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Happy ST:TMP Day!
On this date in 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture premiered across the country. How well I remember the excitement that I, and many other fans, felt! It was to us back then, what the new Star Wars...
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Happy Birthday, Nichelle!
Lovely Nichelle Nichols is 83 today. We hope she has a wonderful day of love and appreciation, and that her New Year has much health and happiness. We love you, Nichelle!Celebrate by reading some or...
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Happy Birthday, DeForest Kelly!
DeForest Kelly's birthday is today, January 20th. This true Southern gentleman (born in Taccoa, GA) never let the lights of Hollywood get in his eyes and change him from the kind and humble man he...
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Happy Birthday, Bill Shatner!
Happy 85th birthday to the best Captain in Starfleet; past, present, future, alternate future, alternate universe and beyond! He doesn't let age slow him down, and we wish him many more.Now would be a...
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Celebrating Fifty Years Of Star Trek!
Indeed, far beyond anyone's imagination, it has lived long and prospered.
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That Lucky Kid... Now, Lucky US!
Most of the time, this blog is publishing items in my collection. But sometimes, when something extraordinary from Trek's past shows up, I will feature it, like the time the original Phaser Rifle...
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Happy 2016 Birthday, Nichelle!
Lovely Nichelle Nichols is 84 today. We hope she has a wonderful day of love and appreciation, and that her New Year has much health and happiness. We love you, Nichelle!Celebrate by reading some or...
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Gray Morrow Trek Poster Art
From the mighty and legendary issue number 2 (from 1972) of the incomparable and unforgettable publication "The Monster Times," comes this centerfold poster of Star Trek by artists Gray Morrow. How...
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Nimoy Publicity Photo: Spock With Vulcan Lyre
A rarely-seen publicity photo of Nimoy with the Vulcan lyrette prop.(Click on image to enlarge, Once open, you may have to click again to view full-size.)
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From 1997 comes this "lost movie" which few fans have seen! Actually, it is cut together from game footage with new scenes filmed and added to flesh out the story. For those fans who thought they had...
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Nichelle On Cover of 1968 Sepia Magazine
Found this image of the cover of Sepia featuring Nichelle from 1968. Is it any wonder that she shaped my perception as to standards of beauty as a young man? Also, I now want a hotdog for lunch.... a...
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FM #64 Issue "Stark Trek" 1970 Article
From April 1970 Issue 64 of the venerable Famous Monsters magazine comes this early story on the show, and the bonus is some rare photos that have never really been seen since, like the one of the...
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Some Rare Photos To Enjoy!
Here are a few rare photos that have turned up online, that you may enjoy!(Click on images to enlarge. Once open, you may have to click again to view full-size.)De and Leslie Parrish behind the scenes...
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"Paint 'er greener!" The Famous Orion Makeup Test!
William McCullar's IDIC Page, sadly defunct now, made available this very rare image of Majel Barrett (M. Leigh Hudec at the time) when she was screen-testing the makeup for the Green Orion Slave...
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Bill Shatner: A Restless Man
From a movie/TV magazine in around 1967 comes this article about Shatner that still seems to be relevant to the way he lives his life!(Click on images to enlarge. Once open, you may have to click again...
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"Leonard Nimoy Answers 40 Questions" 1967 Article
From a 1967 movie magazine comes this article with 40 intimate things you always wanted to know about Leonard Nimoy!(Click on the images to view full-size. Once open, you may have to click again to...
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The Monster Times Star Trek Special #2: Part One
In 1974, while perusing the latest issue of The Monster Times I had just picked up, I saw an advertisement for both the Sci-Fi Special (in magazine format) and the newspaper format Star Trek Special...
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The Monster Times #2 Interview With Shatner
The second issue of The Monster Times newspaper was super-special to young Trekkers like myself, being pretty much the first magazine to devote an entire issue to the subject. Below is the entire...
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More Nichelle Photos Surface!
Anyone that has a passing familiarity with this blog knows about my fixation (some would call it obsession) with Uhura, as played by Nichelle Nichols. So, when previously unseen photos are brought to...
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More Vintage Nichelle!
 You can never have too much vintage Nichelle! Here are a couple of new ones to me. First, Nichelle in a still from her guest spot on the 70's "Tarzan" series episodes "The Deadly Silence: Part 1 &...
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1991 Christian Research Journal Article
From the Fall 1991 issue of the Christian Research Magazine comes this in-depth look at the philosophy of Trek as it related to religion, and Christianity in particular. Of course, in reading it, your...
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Third Season Set Visit
From a mid-70's fan magazine, title unknown since my copy is missing the first few pages. However, I didn't want this to prevent me from presenting an article in what remained, concerning a set visit...
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1983 Lincoln Enterprises Catalog
In 1974 I sent off for my first Lincoln Enterprises catalog (see some of the other posts about them here), and in 1983 I was still getting them in the mail. By then, they were getting bigger and...
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Bob Larkin Star Trek Art
Artist Bob Larkin has been responsible for many. many memorable covers of the magazines that I collected when young; Planet of the Apes, Marvel's monster magazines, Crazy, DC comics covers, Trek novel...
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"New" Nichelle Nichols photo discovered!
Stop the presses! Here's a photo of Nichelle, taken either during the filming of Trek or just before, that has come to light... one that I have never seen before. I had to share it with you...
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