So we’re watching Trek episodes on TVLand to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launch of “Star Trek.” Fortunately such episodes as “City” and “Tribbles” don’t require me to restrain my “Mystery Trekkie Theater” reflexes. The visual quality of the episodes is quite good, although I was torqued to see that they’ve cut dialogue in order to accommodate the boundless commercials. It’s the 40th Anniversary and they couldn’t run them intact, for crying out loud?
It’s also funny to play “six degrees” with the cast members and writers. I sit there going, “Met him…met him…he was my best man…wrote his autobiography…he came up to our hotel room at Dragon*con for spare ribs and fried chicken…he was the story editor on the first season of “Space Cases,” and so on.
I met both my wives because of Star Trek…the first at a convention, and Kathleen because she was selling a Klingon muppet that I bought for Mystery Trekkie. So four children literally owe their lives (and I, to some degree, my writing career) to Star Trek. Not bad for a TV series that was cancelled after three seasons of less-than-impressive ratings.
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