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You've got to respect a guy who could scratch-build a 5.5-foot model of the original Enterprise, on short notice, and have it turn out so good for "Trials and Tribble-ations."
Writing as a fan in 1975, Jein came up with NCC numbers for the Enterprise's sister ships, and his numbers were re-published in the Star Trek Concordance (without citation). The franchise officially adopted them starting with Star Trek: Enterprise, which featured the Defiant in a two-parter. Later, the remastered edition of TOS ratified Jein's whole list, as seen in the new CGI fx.
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I'm so glad I had the pleasure and privilege of interviewing him for my book about ST-TMP. Tonight I must re-read his pages, in memoriam. The day we met for our conversation, he happened to have on hand the saucer he had built for just one shot in CE3K, but it's always been my favorite shot in the picture: Dreyfus's p.o.v. from out his truck window of the saucer's underbelly drifting silently overhead. For all the dazzling pyrotechnic color effects in CE3K, that is the shot that haunts me, because it is so real. I'll always treasure the fact that I got to thank Greg for his work creating that image.
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Aug 12, 2022 - 3:50 PM
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dogplant
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The day we met for our conversation, he happened to have on hand the saucer he had built for just one shot in CE3K, but it's always been my favorite shot in the picture: Dreyfus's p.o.v. from out his truck window of the saucer's underbelly drifting silently overhead....
OMG, did you get a photo of that, Preston?
It took me years to work out which of the saucers was featured in that railroad crossing scene, because it's so fleeting and an oblique view. Then the Klastorin "CE3K" book published a layout of all the saucer shapes, and I recognized it instantly, although it was tiny and inverted on the page (see below, flipped and magnified). The same saucer is also seen slowly drifting over Truffaut's head in the shot when Lacombe reaches up toward one of the smaller saucers barnstorming Devil's Tower.
I never had the honor of meeting Greg in person. But I spoke with him on the phone, while I was chasing him for a detail on the "Planet of the Apes" book that I wrote with Jeff for Titan Books. Greg was holding onto the spaceship model from that film, and he was very kind and deferential. A great artist, and a humble man.
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