Of course, Star Trek did not make its debut until September 8, 1966, but Leonard Nimoy has been playing Mr. Spock since filming the pilot of The Cage in 1964!
Leonard, Congratulations on embodying and evolving such a charming, cool, lovable, and enduring character for all these years. The world is a happier place because of Mr. Spock! Spock will endure forever. Thank you, and may you and he truly Live Long and Prosper! 😀
This is sweet — Old School Trek by R.C. Young, I love all the expressions!
I think Uhura is ready to swat you with her earpiece, and Kirk is just so full of himself! The postures and facial expressions are perfect!
This uses the reboot version of our crew, but I think it’s pretty clever! “Moose!” by artist silveraaki
One of my favorites here is #9 !
From her description:
1. “I can so whoop your ass at fencing” – spawned from doodling with my friend in Calculus. We come up with weeeird stuff. >_<
2. Jim: “No.”
Bones: “You want shore leave or not”
3. “MOOSE!!” – I…….don’t know…
4. “The hell is this?” – Oh the decrepit pink, horned, dog…thing from the TOS series….yay 60’s
5. ZOMG!! Scotty! I don’t draw you enough, my friend.
6. There’s gonna be a tribble in every single one of these things. I swear.
7. *gigglesnort* Spock got shrink-ed!
8. “Dammit, Jim!” – If you can’t guess that would be Bones. I originally drew this with good ole Crayola crayons on a massive sheet of butcher paper! Fun times…
9. Okay, follow the lines…
Kirk: “Spock?”
Bones: “Jim…”
Kirk: “Bones! Spoooooock?”
Spock: “Jim.”
Randomness!
10. Kirk: “Oooooooo”
Bones: “Yeah, I can’t do that with my arms”
Inspired from the epicness that is 
‘s picture here. Please, go look at it, especially if you love Star Trek and Charlie the Unicorn…..’cause the combination of those two just makes your head asplode. It’s true.
11. OMFG! I lurve this one XD
12. Kirk: “I’m gonna regret that later in life aren’t I?”
Spock: “There is a 98.43% chance of that being correct.”
Thar ya go, guys. More randomness from my notes. Drawing these characters never gets old…
Found another one! It’s Drums of Africa (1963), an exciting tale of love and slavery in the darkest continent! that is, A teen dream musical with Frankie Avalon! What I mean to say is, it’s marvelous really a marvelous piece of crap!
Let’s see…A guy goes to Africa in the 1910’s to survey a railroad site for his boss, brings along his boss’s lightweight teen son and goes on safari, employing ‘the best guide in Africa’ and falling for the lovely young missionary woman who works with the guide. Unfortunately, there are greedy slavers loose in the jungle, and his lady love is their main target! Sounds exciting right? Well…
Here’s our hero, David Moore (Lloyd Bochner, right) and teen-sidekick-that-he-didn’t-want-to-bring-along Brian Ferrers (Frankie Avalon) seeking out their guide. 
With all this nice manliness on screen, the film inexplicably gives viewers a major beefcake valentine of…Marplon! (Torin Thatcher as Jack Cuortemayn ) 
(Okay, Sorry about that — I better cleanse your memory palate here…)
Much better.
Anyway, Marplon spends the rest of the movie proving his virility to the other two guys by insisting on keeping his shirt unbuttoned…
And on the way out of his office, who should come screaming out of the jungle and into the arms of our hero but Zarabeth.(Mariette Hartley as Ruth Knight)
She’s being chased by slavers who find her pure whiteness a perfect target for their evil trade. Zarabeth’s Ruth’s fresh faced beauty has the three men gaga for her and pitching woo. Of course for Frankie, that means–
Aaaaugggh! And what a sappy number it is (The River Love)
This was a step down for Hartley’s career. She had recently finished the brilliant Ride the High Country and compared this job to going from president to janitor in two days. Of course she’s virginal and sweet here, and has been too busy in her young life to know love. In one of queasiest moments of dialogue, Marlpon confides in Zarabeth that the only problem with their relationship is that they’re friends. Ugh! 
But Zarabeth isn’t into a May-December with Marplon, or a December-May with Frankie, and despite the awesome gorgeousness of Marplon’s man-servant Kasongo (Hari Rhodes)…
See?
…she can’t help but find herself attracted to bland white bread David (no surprise there). But first she has to do an obligatory Dove soap commercial… 
He meets her after she’s squeaky clean, of course, compares trunks with a baby elephant, and she admits that his kiss ‘brought her world alive!” Please. Little does she realize that years later, her lover will change his name to Cecil Colby and die while copulating with Edith Keeler (In her Alexis Karrington years) on Dynasty! But that’s another post…
After much inter-cut animal action from King Soloman’s Mines, the pair live happily ever after in the jungle. Did the railroad come through? Did Marplon ever button his shirt? Did Frankie find Annette? Can’t remember, think I fell asleep… All in all 2 stars our of 5.
Posted in Hey! That Guy was on Star Trek!
Tagged Alexis Karrington, All Our Yesterdays, Catlow, Dynasty, Edith Keeker, Frankie Avalon, Joan Collins, Leonard Nimoy shirtless, Lloyd Bochner, Mariette Hartley, Marplon, Miller, Return of the Archons, Star Trek, The City On the Edge of Forever, The River Love, Torin Thatcher, Zarabeth
Here’s this week Fan Art, ‘Sploc” by Rodrigo Xavier (FrozenHRT on DeviantArt) Love it! I bet Mirror Spock wouldn’t chew bubblegum! More please!
