Star Trek Sketchbook - scans

[rflowers]

I bought a book called "Star Trek Sketchbook" from the bargain bin a while back. It's full of costumes, set pieces, and sketches by Matt Jefferies. I thought the folks here would like to look at a few of the pictures inside. (These are scanned on a flat-bed while I compress the book down, so there is some warpage.)

These first two pictures are of an actual miniature set. I think this was a scale model of the actual set of the Enterprise.

[rflowers]

Here are some sketches for ship design.

Not at all familiar:


Getting closer; note the Klingon influence!


Almost there!

[Falconer]

Very cool. Thanks! It would really be nice to have a “map” of just the rooms used in the show, as opposed to full blueprints of the entire ship.

[coffee]

That first one was indeed the set from Star Trek -- the plan was included in the Whitfield book, "The Making of Star Trek". It was hard to read, being spread across two pages, but I studied the hell out of that thing back when I was in high school.

I don't see Engineering, though, so I'm guessing it was an earlier set design.

[rflowers]

Jan 20, 2010 23:18:10 GMT -5 coffee said:

That first one was indeed the set from Star Trek -- the plan was included in the Whitfield book, "The Making of Star Trek". It was hard to read, being spread across two pages, but I studied the hell out of that thing back when I was in high school.

I don't see Engineering, though, so I'm guessing it was an earlier set design.

I think Engineering can be found in the top picture, upper left hand corner of the set/picture. I'll try to find a more revealing pic to scan tomorrow.

[coffee]

You're right, that's sort of Engineering.

As I understand it, they started with a smallish set for Engineering, but realized it wouldn't do, so they made the much larger (and multi-level) Engineering set we all know and love. This looks like the earlier Engineering set (which became the "Emergency Manual Monitor".)

(Wow, all my old Trek trivia is still there! Even though I haven't used it in decades!)

[Alex]

Jan 20, 2010 20:35:58 GMT -5 rflowers said:

Here are some sketches for ship design.

Getting closer; note the Klingon influence!

Actually, what you should have noted is that if you cut the neck and primary hull away in this drawing YOU HAVE A ROMULAN BIRD OF PREY!

I find it really cool too that even before the first episode aired when Matt was drawing up these sketches that we saw the future 25 years away and didn't know it. Last sketch of 17th cruiser design has the note "Serial No1 = 1701 / First modernize or modification 1701A". It also finally gives us the origin of the magical registry 1701 (17th attempt to design the ship, 1st ship produced from that design). It was only later to save money that they reordered the decals instead of making new ones that gave us the weird registries seen in TOS.

[finarvyn]

I don't think I have this book, but some of the illustrations look familar so they must have been reprinted somewhere.

Thanks for sharing this!

[Falconer]

Is this what you’re talking about, or is it something different?

[Grendelwulf]

Here is a link to the Stage 9 blueprints.

I always wanted to build a diorama like the one pictured.

Ciao!
Grendelwulf

[Falconer]

Wow, that is really great. Thanks!

[coffee]

Okay, yeah, that's what I thought. I can see engineering now.

But what I'm wondering is, what's that extra room between the bridge and the briefing room? That's not on the blueprint.

Not a very big room, is it?

[aramis]

The one to the right? That's the "chapel"... it's used in a few episodes.