Collecting Trek

A TOS collection 40 years in the making

A Star Trek fan for life. A Star Trek collector for almost as long.

I tell the stories behind my best collectibles.

  • Fire torpedoes at your friends: two starships from Dinky Toys

    Fire torpedoes at your friends: two starships from Dinky Toys

    I love the Enterprise. Its design is both beautiful and functional, and importantly it looks great on camera from any angle. I own a number of exquisitely detailed and highly accurate Enterprise models. This is not one of those, but I like it a lot anyway.

  • The Roddenberry memo that helped launch The Making of Star Trek

    The Roddenberry memo that helped launch The Making of Star Trek

    The Making of Star Trek is one of the most important books in TOS fandom, and Gene Roddenberry was an early advocate of the project.

  • No Chapel, no T’Pau. The original Amok Time story outline

    No Chapel, no T’Pau. The original Amok Time story outline

    I own the Amok Time story outline Ted Sturgeon submitted to Gene Roddenberry. It’s a fascinating look at the process of creating an episode and at the Trek that could have been.

  • Bobby Clark signed a Gorn mask

    Bobby Clark signed a Gorn mask

    Two guys pulled on the Gorn wetsuit costumes on the set of Arena in November 1966. I was fortunate to spend 20 minutes chatting with Bobby Clark, the better known of the two. Clark asked why Star Trek and the Gorn mattered to me.