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Factual Treks into the history and legacy of the original STAR TREK and its place in the broader landscape of contemporary media.
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The Naked Time Warp
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Published: February 19, 2025 20:00
We promised you a Part II about the convoluted production of âThe Naked Time,â and here it is, out of a time warp of its own. That episode was filmed with a cliffhangerâsubsequently scrapped. Whose idea was it? Who was supposed to write it? Why wasâŚ
The Lost Voyage of the Small Enterprise Model
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/lostvoyage
Published: October 15, 2024 19:48
Guest Article by Star Trek Lost Scenes co-authour David Tilotta. Sometime before the premiere of Star TrekâThe Motion Picture, the original 33-inch miniature of the USS Enterprise was loaned out ⌠and vanished for almost 45 years. When it surfaced inâŚ
Keep on Trekinâ
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/madmusical
Published: October 17, 2023 20:00
Strange New Worldsââ âSubspace Rhapsodyâ is the first time a Star Trek series or movie has engaged the genre of the musical, but 47 years earlier a parody of the OG boldly went Broadway... by way of newsprint. MAD Magazine took its first shot at StarâŚ
Where No Pilot Had Gone Before?
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/2ndpilots
Published: August 7, 2023 03:32
Since 1968 itâs often been claimed that NBCâs order for a second pilot for Star Trek was âunprecedentedâ and marked the âfirst time in television historyâ such an âunheard ofâ thing had ever happened. Is it true? Is any of it true? Did âWhere No Man HasâŚ
The Naked Cliffhanger
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/naked
Published: April 26, 2023 07:00
âThe Naked Timeâ is an all-time classic Star Trek episode memorable for characters going berserk and revealing their ânakedâ psyches. The episode ends with a âlaws of physicsâ-defying bang as the starship restarts her engines cold in an âimplosionâ andâŚ
Uhura, Black To the Future
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/uhura
Published: August 1, 2022 08:16
When Lt. Uhura appeared on the debut episode of Star Trek in September 1966, she was boldly going where no black woman had gone before: as a continuing character on an American network TV series depicting a future where the color of her skin didnâtâŚ
The Great Bird Of the Radio, 1974
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/1974bird
Published: July 25, 2022 08:00
Stories change over time and with repetition, so itâs important to preserve early accounts wherever possible. Case in point, a radio interview with Gene Roddenberry recorded only 4.5 years after the Star Trek went off the air, and only months after theâŚ
Dos Trequis
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/dostrequis
Published: June 2, 2022 07:00
Between 2006 and 2016, a popular Dos Equis beer ad campaign featured a debonair, gray-bearded gentleman, identified as âThe Most Interesting Man in the World,â who ended each ad with a variation on the slogan â âI donât always drink beer, but when I do,âŚ
The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate
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Published: March 18, 2022 10:00
For decades Trek fans have rolled their eyesâand worseâat NBCâs decision to put Rowan and Martinâs Laugh-In into a Monday time slot which had been promised to Star Trek, banishing their beloved show to the âFriday Night Death Slotâ and inevitableâŚ
The Off-Center Seat: 55 Years of Myth Making
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/off-center
Published: January 5, 2022 10:06
In todayâs post-truth, fact-challenged world, just what, in fact, is a fact? And what happens when the people who have direct and personal experience/memories of an event are no longer with us? Absent their first-hand accounts must we depend onâŚ
Emblem-atic
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Published: October 6, 2021 07:00
Nothing symbolizes Star Trek like the insignia worn by its Starfleet characters as seen on TV from 1964âpresent day. Midyear 2020 brought it to the forefront when the official US Space Force emblem was unveiled to historically naĂŻve cries that it âripsâŚ
Trek II Myths Rhue the Day
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/rhue
Published: September 15, 2021 07:00
Was Marla McGivers offed because of actress Madlyn Rhueâs health issues? If you look around the internet and read a little trivia about the making of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), sooner or later youâre going to encounter a variation on theâŚ
Flip-Top Flip-Flop
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Published: July 26, 2021 07:00
Star Trek gets credited with inspiring all sorts of things, but one such claim gets constant repetition in our mobile phone age: that the original series flip-top communicators inspired the cell phone, or at least specifically the âflip phoneâ. ButâŚ
in Search of⌠Spock
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Published: July 12, 2021 07:20
Over the years, a number of names have been floated as the âfirst choiceâ to play the character of Mr. Spock. But were Goober Pyle, Rollin Hand, Miguelito Quixote Loveless, Nyota Uhura, or McCoy, Leonard H. ever actually considered for the part? LetâsâŚ
TV GUIDE Groks Spock, 1972
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Published: May 3, 2021 07:30
Whilst researching our previous blog post we ran across Markâs Super Blog and a 2009 post including his scan of a 1972 TV Guide article titled Grokking Mr. Spock, which concerned Trek fandom and specifically that first Star Trek Lives! convention fromâŚ
Fontana & Barrett Face the Fans, 1972
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Published: April 29, 2021 02:46
On January 22nd, 1972 the doors were thrown open to direct interaction between thousands of Star Trekâs fans and some of its makers at the first Star Trek Lives! conventionâthe first major Trek con. Introduced by Issac Asimov, here are Dorothy âD.C.ââŚ
A Khan Noonien Thing
https://www.facttrek.com/blog/prequelkhan
Published: March 4, 2021 18:30
When Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan opened to a record opening weekend Paramount Pictures pounced on the idea of making sequels and spinoffs. Not eight months after the filmâs release they received a 138 page screenplay, not for a sequel but a prequelâŚ
T V, Or Not T V, Is That the Question?
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Published: February 25, 2021 08:00
The ABC Sunday Night Movie for February 25, 1985 marked the US commercial television premiere of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which had been released theatrically almost three years earlier. But have you heard the rumor that this triumphant sequelâŚ
de Forest, Kellam
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Published: January 27, 2021 06:19
Kellam de Forest died in Santa Barbara, California on January 19, 2021 from complications of COVID-19. Why is this significant? Most Star Trek fans probably have no idea who Kellam de Forest was. But he and his de Forest Research company were importantâŚ
1972 Gives Us The Bird
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Published: January 22, 2021 08:00
What did The Great Bird of the Galaxy say to this first major assemblage of Star Trek fans? Read this January 1972 transcript to find out! Isaac Asimov: Our guest of honor at Star Trek Convention, is a man who is known to most you, if not by sight, byâŚ