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M'Ress from the 1973 animated adaptation of Star Trek released by Filmation. This was a commissioned piece I made to Paul S. Gibbs in 1997. He was an aspiring writer who, after having his manuscripts declined by Pocket Books, vhose to set up a website so anybody interested could read them free of charge.

I discovered his site, simply titled "Two Star Trek Novels", in August '97. To be honest, I expected to read some outright "drek", but I sat in stunned awe when I completed the first of the two manuscripts. I contacted Gibbs via the e-mail link he provided which started a pen-pal friendship that lasted four years until his untimely death.

So taken by his work I offered my services to create a front page portrait that might help encourage the casual web serfer into downloading the text. Paul asked if I would depict the Caitain officer in the uniform style debuted in "The wrath of Khan" since his story took place several years after the events of the first motion picture. He also wanted something that might suggest her change in specialty, leaving communications for archeology. Oddly enough, I had just the thing, an image from a CD 0f clipart released by Corel, an image of an advanced city fallen into ruins. It looked like something from the animated feature "Heavy Metal". Paul loved it, but he was torn. He also had a more whimsical portrait drawn by the very talented Ken Singshow and he didn't want to offend either of us by featuring one more prominant than the other. I can't remember what he decided.

Well, this image has gathered virtual "dust" for ages, but recently a friend named Mapper has urged me to place this and other pieces upon Deviant Art where they might get more exposure. Eh, why not? It's "fan art" so I can't lay claim to the inspirational property anyway.

Sincerely,

Bill

Description
M'Ress from the 1973 animated adaptation of Star Trek released by Filmation. This was a commissioned piece I made to Paul S. Gibbs in 1997. He was an aspiring writer who, after having his manuscripts declined by Pocket Books, vhose to set up a website so anybody interested could read them free of charge.

I discovered his site, simply titled "Two Star Trek Novels", in August '97. To be honest, I expected to read some outright "drek", but I sat in stunned awe when I completed the first of the two manuscripts. I contacted Gibbs via the e-mail link he provided which started a pen-pal friendship that lasted four years until his untimely death.

So taken by his work I offered my services to create a front page portrait that might help encourage the casual web serfer into downloading the text. Paul asked if I would depict the Caitain officer in the uniform style debuted in "The wrath of Khan" since his story took place several years after the events of the first motion picture. He also wanted something that might suggest her change in specialty, leaving communications for archeology. Oddly enough, I had just the thing, an image from a CD 0f clipart released by Corel, an image of an advanced city fallen into ruins. It looked like something from the animated feature "Heavy Metal". Paul loved it, but he was torn. He also had a more whimsical portrait drawn by the very talented Ken Singshow and he didn't want to offend either of us by featuring one more prominant than the other. I can't remember what he decided.

Well, this image has gathered virtual "dust" for ages, but recently a friend named Mapper has urged me to place this and other pieces upon Deviant Art where they might get more exposure. Eh, why not? It's "fan art" so I can't lay claim to the inspirational property anyway.

Sincerely,

Bill