{"id":9410,"date":"2010-06-09T16:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:37:24","slug":"mondo-star-trek-poster-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/mondo-star-trek-poster-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondo Star Trek Poster Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new partnership between Mondo and CBS has resulted in a new line of posters, beginning with a familiar villain from the original series.<\/p>\n<p>For the next poster in its series, Mondo will need to make more, as the entire run of the first poster, which featured Khan from <em>Space Seed<\/em>, sold out in an hour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mondo060910.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9411\" title=\"Mondo060910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mondo060910.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The 24&#8243; by 36&#8243; screen print with metallic ink is hand numbered and printed by D&amp;L Screen Printing.\u00a0 The artist, <strong>Martin Ansin<\/strong>, shared his thoughts on creating the poster of Khan. &#8220;I wanted the poster to work in a rational way, almost like a chart,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;many bits of information are shown as graphic elements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In there you may find several references to the <em>Space Seed<\/em> episode: modified DNA, a shadowy hand that could take over the globe, the universe or just a small planet (spoiler!), some data sets, and even Castor and Pollux (the Gemini constellation), a tip by Prof. Rob Jones; as the original writers meant for Khan to be a reflection of Kirk, like Castor and Pollux, they too are connected through their attributes as leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new partnership between Mondo and CBS has resulted in a new line of posters,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[2694,3264,3265,3266],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-khan","tag-mondo","tag-poster","tag-space-seed"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/merchandise\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9414,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions\/9414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}