What treasures from your past have you dug up lately?

[Sibyl]

Going through several boxes in my basement in my effort to clean up down there so I have some working space and I discovered a few things that I've completely forgotten about.

All drawings I did some time in my senior year of High School, most likely in Science Fiction Literature class.

The Phoenix is a pre-TMP Hermes'-Class refit with an added nacelle and (drawn WAY before Star Trek: Enterprise...I graduated in 1992) two shuttle bay doors on the underside of the saucer. And if you couldn't tell, I was an Anthrax fan at the time, as well as a Maiden fan (Derek Riggs' "autograph on the sword's pommel another page (can you tell what era this is from?!?)).

And, of course, who could miss the plans for the abandoned Federation Bass!

I didn't even remember ever drawing the Refit Enterprise, not to mention as well as I did it (okay, not a masterpiece, but I've never been very good at hand drawing).

 

[TrickyDickie]

Going through several boxes in my basement in my effort to clean up down there so I have some working space and I discovered a few things that I've completely forgotten about.

All drawings I did some time in my senior year of High School, most likely in Science Fiction Literature class.

The Phoenix is a pre-TMP Hermes'-Class refit with an added nacelle and (drawn WAY before Star Trek: Enterprise...I graduated in 1992) two shuttle bay doors on the underside of the saucer. And if you couldn't tell, I was an Anthrax fan at the time, as well as a Maiden fan (Derek Riggs' "autograph on the sword's pommel another page (can you tell what era this is from?!?)).

And, of course, who could miss the plans for the abandoned Federation Bass!

I didn't even remember ever drawing the Refit Enterprise, not to mention as well as I did it (okay, not a masterpiece, but I've never been very good at hand drawing).

Cool stuff....very respectable drawing of the Refit.

About a year ago, my digging up of treasure was literal. When I was younger, my family lived out in the country where there was no trash service and no dump nearby. Our dump was a sort of limbo area between property lines. I went back there and did a little digging and all of a sudden out of the dirt came a matched pair of plastic toy German Luger pistols that I had forgotten all about. I estimate they were buried for almost 40 years! They have Made in U.S.A. on them. Toys like that have been mostly made in China for a long time. Except for the little plastic front sight being broken off one, the guns are in excellent condition. It's amazing. They have a new-found place of honor in my home now.

 

[ThankQ]

Very cool.

Interesting thread idea. I'll bite, probably just because while cleaning recently I had a bottom-of-the-box find myself.

When I moved back to Tulsa in my late 20s, my neighbor was this groovy, vegan, organic-hipster-yoga chick. The hot kind. She moved away after about three years, but we grew really close and it was a great time. One of the things we used to do together was paint. We'd cover the dining room table and lay out whatever was the flavor of the evening. Maybe watercolors on the back of grocery bags. Occasionally my favorite, oil on canvas.

This one I found going through dusty boxes cleaning out the garage last weekend. It's acrylic on art paper, you know, the think linen-like paper than comes in pads of 25 or so. It seems to me to be either a supernova or a planetary nebula. Or, I suppose, whatever you like. I don't remember doing this one or what night it might have been. There's no doubt it's from those years. It's likely there were some mood enhancers that made it a memorable night that kept me from remembering it. Oh well. Better a grand experience than a dull memory. This way I get to write my own memory.

Long story short... found this in the garage:

 

[Timewalker]

All drawings I did some time in my senior year of High School, most likely in Science Fiction Literature class.

You had a whole course devoted to science fiction literature?

 

[TrickyDickie]

You had a whole course devoted to science fiction literature?

That would have been cool. My high school didn't have that. About the best we had was reading '1984' in 1984.

In college, though, mine had a Spring mini-mester in which you could pretty much tailor a course to whatever you wanted. They didn't have 'Writing for Television' so I came up with the course, my English prof approved it, and I used the course to write a script for TNG entitled 'The Reality Within'. I didn't pitch it to the studio though, because it was written with Pulaski included and then Gates came back and I would have had to re-write a lot of it and I just had too many family issues going on at the time.

 

[Sibyl]

You had a whole course devoted to science fiction literature?

Sure did!

