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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 18h

I think this may be a new low in clueless AI suggested searches.

Wiee frame spaceships from Elite captioned :32-BIT GRAPHICS? NO THANKS" under which is the suggested search "How to calculate a hyperspace jump?"

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 19h

The Space Shuttle was of course featured on the original NCC-1701.

Decker and Ilia on the Rec Deck in front of the display of ships named Enterprise which include the NASA shuttle

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 05/10/2026

One of my earliest Who memories is being terrified by Evil Harry with a pitchfork; the combination of the friendly face turned sinister and the stabby pronged weapon. #DoctorWho

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 04/10/2026

'Course back in the day they looked like this.

Hardback of Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin with a decayed hooded face dripping lurid blood over a close up of Tom Baker flanked by two Time Lords

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 04/10/2026

The strange Proustian Rush of going to the library and finding hardback editions of familiar Doctor Who books wrapped in plastic jackets with little labels on the spine. (Including an @unamccormack.bsky.social ). #DoctorWho

Hardback Doctor Who books of The Church on Ruby Road by Georgia Cook, Caged by Una McCormack and The Missy Chronicles. All have clear plastic jackets and 'Science Fiction" on a bit of paper wrapped around the spine. Also a paperback of Twice Upon a Time by Paul Cornell

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 04/10/2026

Interesting. Two years before 'The Beast Must Die' did something similar.

Graphic image of Petwr Cushing with a rifle and snarling werewolf fangs.

Amicus THE STUDIO THAT DRIPPED BLOOD

ONE OF THE GUESTS WILL TURN INTO A WEREWOLF.

CAN YOU GUESS WHO IT IS WHEN THE FILM STOPS FOR THE WEREWOLF BREAK!

The Beast Must Die

PETER CUSHING

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 04/10/2026

Mornin'. I'm reading this as an ebook, a tale of spies in a vast, vaguely Victorian fantasy city with a deep history. Not read the author before and I'm loving the writing which is sharp, specific and idiosyncratic in its detail, punctuated by found documents. Like the exact opposite of AI slop.

Wickhills by Premee Mohamed, the cover a fantasia of night-time city architecture in pale blue and yellow, with carved faces, lamps, lead-paned windows and angles.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 03/10/2026

Watching Sandi Toksvig. 14 year old: "That outfit is very BBC Merlin-coded."

Sandi in a terracotta orange top and knotted blue scarf

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 03/10/2026

Wife has been watching old Law & Order: Criminal Intent while she sews. After about seven seasons of Vincent D'Onofrio now suddenly Jeff The Actual Goldblum is in it. I have no idea how they got him but he seems to be having a ball.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 02/10/2026

This week's nails are press-ons. Well, glue-ons. Not tried this before so we'll see how it goes! #nails

My hand with dark cherry coloured acrylic nails

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 01/10/2026

Have seen multiple posts ripping #StrangeNewWorlds for their M'ress mask; a tiny, lovely cameo in the deep background for approx. three seconds. The complainer has literally had to zoom-enhance it in order to moan about how they could do better. This is why we can't have nice things. #StarTrek

A cst person in starfleet uniform stands to rear of frame while Uhura and ithers are in the foreground.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 01/10/2026

They stopped talking as soon as I approached.

A collection of four yellow wet floor signs on a carpeted corporate landing.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 01/10/2026

Going to kick back and relax with some Twelfth Doctor Fanta. #DoctorWho

Fanta can with an anime style character who looks quite Twelfth Doctory

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 30/09/2026

John Fraser is very well cast as Monitor.

The Monitor played by John Fraser, a lean faced man with white hair and goatee on ornate robes.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 29/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car

Lt. Columbo waves from the door of his beat up grey Chevy.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 29/09/2026

Very much remember when this was the typical quality of image we were getting of TNG, like it was some kind of found artefact rather than a cutting edge TV show shot on film. #StarTrek

Blurry, black and white over-exposed image of Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby on the bridge.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 29/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car

William Shatner in Star Trek Captain Kirk outfit sits in a yellow sporty car, hand raised in a wave.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

The interview with Majel Barrett from the same issue. (I did my best with the alt text but had to spread it across the images because of character limits.)

From Hollywood a series of special reports

Reporter Stephen Payne

The Pilot episode for 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' has now been aired in the States. In Britain you can catch a trailer for the video release on the tape of Stallone's Over the Top. Last issue Majel Barratt (the Producer's wife) told us about her part in the series and some of the hopes. This issue she follows up with more background details.

Star Trek has been imitated by other tv shows as well.

MAJEL When Gene first started doing this show I remember we had a bunch of friends that we would go to writers' parties with, an awful lot of them. I remember they got together once, all these writers, very good, excellent writers, Gene said, "You bastards you've taken the only workable plot and story-line for Star Trek" and nothing else works, 'cause he took the wagon-train to the stars, and of course that is the final frontier. They said it good naturedly but they always tried to come up with another science fiction premise that you could do a television series from, there really aren't any.

