Well, since I made Leonard Nimoy meeting his younger self, I just had to make a series! Here’s our beloved Deforest Kelley posing with his younger, Dr. McCoy self! Yesterday, (February 20) would have been his 99th birthday! Loved and missed. What a wonderful actor and gentleman!
Posted in Birthdays, Meeting Yourself, My Collages
Tagged Deforest Kelley, Dr. McCoy, Meeting Yourself
Hi Everyone,
Here’s an idea I’ve had for a LONG time and I finally got it to come to fruition. As I’m sure many of you have seen, in the past I have made many silly collages which combine the two best pop culture phenomenons of the 1960’s; Star Trek and The Beatles! You can see my previous ‘Beatle Trek’s’ here.
Anyway, for ages I wanted to recreate the famous Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band except make it with memorable Star Trek Characters. As the centerpiece, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty replace the Fab Four, and I poured over many pictures to find just the right character to fill in for all the originals (and a few more) for this cover.
You’ll note that the Klingons replace the waxworks figures of The Beatles, Mohammed Ali’s robed boxer is replaced with robed Lord Garth from Whom Gods Destroy, glamorous Droxine and Carolyn Palamas take over for Marlene Dietrich and Diana Dors. I’ve added many other characters in positions close to the originals: notice Miranda Jones’ hand behind Kirk, just as Issy Bonn’s hand was behind Paul McCartney’s head in the original! I also have many more women in this version than the Pepper album. But as The Beatles chose their favorite heroes for their album, I chose my favorite characters for this. And of course you will find our dear Celeste Yarnall (Martha Landon in The Apple) in the mix. Although she sadly passed before she could see it, her widower, Nazim assured me she would have enjoyed it. Indeed, I have always found creativity a balm for sorrow, and I recommend creating something yourself, anything with your heart and hands, to help you at your sad times.
You’ll notice that most of these characters are not crew members, as I did a massive collage of as many Enterprise members as I could in the past. I also intentionally posted some characters in black and white instead of color, like on the original. If you look closely, you’ll see Alexander from Plato’s Stepchildren in Shirley Temple’s place and Balok from The Corbomite Maneuver flopped out like the doll in Rolling Stones sweater too! I even used Star Trek plants to replace the flora of the original. And be sure to look out for 4 hidden Spocks (as well as the main one in the center)!
If you can’t identify all the characters, I created a numbered key for the poster below. Enjoy, and please let me know what you think! Thanks, Therese ❤
Posted in Characters, My Collages, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, The Beatles
Tagged Alexander, collage, Edith Keeler, Elaan, homage, Kang, Kirk, Klingons, Koloth, Leila, mccoy, Orions, Ruk, scotty, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Spock, Star Trek TOS, Stella, T'Pau, Talosians, Therese Bohn, Trelane, Tribbles, Uhura, Vulcans, women, Zarabeth
Our fellow scrapper Corylea gently pointed out to me that last Saturday was Bill Shatner’s Birthday! I knew this somewhere in the back of my brain, but I’ve been very busy lately with work and projects. So without further adieu, Happy Belated 83rd Birthday to our sweet Captain Charming! Love ya, Bill! 
(I’ll get your weekly dose of Spock up later today 🙂 )
Posted in Birthdays, My Collages
Tagged 83, belated, Bill Shatner. William Shatner, Birthday
Hey Kids,
Been looking over Beatle pics lately and came across the iconic portrait of John Lennon in a doorway in Hamburg,Germany around 1960, taken by his pal Juergen Vollmer. This photo was later used on Lennon’s 70s compilation, Rock n’ Roll Music. (1975) It reminded me of another picture of Nimoy as a greaser in the 1960 TV episode of Lock Up (The Case of Frank Crotty) –well…it seemed a natural fit, considering that these are two of my favorite people of all time. I bet they would have had a hell of a conversation! Call it an ultimate Beatle/Trek fantasy. Enjoy, Therese
Here’s the original stills:
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri), My Collages, The Beatles
Tagged Germany, John Lennon, Juergen Vollmer, Leonard Nimoy, Lock Up, The Case of Frank Crotty
Hi kids, As you know, I love to create silly collages, and it was a collage I made of the hat Princess Beatrice wore to William and Kate’s wedding that inspired me to make another one for T’Pau on Star Trek, which led to Kirk surrounded by little Bea hats, Tribble-style, which led to multi-purpose usage of the Bea Hat on Star Trek, which led to me thinking “Hey, I can make funny Star Trek comics like this!” and hence the beginnings of StarTreKomics which in turn led to this site! *exhaling* So, without further adieu, here’s some of my non-Star Trek collages! Click on any of the images below to enlarge. (Oh how I love to cut and paste!) Enjoy, and if I make more, you’ll see them here. –Therese
First, my original Bea’s Bonnet collage:
Then a Wizard’ly inspiration:
And from several years back, a failed movie campaign ad for Hello Dolly! I used all original quotes from the movie and turned it from a G-rated family film into an R rated fiasco! (Yes, my mind works in mysterious ways!)
And my latest collage for my column on the Basket of Kisses site: Retro Reel Review:
Posted in My Collages
Tagged hat, Hello Dolly, illustration, princess beatrice, star trek comics, The Wizard of Oz. collage
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