While it wasn't a Magnet school, like my elementary school was (math and science), we did have advanced placement courses, although, for the most part, I did not belong in those. We had several types of English classes, including poetry, classic literature, and science fiction.

I took that time to write a story about my old ship (the Phoenix, seen above), each week adding a few new pages to the "book", though all just additions to the same story.

My final project was a presentation on the Federation (Trek) and I brought in tons of visuals, including the kitbashed model of my design for the Phoenix as seen above, minus the sensor bar between the struts and the shuttle bays; I just wasn't that skilled a modeler at the time. I got an A on the exam, but only because of the visuals...I pretty much literally read the "constitution" of the Federation from Franz Joseph's Technical Manual. Yeah, I wracked my head for weeks on what I was going to say, and I KNEW what the Federation was, but I just couldn't put anything into words at the time...I couldn't even paraphrase. Like I said, I did not belong in the AP classes at that time, but my parents thought I did, so I was.

Now that I think about it, I believe I took SF in my Junior year, so those drawings would've been done in 1990 or 1991.

Also dug up recently, in a sad state after being stored for over 20 years:

That would have been cool. My high school didn't have that. About the best we had was reading '1984' in 1984.

In college, though, mine had a Spring mini-mester in which you could pretty much tailor a course to whatever you wanted. They didn't have 'Writing for Television' so I came up with the course, my English prof approved it, and I used the course to write a script for TNG entitled 'The Reality Within'. I didn't pitch it to the studio though, because it was written with Pulaski included and then Gates came back and I would have had to re-write a lot of it and I just had too many family issues going on at the time.

I had a class like that in my Senior year. While I was not ready for AP classes, I was far beyond standard 12th grade English and my teacher recognized that, so basically, I could just write whatever I wanted in that class while the rest of the students had their assigned tasks. Almost got me in serious trouble when we had a substitute one day: I wrote about my feelings and regret about killing someone and how it haunted me (I couldn't and wouldn't hurt a fly). I guess it was realistic enough that the teacher submitted it to the administration and I even had the school cop and counselor talk to me. I had to plead that it was only a creative writing exercise and that I was trying to write from others' perspectives.

 

[TrickyDickie]

I came up against both sides of that 'realism' thing, in college.

I wrote a story about someone in a library who was killed by bookcases that fell like dominoes. It just so happened that it was a few days before Valentine's Day and the prof thought I was depressed and suicidal.

On the other side of it, I wrote a story about a kid who was bullied and finally had enough and decided to bring his dad's .357 magnum to school in his lunch box in order to kill the bully. It's the last day of school, it's hot, and though it's technically against the rules the school bus driver is running with the loading doors open. When he stops at an intersection, a bank robber jumps aboard. He hijacks the bus, with a gun to the driver's head. He tells the kids they better behave. Any that don't will be killed. At the back of the bus, the bullied kid suddenly steps out into the aisle with his dad's .357 in his hands. For the robber, it's so utterly unexpected and surreal that he doesn't react in time. The kid makes a lucky head shot. End of robber. The bully is sitting nearby and loses control of his bladder and bowels. He realizes that was meant for him. The prof said that the story was "unrealistic". She suggested that I read Robert Cormier's 'I Am The Cheese'. Funny, because that wasn't even the right one by him to reference! His novel about a busload of kids hijacked by 4 terrorists was 'After the First Death'.

I wrote that story in 1986. After all of the bullying and school shootings and everything that has come since, I wonder what she would think today?

 

[Santaman]

I dug out an old computer, a Duron 700Mhz machine which was used in a game LAN we had set up at a friend's attic.. played Unreal Tournament 1999 GOTY Edition, Doom Legacy and Mechwarrior 4 over LAN.. such a great time.

 

[Velocity]

I found some old letters that my mother wrote me when I was a young mother. Pure gold! It kills me that I threw so many away over the years...

 

[Riker'sMailbox]

We started going through a few boxes in the attic and I recently came across my photo album from a college spring break trip to Jamaica and the diaries I kept when I was in my late teens and early twenties. It was a trip to go through them all.

 

[1001001]

We're painting our house, and in a bin on a shelf, I came across my photo albums from my year abroad in Australia.

That was a lifetime ago, but so fun to look through.

