Can anyone identify the Gold Key Star Trek transporter room's visual reference? It's nothing like the TV show version, instead having wide beam projectors on either side and that's not just light coming down, the transporter platform itself is in a glass case with a door in it. Unlike almost everything else in Gold Key Trek, it's drawn consistently from mutiple angles (unlike say the bridge, which never looks the same twice and combines parts of the familiar Enterprise with generic pulp sci-fi control room innards and large machinery with huge levers and whatnot), so they MUST have been using a reference. Does it ring any bells for anyone?

Something a little unusual (and delightful!) in the "Meanwhile, on Twitter..." dep't...

A shout-out to something of "mine" that appears in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard—the Denebian-crewed Federation starship I wrote into the ST:TOS novel My Enemy, My Ally. (And a lot of the people in the comments seem pleased, which is always nice!)

Thanks again to @DaveBlass at ST:Picard for offering me this charming chance to be a little bit involved with something I've enjoyed so much. :)

(ETA on the air-quotes on “mine”— All Star Trek novels are written as “works for hire”; the writer gets paid for their work, but the copyright belongs to CBS/Viacom. I invented Inaieu, and Captain Rihaul, and her crew of very large Denebians [and yeah, those bowl chairs, because what else do you intelligently sit a giant kinda-slug-butted person in?]; but I don’t own them. Trek does. So “mine” is a procedural ambivalence.) 😏

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