Vintage & New Pictures


Group Photos
	<<< This meeting of Alpha, Epsilon, and Zeta took place in July 2007. 11 photographs total.
Alpha
	<<< For all recent photographs of Alpha, click on the picture to the left. 43 total.
	<<< Alpha made a visit to Vasquez Rocks in July 2007 for a recreation of the famous "Friday's Child" scene. Here is the full story of that outing.
	From a glossy 4x6 photograph given to Cinefantastique writer William Krewson by Wah Chang himself - note the autograph! It actually came reversed, printed that way right off the negative. Color-matched and scanned at 600 dpi. The left side of the pic with the rest of the arm has been trimmed off as superfluous. The midplate between the hinge wheels seen in screen caps is not present. It is unknown whether this photo was taken before it was installed or after it fell out. Our hunch is the later. The hand holding this has often been thought to be Wah's or his wife Glenna's, but the hairy muscular wrist tells us that neither is so. (2497 x 2320 pixels)
	Same as above, from a now-deleted online video interview of Wah Chang, flipped to be correctly oriented. (320 x 240)
	Same as above, from Inside Star Trek - The Real Story by Robert Justman and Herb Solow. Photo credit is Bob Burns. (576 x 545)
	A different hand position from the same photo session as above. From the book Star Trek Sketchbook - The Original Series by Herbert F. & Yvonne Fern Solow (Pocket Books). Photo credit is Wah Chang. The picture as printed in the book is reversed, but here it is righted. (900 x 640)
	The same photo as immediately above, but cropped and with better resolution, from page 79 in the magazine Cinefantastique Volume 27 Number 11/12 (July 1996). (700 x 904)
	An outtake from the episode Patterns of Force was printed in The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman (Simon & Schuster). Without a hand adjusting the controls, it shows for the only time from the series - at least way up close - the entire control plate (mic grill and both knobs) without obstruction. (Note: In "Friday's Child" the control panel is also shown unobstructed, but the camera is moving away at that moment.) (576 x 654)
Gamma
	We have access to the original photograph that Stephen Whitfield (Poe) used in the book The Making of Star Trek, known to fans as "TMOST" (see 2 items below), taken likely mid-1966. Here it is, scanned at high resolution! The periphery of blank wall that surrounded the comm on the original pic (right >>) has been trimmed away to leave just the good part. (900 x 1393 - opens to a separate full-picture window)
	The same picture as above, accurately colorized by us. (900 x 1393)
	This is the famous pic as it appears in Stephen Whitfield's influential TMOST book. For decades, this shot just as you see it here was the only good image of a communicator we had growing up. As such, it will no doubt remain a sentimental favorite for many. (576 x 790)
	This photo was taken during the same session as the one above and was much later published as an 8X10 glossy as part of the Star Trek PhotoClub series (at right). It is not in as good a light as the one above, nor in as sharp a focus. (1257 x 1600)
	At least three different poses of Kirk and Spock were taken during a promotional photo session in front of the Galileo shuttlecraft. This first shot is from the cover of the 1976 Star Trek Calendar (Ballantine Books): (461 x 782)
	The second one was scanned from a Star Trek Photo Club 2002 release. (245 x 420)
	This third pic is from a 8x10 glossy. (405 x 782)
	Another promotional pic, this time held by Uhura. (521x776)
	And this one also held by Uhura believed to be Gamma. From the Star Trek PhotoClub series. (873x406)
	An unusual shot of the underside, in an Assignment: Earth publicity still. From the Star Trek PhotoClub series. (900x708)
Delta
	<<< For all recent photographs of Delta, click on the picture to the left. 15 total.
	From Inside Star Trek - The Real Story by Robert Justman and Herb Solow. Photo credit is Greg Jein. (231 x 374) - from picture to the right...
Epsilon
	<<< For all recent photographs of Epsilon, pre and post-refurbishment, click on the pic on the left. 31 total.
Zeta
	<<< For all recent photographs of Zeta, click on the picture to the left. 21 total.

Kappa

The vital question has been not which comm this is but whether this unusual picture (which has been up on chat boards for years) shows the real prop - or a forgery. While an item or two seem to be out of place from what we might normally expect, all the necessary unique tells in this pic align spot-on with Wah's work and screen caps of Kappa. It is in fact the real deal; with rock-solid 100% certainty. This picture's source has been given as Lincoln Enterprise, presumably an outtake from an episode unknown. Given what looks like substantial corrosion on the antenna brass and two missing jewels (the right-side Emerald 20ss rhinestone seen in The Omega Glory isn't there), this would most likely be from the third season.

Thanks to the clip's owner John Kious, we have a larger cleaner scan of this image than has been available before.
(980 x 1682)