Has anyone ever seen this poster for Star Trek IV

[jefferiestubes8]

I like how they show up in San Francisco in a rainbow!

Considering none of the characters they meet in San Francisco are openly gay I am surprised that rainbow is so prominent.

It almost would make a good Photoshop parody retitling like two Karate-suit gay men in a Star Trek movie contest.

 

[Captain Robert April]

One of the few times I've been able to directly compare the European release of a movie and the US version. Saw the UK release in Liverpool, then the US version a month or so later at the base theatre.

 

[Cyke101]

The movie was such a bright spot in the franchise that no one is casting a shadow in the poster

 

[22 Stars]

^ Wow that was corny! But Trek IV was truly the dawn of the golden age of Trek, 1986/87 Trek IV and TNG brings Trek back to TV for the next 20 years... a fan boy dreams come true.

 

[Cyke101]

^ Wow that was corny!

But it's true! Don't you think it's odd that only a car is really casting a shadow? Or are we spoiled in this day and age of photoshop?

 

[22 Stars]

Lol, people do forget how much easier it is now with photoshop, you're right. Also, artistic talent always wins out, and a better 'artist' could have done a more skilled job back in the day

I think I'll find my copy of the poster and display it for a while.

 

[Cyke101]

Geeze, that Bird of Prey is HUGE.

 

[Elzie]

The poster is kind of... I bet you wouldn't have to look far to find a Teletubbies poster that could be taken more seriously. But the fourth movie was funny, so the poster fits it.

But why on Earth is there a rainbow?!

 

[tharpdevenport]

Can anybody help with a link. I am searching YouTube for a link of that TVH prologue which was used overseas. Maybe I'm using the wrong keywords, maybe it's not up anymore. Anybody have a link?

 

[Therin of Andor]

But why on Earth is there a rainbow?!

It's San Francisco, gay capital of the world?!

Also, the poster for ST:TMP featured a vertical rainbow spectrum over Kirk, Ilia and Spock's faces, I guess emulating the rainbow warp effect from that movie.

 

[Kirk1980]

Was nobody paying attention in 1987?

Rainbows hadn't become SUCH the gay pride symbol they are now.

It was just an effing rainbow. ROY G. BIV.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Was nobody paying attention in 1987?
Rainbows hadn't become SUCH the gay pride symbol they are now.

"The first Rainbow Flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a San Francisco artist, who created the flag in response to a local activist’s call for the need of a community symbol. (This was before the pink triangle was popularly used as a symbol of pride.) Using the five-striped “Flag of the Race” as his inspiration, Baker designed a flag with eight stripes. Baker dyed and sewed the material for the first flag himself — in the true spirit of Betsy Ross."
Christopher Pinette, 12 Jun 1996.

"The design may have been influenced by flags with multicolored stripes used by various left-wing causes and organizations in the San Francisco area in the 1960s."

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/qq-rb_h.html

 

[Kirk1980]

Rainbows were used everywhere in the 80s (and yes, I could give you a list but seriously, wrack your memory for maybe a second and you'll remember).

Most people I knew of were not yet associating the rainbow with the homosexual community in the 80s.

More towards the 90s, maybe. But not 86.