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    The Art of Star Trek
    The Art of Star Trek
    The Art of Star Trek
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    The Art of Star Trek

    By Judith Reeves-Stevens

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    From the public's first glimpse of the original Starship Enterprise to the brave new worlds explored in Star Trek: Voyager, the never-ending phenomenon that is Star Trek has treated generations of viewers to a dazzling barrage of unforgettable images of the future. Bizarre alien beings, breathtaking extraterrestrial landscapes, exotic costumes, state-of-the-art special effects, and remarkably convincing futuristic sets and props and equipment have brought Gene Roddenberry's inspiring vision to life before the public's awestruck eyes.

    The Art of Star Trek is a one-of-a-kind gallery of Star Trek artwork, as well as tribute to the many artists, designers, and technicians whose diverse talents and imagination created the distinctive look of the Star Trek universe. Every incarnation of Star Trek is explored: The Original Series, The ANimated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, and the films -- with the complete behind-the-scenes story of Star Trek's design history.

    With hundreds of full-color illustrations and photographs, many from private collections, readers will at last be able to linger on Star Trek's rich visual legacy and trace the evolution of and images from their initial conceptions to their final form on television and film screens.

    Like all great works of art, the many sights and visual surprises of Star Trek have been built from scratch through a combination of inspiration and painstaking effort. The Art of Star Trek covers the entire universe of Star Trek artwork and production design to reveal how, in all of its various forms, Star Trek has allowed us to look boldly into the future and see what no one has seen before.

    The Art of Star Trek is the art of pure imagination, the art of a bright, hopeful future, and the art of three remarkable decades on nonstop action and adventure. Lavishly illustrated, it is a book to be read and referred to time after time, as well as one that will become a cherished chronicle fo Star Trek's first thirty years.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books/Star Trek
    Release dateOct 1, 1997
    ISBN9781439108550
    The Art of Star Trek
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    Judith Reeves-Stevens

    Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are the authors of more than thirty books, including numerous New York Times bestselling Star Trek novels. For more information, please visit Reeves-Stevens.com.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the book, but there was a lot of detail that didn't interest me.
    • 4/5
      This book delivers everything it promises.

      With chapters on:

      The Original series
      The Animated Adventures
      Phase II (the series that never was)
      The Next Generation
      Deep Space Nine
      Voyager

      The Motion Picture
      The Wrath of Khan
      The Search for Spock
      The Voyage Home
      The Final Frontier
      The Undiscovered Country
      Generations

      ...and an abundance of production visuals, sketches, photographs, props, costume designs, behind the scenes make-up application, and publicity material such as film posters, etc. Enough to satisfy even the hungriest of Star Trek fans (although I'd advise you don't nit-pick too much, since the editors could have done with at least one dedicated Trekkie on their staff to point out some of the more obvious editorial errors).

      I personally think that this book is a fine item in almost every respect (almost); and this is where it fails to deliver in one key area! value for money. £35.00 in 1995 certainly put me off from reaching into my own pockets on principle. I blame the greed of the studios and the publishers for preying on fans, knowing that passion often overides common sense.
      As it turned out, I ended up snagging a very good condition second hand copy on an internet auction site 20 years later for a tiny fraction of the original RRP. I'd long since forgotten about this book. You can't afford to buy every cool book you come across; and as a result, I have re-discovered my inner Trekkie with this amazing book and am now very happy reading through it in 2018.

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    An early version of the Enterprise-D painted by Andrew Probert

    For Misha, Natasha, Paullina, and especially Kevin, who is in every page of this book. May your future be even brighter than the one Mr. Roddenberry imagined.

    CONTENTS

    Acknowledgment

    Introduction by Herman Zimmerman

    PART ONE

    The Future in Our Living Rooms STAR TREK on Television

    Chapter One: A Totally New Universe

    The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before

    Chapter Two: These Are the Voyages

    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES

    Chapter Three: Take Two

    STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES

    Chapter Four: The Series That Never Was

    STAR TREK: PHASE II

    Chapter Five: Lightning in a Bottle

    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

    Chapter Six: A New Direction

    STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

    Chapter Seven: The Neverending Story

    STAR TREK: VOYAGER

    PART TWO

    The Big Picture STAR TREK on Film

    Chapter One: The Dream Fulfilled

    STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE

    Chapter Two: One Big Happy Fleet

    STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

    Chapter Three: A Real Comeback

    STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK

    Chapter Four: A Whale of a Story

    STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME

    Chapter Five: The Ultimate Trip

    STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER

    Chapter Six: Signature Piece

    STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY

    Chapter Seven: The Next Step

    STAR TREK GENERATIONS

    Afterword

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    An early concept of the Promenade’s Glop-on-a-stick, which, interestingly enough, is how writers feel after sorting through approximately five thousand pieces of STAR TREK art.

