TrekkerScrapbook

Hey Kids,   Back in the day we had not one but two daily local newspapers, a full size evening edition and a morning tabloid (all the better to get the full days news)  This  is the second review of George Takei’s visit to BCC, and it mentions George’s early political involvements as well as an accurate description of the new movies uniforms as “Dr. Dentons” (you youngster’s  can see here for that reference!)

Here’s today’s flashback:  From December of 1979, a poster I snatched from the halls of Broome Community College to nab the signature of visiting George Takei!   George was promoting the new Trek Movie, and as I recall, the college gymnasium got pretty full!   I still have an old audio cassette of George’s talk somewhere, and when I find and figure out how to convert it I’ll definitely post it here.   I recall George talking about director Robert Wise, and trying to recall some of the pictures Wise had directed.  Being the seasoned old movie know-it-all at the tender age of 18 as I was, I remember listing them out loud to Mr. Takei, (just to help, you know!) “Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still…”  (Man, what a wise-ass big mouth I was!)  Ah well, just chalk it up to my fan girl tendencies at the time.  George was as effervescent and delightful as usual, and it was a joy to see him. (love his smile!) I do remember having a camera (for once) at this particular event, but don’t know if I have the one picture I took of him signing autographs!  Note how the designer of the poster clumsily (or intentionally?) added the picture of the Enterprise completely upside down!