which issue of Starlog is it?

[Redfern]

I wish that site had a similarly comprehensive archive of vinatge "Famous Monsters of Filmland" issues. I'm particularly interested in issue # 129. It's featured article was about the sequel to "WestWorld" titled "FutureWorld" and had a cover painting of the "de-faced" train engineer. That why I originally purchased it. But it also had an article about "Doctor Who" that served as my very first exposure to the classic BBC series, even before I read about it in StarLog.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Kaiser]

It’s always difficult trying to work out what someone’s half-remembering. What popped into my head from your description was a picture of the 1701-A with “Excelsior” type warp nacelles. The picture is on page 34 of Starlog issue 131:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-131

I assume full responsibility!

This is my drawing I sent around back in those days (Richard Arnold didn't like it) advocating / propagating that Paramount Pictures should do something with the Enterprise-A (seen in ST IV-TVH) to create a more believable impression that this is no longer the Enterprise from the previous films.

I had almost forgotten about it, thanks from bringing it back from the abyss of oblivion.

Bob

I actually Like your Ent A over the canon one

have you made other drawings? if so are they online?

 

[JES]

It’s always difficult trying to work out what someone’s half-remembering. What popped into my head from your description was a picture of the 1701-A with “Excelsior” type warp nacelles. The picture is on page 34 of Starlog issue 131:
https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-131

I assume full responsibility!

This is my drawing I sent around back in those days (Richard Arnold didn't like it) advocating / propagating that Paramount Pictures should do something with the Enterprise-A (seen in ST IV-TVH) to create a more believable impression that this is no longer the Enterprise from the previous films.

I had almost forgotten about it, thanks from bringing it back from the abyss of oblivion.

Bob

Well, I have to give you credit for trying to make the Enterprise-A a little different (and the shortened Excelsior Nacelles are fascinating).

Unfortunately, the idea fell on deaf ears in the end.

 

[Robert Comsol]

I actually Like your Ent A over the canon one

Thank you! I was under the impression, then, that the Enterprise-A would have transwarp capability, so I felt that the nacelles should also visually reflect that.

Have you made other drawings? if so are they online?

Mostly TOS set reproductions (my TOS cabin should come in handy for the current "toilet within cabin or not" discussion in the "actual size" tech thread) and a proposal for the Klingon Battleship only seen briefly as a glowing thingy in "Friday's Child" (that illustration almost made it into Bjo Trimble's new Star Trek Concordance).

They are not online, but I guess I'll post a couple of those once I relocated them.

Bob

 

[JES]

Unfortunate that Transwarp didn't really go anywhere. I don't think that they knew what would happen with Transwarp, but by the time the TNG was in the planning stages, I think that Roddenberry decided not to have Transwarp around, to make our galaxy still seem big.
The Enterprise-D was supposed to have Transwarp early on I think, but that idea was scrapped, and now history says that "The Great Experiment" was a failure.

 

[publiusr]

I really had my hopes up that what was to become the 1701-A would have been freshened up a bit.