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For decades, Star Trek productions have relied on physical matte paintings, many of which have become iconic. A new article shows Notable Matte Paintings in Classic Star Trek and how they were used and re-used on screen. It places special focus on the contributions of Albert Whitlock, Syd Dutton and Robert Stromberg, artists whose original pieces appeared in Heritage Auctions between 2019 and 2021. Tell me in the comments which is your favorite!

Less than two months to go. Everything is ready at EAS for recaps and reviews of Strange New Worlds season 4, which will begin with "Valles Marineris" on July 23.

I originally just wanted to to untangle the investigations related to uniforms and inisgnias. But I went the whole way and created three practically new articles. The Changing Styles of Starfleet Uniforms keeps track of the many changes and the resulting problems. Starfleet Uniform & Rank Issues looks at mismatched insignias, odd uniform choices and bloopers like missing rank pips. The Starfleet Delta Symbol (this is the most extensive one in many years!) is about the evolution of the insignia and whether it used to represent only the Enterprise or the whole fleet. Bear with me, the last article is far from complete.

I've added a lightweight image modal to all static EAS pages. You can now browse images in a clean overlay and navigate with mouse clicks, keyboard arrows or swipe gestures. And if you like things the old-fashioned way, CTRL-click still opens the plain URL in a new tab. It's intentional that the modal loads with a short delay, so it doesn't work when you click immediately after the page appears. As always - please don't hesitate to report problems to me.