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The Daily Scrapbook 6/12/13 A tabloid preview of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Here’s today’s flashback: From 1979, a full color (!) sneak peek at Star Trek: The Motion Picture from a supermarket tabloid (I think it’s The Star, but it could be The National Enquirer). I recall...
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The Daily Scrapbook: 7/8/13 Trek Promos begin…The Poster
Here’s today’s flashback: From November of 1979, Newspaper Ads for the Star Trek Daily Comic that would soon premiere in our local paper, and an ad for an ad in the Sunday paper to see the special...
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The Daily Scrapbook: 7/9/13 (November 1979) NYT Interview w/Roddenberry
Here’s today’s flashback: From November 23rd, 1979, Gene Roddenberry recalls to The New York Times the long, hard trek it took to get Star Trek to the silver screen:
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The Daily Scrapbook 7/12/13 –(12/4/1979) The Stardates have been kind to Mr....
Here’s Today’s Flashback: From December 4, 1979, a local review of George Takei’s visit to BInghamton at Broome Community College. Funny when you thing that as promotion tours go, it’s surprising how...
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The Daily Scrapbook 5/16/13 December 8, 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
Here’s today’s flashback: The day had finally come! After 10 years fans fervent hopes of a comeback, of waiting for the day when Star Trek would return, it was finally here! I remember waiting...
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The Daily Scrapbook: 7/17/13 Bill and Marcy at the ST:TMP World Premiere
Here’s today’s flashback: From Dec. 7th 1979, Bill Shatner enjoys a taste of A-list stardom, and gets energized at the world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (He’s so excited!) Dig those...
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The Daily Scrapbook 7/19/13 Hippie Spock
Here’s today’s flashback: As Long as we’re talking hair this week, I believe this is from a Star tabloid, don’t think I kept the article, (hated all the bumpy new aliens) but kept this picture because...
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The Daily Scrapbook: 8/23/13 (1977) — Roddenberry Projects
Here’s today’s flashback: New Roddenberry Projects from Media Spotlight Magazine. Gene discusses his latest projects and (at this point in 1977) the speculation and early pre-production regarding a...
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My Weekly Spock: Long-Hair Kolinahr Vulcan
I always thought that the Vulcan sequence at the beginning of ST:TMP was interesting. I wondered why Spock was so determined to shed his human half, what had made him so repulsed by it? We may never...
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My Weekly Spock: That First Trek:TMP Press Conference (1978) (Gallery)
And the band got back together! As the latest Trek movie was released the other week, I thought it would be fun to look back on the first press conference for the movie that started the series way back...
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