This
week at Flashbak, I remembered the Star Trek Postcard Book of 1977.
Here’s
a snippet and the url: (http://flashbak.com/remembering-star-trek-postcard-book-1977-60899/)
“In
1977, Prime Press, a Division of Nostalgia Press, published a Star
Trek Postcard Book, a
large-sized book featuring 48 full-color post-cards from the original series
that were “detachable and ready to use.”
The book sold for just $5.95.
These
“action and portrait photos from TV’s
greatest sci-fi series” were absolutely beautiful, fully-captioned, and each
page of six postcards even featured themes.
One
page, for example was devoted to shots of the U.S.S. Enterprise in space, and
these are remarkable today in part because CGI effects have replaced these
classic model shots in the actual episodes.
There are shots here from the award-winning episode “The Tholian Web,”
for instance.
Another
page offers a selection of Trek’s gorgeous matte-paintings,
featuring imagery of planets Delta Vega (“Where No Man Has Gone Before,”),
Janus VI (“Devil in the Dark”) Starbase 11 (“The Menagerie”), Eminiar VII (“A
Taste of Armageddon”) and the Rigel Fortress (“The Menagerie.”)
A
third page of six post-cards is devoted to Star Trek’s most memorable aliens,
including the Gorn (“Arena,”) the Balok puppet (“The Corbomite Maneuver,”) a
Tellarite (“Journey to Babel,”) The Mugato (“A Private Little War,”) the
Talosians (“The Cage”) and The Vians (“The Empath.”)…”
Please
continue reading at
Flashbak.
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