Yay! My final poster for Season 1 of Star Trek! It took me a while to figure out how I’d portray this episode; I considered using the flying parasites, but that seemed too cliché. Then I considered the one line of Spock’s that really told the story of all the victims in the episode, and I’m very pleased with how it came out.
Season 2 coming soon!
Here’s today’s flashback, and a real taste of how Trek fandom had gone crazy! Looks like Trekkies were supporting a good chunk of the American economy, with these two long-gone ‘enterprises’. Imagine, two actual stores completely devoted to Trek merchandise — like a convention ‘huckster’ room every day! Heck, if Star Wars hadn’t come along, these may still be in business!
First, the mail order service STAR TREK GALORE in Longbeach Florida, and then the famous actual storefront FEDERATION TRADING POST in midtown Manhattan; it must have been Trekkie paradise! I could only imagine going there ( I had received these in the mail) and spending the day shopping for buttons, stills, and maybe a set of pointed ears. I can see the owners gleefully rubbing their hands together as the new Trek devotees ate it all up. And how I would have killed to see “The Only Star Trek Museum in the Galaxy!”
Anyone here ever see or hear or know more of these now defunct businesses? Would love to see any other info or pictures… Love the artwork on these .
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged Federation Trading Post, Florida, Museum, NYC, Star Trek, Star Trek Galore
Here’s today’s flashback: From September of 1976. Something for those of you who were unborn at the time or too young to remember. You see, way back in the before time, before the internet and Tweets, etc, there was this thing called a newspaper with many wonderful sections dealing with world events, politics, local news, weather, and since they had such wonderful revenue, they also had room for frivolous ‘entertainment’ news and even Q & A sections on the latest entertainment fads and trends. By 1976, the canceled but highly syndicated Star Trek had met its fan zenith and it’s stars were often the crux of this curiosity. Here’s a question about Nimoy’s dealings (mostly financial) with that Trek movie that Paramount was promising, and goings on about that new space shuttle from NASA that the Trekkies want to be called ‘Enterprise‘. (Even Gerald Ford got into the Trek craze, overruling NASA to let the Trekkies get their way!) I doubt they would have been so adamant about it if they knew that it would never actually fly in space! (ah, but that makes it all the nicer since we can enjoy it now, practically pristine, at the Intrepid Air & Space Museum in NYC)
I was so keen on finding anything about my favorite show and actor, I even snipped little tidbits with mere mentions of it!
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged Enterprise, Gerald Ford, Leonard Nimoy, Movie, NASA, Space shuttle, Star Trek
‘All His‘
With no offense to the lovely Kate Woodville, Natira was quite a gorgeous doll, wasn’t she?
How cool is this? A meeting of icons! From Mr. Nimoy’s Twitter feed: Somewhere in the geek universe, Batman and Mr. Spock jam! I would have loved to have been at this party. I wonder if it was a promotional event?
Adam West (aka Batman) and Leonard Nimoy (aka Mr. Spock) hit the skins at a party, approximately 1966-67
Here’s today’s flashback: From 1973, this is a parody from a middle school monthly mag that we all had to read out loud in class (I think it was seventh grade). I was delighted, of course! My geekdom finally had some credibility if we were reading a Star Trek parody in English class! Titled Star Heck by students Garry Nolan and Christopher Johnson St. Gabriel School of Windsor, Connecticut. It featured Captain Jerk and Mr. Spark! Jerk lives up to his name and Spark is a pyromaniac! Pretty good satire for a couple of middle school kids, but there were no drawings of the crew so I added my own patented doodle of Mr. Spock that I was always drawing on my notebooks. However, I wasn’t too pleased with this doodle, as I wrote ‘terrible’ next to it! I notice that I circled all of Mr. Spark’s lines — I do recall if I was chosen to read them aloud, but I do know that we all found it awfully funny. It inspired me in my own parody writing, and I did indeed write my own Star Trek Parody in High School, I think for 9th Grade. I wonder what Misters Nolan and Johnson do these days? Thanks for the inspiration, guys.
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged 1973, Christopher Johnson, Connecticut, Garry Nolan, middle school, Parody, St. Gabriel School, Star Heck, Star Trek, WIndsor
Here’s your fan art for today! A marvelously skewered caricature of a famous Jim Kirk headshot by Mark Hammermeister.
And of course, his Mister Spock too (2.0, Quinto)
Posted in Fan Art Fridays (FArFri), Star Trek: The Original Series
Tagged Kirk, Mark Hammermeister, Spock
Here’s today’s flashback: In the upper corner is a portion of a magazine ad for Nimoy’s first book of poetry, You And I. He was really starting to branch out creatively in this period, poetry, photography and stage acting kept him busy, along with occasional game shows and guest appearances on shows like Columbo. The reason the ad was truncated was because the photo (of only Nimoy from the neck up) gave the impression that he wasn’t wearing a shirt (!) Somehow this embarrassed me, and I cut out the bottom section of the ad and kept the rest. Maybe it was my Catholic upbringing, but I guess I didn’t want my Mom to see this ‘flagrant’ display of sensuality, lest she take away all my Trek stuff! Silly me. I’ll have to see if I can find a full copy of the ad somewhere, it really wasn’t a big deal. Next to and beneath the ad is another paragraph about the possible Trek movie, and another chunk of of another Trek article.
And then these are 6 stamps that I bought at the Star Trek Bi-Centennial 10 Convention in 1976 with the familiar logo ‘Star Trek Lives” and Support Star Trek on each, with a dollar bill style portrait of a crew member on each. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, and Chekov. How could they forget Sulu? Unless having six made it mathematically easier to print. I had a about 20 of these in a half page, but stuck most of them on notebooks and such. Glad I saved these six–wonder if anyone else has them? Note: The actual stamps measure only 3/4″ by 1 1/4″, but they were scanned here for better detail. Also, on the original scrapbook page, they’re arranged differently, but here I lined them up. Nice, huh? 
More scrapbook stuff on Monday!
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Tagged articles, convention, Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek Stamps, You and I
Today’s flashback — the first stirrings of a Star Trek movie! But this was the beginning of a very long and frustrating time for fans and Hollywood in regard to Trek. The movie was on again/off again, then it was going to be a new series on a new network and then … oh forget it! But this news was exciting nonetheless, and many fans like me wanted Trek back exactly as it had been when canceled. Little did we realize it would become something called a ‘franchise’.
I just noticed that Kirk’s face looks a bit faded in the center — I think I must have imprinted the picture on some Silly Putty at the time and stretched it out!
On the lower left is a little blurb about the PBS series Theater in America showing of Year of the Dragon, starring George Takei. I remember staying up to watch that — it was pretty good. Glad George was getting some work outside of conventions.
Posted in My Star Trek Scrapbooks
Here’s #28, The City On the Edge of Forever. I aimed at a different approach here, as most of the story is set in the past in Manhattan. At a glance you may not know it’s a Star Trek episode, and that’s just the effect I wanted.
Posted in My Star Trek Posters
Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Edith Keeler, Kirk, NYC, The City On the Edge of Forever
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