A Bonus Toon

Posted on October 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

This is pretty much my husband and me!

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New Feature — Wideo Wednesdays

Posted on October 17, 2012 | 3 comments

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!

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!

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The Daily Scrapbook 10/16/12 — From 1976, Bill Shatner in Crawdaddy!

Posted on October 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

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!

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Toon Tuesday 10/16/12 My 98th StarTreKomic! (and a poll too)

Posted on October 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

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

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The Daily Scrapbook 10/15/12 – Article from the old Sun-Bulletin tabloid

Posted on October 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

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.

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My Weekly Spock 10/15/12 — Shaggy Seventies Smiles

Posted on October 15, 2012 | 1 comment

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!

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The Daily Scrapbook 10/12/12 Programs and Postcards

Posted on October 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

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!

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FArFri 10/12/12 “OT3” by Amy Mebberson

Posted on October 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

A great triptych by artist Amy Mebberson (mimi-na) from Deviant Art

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The Daily Scrapbook 10/11/12

Posted on October 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

(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!

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#29 Operation Annihilate!

Posted on October 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

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!

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