Here’s today’s flashback -sorry it’s late – I had to sub today, and just remembered that I hadn’t posted a daily here! Today we see more Q&A about a possible Trek movie, questions wondering if Nimoy and The Shat were rivals, a mention of Gene Roddenberry’s Specter ( I still haven’t seen that) and a quiz from another middle school weekly, seeing if you can recall everything in the picture of the Enterprise being tossed like a salad.
This is pretty much my husband and me!
Posted in StarTreKomics!, Toon Tuesday
Tagged Amanda, apology, Journey To Babel, Living Legends, MechWarrior, mechwarrior living legends, sarek, Star Trek
Here’s another new feature for your Trek TOS enjoyment! Everyone love original videos, and there have been tons these on YouTube, dedicated to Trek in all it’s forms. Every Wednesday this feature will be showcasing either a clever fan video, tribute or parody, and anything else interesting for your enjoyment.
To start things off, here’s a great mash-up video by Spockboy on You Tube — Gag reel, ‘Shore Leave’ It is BRILLIANT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-nlbchOkmg
I wanted to start this series with Spockboy’s Gag Reel of “A Piece of the Action” but the jerks at YouTube removed it! If I can find it anywhere else, I will post it – it is divine!
Posted in Wideo Wednesday
Here’s today’s flashback, and it’s a big one, kids. From the December issue of Crawdaddy magazine, a great multi-page article by writer Ed Naha on Star Trek, it’s incredible phenomenal rebirth, and it’s million dollar merchandising. It asks teh question “Can Star Trek Be Put Back Together?” And Bill Shatner on the cover being his best Bill self! – lookin’ cool Bill! (and the quality of his hairpiece has improved!) I also love the picture of him inside, holding a broken model of Enterprise. There’s also a sidebar about the Star Trek album,Inside Star Trek, that featured Gene Roddenberry interviewing Shatner, Deforest Kelley, and even Mark Lenard in character as Sarek! I still have this album although I have to find a turntable to play it on — maybe I can find a recording of it online somewhere , if I do, I’ll share it. A shame that Nimoy wasn’t on the album, would have love to hear his deep rich voice. But it’s lovely to have Gene, Dee and Mark on it, sages of Trek lore.
And on a side note, I wish I kept the entire magazine, I would have liked to have read the interview with John Lennon!
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged Crawdaddy, Enterprise, Star Trek, WIlliam Shatner
I’ve noticed the other week in my StarTreKomic listings that this is my 98th StarTreKomic!!! Wow, I’ve been doing this since May of 2011, so 98 divided by 15 months, that comes to about 6 and a half comics a month…So in two weeks I’ll be posting a special 100th edition! Watch for it, and in the meantime my loyal subscribers– please answer this little poll:
1) What is your favorite StarTreKomic?
2) What characters would you like to see in future StarTreKomics?
Thanks! -Therese
Posted in StarTreKomics!, Toon Tuesday
Tagged Amanda, Journey To Babel, Living Legends, sarek
Here’s today’s flashback: November 12, 1976, from our local daily tabloid The Sun-Bulletin (which was later merged with The Binghamton Evening Press — yeah, we used to get two daily local papers, how times have changed!) Now, we didn’t get the Sun-Bulletin at our house, but the neighbors did, and when I got the chance, I’d either bike down to the local drugstore and check the dailies or sometimes take papers from my neighbor’s trash on Sunday nights (but only if they were on top); I’m pretty sure I bought this one, but Dear Lord, is it any wonder I never had a date in High School? What a goofball!
Anyway, at this point, the talks are heating up about a new Star Trek, and Nimoy ‘reveling’ in his Trek association. But with all this hype, it would still be three years until an actual movie was released. I remember wondering why, when my paper ever posted articles on Trek that they always used promo stills from the earliest episodes of the series, often with Kirk or Spock in their all gold uniforms. I didn’t realize then that papers have a deadline and stock photos are just the ticket for these types of articles. And speaking of paper management, note that this was the ‘lifestyle’ section, a section that used to be in both daily papers every day, but these days you only get it on weekends. Will we even have newspapers 5 or 10 years from now? We can only wonder.
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged 1976, George Takei, Kirk, Leonard Nimoy, newspaper, Press, Spock, Star Trek, Sulu, Sun Bulletin, Trekking, WIlliam Shatner
Some Swell Shaggy Seventies Smiles! So often he was posed so seriously, it’s great to see him with that million-dollar grin. And that hair! The first two are from an auto show. 
Theo fourth is backstage, (I think from The King and I) the fifth is on a very windy day and the last has one funkadelic shirt!
Here’s today’s flashback: The 70’s were a busy time for Star Trek people, actors and producers alike. Here’s a bunch of TV Guide listings for non-Trek projects — The Trek people kept their families fed in the drought between cancellation and the first movie. Nimoy was the most active, in Catlow with Yul Brynner, (small but sexy role as ‘Miller’,) TV movie The Missing Are Deadly, (which I don’t remember at all) and his popularity was booming so quickly he even got his own interview special in 1976 on PBS, The Man who Played Spock with Bill Varney. I remember Mom letting me stay up to watch this, it was on at 10, and I recall Varney at one point asking Nimoy to give him a ‘mind-meld’, and Nimoy fondly obliged. Shatner’s movie, The Tenth Level was a fine psychological thriller about how far one would go to inflict pain on a stranger. Both Shatner and Nimoy would appear on Dick Clark’s “The 10,000 Pyramid” Then there were the two movies Gene Roddenberry made, the (unfortunately) failed TV Pilot, Genesis II, and its sequel Planet Earth. Looking back on it, Genesis was the better of the two, and a great adventure story. Of course, fans were still wondering when Star Trek would be revived (see question), and finally below, my sister Kathy (I had 5) went to California in ’76 and saw the new Star Trek wax figures at the Movieland Wax Museum — see her postcard-oh I envied her!
Back on Monday with more memories! Let me know what you think!
A great triptych by
artist Amy Mebberson (mimi-na) from Deviant Art
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri)
Tagged Amy Mebberson, Deviant Art, Kirk, mccoy, Spock
(Sorry I’m late with this today, been busy with lots of housework!)
Here’s today’s flashback — Back in ’73, we had a new paperback by author David Gerrold, called The World of Star Trek; a thick volume with lots of anecdotes, insider notes, and best of all, over 75 pictures! When it got too quiet around the house, I’d hear my mom or sister yell “Are you reading that book again?!” I was obsessed, especially looking at the pictures of the Trek stars as their characters next to ‘current’ photos of them. Seeing the real-life pictures was pretty wild (George Takei with a pageboy haircut!), but I preferred looking at the old Trek headshots, and my sister decided to practice her sketching one autumn afternoon, and she drew her versions of the Kirk and Spock pictures. I loved these. Here they are, and I’ve cleaned them up a little since the originals had some grease stains and smudges. She made these in November of 1973, and I must have pestered her to make McCoy too because she drew his in January! Not bad for a first attempt. Thanks Sis! Bet you didn’t know I still had these! 
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged 1970s, art, David Gerrold, George Takei, portraits, sister, The World of Star Trek
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