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Mark 2000 Farinas
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Bay Area artist and animator. Comics, sketches, and articles about Star Trek and Sci-Fi. Co-Host of Ship Full of Jerks podcast.
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The Enterprise crew as bud vases.
Seven three inch tall bud vases colored blue, red, and yellow.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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We also used that lower right concept as the entry lobby to the mall, a large wooded recreation area in the saucer.
Two people walk through a busy lobby. A woman in an orange dress exits a lift. An andorian sits on a bench and reads. Two moms kiss next to their toddler who is engaged with a tablet. Two men, one alien, talk under a potted tree.
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I also drew the kick ass movie poster for it.
Poster for Starship Exeter: The Tressaurian Intersection.
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Here you go!
Andrew Cuomo is dragged down into a subway entrance by thousands of rats and several New Yorkers look on with apathetic curiosity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The planet Venus you say?
Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek in black suits and hats. From the Xfiles episode Jose Chung’s From Outer Space.
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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The other one was called “The Pet Shop” and it later became Roddenberry’s series pilot “Planet Earth” and then later TNG’s “Angel One”.
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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The Lorelei Signal is probably based on one of no less than two femdom synopses in Roddenberry’s 1964 pitch document “Star Trek Is…” called “The Venus Planet”. #tossatnight #tassatnight
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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It's also pointing right behind it's first appearance on a Klingon bridge in "Elaan of Troyius".
A still from "Elaan of Troyius" of the bridge of the Enterprise. The view is from behind the helm console looking at the view screen which shows a Klingon captain against a mesh screen backdrop.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Loosely translated? Lol. It literally says "Go back or die". In English.
A closeup of Doctor M'Benga. The captions read: Loosely translated it means, "Go back or die."
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Honestly? I like it. "Mandel Script", as it's called, is prettier and more refined and looks more like the script Matt Jefferies designed for the D7 livery. And yes, the Klingon emblem is meant to point to the right instead of upward. SNW should adopt that too.
A graph with a pen drawn outline of the Klingon emblem and three letters in Klingon script. The text below it reads "Klingon fleet & emblem". It is signed by Star Trek production designer Matt Jefferies.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Here's something I noticed on my rewatch of "Shuttle to Kenfori". The Klingon transmission ↖️ uses and old fan made alphabet created by Geoffrey Mandel for the "U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual" published in 1980 ↗️ instead of "pIqaD"↙️ which has been the official Klingon alphabet since TMP.↘️
Video transmission on a view screen with Klingon text and emblems. The Klingon alphabet as imagined by Geoffrey Mandel. The heading reads "Klingonese Characters with Terranglo Equivalents. The official Klingon alphabet used in productions since Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: The Next Generation. A screenshot from Star Trek: The Motion Picture featuring a Klingon sailor looking into a targeting scope featuring a trapezoidal bullseye and Klinogn text.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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There is only “reduce transparency” in accessibility which I have on now. That’s “reduced” if you can believe it.
A screen shot of the accessibility section of the iPhone settings in iOS 26. The switch for “reduce transparent” is highlighted in red.
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Here’s the whole photo.
A photo of the outside of Tom’s Restaurant in Upper Manhattan on a sunny afternoon. The view is from across w 112th street on the east side of broadway. A man in brown pants is on the crosswalk.
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Took this pic myself. Tilt shifted the perspective in Photoshop. Luck you, you’re not on OS 26 yet.
A photo of the outside of Tom’s Restaurant in Upper Manhattan on a sunny afternoon. The view is from across w 112th street on the east side of broadway. A man in brown pants is on the crosswalk.
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Hey! No one told me President Roslin was in Sneakers!
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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LOL, I saw this literally while this was playing on the TV.
Samatha from Sex and the City smiles poutily. The caption reads: Who do you all fantasize about? Miranda and Carrie from Sex and the City sit at a table with stemmed glasses and look off whistfully. The caption reads “Russell Crowe”
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Vash is seated coquettishly in the Enterprise D command chair. From the TNG episode “QPid.
October 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Don’t forget the Kenner action figures.
A Dash Rendar figure stands next to a completely out of scale outrider ship.
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Here's a still from the footage OTOY is probably working off of. You can see that the model is an earlier version of the ship than the one OTOY rendered. There's also so much more stuff in the rafters and on the floor. And then there's the guy on the floor physically rotating the model.
A still from unused footage of the WNMHGB Enterprise in a filming studio against a blue background.
October 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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We worry about AI slop muddying the waters, but OTOY's renderings are being passed around as historical photos. Not really their fault, but something to consider while working on these projects. Spent too much time this morning debunking one of their images. #selfappointedexpert #arbiteroftruth
A CG rendering of the 11 foot TOS Enterprise on its filming stand against a blue backdrop. The image was created by Daren Dochterman for OTOY as part of their Roddenberry Vault archiving project. I added the overlaying text that reads "This is a computer generated image created by OTOY. It is not a historical photo. Do not distribute it as such" A silly facebook conversation in which I question the authenticity of a very CG looking picture and several people object with varying degrees of hostility. I prove it is fake with links and screenshots and they go silent because no one says "my bad" anymore.
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Here is the post I was responding to.
A Facebook post featuring a rendering of a the TOS Enterprise casting a shadow on the Enterprise D. The text reads: Living Large in Space The Enterprise-D is larger than the original Enterprise because it was designed for long-range, deep-space exploration, which required more crew facilities and living space to accommodate families. In contrast, the original Enterprise was more of a bare-bones warship designed for a more brutal time, and the Enterprise-D's increased size also enabled greater diplomatic and emergency evacuation capabilities. [From Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), artist unknown.] Best. Mike.
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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TFW Adam Nimoy agrees the original Enterprise was not a warship.
Facebook post that reads: It’s a mistake to call the TOS Enterprise a “Warship”. It was not designed to even have mounted weapons. That’s why they had to transfer ships power down to a cannon in The Cage. It’s also why when they finally decided they needed space weapons in Corbomite Maneuver they never really figured out a consistent spot for them to come out of. The TOS Enterprise is as much an explorer ship as the D, just built with the limitations of the time. As screen shot of a Facebook post’s likes. One of which is Adam Nimoy.
October 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Been watching the Mae Martin show "Wayward" and F me if Alyvia Alyn Lind isn't the spitting image of a young Denise Crosby.
Alyvia Alyn Lind at Wondercon seated in front of a microphone and a bottle of water with her hands interlocked in front of her chin. Tasha Yar drunk off her ass in Troi's quarters in "The Naked Now".
October 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Michelle Phillips, best for her role as Picard’s old flame, Jenice Manheim, in the Star Trek TNG episode “We’ll Always Have Paris” (1988).
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM