We’ve seen fans call for access to good-quality Star Trek posters for years — and beyond some highly-stylized (and now years-out-of-print) releases through companies like Mondo, options outside of eBay or dubious reprints have been limited.
 
Now, the UK-based Vice Press has beamed onto the scene with a new run of officially licensed Trek poster art prints — expected to bring fans highly-remastered runs of classic theatrical poster designs, but brand new artwork as well.
 

Here’s the official announcement:

VICE PRESS BOLDLY GO WHERE NO GALLERY HAS GONE BEFORE WITH OFFICIALLY LICENSED STAR TREK FINE ART POSTER AND PRINTS, LAUNCHING WITH STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE BY MATT FERGUSON

 

Series will feature remastered versions of original theatrical posters alongside pieces featuring newly commissioned artwork

 

Vice Press, the UK based pop-culture art and collectibles brand, will celebrate both the cinematic and small screen universe of Star Trek with an ongoing series of limited edition fine art posters, prints and collectibles. The series will see Vice Press both revisit original theatrical posters and artwork from across Star Trek’s rich creative history with fully remastered artwork, as well as release pieces featuring newly commissioned works.

 

Star Trek could not be in better hands than with Vice Press Creative Director Matt Ferguson, a huge fan himself with over 30 years of knowledge and passion for the franchise and our first release in the series will feature brand new art by Matt Ferguson for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

 

“Star Trek has always been a part my life. I come from a family of Trekkies, so for me getting to make new Star Trek art for my own company is such a thrill. I can’t wait to show everyone what we’ve got cooking! Engage!” said Vice Press Creative Director and Artist Matt Ferguson. Classic pieces in the series will include remastered editions of Bob Peak’s original Star Trek: The Motion Picture posters, with new pieces by artists including Florey, Paul Shipper, Rachael Stott, Danny Schlitz and Matt Ferguson himself.

Along with The Motion Picture, the company has also hinted at their additional projects to follow — revisiting the artwork for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Paul Shipper’s Star Trek: Picard series finale poster design, each teased in the snippet images above. (Vice Press tells us they’ve got plans for Trek television beyond Picard, with plans for the Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Lower Decks in the works as well.)

For the remastered Star Trek theatrical poster artwork, the company is going back to the studio source material wherever possible. As Vice Press creative director Matt Ferguson tells us:

“Where we can, we have accessed the original Bob Peak paintings, made new scans, and cleaned them up extensively — and then I have remade all the graphic design elements for the posters from scratch. That includes remaking the titles and credits from the ground up, and the paintings have also been colour-matched to the final posters.

 

[Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition producer] David C. Fein has been incredibly helpful on TMP. There’s a few instances where the studio didn’t have original scans of those paintings, so what I have had to do is gather resources online, buy original one-sheets, have them scanned, and then rebuild the art that way.

 

It’s been a months-long process now that started last year. The aim is for it to match the original one-sheets nearly exactly, but just be brought up to modern standards. We can get a lot more detail from the painting scans now, and get colours to pop like never before.

 

Think of it a bit like a 4K UHD HDR remaster… it’s cleaned up, but retains the original intent.”

Beyond the classic theatrical designs, Vice Press is also kicking off their new Star Trek poster artwork sales this week with two editions of Matt Ferguson’s original Star Trek: The Motion Picture poster art.

Available for sale starting Thursday, September 21 at 6pm BST (UK) / 1PM ET / 10AM PT will be an extremely limited, hand-numbered run of each of the below Motion Picture poster designs, measuring 24″ x 36″ each.

The blue-white lithograph will be limited to 200 prints at a price of £39.99 (approximately $50 USD), while the rainbow foil variant (which uses the Japanese Motion Picture title treatment) will be limited to 175 prints at a cost of £49.99 (or $62 USD).

Due to the low quantity of each design, it’s expected that these first Star Trek: The Motion Picture posters will likely sell out relatively quickly — so if you want one, be at the Vice Press website this Thursday when sales open.

We’ll be sure to bring you all the updates on Vice Press’ next Star Trek poster release — and as always, keep checking back to TrekCore for the latest in Star Trek collectible news!