I'm really looking forward to that one, I've always loved most of the design and effects work for TMP. The only thing I didn't care for was the uniforms, everything else was great.
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Picked up my latest comic haul today, which included a new Trek issue from IDW:
Star Trek: Year Five, issue #12 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
M'ress finally appears! by Ian McLean, on Flickr
And the rarely seen female Tellarite(?)
Lt Cabig by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Star Trek: Year Five, issue #12 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
M'ress finally appears! by Ian McLean, on Flickr
And the rarely seen female Tellarite(?)
Lt Cabig by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Firefly - The Ghost Machine
Star Trek Agents of influence
Star Trek Agents of influence
New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
"Star Trek: Short Treks" on Blu-Ray and DVD just turned up Down Under. Also IDW's "Deep Space Nine: Too Long a Sacrifice" comic #1. Only recently heard of the "Star Trek" card in the Topps' "News Flashbacks" (2015) series.
I was disappointed that the new IDW comics trade omnibus was delayed from last week's shipment, but then... look what came in, unannounced, at the SF bookshop:
"ST:TMP Inside the Art and Visual Effects" by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki, Titan Books, 2020 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
For all those complaining that we never got the 1980 "Cinefantstique" pics in Preston Neal Jones' "Return To Tomorrow", this new volume makes up for that.
Contents list:
Foreword by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki - 06
Aborted Launch: Planet of the Titans & Phase II - 08
Warp Experiment: Robert Abel & Associates - 18
Refit: Douglas Trumbull & John Dykstra - 30
The USS Enterprise: Evolving the classic starship - 40
Strange New Worlds: Designing Vulcan & A new look at Earth - 66
Designing V'ger - 94
Inside V'ger: Scrapped Memory Wall & Spock's space walk - 116
V'ger's Temple: Revealing Voyager & V'ger's origin - 140
Angle of the Attack: The Klingon sequence - 160
A Good Beginning: The continuing evolution of TMP - 178
About the Author and Acknowledgements - 192
Also pictured above is the long-awaited fourth novel in David Gerrold's "Dingiliad", um, trilogy. This is the book that takes up the promise of the dinosaurs hinted at in the 2002 third book .
I must thank Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki for the below photo. The Arcturian on the studio telephone has been featured in previous books and articles, but they actually found a wider shot of the image... and the Andorian ambassador is next in line to use the phone.
An Andorian, an Arcturian and a security guard by Ian McLean, on Flickr
And a week later:
2021 Trek calendars and Bob Wilkins by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Two 2021 "Star Trek" calendars, TOS and the landscape format "Ships of the Line", which features two TMP-inspired illustrations. Also arrived is my eBay win, "Bob Wilkins Interviews the Stars of 'Alien' and 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' DVD" and "Pop" figures of Saru and Burnham of "Star Trek: Discovery".
Latest Star Trek books by Ian McLean, on Flickr
New arrivals from Jacobs Brown Publishing: Volume 2 (1975-1977) and Volume 3 (1978-1980) of “These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s” by Marc Cushman; and “Beaming Up and Getting Off” by Walter Koenig, an update of his 1998 autobiography, “Warped Factors” (with all-new material from pp 283-378).
"ST:TMP Inside the Art and Visual Effects" by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki, Titan Books, 2020 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
For all those complaining that we never got the 1980 "Cinefantstique" pics in Preston Neal Jones' "Return To Tomorrow", this new volume makes up for that.
Contents list:
Foreword by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki - 06
Aborted Launch: Planet of the Titans & Phase II - 08
Warp Experiment: Robert Abel & Associates - 18
Refit: Douglas Trumbull & John Dykstra - 30
The USS Enterprise: Evolving the classic starship - 40
Strange New Worlds: Designing Vulcan & A new look at Earth - 66
Designing V'ger - 94
Inside V'ger: Scrapped Memory Wall & Spock's space walk - 116
V'ger's Temple: Revealing Voyager & V'ger's origin - 140
Angle of the Attack: The Klingon sequence - 160
A Good Beginning: The continuing evolution of TMP - 178
About the Author and Acknowledgements - 192
Also pictured above is the long-awaited fourth novel in David Gerrold's "Dingiliad", um, trilogy. This is the book that takes up the promise of the dinosaurs hinted at in the 2002 third book .
