This week on 70s Trek, co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto talk about actor George Takei. Of course, Star Trek fans know George as Mr. Sulu. He had quite an extensive career before he joined Star Trek and continued to act steadily as a guest star in TV. George also dabbled in politics in the 70s. He ran for, but did not win a seat on, the Los Angeles City Council. George was later appointed to the committee that helped design the LA Subway System.
Month: April 2017
Space 1999 was from the producers of the British TV show UFO, Gerry and Sylvia Andersen. In fact, the show grew out of UFO’s unmade second season. It was memorable for its high quality special effects, great music, energetic opening sequence and cast. It featured two familiar American actors, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, in the starring roles. Both had worked for three years on Star Trek’s sister-show at Desilu, Mission: Impossible. Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto look back on this short-lived series and share their insights.
If you know anything about Star Trek in the 1990s, then you’ll recognize the name Doug Drexler. Doug worked on every Star Trek production from 1990 to 2005. But before he started working in Hollywood on The Next Generation, Doug was a Star Trek fan in Manhattan in the 1970s. In fact, he worked for the first Star Trek merchandise store, the Federation Trading Post. That led him to contributing to his first book, the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual in 1977 and later to Gold Key’s Star Trek comic books line. His stories from this period are fun and…
When we say Doug Drexler is a Super Fan, we mean it! He’s not just a fan of Star Trek, though. Doug is a devoted fan to many other Sci-Fi franchises and media, including Marvel Comics! Doug grew up in the 1960s as a Marvel Comics fan. He shares his memories of living in the Greater New York area and realizing it was the center of the Marvel Universe. While working at the Federation Trading Post in Manhattan during the 1970s, he was able to meet many Marvel artists and writers, including Stan Lee himself! Doug grew up as Marvel…