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Well ... it's in Dolby Stereo ... :cringe:

(My god, that looks sooo bad; it makes the old Flash Gordon serials look impressive)
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DukeofNuke wrote:


Well ... it's in Dolby Stereo ... :cringe:

(My god, that looks sooo bad; it makes the old Flash Gordon serials look impressive)

We know iconic sfi-fi by their famous space ships. The Enterprise, The Millenium Falcon, The Heart of Gold, The Nostromo, Serenity.

Well this movie's iconic spaceship is the Murray Leinster. Now hold your plebeian tongue, unbeliever.
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Frank Frazetta

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ma! aliens in the crawlspace again!
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Is that the bat signal in the background?
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Here's a Boris Vallejo that doesn't have a naked person in it ...

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DukeofNuke wrote: Here's a Boris Vallejo that doesn't have a naked person in it ...

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I know I've read a book that had that as a cover... dammit.

https://webringjustice.wordpress.com/20 ... space-art/

Apparently he did a bunch of Battletech covers back in the '80s, too.

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Is that supposed to be the Discovery without its spinny part?
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dv wrote:
DukeofNuke wrote: Here's a Boris Vallejo that doesn't have a naked person in it ...

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I know I've read a book that had that as a cover... dammit.


sort of resembles ...

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TOS wrote:
dv wrote:
DukeofNuke wrote: Here's a Boris Vallejo that doesn't have a naked person in it ...

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I know I've read a book that had that as a cover... dammit.


sort of resembles ...

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I'm not quite that old. ;)
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dv wrote:
TOS wrote:
dv wrote:
DukeofNuke wrote: Here's a Boris Vallejo that doesn't have a naked person in it ...

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I know I've read a book that had that as a cover... dammit.


sort of resembles ...

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I'm not quite that old. ;)


oh, well in that case feel free to bite me
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Mustapha Mond wrote: Is that supposed to be the Discovery without its spinny part?

I think it's concept art. Maybe?
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looks chesley bonstell-ish to me
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The artist of my previous post is Dean Ellis. I have no more info about it.
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Frank Frazetta art for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, 1978.
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Artist: Bob Larkin

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That’s the wrong Enterprise to be going into a Dyson sphere.
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Warin wrote: That’s the wrong Enterprise to be going into a Dyson sphere.


Everybody timetravels and makes their own trek universe now, but that's supposed to be 70s art.
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Ralph McQuarrie’s sole Atari 2600 art, for the 1982 shooter, Vanguard.

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Had it, loved it.
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The dog spacesuit is cute - even has a tail.

Bowser would charge off into space after a space squirrel.
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Rick Sternbach designed most of the Star Trek universe

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Ask him to explain what happened to the Klingons.

Worf's still not talking.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.

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user wrote: Ask him to explain what happened to the Klingons.

Worf's still not talking.

Dr. Phlox basically pulled a thereifixedit on their genome. I wouldn't want to talk about it either.
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Future Apollo astronauts pilot their way to the lunar surface in Robert Watts concept art for Ryan Aeronautical, 1960s.
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