Not Star Trek Annuals.

I recently acquired the first Star Trek annual. £2 from a charity shop since you ask.

 It's the typical lazy World Distributors fare - a couple of Gold Key reprints padded out to the 64 page limit with a handful of pages featuring 'space facts'. 

It reminded me again that I don't do much, if any, Star Trek stuff on here. Looking at the cover of that annual gave me the idea of doing some more spin-off Doctor Who annuals using the covers of these icons of the 70s as inspiration. 

That first one fitted Frontier in Space quite well. In fact, it's my favourite. (You will note that the futuristic city behind Jo Grant and her two Ogron chums is the Brazilian National Congress building in Brasilia - a photo of which portrayed the Earth President's residence in said episodes. Quite a clever inclusion that though I say so myself!) 

The others are a mixed bag. I've included the original annuals at the foot of this post as the Doctor Who fans who follow me might not be familiar with Star Trek. It was a US TV show in the 60s that ran for only three seasons and was a staple schedule filler for the BBC during most of the 70s. They tried remaking it a few times over the years with varying degrees of success. The latest versions can only be viewed if you pay extra.

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Doctor Who Monsters in their Natural Habitats!

I did a few pics last year of War Machines and Chumblies out in the wild. I've been doing some more and these are they...

A troop of melkur bask in a jungle clearing in the equatorial region of Melkurus.

Wild quarks stalk the volcanic plains of the planet Dominatus.

The alien voord wander through the idyllic bluebell forests of the second continent of Marinus.

Abandoned special weapons Daleks live peacefully at a charity-funded sanctuary in Dorset.

Repurposed Mechonoids have been running Milton Keynes railway station since 2015. The trains still do not run on time...

The ogron breeding programme at Paignton Zoo was started in 1986 and is responsible for releasing over 200 back into the wild.








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