Power Records "Star Trek"
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I got mine out at the library as a kid...there was NO comic book so everything was left to my imagination. Its cool to see the comic book version!!
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I still have a couple of them - just nothing to play them on anymore. I did see, however, that they sell turntables with USB cords to hook them into your computer. That may be an idea for Christmas.
That's awesome. I gotta read those.
I've had the entire collection-it goes from One to Ten-for years now. IMO, ADF captured well the essence of our beloved heroes. And TAS had some gems in it, like its parent series.
I still have my LP and 45 RPM of these ("Mirror for Futility", "To Starve a Fleaver", etc.). Great childhood memories. The LP was reisssued after TMP came out. I didn't know there was an accompanying comic until recently. I also had those Planet of the Apes ones. I can still recite both those and the Trek stories by heart, some thirty years later!
Here's the Mother Lode for all that Power Records stuff.
Here's the Mother Lode for all that Power Records stuff.
Check out more here:
http://powerrecordsplaza.blogspot.com/
That site's got a ton of power records mp3s.
http://powerrecordsplaza.blogspot.com/
That site's got a ton of power records mp3s.
Didn't see it. I only read page 1 of the thread.
These were great in those dark times of having to wait for the show to air. I have most of them and they are really easy to find. Pretty cheap, too. The comics were primarily drawn by Dick Giordano, while John Buscema did some. Really great work on their part, better than most of the comics before or since.
The Space:1999 Book and Record sets were outstanding in their art. The episodic adaptations were pretty dire, though. Power covered a lot of popular shows at the time. They even did Kojak!
The Space:1999 Book and Record sets were outstanding in their art. The episodic adaptations were pretty dire, though. Power covered a lot of popular shows at the time. They even did Kojak!
I have been collecting these, along with Batman, Superman and Spiderman records. Thanks for posting. Its actually the first time I ever heard one!
I've been listening to the four 1975 Power/Peter Pan records of Star Trek that I've had since childhood. I've mentioned the feelings these adventures evoke, but they're also just a lot of fun to hear! The voice actors who do the Enterprise crew are quite charming, with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy particularly good. I've tried listening to the other audio stories, but the performances, scripts, and another actor who played Spock just weren't as good. I love the special effect sounds for the transporter, the ship's computers, photon torpedoes etc. It's interesting to note that they never use their phasers on anyone to any effect. Plus, the stories are definitely worthy of Star Trek in that they use problem solving and analytical thinking to accomplish the mission rather than brute force or technology.
My favorites of the four are To Starve a Fleaver--the first one I ever heard--and The Logistics of Stampede. I enjoy the verbal sparring between Kirk and Henderson, the head honcho of the colony planet.
I like the incidental music, too. Much of it has a Sam Spence "NFL Films" sound to it, which is itself an action-adventure style music.
My favorites of the four are To Starve a Fleaver--the first one I ever heard--and The Logistics of Stampede. I enjoy the verbal sparring between Kirk and Henderson, the head honcho of the colony planet.
I like the incidental music, too. Much of it has a Sam Spence "NFL Films" sound to it, which is itself an action-adventure style music.
The set of "Star Trek Logs" by Alan Dean Foster was recently re-released in a five-volume trade paperback collection, in which a new essay by ADF is serialized across the books. In it, he mentions how the additional story (in "Star Trek Log Seven", in which Kirk has a reunion with his former exchange student roommate, Klingon Captain Kumara) was originally written as a two-part episode for the proposed fourth season of TOS.
There were contractual likeness problems when Power Records turned the two ADF audio scripts he'd done into comics, due to Filmation's rights while doing TAS. ADF had no idea those scripts were even destined to become comics, and the soundtracks had probably already been recorded before the artwork was done. But, due to TAS, those were the issues where Sulu got an afro hairstyle and brown skin, Uhura got blonde hair and fair skin, M'Ress ("Passage to Moauv!") was redrawn to resemble a vaguely-Orion woman and Arex ("The Crier in Emptiness") became a blond caucasian human navigator called Connors.
Edoan Elisiar instrument by Therin of Andor, on Flickr.
If you note the awkward poses on Connors throughout the comic, and even where his longer name gets squeezed into the speech bubbles, he was originally penciled as the multi-limbed Mr Arex. The above "elisiar", which Connors coincidentally had in his quarters and was able to use to solve the dilemma in "The Crier in Emptiness", recently made several cameo appearances in Keith RA DeCandido's Star Trek novel, "A Singular Destiny"!
Redrawn M'Ress by Therin of Andor, on Flickr.
As a boy in 1979, I got the 1979 issued Star Trek The Motion Picture multiple Power Records in anticipation of the ST:TMP December 7th 1979 in theaters and the Space:1999 too, the artwork was always creative.
I was eight in 1979 and I believe that I already had the 45RPM of To Starve a Fleaver. Then in early 1980, I got the 33 LP of the four stories (Fleaver; Logistics of Stampede; Mirror for Futility; Time Stealer) with TMP art newly slapped on the record sleeve. I loved the back cover of the LP, which showed our heroes "boldly going" somewhere.
I also recall having a ST:TMP "Happy Meal" in early 1980...
The ST:TMP scene photos were placed on the covers, it caught my eye as a boy to buy them all in 1979.
Some of the inside comic artwork had them wearing the ST:TMP uniforms and the 1701 refit.
The ST:TMP scene photos were placed on the covers, it caught my eye as a boy to buy them all in 1979.
I still have my original LP with the TMP cover, but it didn't come with a comic; I learned about that only recently.
There's mention of "paying taxes" by the Rybolian representative in "The Logistics of Stampede." I thought the 23rd Century eliminated the need for money.
Here are the front and back covers of that LP:
ST:TMP photo cover and inside had the comic book story based on TMP.
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/peterpan.html
Mark Martinez also lists the TOS "Power" releases and the reprints with TMP cover art on TOS?TAS stories:
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/power.html
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/avreprints.html
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