    The size and scope of this book should make it clear that as authors we are little more than chroniclers of the efforts of dedicated collectors. Paramount employees, movie and television professionals, and appreciators of science-fiction television and movies in general, and STAR TREK in particular.

    The enthusiastic and selfless outpouring of artwork, time, and effort made available to us by friends and strangers alike was literally overwhelming, though after three years of being observers behind the scenes of STAR TREK, this generosity of spirit should come as no surprise to us. It is the hallmark of those who collectively labor to bring forth the ongoing television and movie adventures of what is justly one of the most popular and successful series of adventures ever put on film. The positive optimism that fueled Gene Roddenberry’s first glimmerings of the STAR TREK universe is alive and well in all who expand and extend his dream, which perhaps accounts in part for the phenomenon’s longevity and continued growth, and for which we are indebted more than we can say in these pages.

    At Paramount, first and foremost we must once again thank Rick Berman for allowing us access to every aspect of STAR TREK’S many productions. As Gene Roddenberry hoped, Mr. Berman has become much more than a keeper of the flame, and is boldly charting STAR TREK’s new voyage into the twenty-first century.

    Herman Zimmerman was a constant source of inspiration and knowledge during the creation of this book, and we are especially grateful for his persistence in tracking down a fabled treasure trove of dusty boxes that contained artwork sealed away at the time STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE was released.

    Herman’s generosity was matched by all the other members of the STAR TREK design team on the Paramount lot—Richard James, production designer for six seasons of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, who has now brought STAR TREK: VOYAGER to such thrilling visual life; longtime illustrator and technical consultant Rick Sternbach, who deserves our highest praise for saving and dating all his drawings, and who turned up many treasures long buried on the Paramount lot as well. In addition, we thank STAR TREK; DEEP SPACE NINE’s prolific illustrator Jim Martin, costume designer Robert Blackman, makeup supervisor Michael Westmore, and Doug Drexler. Randy McIlavin, Tony Sears, and Wendy Drapanas all contributed to our understanding of the dauntingly broad subject matter of this book, as well as to its visual content.

    Voyager’s Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry provided such a wonderful range of material. And Deep Space Nine’s Property Manager Joe Longo patiently opened the vault to give us full access to his carefully preserved store of props.

    At Viacom Consumer Products, Paula Block was invaluable not only in helping us sort through almost thirty years of photography, but also in easing our way through the intricacies of wandering the Paramount lot daily, for much longer than any of us anticipated. Harry Lang, keeper of the keys to Paramount’s photography library, earns high praise for his dedication and patience, and for his impressive ability to track down misfiled images.

    Most important, of all who helped us at Paramount, we are once again grateful for the guidance, encouragement, insights, and friendship of Mike and Denise Okuda. Their impressive STAR TREK reference books—the STAR TREK Encyclopedia, written with Debbie Mirek, and the STAR TREK Chronology—were invaluable to the identification and organization of much of the material in this collection.

    And finally at Paramount, the person most responsible for making sure we weren’t swallowed up in the deluge of material we accumulated is Herman Zimmerman’s assistant, Penny Juday. Without her in-depth knowledge and enthusiasm for STAR TREK, her organizational skills, and her ability to know just Whom to call and when to call them, we would most probably still be sorting through dust-covered file boxes while our editor pounded on the door.

    Off the lot, the people who came to our aid were no less responsive and informative. As he has so ably helped Pocket Books in the past, David McDonnell of Starlog magazine contributed enormously to the content of this collection, Fred Clark at Cinefantastique, and Margaret Clark at DC Comics also provided their invaluable assistance. Stephen Whitfield, familiar to hundreds of thousands of readers who have savored his magnificent book. The Making of STAR TREK (Del Rey), graciously gave us access to the material he had collected from STAR TREK’s beginning.

