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May 21, 2020May 22, 2020CollectingTrek

The last-minute Roddenberry rewrite that elevated Balance of Terror

“Bones — what if I’m wrong?” Kirk asked in a touching scene in Balance of Terror. The original version of that scene was a mundane exchange until Gene Roddenberry fixed it the day before the cameras rolled.

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September 19, 2019March 1, 2020CollectingTrek

A defence of The Way to Eden: it’s better, and much darker, than you remember

The episode is widely disliked, so you probably haven’t seen it in a while. I encourage you to watch it again. It’s not hippies and bouncy songs. It’s a mass murderer and his enthralled gang.

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September 12, 2019September 13, 2019CollectingTrek

Waiting on Walter. My lunchbox needs him

Walter Koenig, I need you. Please come back to Toronto. Also, did you know Canadians got to see Star Trek before the Americans?

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July 4, 2019October 16, 2020CollectingTrek

The Ebony magazine that got me two minutes with Nichelle Nichols

Nichelle Nichols owns a copy of her Ebony magazine-cover issue, but it’s in poor condition. I tried to give her mine.

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June 12, 2019June 18, 2019CollectingTrek

The Concordance Color Book — and three fantastic surprise autographs

I bought this book years ago. I had never opened it. When I did, I discovered three major Star Trek autographs.

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May 16, 2019May 17, 2019CollectingTrek

Thank you, Doug Drexler, for trying to save the Gold Key comics

Before Doug Drexler’s huge contributions to four Star Trek series and five movies, he did his best to save the Gold Key comics.

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April 11, 2019April 29, 2019CollectingTrek

Kirk and Spock were meant to bust out of your wall. I got my poster signed instead

This is the best Star Trek poster I have ever seen. It’s big, it’s quirky, it’s a good likeness and you were supposed to cut them up, so that’s cool. Mine is also signed by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner.

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March 9, 2019April 29, 2019CollectingTrek

William Shatner was always nice to me

I have 13 William Shatner autographs. Eight of those I got in person. Three of those are extra special. This is the story of those three.

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February 18, 2019April 29, 2019CollectingTrek

A fun fake: Flight Deck Officer certificate

Do you have a Gene Roddenberry autograph in your collection? If it’s on a Flight Deck Officer certificate then…probably no. But it’s a fun item anyway.

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February 13, 2019March 4, 2020CollectingTrek

Rodan, John Wayne and what George Takei got wrong

George Takei was thrilled when John Wayne cast him in The Green Berets, but that robbed Takei of the chance to pick up a Tribble with Uhura on K-7.
Except that story is not quite true.

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February 3, 2019April 2, 2019CollectingTrek

Leonard Nimoy sued Paramount — and won

Henry Fonda kicked off a dispute over a beer ad that almost kept Spock from appearing in The Motion Picture.

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January 24, 2019June 16, 2020CollectingTrek

Leonard Nimoy to Trek fans: Don’t smoke. Live long and prosper

Leonard Nimoy used his celebrity to encourage others to quit smoking. He signed this American Cancer Society poster for me in 2006. And then, weirdly, Shatner signed it too.

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January 15, 2019February 26, 2020CollectingTrek

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.

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January 4, 2019June 7, 2019CollectingTrek

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.

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