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The first Trektennial: trivia, a Star Trek II update, and an interview with Rod Roddenberry
Gene Roddenberry’s assistant and companion takes over the semi-official newsletter.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Collecting Trek
A TOS collection 40 years in the making
Collecting Trek 