As I've been thinking about this project again, there's some stories that I want to reshuffle due to some linking material. So that's something to work on in the months to come and in order to do that, I had to search out and find the "UESPA Guidebook" that details who's captain of what ship in what story in what era. Thankfully, it wasn't too hard to find, which is a good thing because I don't remember any of the details except what I've posted previously. So for starters, I'm going to post some "non-canon" covers.
The first couple are from a point where I got sidetracked off the original conceit of the project (only using actual episodes) and did several covers for stories that would essentially be prequels to the actual episodes. I did this trying to create a broader "future history" since those were pretty popular in the wake of Asimov's "Foundation". While I'm generally happy with the covers, I stopped that approach and returned to the initial conceit. As book covers go, I think they're authentic looking enough...maybe one day I'll do the spine and back covers.
A book about Colonel Green.
One about Flint
An anthology of tales. Initially I planned on working up to a screen accurate Constitution configuration, but have since preferred the "not quite exactly screen accurate" approach as it's closer to most of the book covers featuring the Enterprise. I do like this cover though. Nice and simple.
My original homage to Lou Feck's cover for "Star Trek 8", probably my favorite piece of Star Trek art ever. I think Lou nailed the essence of Star Trek in that one simple image. His covers captivated me as a kid in the 70's, but the cover for "Star Trek 8" hit on a whole other level. So of course I had to homage it!
Another "ACE Books" edition (I love doing those the most!) using a title to TAS. At this point in the fictional publication timeline, the ships wouldn't look this close to the tv show version so.....(Doc Brown voice) "erased!"
This is an entry for a TrekBBS Art Challenge in 2013. The challenge was to create a "show that never was" or something like that. Mine was a show called "Strange New World" about the inhabitants of a Starbase 11. I don't care for the end result. The idea was to get it "painting like" while also minimizing the differences in lighting, position, etc. from all the characters from various screenshots from various episodes. I love the idea, the execution not so much.
Interestingly enough, a guy on YouTube recently posted the video below which was from a 1959 episode of a show called "Flight" which was not a sci-fi show per se', but a show about things related to flying. The episode was a pilot for a series that was not picked up. It's essentially the 50's version of the fictional Starbase 11 show. It was called "Outpose In Space" and it's about a planetary base on a distant world. The ship FX are pretty decent for the 50's, while the cyclorama used for the planetary background is pretty damn awesome and put's Trek's to shame (aside from the Cage one).
Lot of props from "Forbidden Planet" in this. The base commander and doctor have a Kirk and McCoy relationship..the doctor would later go on to play "Korob" in "Catspaw" The captain on the crashed ship went on to direct "Galileo Seven". And the phrase "I'm givin 'er it all she's got captain" is here too!
Really wish this would've been picked up as it would've been cool to see where they could've taken the concept. Too bad Star Trek seems to be stuck in the "next ship and crew" mode and can't do anything new in their universe.
Man, these posted larger than all my "official" covers.
Anyways, that's it for now.
