I thought you guys might appreciate this a bit. I've had the photo for ages, but just released it with this month's Rare Photos. Considering it's new-found connection to the Trailer, though, it's pretty neat.
Kirk and the Corvette...
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Nice pictures...
He does look quite a bit like Pine there, especially in the picture on the left.
So it's canon now.
So quit your whining, feebs!
Wait. Is it a stick?
I thought you guys might appreciate this a bit. I've had the photo for ages, but just released it with this month's Rare Photos. Considering it's new-found connection to the Trailer, though, it's pretty neat.
They look photoshopped to me, especially the second one.
I'm sure they are not, but Shatner looks oddly distant in both photo's
I don't know. Frontier's pics are usually pretty thoroughly verified and I have read elsewhere that Shatner bought himself a Corvette at the end of the first season (probably about the same time Nimoy picked up his Riviera. Also, like the Riviera, this seems not to have been a new model Stingray, but one from an earlier model year. It's hard to tell from that angle but the second photo especially looks like the car has the split rear window found on the 1963 'Vette.)I thought you guys might appreciate this a bit. I've had the photo for ages, but just released it with this month's Rare Photos. Considering it's new-found connection to the Trailer, though, it's pretty neat.
They look photoshopped to me, especially the second one.
I'm sure they are not, but Shatner looks oddly distant in both photo's
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I think them pics are pretty sweet. I agree with Eric Cheung that he does look a bit like Pine.
Incorrect. The only thing modified about them is that I used the sharpen filter. I only use photoshop if I need to significantly repair a damaged/degraded photo. Certainly never to manufacture anything.
Additionally, I've had these photos for months. They where originally not scheduled until next year, February or such. I moved them up after the trailer debuted. If you look back in the other rare photos, I have one or two of Nimoy with his Riviera. These of Shatner are from the same source.
I've always trusted "Trekcore.com" as a reliable source before. If these were photoshopped, I would think that trekcore.com was unaware.
However, I'm more inclined to believe that trekcore got it right, and these are actual photos of Shatner in a Corvette.
In this case, TrekCore and Frontier are pretty much the same thing (he's one of the staff there) but, as I mentioned above, he's usually pretty careful in verifying the authenticity of the photos he posts. If it's uncertain, he'll generally say so, right up front.
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^^ Who knew??
Thanks.
...and thanks for trekcore, Frontier. Great site.
^^ Who knew??
Thanks....and thanks for trekcore, Frontier
. Great site.
I've been watching his "Old and Rare Trek Photos" threads in GTD for quite a while and remember watching TrekCore come into being after the screencap library was forced to leave its original home at TrekPulse. Some of our other members here are also involved with TrekCore and/or with the affiliated Omega Sector BBS. (You hang around here long enough and you start to pick up odd bits of trivia like that.^
^^ Who knew??
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Indeed. It's amazing to me that someone would actually believe I'd go to the trouble of manufacturing photographs of William Shatner in a similar, but very different 1960's Corvette, for the sole purpose of saying "hey look, it's just like the trailer" or something.
Truth be told, I am on the fence on all of Trek XI. I'm trying to keep an open mind, but what I've seen and heard to date really leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It feels like a total continuity group-fuck going on with this film, and really strikes me as a betrayal of all we've known. That's only an impression though, and I have nothing to back it up. I've not seen the film, and I can't judge it until I have.
Even once I've seen it, I don't think it would be fair to totally dismiss it because it rubs some of my taboo issues about Trek the wrong way. Like every other aspect of Trek, love it or hate it, it's a part of things. They tried to get the Animated series forgotten and removed from the Trek universe, but those few fans who knew it would not allow it.
My point being, if I where going to create a photo just to push my views on the issue, I'd more likely be creating a photo of Gene Roddenberry holding up a sign that says "No Reboots" or something, lol. Not Shatner circa 1960s... in a 1960s automobile he's known to have owned... which the producers of XI likely didn't even know of when they did the scene in question.
Indeed. When I use photoshop, I use it to fix photos - as in restore them. Not to create. A prime example of that is the following, a before and after of a photo in last month's edition. I took the cover of a Canadian TV Guide featuring a rare PB photo of Spiner and Data, and restored it...
http://theomegasector.com/images2/superskills.jpg
Indeed, hehe. In many cases I'm TrekCore, in a sense, as I'm it's Public Relations guy. So I often speak for the site, even on other projects.
I've been watching his "Old and Rare Trek Photos" threads in GTD for quite a while and remember watching TrekCore come into being after the screencap library was forced to leave its original home at TrekPulse. Some of our other members here are also involved with TrekCore and/or with the affiliated Omega Sector BBS. (You hang around here long enough and you start to pick up odd bits of trivia like that.
Most folks looked at the demise of TrekPulse as a bad thing, the end of another good Trek site. I, for one, am quite thankful for it all, because as a direct result, we've not only re-built what TrekPulse was, we've exceded it ten times over, and I've been lucky enough to be a part of it. I'd been involved in TrekPulse very early on, but the owners of Pulse where a little anxious about some of my ideas, so I just faded out. I stayed in touch with one fellow though, and when TrekPulse died and TrekCore was being born, that guy I stayed in touch with happened to be Virogen, who is now one of the two owners, and I was one of the (if not the first person) outside of TrekPulse staff to be invited to join the new venture. So in hindsight, TrekPulse's demise was a great thing, as it lead to a larger, better site in it's place, and personally, I got to be involved and get some of my ideas out there finally, amongst doing other things like PR and administrating the forums.
It's a true phoenix story, and without it, rare photos and 80% of TrekCore content might not exist, lol.