The editor checks out the new set and was much impressed!

Majel Barrett

I mentioned that the British tv show Doctor Who was perhaps an exception and said also that it was a little wizard. Which promoted

MAJEL I think we've got a little bit more novelty, even the character that I played, there seems to be a lot more humour in this one. I know the first episode that will air has a tremendous amount of humour in it, so we're lightening up some, but the problems are still going to be monumental. The problems will still be there, but they will be dealt with in a very realistic way.

What do you think of the idea of transferring it from film to video tape and putting on some of the special effects?

MAJEL It is cheaper to do that way, there is nothing wrong with it as long as the results come out and as long as you can get that film edited and cut and put together it doesn't matter. They're still filming it on 35mm and it will be cut from the 35mm. It's so easy to have the tape and then throw it away.

Mind you, the same could be said about the old Star Trek because it is constantly being reshown.

MAJEL It is, but everybody's made their own cuts by this time, it's such a chopped up look. The originals just aren't there so somehow or other the newness of it or seeing out on regular video tape, done professionally, seems to be the selling point.

On costumes. We are back to the pyjama look.

MAJEL We'll try something a little bit different each time, costumes, uniforms change from time to time.

Do you think it's a good idea to go through syndication rather than through the network because there are less restrictions?

MAJEL Fabulous. Gene wouldn't have done it the other way. He wouldn't do it. He said "No more of this intervention. That's the reason, I'll do it but only if it's done in syndication, because I will not be dictated to by a bunch of networks". I won't tell you how he said it either! I think the syndication idea is great, especially as we're in over 170 markets which is 94 per cent of the population or the viewing public. I think this is more than is hit by ABC NBC or CBS on a single series. ABC has 30. some stations have taken off two of their prime-time shows and put Star Trekin, and NBC has done the same thing, and so has CBS. I think CBS has done fewer, 17 or so, NBC 24 or so. It's rather fantastic that they're just taking what the network has offered them off and sticking Star Trek in. It's unheard of, but it seems to be catching on too.

Fox TV originally vied for the idea of bringing back Star Trek.

MAJEL They sure did, but the same story went. Gene wouldn't do it.

It was that way round rather than Fox TV changing their minds?

MAJEL It wouldn't have made any difference. As long as somebody else was going to dictate to Gene what was to be done and what was to be talked about and not talked about there was no chance of doing it. So this way it's being done. It's being done right.

Gene got moved slightly sideways when they did the films, so he must be quite pleased being brought back to do that. Was that Paramount's idea that they definitely wanted him back doing Star Trek as such.

MAJEL Oh definitely because he has basically the final say on what does get done and what doesn't get done. I think Paramount knew that it would be much easier to do. I don't know if they would even have thought of going ahead and doing it if he hadn't done it. As far as the movies are concerned, Gene is again the consultant, but he just doesn't want to go further with it. The first movie was a big disappointment to him. It cost such a bandle of money and it wasn't seen on the screen. There were so many things going on at that time that it was all mixed up. He had just had it. It was almost like nervous breakdown time and he didn't want to put himself through that anymore. In turning it over to Harve, who's a highly competent person, a good man to have in there, who really understands Star Trek so much, they made a very very wise choice and wise decision. I hope Harve is happy doing it, certainly everybody else is in having him there.

You mentioned the light-heartedness that has been brought into the series, is that anything to do with the success of the fourth film?

MAJEL Oh no. It wouldn't have anything to do with that. This was inherent to start with because we found that in doing the series before that people seemed to make better contact with each other when they were having a better rapport with each other, when they were having little fun things aside and acting as people do rather than as a regiment.

I think that's the way Gene saw it so he decided to inject this in it and it becomes real, now we are a family. How you inter-relate is very important in this particular one. Of course you are going to have a lot of mirth and a lot of humour to make it real. And it's going to be real, you are going to believe this family is up there in space. I hate to use that because of the space family has been done before but this is a mission type of thing and it is a family.

One of the concerns some of the Star Trek fans have is that all the news that's coming out, they are saying it sounds like Battlestar Galactica and not Star Trek.

MAJEL No, it's not even close to Battlestar Galactica. I'm not exactly sure what their mission was but I would say that Battlestar Galactica came fairly close to trying to get to, in many many instances, to Star Trek. From that point of view perhaps it might be something like it. How would it be the same?

They were saying there was an older captain, they have the families aboard and there is an intelligent child around, all of which is likely to restrict the action.

MAJEL Oh with the child around. But he is not a child, he's a genius child. So he has a function and is not being treated as a child. He is being treated, as the youngest member of the cast, sometimes who is a little underfoot because of his youth. It's not because he acts that way, he acts as a fully-fledged officer and we'll find that much more so as the series goes along.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

It really frustrates me that they don't do it. Though I was surprised in Castrovalva to see a few panels of this type.

Peter Davison looks in a mirror beside which are roundels in a non-hexagonal neat grid

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

Found it! Apparently I kept the issue of Starburst all this time. My very first glimpse of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. #StarTrek

STARBURST Issue 111 with a Freddy Krueger cover and inset images of Robocop and the Enterprise D (captioned "USS Enterprise!"

