Star Trek [TOS] "Group 5" Home Video Promo Poster (1986)

Star Trek home video release one-sheet promo poster with 20th anniversary logo. Tagline: "These are the voyages where the legend began." Single-sided. Be sure to click the image above for a hi-resolution version!

Size: One Sheet (26.75" x 40")
Artist/Illustrator: Bill Garland
Designer: Unknown
Release Year: 1986
Region: North America

 • In 1985, Paramount Home Video began to release the entire run of the original Star Trek series on home video in North America, putting out groups of ten episodes at a time in the VHS, Beta, and LaserDisc formats. With the release of each new episode group, a new promotional poster was sent to retailers for in-store advertising. This poster was for Group 5, released in November 1986. (More info on these releases can be found at this link.)

 

• Presumably, Garland artist used this shot from the episode "Balance of Terror" as a reference for Sulu, Chekov, and Scotty, replacing Kirk with Chekov. Image via Memory Alpha.

 

• Circa 1986, a slightly altered version of this image, with a blank black area below the bridge crew, was used for a smaller retail poster (12.5" x 19"), shown below.

• A cropped version of Garland's painting was also used as the centerfold of Pocket Books's 1988 Star Trek "Celebration Calendar." Calendar cover and centerfold poster shown below.

 

Updated: October 26, 2025