Star Trek – Lynn Norton – U.S.S. Bellwether
Mixed Media Sculpture
18″ x 11″ x 8.5″
Literature: See Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years, Titan Books, London, p.77 (illus).
Fictional starship display model, U.S.S. BELLWETHER, NX-90866, INGRESS CLASS science vessel with experimental METAWARP propulsion by Lynn A. Norton.
Lynn A. Norton is an artist who, since 1991, has sculpted nearly all of the Star Trek starship ornaments that have been produced by Hallmark for their beloved and bestselling Keepsake Ornaments line. Norton sculpts and prototypes original patterns for ornaments and toys from his personal home studio. His process remains the same as always. He starts by making detailed drawings and then employs engraving tools to hand-carve the ornaments from synthetic wood. Though Norton technically retired back in 2006, he continues to sculpt Hallmark’s Star Trek Keepsake Ornaments. As he told author John Peterson for the book Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments: The Inside Stories from the Artists Who Create Them, “I’d like nothing better than to sculpt starship ornaments until my fingers fall off.” He lives in Leawood, Kansas.
Although the one-of-a-kind model has been auctioned off you can purchase a 13″ x 9″ print of the model for $14.95.
Exhibited:
Comic-Con International
San Diego, CA, United States
July 21 – July 24, 2016
at Michael J. Wolf Fine Arts
363 5th Avenue San Diego, CA
Star Trek Convention
Las Vegas, NV, United States
August 3 – August 7, 2016
Canadian National Exhibition (CNE)
Toronto, Canada
August 19 – September 5, 2016
The Paley Center for Media
New York, NY, United States
September 16 – September 25, 2016
Destination Star Trek
Birmingham, United Kingdom
October 7 – October 9, 2016
Star Trek: The Exhibition
Blackpool, United Kingdom
October 14 – October 31, 2016
French Paper Gallery
Paris, France
November 10 – November 26, 2016
Star Trek: 50 Artists. 50 Years.
Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
December 13 – December 18, 2016
Star Trek Cruise I
Miami, FL, United States (*Note – The cruise sailed the Caribbean to Cozumel, Mexico and the Bahamas returning to Miami)
January 9 – January 16, 2017
Chabot Space & Science Center
San Francisco, CA, United States
February 3 – March 12, 2017
Middle East Film & Comic Con
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
April 6 – April 8, 2017
Lynn Norton is a 3D artist who has sculpted nearly all of Hallmark’s “Star Trek” ornaments since 1991. “I imagine the ship I’ve designed to be a science vessel that is capable of exploring the galaxy beyond the range of existing Federation craft,”
This is for two 2018 Hallmark Ornament Mr. Spock. What makes this special is that one of them is an error piece. As you can see in the pictures, one of the pieces has the Star Trek insignia on Mr. Spock’s shirt upside down. I checked online and on eBay and have not seen another one like this. The winner of this will get both the error and the correct piece. I emailed Hallmark along with the scans and even they were stumped. It could be a one of a kind piece. I purchased this last week at Kmart.
Story: “We set up a mystery in season one. How come Spock – one of the most beloved characters in all of Star Trek history, let alone the world and the universe – has never mentioned his sister Michael Burnham. It was a big mystery. And I think I knew inherently that the answer to that wasn’t going to be one or two episodes. It was going to be a full season and you were really going to have to dive deep into that story and into that relationship and what happened between them. There is a lot of friction between them. It was really, for me, the storyline of season two. They work out their relationship agains the backdrop of a larger mystery and it turns out that if they don’t fix their relationship, they are not going to solve the mystery.” -Alex Kurtzman