Thank God I took a lot of pictures. My memory of that year is a bit...hazy.

 

[Sibyl]

We're painting our house, and in a bin on a shelf, I came across my photo albums from my year abroad in Australia.

That was a lifetime ago, but so fun to look through.

Thank God I took a lot of pictures. My memory of that year is a bit...hazy.

I sense that a lot of Fosters was consumed during that trip...

 

[Sibyl]

I went on another expedition a couple of days ago and found another trove of my old drawings, as well as the object I was specifically looking for. I'll get pics up in a bit.

The thing I was actually looking for was my old 20th-anniversary issue of Starlog that has promotional portraits of each of the TOS actors in their movie garb (other than Takei, who is wearing a mesh top and holding a foil and is in a fencing stance).

What's cool about this particular magazine is that I have George Takai's, Walter Koenig's, and James Doohan's autographs in it. I thought I had Nichelle Nichols' autograph in there, as well, but I guess I only saw her once and I had her sign a Hamilton Collection plate with her TOS Uhura on it. Funny fact about the plate...her pen kinda leaked a little during her signing of it and there's a blob of ink on the plate. People said at the time that my plate was extra-special because it had a Nichelle Nichols mistake on it!

This particular haul also has another, similar drawing of my Refit Hermes-Class Phoenix on it to the one I posted earlier, but larger and with an added detail.

I also have my interpretation of the ship on the cover of the FASA Star Trek RPG Star Fleet Intelligence Manual:

And a series of drawings of my interpretation of the Spiculum from FASA's Renegade Legion RPG:

Again, I'll post these images soon...

 

[1001001]

I sense that a lot of Fosters was consumed during that trip...

Not Foster's but definitely a LOT of beer.

And about 4 acres worth of pot.

Back when I was eight feet tall and bulletproof.

Time flies.

 

[Sibyl]

Not Foster's but definitely a LOT of beer.

And about 4 acres worth of pot.

Back when I was eight feet tall and bulletproof.

Time flies.

As promised:

An interesting little artifact...my drawing of the internals of an "energy sword":

USS Phoenix

My pattern for a hand-embroidered UFP flag that I did for my above-mentioned Sci-Fi literature class. I ended up giving the finished flag to a member of my fan club at the time:

Spiculum:

And I giggle every time I've seen this in the last couple of days...I am HORRIBLE at drawing people:

A blueprint I'd purchased out of one of the many sci-fi collectibles catalogs in the 80s:

And I had planned on creating a papercraft Refit Bridge from my CG model at one point:

The Star Trek 20th-anniversary issue of Starlog with autographs can be seen in the Autographs thread in General Trek at the top of the forum...

...or here:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-autographs-pictures-thread.294188/page-2#post-12553279

 

[Butters]

Emptying the attic, I found my Generations Novelisation I thought I’d lost, a box of OO scale track I thought was in storage, and my hurricane lanterns I’d forgotten about, and, an awesome eighties Pyrex tea set. Mustn’t forget to take down the A0 cutaway Enterprise-D poster that’s hung up there too.

Was hoping I’d come across my Gobots and Alan Parsons LPs but I think they’re gone

 

[Sibyl]

Emptying the attic, I found my Generations Novelisation I thought I’d lost, a box of OO scale track I thought was in storage, and my hurricane lanterns I’d forgotten about, and, an awesome eighties Pyrex tea set. Mustn’t forget to take down the A0 cutaway Enterprise-D poster that’s hung up there too.

Was hoping I’d come across my Gobots and Alan Parsons LPs but I think they’re gone

I hope you're able to find them one day.

 

[Sibyl]

Oops, missed one...

my USS Phoenix logo. I think I was either 14 or 15 at the time.

 

[Sibyl]

Still haven't found it, and I can't seem to find any reference to it anywhere on the 'net, but I'm currently looking for my mass-produced print of @Rick Sternbach's E-D painting hanging on Captain Picard's Ready Room wall. I *think* it was a giveaway in a cereal box or something similar, but again, can't seem to find a reference. And, as mentioned, I can't find my poster. Grrr...

 

[TribbleFeeder]

My hoop earrings. It was a solid find. Can’t wait to wear them again.