ASCII Art Enterprise NCC-1701, c. 1974

Charles Roth, 8 Jan 2011

Sometime in 1973-1974, I attended an early Star Trek convention in New York City, with some friends from Stevens Tech.  I created several different space-related ASCII art images to sell at a huckster booth at that convention, most of which have been lost in the mists of time.

Recently, while digging through old boxes of college-era papers, I discovered a print-out of my masterpiece, a perspective view of the NCC-1701 ("no bloody A, B, C, or D"), and was sufficiently tickled (and nostalgic) that I recreated it from that print (see below).  The original was entirely hand-coded, by painstakingly scaling up a photograph from "The Making of Star Trek".

Of course, in those days, we printed these long-wise down several pages of "greenbar" paper, on 132-column chain-driven printers, and I suspect the aspect ratio has changed slightly since then.  But here it is in all it's original glory, first as an image reduced and rotated to appear horizontally, and then as actual fixed-pitch font text. 

This particular rendition is Copyright (C) 1974 by Charles Roth, all rights reserved.  Star Trek, of course, is copyright by Paramount Pictures, but I believe this particular expression falls within the "fair use" guidelines.  Feel free to print and enjoy for your own personal use.

 

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