Vintage and Current Pictures
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Group Photos |
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<<< 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. |
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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. |
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Same
as above, from a now-deleted online video interview of Wah Chang, flipped
to be correctly oriented. (320 x 240) |
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Same
as above, from Inside Star Trek - The Real Story by Robert
Justman and Herb Solow. Photo credit is Bob Burns. (576 x 545) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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.
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The same picture as above, accurately colorized by us. (900 x 1393) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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): |
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The second one was scanned from a Star Trek Photo Club 2002 release. (245 x 420) |
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This
third pic is from a 8x10 glossy. (405 x 782) |
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Another
promotional pic, this time held by Uhura. (521x776) |
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And
this one also held by Uhura believed to be Gamma. From the Star
Trek PhotoClub series. (873x406) |
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An
unusual shot of the underside, in an Assignment:
Earth publicity still. From the Star Trek PhotoClub series. (900x708) |
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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... |
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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. |
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