    We are also indebted to Jim and Anita Dwyer, Andrea Weaver, and all those others who worked on STAR TREK productions in the past, who so kindly took the time to reminisce for us, and dig through their own file boxes. Special acknowledgment must also go to Greg Jein, whose detailed miniatures and props have delighted STAR TREK viewers for years, and who steadfastly gave us total access to his extensive collection of props from The Original Series, as well as art from The Animated Series, and fascinating behind-the-scenes photos from the entire history of STAR TREK.

    Gratitude to Desilu Executive Herbert F. Solow and Original Series producer Robert Justman for their incalculable contribution to STAR TREK’s earliest formative years and for their invaluable introductions to key personnel from that time.

    Noted aviation artist Matt Jefferies. who firmly established the Starfleet School of Design with his original design of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her bridge, was one of the brightest lights we encountered in our research. Where so much of television design is temporary and quickly dated. Matt’s work has remained fresh and intriguing and still serves as daily inspiration to the new generation of STAR TREK designers. Incredibly, many of the drawings which Matt gave us have never been published and have become a highlight of this book.

    Andrew Probert, one of the most important of STAR TREK’s second-generation of designers, who took STAR TREK to new visual heights in both The Motion Picture and The Next Generation, thrilled us, and we’re certain, our readers by making available to us many seminal illustrations that also have never before been published.

    Industrial Light & Magic, which has been such an important contributor to the look of the STAR TREK universe for almost fifteen years also dug through their files to come up with the seldom-seen images contributed to this collection. We are indebted to Bill George—designer of the Excelsior—and Ellen Pasternak of ILM for their contributions despite their own tight schedules.

    We are especially grateful for the kindness shown us by collector Bob Burns who provided many of the Mike Minor pieces included in this collection. Mike’s legacy to STAR TREK continues to this day, and we are all fortunate that Bob has so diligently kept his spirit and his artwork alive to delight and inspire a new generation of admirers.

    Though committed to the idealism of the twenty-third century, Gene Roddenberry was not blind to the financial realities of the twentieth. Realizing the demand among viewers for merchandise from the STAR TREK universe. Roddenberry worked with William Ware Theiss to create a symbol of Vulcan philosophy, which could also be sold to fans. These sketches by Theiss show the development of two possible STAR TREK medallions which culminated in the IDIC—an acronym for Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. The IDIC was first worn by Spock in the episode Is There in Truth No Beauty? and has since been seen as a recurring Vulcan symbol in current STAR TREK productions.

    The auction houses of Butterfield & Butterfield and of Christie’s East were also invaluable by providing transparencies of many of the STAR TREK items they have sold in the past.

    On the technical side, once again our photographer, Robbie Robinson, accompanied us on our travels, impressively and inventively capturing many of images taken especially for this collection. And Rick Thomas of Patrick J. Donabue Photography/The Photo Lab was instrumental in the rapid turnaround of Robbie’s work, and in producing high-quality copy photography of many of the items loaned to us.

    Many others gave freely to us of their time and knowledge throughout this project. Some wish to remain anonymous. Some appear on the credit lines throughout these pages. To any others we’ve inadvertently neglected to mention as we should, we apologize for the oversight in advance and promise to redeem ourselves in subsequent editions.

    Finally, of all who worked so hard on this book, we must give our deepest thanks to the team at Pocket Books—Irene Yuss, Joann Foster, Michael Schwindeller, Tyya Turner, John Ordover, John Perrella, Carol Greenburg and Daniel Truman, as well as Pocket Books Managing Editors Donna Ruvituso and Donna O’Neill, and book designer Richard Oriolo—true professionals who pulled together to smooth our passage through such a complex project. And though it is an oft-quoted sentiment, in this case it has never been more true, than to give our final thanks to our editor, Kevin Ryan, without whom this book would not exist.

    Kevin’s dedication to seeing this collection in print, his unstinting detective work in tracking down so many collectors and obtaining so much of the never-before-published works in this book, and his many indulgences to two wayward writers goes beyond mere appreciation.

    Our thanks to all. We’re looking forward to the next round.

    J&G REEVES-STEVENS

    Production Designer Herman Zimmerman in Stellar Cartography and the impressive new U.S.S. Enterprise set he designed with his production team for the seventh motion picture, STAR TREK GENERATIONS.

    INTRODUCTION

    On the evening of September 8, 1966, I, along with ten or twelve million

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