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March 18, 2021March 20, 2021CollectingTrek

Anyone else make a Star Trek scrapbook — or just me?

A three-ring binder from my childhood years is a time capsule of newspaper clippings, photocopies, traced drawings, magazine photos, TV listings, and the nerd I was back then.

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September 17, 2020September 17, 2020CollectingTrek

Inside Star Trek 9: Polka-dot marshmallows and herding extras with Charlie Washburn

The second assistant director kept the set running on seasons two and three.

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November 19, 2019CollectingTrek

Pain on screen and in real life: Diamond Select’s Devil in the Dark diorama

The diorama is detailed, accurate and you can pick one up fairly cheaply, and it represents both William Shatner’s professionalism and a sad time in his life.

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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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May 2, 2019May 3, 2019CollectingTrek

The Horror at 37,000 Feet is all you need to know about early ’70s Shatner

This is a so-bad-it’s-good must-watch movie, and it tells you a lot about William Shatner’s post-Trek career.

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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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April 3, 2019May 21, 2019CollectingTrek

Inside Star Trek issue 1: selling IDIC and dumpster diving for set pieces

The Inside Star Trek newsletter is an invaluable source for Star Trek’s early voices. Issue 1 detailed William Shatner’s busy schedule, told us about searching through studio garbage and shared a made-up story about the Vulcan IDIC medallion.

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March 9, 2019April 7, 2021CollectingTrek

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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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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