I must thank Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki for the below photo. The Arcturian on the studio telephone has been featured in previous books and articles, but they actually found a wider shot of the image... and the Andorian ambassador is next in line to use the phone.
An Andorian, an Arcturian and a security guard by Ian McLean, on Flickr
And a week later:
2021 Trek calendars and Bob Wilkins by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Two 2021 "Star Trek" calendars, TOS and the landscape format "Ships of the Line", which features two TMP-inspired illustrations. Also arrived is my eBay win, "Bob Wilkins Interviews the Stars of 'Alien' and 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' DVD" and "Pop" figures of Saru and Burnham of "Star Trek: Discovery".
Latest Star Trek books by Ian McLean, on Flickr
New arrivals from Jacobs Brown Publishing: Volume 2 (1975-1977) and Volume 3 (1978-1980) of “These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s” by Marc Cushman; and “Beaming Up and Getting Off” by Walter Koenig, an update of his 1998 autobiography, “Warped Factors” (with all-new material from pp 283-378).
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The latest "Star Trek: Year Five" comic from IDW (#13) arrived last week. Also out: Chris Pine on the cover of a "Wonder Woman" omnibus. And a "Star Trek: Picard" issue of "Cinefex" (#171).
New stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
I'm biased, but I got a buzz from this:
Andorian redshirt cameo by Ian McLean, on Flickr
In this month's "Year Five" comic, there is an Andorian ensign cameo. I wonder if the script originally called for a Tellarite, hence the "hooves" gag?
"Year Five" introduces TMP-style uniforms, Admiral Koraxi and the crew of the USS Theseus:
Introducing TMP uniforms by Ian McLean, on Flickr
New stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
I'm biased, but I got a buzz from this:
Andorian redshirt cameo by Ian McLean, on Flickr
In this month's "Year Five" comic, there is an Andorian ensign cameo. I wonder if the script originally called for a Tellarite, hence the "hooves" gag?
"Year Five" introduces TMP-style uniforms, Admiral Koraxi and the crew of the USS Theseus:
Introducing TMP uniforms by Ian McLean, on Flickr
"Saved the universe itself on more than one occasion?" Unlike a lot of franchises, Star Trek has canonically almost never gone to the "threat to the entire universe" well, at least not until Discovery. The only time the whole universe was supposedly at stake in TOS or TAS was "The Alternative Factor."
Ugh. Don't remind me. Strange episode. I tried to watch it with friends a few years ago. Ick. And it also hasn't aged well.
Snagged an iTunes digital copy of STAR TREK ENTERPRISE Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures
Ugh. Don't remind me. Strange episode. I tried to watch it with friends a few years ago. Ick. And it also hasn't aged well.
Was the writer even sober when they wrote that episode? It’s worst than “Spock’s Brain”!
Spock card and IDW Year Five omnibus by Ian McLean, on Flickr
New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
IDW's "Deep Space Nine: Too Long a Sacrifice" #1 (alternate art cover) and #2; IDW's "Picard: Countdown"; Spock Father's Day greeting card; Little Golden Book "Star Trek: Alphabet Book".
Betelgeusians in IDW's "DS9: Too Long a Sacrifice" #2 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Andorian and Tellarite in IDW's "DS9: Too Long a Sacrifice" #2 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Little Golden Book "Star Trek Alphabet Book", A is for Aliens by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Little Golden Book "Star Trek Alphabet Book", S is for Starfleet Academy by Ian McLean, on Flickr
The orange alien resembles a Filmation TAS Edosian but without the third arm.
I don’t like who they went for the computerized artwork in the children’s book. Too angular. (Same with LDS’s animation, too angular.)
Horrible drawings. Lack of clear lines. Give me Gold Key any day.
I started reading it a week ago. Kirk is very raw. Sarek is overbearing. Uhura is way different than she was in TOS. Spock is Spock, but not really Spock because, get this, he has a girlfriend!
You know that More Beautiful than Death is a Kelvinverse novel, right?
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Very poor graphic depiction. Bring back the 60s!Picked up my latest comic haul today, which included a new Trek issue from IDW:
Star Trek: Year Five, issue #12 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
M'ress finally appears! by Ian McLean, on Flickr
And the rarely seen female Tellarite(?)
Lt Cabig by Ian McLean, on Flickr
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