Pardon me for just getting this up, but I was away this weekend at an exciting event that I’ll tell you all about very soon! Hint: something to do with Star Trek 😉
Sharing a few of my classics! Have a spooky evening!
Pardon me for just getting this up, but I was away this weekend at an exciting event that I’ll tell you all about very soon! Hint: something to do with Star Trek 😉
Sharing a few of my classics! Have a spooky evening!
Posted in Episodes, Holidays, My Star Trek Posters, Star Trek
Tagged Candy, Catspaw, Haloween, I Dream of Jeannie, Kirk
Well Well, Well. Bill Theiss had predicted the future again!! It appears this Instagram starlet, Dixie d’Amelio, wore this sister dress to Sylvia’s gown at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. I have never seen her site, nor ever watch these shows (wait, they still make music videos?) but when I came across this picture online, I had to honor William Ware Theiss’ predictive fashion yet again! Sylvia wins, of course.
Posted in Costumes
Tagged Antoinette Bower, Catspaw, Dixie d'Amelio, MTVVMA, Sylvia, William Ware Theiss
Well, 2020 has been so scary, I’m thinking Halloween won’t be too bad. Alas, we’re not even handing out candy this year 😦 But I hope you’re enjoying the holiday in your own special way, and I wouldn’t mind joining THIS little party!
Posted in Holidays
Tagged Cat, Catspaw, Flintstones, Happy Halloween, Jeannie, Kirk, Pride and Predjudice, Rand, scotty, Spock, Star Trek, Uhura
Note: Caturday with Spock will be back next week 🙂 In the meantime…
You might have noticed ads or images from the new Facebook App called FaceApp. This App was created a few years ago, but recently got a new boost with images featuring famous TV and movie characters. I bet a lot of you saw these of our TOS pals. The big fun is switching sexes of famous characters or making them old!
Well I couldn’t resist, and I put the app on my phone then played with a WHOLE mess of images from TOS! I gotta say, sometimes it’s astonishing how great some of our friends look here as the opposite sex – especially Bill Shatner, who said of one of his doctored images “I’d do me!” Enjoy!
Let’s start with gender-switching:
I gotta say, Bill has a great face for drag!
How about some guest stars?
Okay, enough gender-swaps! Another feature is playing with facial hair and aging, and some of the results were quite surprising!
Somehow I couldn’t get enough of the beard application…
And now some nerdy college professor types…
Then when we get into Aging, whoa!
FaceApp made a pretty good estimate of the real aged Spock too!
Well, I think I freaked you our enough today…One thing is for sure. We are all beautiful in our own way, male, female, young, old, nerdy, cool, and so on. We are more than what makes up our shell. May you find your way as pleasant! Happy Fourth of July, please stay safe and healthy!
Posted in Fun and Silliness, Star Trek
Tagged A Private Little War, Apollo, beard, Breck Girl, Catspaw, Chekov, David Hasslehoff, Dr Severin, FaceApp, genderswap, George Takei, glasses, Kirk, Korob, Kyle, mccoy, Michael Forest, Nona, Patterns of Force, Spock, Star Trek, Star Trek Continues, Sulu, Sylvia, The Squire of Gothos, The Way to Eden, Trelane, Tyree, Walter Koenig, Who Mourns for Adonais?, young and old
It’s 10:48 p.m. EDT as I write this so there’s still time to say Happy Halloween! Hope you’re having (had) a fun day! I had a very busy one, that’s why I’m so late! Here the classic I’ve posted for a few years now; next year I should have a new one! Enjoy! -Therese
Posted in Holidays
Tagged Catspaw, Fred Flintstone, Halloween, Jeannie, Pride and Predjudice, Spock. black cat, Star Trek, Yeoman Rand
Here’s a few more of those rare Trek stills from dealer exliv on eBay I found. he’s offering the original negatives along with prints! These are from Catspaw and Spock’s Brain
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged caftan, Catspaw, Kirk, Korob, production pictures, Rare, Spock's Brain, Star Trek, Sylvia
Lately I’ve been reacquainting myself with the animated Star Trek series (TAS -1973-4). I remember being a 12-year old and excited that my favorite show was being brought back (at least in animation) and that maybe the Enterprise could finally finish its five year mission! For the most part, it was pretty good, I only wished I had a color TV to watch it on! Anyway, recently I’ve seen a few episodes on Netflix and it really seemed all new to me again, as I hadn’t since the early 70’s. I was taken by the lovely backgrounds and the simple, but accurate way the animation captured the faces and subtle nuances of the original actors. (Can a cartoon male be handsome? You bet!). But something that also stood out for me was how the series often mimicked the original (TOS) in angles and style; the creators at Filmation clearly did their homework as you’ll see in these examples. Lets’ start with some opening Enterprise shots. The makers of the series did a beautiful job recreating the ship. There’s much more detail in the orbital images than the character scenes, but it’s lovely. Rotoscoping anyone?
But wait, there’s more. There were several detail and character scenes that were clearly influenced by the original (if sometimes with subtlety):
In Once Upon a Planet, the Enterprise crew visits the amusement park planet again as they did in Shore Leave – so of course Alice and the White Rabbit are there, but then there’s a clear reference to Catspaw, when a giant cat menaces the crew from a doorway:
Another revisited character was Harry Mudd – this time in Mudd’s Passion, peddling love potion to Nurse Chapel in her eternal quest for Spock’s affections. Here, he offers her pills, just as he did to his ‘cargo’ in Mudd’s Women:
Finally, this one surprised me the most: In Albatross, Nurse Chapel checks on sleeping patient Kol-Tai in practically the same angle she checks in on a sleeping Spock in Amok Time!
Well, this was a fun visit to the Saturday morning cartoons of my youth (modern kids don’t know what they were missing!) If anyone here knows of any more similarities between TAS and TOS, let me know! I’ll post them!
Next Time: The Backdrops of TAS.
Posted in Star Trek 50, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek:The Animated Series (TAS)
Tagged Albatross, Alice, Amok Time, Catspaw, Kol-Tai, Lara, Magna, More Tribbles More Troubles, Mudd's Women, Mudds Passion, Nurse Chapel, Once Upon a Planet, rotoscope, Shore Leave, Sirah, Spock, Star Trek 50, Star Trek The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Original Series, The Counter-Clock Incident, The Enterprise, The Jihad, The Naked Time, The Trouble With Tribbles, Tribbles, Zora
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