One-Panel Treks

These are some references to Star Trek in the comics!

Above, from 1981.

Above, from Penthouse in 1982.

... And from 1987.

When you're done getting your ribs tickled, come in person Friday-Saturday-Sunday, June 24-25-26, to SoonerCon!  It's the culmination of all your pop-culture, sci-fi dreams!

If I don't see you there, see you here on Monday!

  

Star Trek FAQ 2.0 – Book Review

STAR TREK FAQ 2.0, by Mark Clark.

This is a laudable effort to "learn all that is learnable," as someone said.  It's interesting to browse through, but as a picky kind of feller, I must point out these goofs:

·         Page 9, in discussing Star Trek: The Motion Picture, mistakenly attributes the film’s sfx woes to Howard Anderson Company.  No, it was the incompetent-for-the-job Robert Abel and Associates who bit off more starship than they could chew.  Howard Anderson did fx for the 1960s series.

·         Page 30 – in his survey of Star Trek III, Clark calls the Klingon bad guy “Kluge,” not Kruge.  It’s funny because on page 34, Clark gets the name right.

·         In talking about Star Trek: The Next Generation’s staff, Clark gets Tracy Tormé’s name correct early on.  But in talking about “The Royale,” Clark gets Tormé incorrect FOUR times, as “Tomé.”  On pages 110-111, he does it twice in his coverage of “Manhunt.”

·         On page 232, there’s a slip of the tongue when discussing Jeri Ryan’s Borg character Seven of Nine.  For some Clark gives the actress’s name as Jeri Taylor, the prolific Trek writer and producer.

·         On page 399, in comments about the 2009 film, Clark gives the last name of Captain Pike’s actor Bruce Greenwood, as “Greenwell.”

It's not a goof, but most photos have captions whose words are nearly identical to a nearby bit of text.  How hard would it have been to reword the dang captions a little?

Have fun with this brisk survey of Trekitude.  However, don't forget to check things out from multiple sources!

See you Thursday!

  

Fred Steiner Treks!

This is a 1985 article by Trek (among dozens) composer Fried Steiner. It's called "Music for Star Trek: Scoring a Television Show in the Sixties.”

I hope your eyeballs don't wear our!  This is really interesting stuff!

See you Monday.

  

Trek Moves Closer!

Your assignment, fellow TREKnophiles, is to read this 1977 article and decide how accurate this early discussion of Star Trek's return was.

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I Jogged with Takei! I Mugged with Doohan!

In 1983 I was working for Circle K and arranged to be off so I could go to Tulsa. Why?

That's who, why!

Now, in 1978 I'd helped George Takei at his autograph table in OKC.  (PROOF HERE!)

And in 1981 we had hosted Jimmy Doohan at "our" own con.  (PROOF HERE!)

As I remember it, it was early Saturday morning that a clump of us took George up on his offer to go jogging.  I jogged along and after a block we passed a Git-n-Go, where a few other fans and I sat on the curb and waited until the jogging party to come back, whereupon we got up and pretended to have been there all along.

More photos in this 2009 Super Blog post.

See you Monday!
  

Who Wants a "Pot" of Sex, Anyway?

Here's coverage of Star Trek: The Motion Picture from the January 8, 1980 issue of Us magazine:

Only someone trying to sell magazines would call this film "sexy."

See you on Thursday for something less pot-like, I guess.