In 1980, members of STAR OKC decided to throw a "big" con. It was called BabelCon '81 and we had a big guest, Mr James Doo...

In the blue outfit, I'm a smirking Vulcan with an unsufferable eyebrow. In the red STII outfit, I'm challenging my wife to ...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Blog%20Trek/STTMPShips.jpg One of the many promos for STTMP was a mail-i...

I figure I'm not doing too bad considering I don't go anywhere. http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfr...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Blog%20Trek/AnobileCover.jpg Film buff Richard J Anobile, who had edited fram...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Blog%20Trek/AprilFoolTrek.jpg At the Premiere of Star Trek The ...

In summer 1980 I found out about a STAR TREK convention at the Southgate Inn in OKC. I went, and signed up for the weekend. htt...

My friend Melinda found these three pix while moving. She gave them to me. I give them to you. from "Where No Man Has Gone B...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Blog%20Trek/TrekRCATVAd.jpg If memory serves, this ad appeared in a 1967 issue of...

As you can see, the Number One winner was my pal Larry Nemecek, future author of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , among ot...

Remember when there were TWO Oklahoma City "general" newspapers? In December 1979 the Oklahoma Journal (the paper that's NOT...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Blog%20Trek/Newsweek1972-1.jpg In 1972, Newsweek magazine figured out that t...

(Pardon the Scotch Tape) More tomorrow!

This May 2009 I'll be sharing scraps from multiple scrapbooks of growing up with Star Trek . I was a few weeks away from my 1...

If you read a lot of Dean Koontz, you may have noticed that sometimes he will put a preface or an endnote to his books saying that such-and...

If you want to read an interesting story about alternate universes, spacetime, and physics/relativity paired with human failures and hopes, ...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Action%20106/Action10601cover.jpg Here we have the oldest comic I own, Actio...

Allen Ross was kind enough to point out what appears to be mis-typing in the previous post's title. Didn't ANYBODY remember that f...

Howdy Friends and Campers. Herewith presented for your bemusement is a tale from Superboy #86, cover-dated January, 1961. http://i371.p...