Here’s another post in honor of Star Trek’s 45th Anniversary. We always felt that dry dock scene in Star Trek ’09 was inspired by seventies Star Trek cover artist Lou Feck. And we think the composite above makes that abundantly clear. That visual connection was one of the first things that got us excited about this film before release.
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September 9, 2011 at 1:10 am
For “inspired by” read “ripped off from.”
Tex
(seriously, Jar-Jar, really?)
September 9, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Well, yes, there is that.
September 9, 2011 at 2:42 am
Cool! I’d never thought about that despite having Blish’s star trek books on my shelf…. Absolutely beautiful cover!
September 9, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Yeah, if you were a kid in the seventies you had to have those books. It was a law.
September 9, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Well, I wasn’t born in the 70s or most of the 80s — haha…. I just love Star Trek and Blish’s extensive ouvre of sci-fi work (Hugo winning A Case of Conscience, The Seedling Stars, etc etc) — including those 6 TOS adaptations…. People tend to ignore his other works — sadly.
September 9, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Cool. Glad to hear those books made an impact past the seventies.
September 9, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Oh, I read only 50s/60s/70s sci-fi (check my blog — hehe!!) and I was born in the late 80s…..
September 10, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Yup, Joachim’s blog is indeed a stunner. We recommend all our readers check it out. (A click on his name above will take you there.) There’s only one problem with Joachim’s blog:
It’s too much fun! You’ll spend hours reading the posts and poring over all that great cover art!
And then you spend more hours tracking down all the books he talks about.
Talk about time-sinks!
September 10, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Thank you SO much for your kind words! I’ve put a lot of work into this project — sadly, the reviews I have up are ONLY from the time of this blog so I’ve read hundreds and hundreds of books which deserve reviews but were from before this blog…
There’s an entire corpus of sci-fi works which aren’t read enough (or have 0 text devoted to them online) — I seek to uncover at least a few of them…
I’ve enjoyed your blog as well! I’ve always loved Star Trek (and hated the majority of other TV shows) — hahaha