V'Ger Conceptual Art

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount, 1979), V'Ger Concept Art. Vintage original group of (3) concept sketches including accomplished in ink, all on 11" x 14" leaf pages. Depicting the iconic "V'Ger", a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud, revealed to be a lost 20th-century Earth space probe found by an alien race of living machines that upgrade the probe. On its journey the probe gathers so much knowledge it actually achieves consciousness. The sketches highlight the multi-faceted, kaleidoscopic nature of portions of V'Ger's central aperture. Sketches exhibit production wear, toning, creasing, and small tears.

The Director of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE,
Robert Wise, handed me a portion of the screenplay which said:
"They were looking at something no man had ever seen before."
The V'ger entity was conceived as a mechanical chaperone of planetoid size given intelligent self-generative powers in order to protect the fragile Voya)ger on the journey back to its makers (NASA: earth). The surface relief and organic pattern arrangement were designed to suggest an organic complexity of organization and a layered, evolutionary growth. Starting with the rear terminus, the following illustrations show the visual solution to a difficult fantasy assignment as finally fabricated for photography by John Dykstra's APOGEE SFX facility.
(OBLAGON p.076)