Dropping today as a co-release from Bottleneck Gallery and Vice Press, this Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture print is a good reminder that few artists ever painted spacecraft the way John Berkey did. The Enterprise dominates the sheet at a steep diagonal, its saucer filling most of the image as if the ship has just banked past the viewer, with the nacelles and secondary hull trailing behind in cooler blues and silvers. Berkey gives the surface real weight and scale through tiny windows, panel lines, and pinprick lights, while the surrounding space stays mostly black, broken by a sparse field of stars, a few distant planets, and a hazy burst of color low in the composition. Above the ship, the title sits small against the dark, and below it the familiar row of cast portraits and the “A 23rd Century Odyssey Now” tagline keep the piece rooted in its original one-sheet design. It’s teaser artwork, but it hardly feels slight. For Star Trek fans, and especially anyone who likes their movie art built around the machinery and grandeur of classic science fiction, this is a very strong revisit of the film’s original visual identity. As with most of the Vice Press releases, Matt Ferguson has stepped in to remaster this fantastic artwork and it really looks good. These will be available in lithograph, lenticular and acrylic panel prints when they go on sale on both the Vice Press (1PM ET) and BNG (12PM ET) sites today.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture – 1978 Teaser by John Berkey
24″ x 36″; 16″ x 24″ Lithograph / 3D Lenticular / Acrylic Panel Print
- Regular: $55 – edition of 500
- Art Print: $65 – edition of 300
- 3D Lenticular (24″ x 36″): $200 – edition of 50
- 3D Lenticular (16″ x 24″): $85 – edition of 75
- Acrylic Panel Print: $125 – edition of 50