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri)
Tagged Deviantart, FrozenHRT, Leonard Nimoy, Rodrigo Xavier, Sploc, Spock, Star Trek
Hey Kids,
Here’s the next in my series of familiar faces you may recall from Star Trek in some of their other ventures. This time, Bible epics! This past week saw lots of Easter-themed movies on TV, and Trek extras were all over these.
First and foremost: King of Kings (1961) which starred Captain Pike himself, Jeffrey Hunter, as The Christ. Hollywood always picks a beautiful man to play the Savior, and Jeff was one of the most beautiful! The camera loves his sky blue eyes. Yet this Jesus must be highly fastidious, as he apparently shaves his armpits! Alas, despite his remarkable easiness on the eyes, Hunter’s Jesus just isn’t as passionate as I hoped he’d be, and comes off a little dull. He needs a phaser rifle or something…
Then, in another great epic made just a few years later, you can’t swing a dead tribble without hitting someone who guest-starred on Star Trek; it’s The Greatest Story Ever told (1965) which starred Max Von Sydow as Jesus, and a cast of thousands that boasted at least a dozen cameos of A-list stars of the time (Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, John Wayne,Donald Pleasance, Ed Wynn, Roddy McDowall, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy McGuire) and a host of actors who would become famous for their TV Roles (Telly Savalas, Martin Landau, and David McCallum). …Greatest Story was far superior to King of Kings, and it’s one of my favorite tellings of the passion of Christ*. But get a load of how many familiar faces you’ll see here:
First, one of the three kings is…Sarek!
Mark Lenard as Balthazaar and Sarek.
2) Advisor Aben to Herod is…Ayelborne!
John Abbott as Aben and Ayelborne.
3) An old man who holds Jesus’ hands at the temple is..Dr. Robert Johnson!
Felix Locher as Old Man and Dr. Robert Johnson
4) One of Herod’s Centurions is…Kang!
Michael Ansara as Centurion and Kang.
5) Another Centurion is…the Klingon Lieutenant from Errand of Mercy!
Victor Ludin as Centurion and Klingon Lieutenant.
6) Alexander, an informant of the Sanhedrin is…. Commissioner Ferris!
John Crawford as Alexander and Commissioner Ferris.
7) The sad woman a the gate watching the trial of Jesus is… T’Pau!
Celia Lovsky as Woman at Gate and T’Pau.
8) An old man who defends Jesus is also a survivor of Talos IV!…
Leonard Mundie as Jesus defender and Talos IV survivor.
9) Joseph of Arimathea is…The Thasian from Charlie X
Abraham Sofaer as Joseph of Arimathea and Thasian
*my favorite version of The Passion is 1978’s Jesus of Nazareth
10) And finally, a shout out to David McCallum, who plays Judas here. Of course McCallum is famously known as Ilia Kuriakin from The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and Ducky on NCIS, and yeah, he was (sadly) never on Trek, but he is within one degree of Star Trek by being married at the time to Jill Ireland, who played Leila in This Side of Paradise! (And both Nimoy and Shatner appeared together in one episode of U.N.C.L.E.!) So here’s some McCallum for all you fangirls – He’s so beautiful here; what a fine young man.
David McCallum as Judas (*Sigh!*)
Posted in Hey! That Guy was on Star Trek!
Tagged Aben, Abraham Sofaer, Balthazaar, Captain Pike, Celia Lovsky, Centurian, Commissioner Ferris, David McCallum, Errand of Mercy, Felix Locher, Jeffrey Hunter, Jesus, John Abbott, John Crawford, Joseph of Arimathea, King of Kings, Leonard Mundie, Leonard Nimoy, Man from UNCLE, Mark Lenard, Michael Ansara, Star Trek, Thasian, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Victor Lundin, WIlliam Shatner
Here’s this week’s official Fan Art Friday — This is such a phenomenal piece I couldn’t wait to share it with you —
From professional comic book artists Jerome K. Moore and Jason Palmer, this is the cover of a Star Trek DC comic. Unfortunately I don’t know the title or year of this issue. The story casts the original Enterprise crew into a sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers scenario. Now I really want to find this comic!
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri)
Tagged DC Comics, Jason Palmer, Jerome K. Moore, Pod, Spock, Star Trek
One aspect of the Original Series production design that always intrigued me was the use of openwork grids as dividers in crew quarters, engineering, and other areas on the Enterprise and sometimes on planets. The honeycomb grids were often repainted in different colors and used wherever needed. They were definitely reflective of mid-century style, which was probably considered most futuristic. Yet somehow, as industrial as the grids looked, I somehow found them strangely cozy; maybe it was the way they were lit or especially the way their shadows fell on the characters at stealthy or dramatic moments.
All the grid-work inspired me to manipulate screen caps into this little collage, along with some other fancy openwork panel dividers that set the mood! If you zoom in on this, you can see some of the characters. 🙂
This is totally adorable! A fun whimsical piece by Bolkonsky on DeviantArt I appreciate that she acknowledged that New Kirk and McCoy have totally different eye colors than the original! (Really, I wish they gave New Kirk and McCoy color contacts!) But this is really sweet; Love how Uhuras are singing and Scotties are swigging! You can order products with this design too. http://society6.com/bolkonsky/You-Seem-Familiar_Print#1=45
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri)
Tagged 2009 crew, Boronsky, Deviantart, Star Trek, TOS Crew
Here’s a great piece by Stumpaa on DeviantArt –A little something to remind Kirk that there is no “I” in Team! Almost mystic, yes? I love how Uhura is playing peek-a boo.
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri)
Tagged art, Chekov, Deviant Art, Kirk, mccoy, scotty, Spock, Star Trek, Stumpaa, Sulu, The Best of the Enterprise, Uhura
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