved away by someone.
I was once contacted by a man whose search had turned up my old bboard post about Man from Atlantis, where I had included a color photo of a publicity painting of the Cetacean. He owned the actual painting, which he had framed, and he wanted to know where I had obtained the image in color. He'd only seen it published in b&w. And of course I envied the crud out of him for owning the painting itself and hanging it in his living room.
There is a resemblance... yes.
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