A Nightmare ON ELM STREET DREAM WARRIORS 3 Freddie Interviewed!

ROBOCOP Smash hit robotic law enforcer!

STAR TREK Search for Spock PLUS The new TV series

And. FROM BEYOND DOCTOR WHO SPACE POLICE WORLDCON

Free Videos LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE And a chance to win a set of Star Trek novels

SCIENCE FICTION

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The back cover image of the Enterprise D in full

Star Trek in 1991!

The new TV series of Star Trek The Next Generation will not be shown on the BBC until 1991. The pilot and selected episodes will be released on video. First will be the two-hour pilot in early 1988 with approximately six tapes a year. They will carry a three-year TV holdback which means the BBC will not be able to screen them until 1991

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

Yes. We did *eventually* get the round things back.

Jodie and Ncuti on the Fifteenth Doctor Tardis set

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

Logopolis itself looks great. It's weird--a place you haven't seen before--but plausible. They tie in the model and the sets very nicely with shapes and colours. Nothing looks particularly real and yet nothing seems jarringly fake. #DoctorWho

The Tardis hovers over a strange pale salmon-coloured landscape made from rows of sandstone broken by deep crevices forming alleyways, with tiny rectangular open doorways visible. Jodrell Bank stands behind it for Reasons.

Figures clad in dark robes walk between rocky walls with rectangular open doorways visible. There is a pale salmon-coloured liggt to the background

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

I love everything about The Watcher. The visuals, the music cue, the sense of mystery and foreboding, the fact that the Doctor understands but never tells us. There's nothing else like it in Doctor Who (perhaps a tiny glimmer in 37 Yards?) and it works so well. #DoctorWho

In a long shot the Watcher stands all in white with a white face on a London bridge

In a long shot the Watcher stands all in white with a white face on a London bridge, seemingly conversing with Tom Baker who gesticulates

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026

Weird but does seem to be in the original art!

Close up (with boob window intact) showing the lizard sword with a strange crested tip

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 27/09/2026

Prior to this (yes I know don't @ me) I watched Castrovalva which also has extensive corridors-with-round-things action.

The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa stride into a Tardis atrium with pillars and round things and a pillar hexagon combo.

The Firth Doctor wearing Tom Baker hand-me-downs looks in a mirror beside which is the Fifth Doctor costume hanging on a cost rack. There are round things.

The Firth Doctor wearing Tom Baker hand-me-downs hunches beside a pillar talking to Adric. In the background: round things.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 27/09/2026

Watching Logoplis. I don’t know why modern Who struggles so much with expanded Tardis interiors. Just make it look like the Tardis! Do the round things! #DoctorWho

The Fourth Doctor and Adric in the Cloister Room. Ivy and round things.

The Fourth Doctor and Adric in a Tardis corridor. Lots of round things.

The Fourth Doctor and Adric in a Tardis corridor next to a door. Lots of round things. Eveen the door has round things.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 27/09/2026

Wife needed a dash to the Garden Centre. Found some sort of terrible pagan cult.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 26/09/2026

It's easy now we've gone word blind to forget how generic and cheesy "The Next Generation" suffix sounded.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 26/09/2026

I like that DuckDuckGo gives me this option for YouTube links.

YouTube

Turn on Duck Player to watch without targeted ads

No Thanks / Turn On Duck Player

Remember my choice

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 26/09/2026

Had a little walk this afternoon. There's something very soothing about a freshly ploughed field.

A ploughed field, the view rolling into the distance towards a low hill

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 25/09/2026

A hint of a smidge of a fox on our Hedgehog Cam last night.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 25/09/2026

However, as for the idea that they actually wore that vest under the First Contact jacket...

Sisko with jacket open and vest underneath

Joey from Friends wearing all his clothes at once

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 24/09/2026

Some Christmas snuck into the house while I wasn't looking.

Gingerbread flavour Kit Kat with snow and Christmaa trees

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 22/09/2026

SHE'S DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN HER PATH

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 21/09/2026

Our little rescue hedgehog is still living in our hedgehog box. Here she is sticking her nose out yesterday evening. #hedgehogs

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 20/09/2026

Afternoon, Womble. I'm reading this imaginative novel with crisp, beautiful prose. It has pulled me in after a difficult first half in which so much could be solved if the protagonists would just communicate. (But grief and revenge are driving things and people are not always rational.)

THE TRIDENT AND THE PEARL by Aarah K L Wilson depicting (I think) a beautiful man wrapping a woman in his smake or octopus coils under water. She holds a Trident.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 19/09/2026

Happy #Batman Day. Batman is extremely boring. I like maybe 1% of Bat Things. But I do love the original Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli.

Gorgeous illustration by David Mazzuccelli of an elevated train, electric wires.

Captions:

January 4

Gotham City.

Maybe it's all I deserve, now.

Maybe it's just my time in Hell.

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