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What is this painting on the Enterprise showing?
Here's a better capture of the context from "The Best of Both Worlds Pt I". In the capture, Riker is presenting the quarters to Shelby for the first time.
PICARD: Number One, why don't you ...
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What franchises are these weapons from?
1) Thundercats (Lion-O's Sword of Omens)
2) Zelda (Link's Master Sword)
3) Final Fantasy (Buster Sword)
4) Star Wars (Jedi lightsaber)
5) He-Man (He-Man's sword from Hasbro toys / Filmation ...
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Is the painting at Lex Luthor's office real?
Created by the film's art director from historical sources (according to a Reddit user who contacted him)
I've actually been searching for several days now for the name and/or origins of this ...
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Is the cover art on this faux paperback graphic "The Omicron Variant" on Seth Meyers' "A Closer Look" borrowed from a real SciFi novel's cover?
It appears to be an artwork by graphic artist Tithi Luadthong. It was used as the cover for this obscure Italian science fiction e-book novel: I tre stati dell'acqua [The Three States of Water] by ...
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Is the cover art on this faux paperback graphic "The Omicron Variant" on Seth Meyers' "A Closer Look" borrowed from a real SciFi novel's cover?
Seems like a stock image as seen here; the title is “spaceman standing on the futuristic stairs and looking at the light at the end, digital art style, illustration painting”
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Vintage book cover showing humanoid astronauts in upper body EVA suits but a "pod" or "monopant" lower half?
This is the type of suit described in "Islands in the Sky", a novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Published in 1952, I guess this counts as "vintage" sci-fi. Similarly to the remarks given ...
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Where is this painting from the Enterprise now?
The painting is a reproduction. The original was sold at a convention before TNG aired.
I found this out by asking Rick Sternbach directly, via his professional web site.
In my email to him:
I'm ...
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To whom does each of these lightsabers belong?
Darth Maul (Ep. I)
Qui Gon (Ep. I)
Obi Wan's first (Ep. I) or second (Ep. II)1
Count Dooku (Ep. I-III)
Anakin's first (Ep. II)
Mace Windu (Ep. I-III)
Yoda (Ep. I-III)
Palpatine's gold (Ep. III)
Anakin'...
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Short story about two astronauts exploring an art museum on an abandoned planet
Let me quote my (unaccepted) answer to an old question, which I think was asking about the same story:
You may be thinking of "Environment", a 1944 short story by Chester S. Geier, first ...
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What does the cover art of Cursed Child mean?
The wings and nest are those of the Augurey, a creature with which one of the main characters (Delphini Diggory) feels a great affinity, even to the point of using the name as her alter ego and having ...
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What are the names of all the sci-fi vessels in this artwork?
This is a community wiki answer, so feel free to add to it or make corrections.
From the website that is selling the poster:
Presenting iam8bit's Space Worlds Map, a painstakingly researched poster ...
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Does anyone know who created or where this He-Man and Battlecat image came from?
This appears to be by the Deviant Art user nebezial. Whilst I can't be sure, it was published 14/03/2009 which is roughly when the new film was first rumoured to be in production as far as I can tell. ...
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Floating transparent sphere beaming something into a crater? (Space Force! theme song video)
Yes, it is from the Starman (1984) movie staring Jeff Bridges as the Starman.
Here is a short YouTube Clip showing the Mirrored globe (his rescue spaceship) above the crater, picking up the Starman.
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Trying to find old short story about mysterious picture drawing device
I am trying to find a story I read once,
You're looking for "Thing of Beauty", a novelette by Damon Knight, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958, which is available ...
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1970's or 1980's "photobook" of alien worlds
It's possible this could be one of the Terran Trade Authority books. The publishing dates coincide with your period of ownership. They consist of one page being a full colour illustration, usually of ...
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What is the empty box for on this comic cover?
This is the publisher’s information, appearing in its initial monthly print, but typically omitted from collected reprints.
You can see an example of the populated version from Lucifer #17, which was ...
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Who drew this depiction of Morpheus (from "The Sandman")?
The artist is the German artist Lukas Frese.
Neil Gaiman himself posted the same question so I stumbled over this feed. Quite the lesson on how quickly images can get robbed and spread over the ...
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Does Conquest's album "Frozen Sky" reference the "Forgotten Realms" books?
The image in question contains two cropped and heavily re-coloured pictures composited together; 'Red Wizard' by Fred Fields and 'Tower' by Ciruelo Cabral
I've found a copy of the exterior of the CD ...
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Who designed the original Autobot and Decepticon logos?
I, Wayne Molinare was the original designer of the Transformer Logo, Autobot and Deception Icons, and Packaging for Hasbro.
At the time I was an Art Director at Coleman, Lipuma, Segal & Morrill (...
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Star Trek TNG: Season 5, Episode 2, Darmok: Brass Solar System Artwork
The piece in question is called 'Atomic Galaxy wall-hanging sculpture', an original artwork by C Jeré that was recently auctioned. You can see the signature in the closeup.
It might interest you to ...
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What events, characters, or settings are shown on this album cover?
It is possible to make some sense of this, enough for an answer to be attempted, after magnifying and pulling together some ideas from the comments.
At least everyone will agree that's the One Ring in ...
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Can anyone identify this reposted artwork of a Grey alien?
I think I've finally managed to identify this, thanks to the wayback machine crawl that was posted earlier.
This is 'Anatomy of a Sky Creature' by British artist Rod Dickinson, but edited to be in ...
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Seeking name credits for pulp SF artists
DIEHL - illo for "Bolden's Pets" by Floyd L. Wallace, appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1955 [available at the Internet Archive].
The ISFDB does not know his full name; it lists ...
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Who drew this depiction of Morpheus (from "The Sandman")?
Edit: Was a blind alley
This appears to be a vector graphics work by deviantart member A-Scream: http://a-scream.deviantart.com/art/Sandman-Vector-463110397
"One of my first works in Adobe ...
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Why did Charlie Adlard replace Tony Moore?
Moore had trouble with deadlines
According to an interview with Kirkman:
Q: You and artist Tony Moore are longtime friends and collaborators. You
created The Walking Dead comic together. What ...
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Help identifying a horror illustration
I found the piece I was looking for! Not only that, but I found the book it was from (and found the book where it was on the cover). The artist was Bernie Wrightson, who was a very famous artist of ...
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Was the painting “In the Ring of Saturn” by artist Andrei Sokolov used as a book cover?
The ISFDb page for Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov (Андрей Константинович Соколов) does not list "In the Ring of Saturn" as one of the works that have been published as cover art.
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Why are there two completely different depictions of the Nazgûl and their flying mounts in the cartoon version of The Return of the King?
I don’t know why the animation does this, but the second character design seems pretty accurate to me, to how they are described when Frodo is wearing The One Ring. (For the Nazgûl themselves, the ...
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What is the sculpture in Kirk’s Quarters — Star Trek VI
It's a statue of a child (probably a boy) riding a dolphin. Young people riding on dolphins are a common motif in statuary—although probably more commonly outdoor statuary, where they are often part ...
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Did Tolkien paint or sketch any artwork for the scrapped sequel to LOTR: 'The New Shadow'?
I've been searching the web for this over the past week but all I could find was just a conclusion.
First, let's see this. I'm pretty sure you know about this quote.
“I did begin a story ...
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