The Man Trap – Collecting Trek

Enjoy vintage 1960s commercials

Rewind to the TV promos that helped launch Star Trek — and wonder why NBC showed The Man Trap on Sept. 8 but called Sept. 15 the show’s premiere.
Cigarettes for kids – and 12 wild Star Trek cards

Accuracy was simply not the point — and that makes the 1971 Primrose card set a lot of fun.
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?
You don’t need to read Mission to Horatius

Mission to Horatius is the first original Star Trek novel published. The dialogue is terrible, the plot is ridiculous, Kirk commits genocide, and a dancing rat is an important character. So don’t read the book, but do read my fun teardown of it.
Download the most important Star Trek document

Gene Roddenberry’s 1964 pitch for his new show is arguably the most important Star Trek document ever. The pitch, usually referred to as Star Trek is…, was designed to sell the show to network executives and it’s an interesting look at Roddenberry’s earliest creative ideas.

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