Leonard Nimoy’s portrayal of Spock made Star Trek special. It’s ironic that the actor who played an alien character is remembered as one of the most human on the show.
70s TREK - Star Trek in the 1970s
This is a re-broadcast of Episode 7. Gene Coon was a writer and producer on Star Trek. Over the years he has become known as “The Forgotten Gene” or “The Other Gene” often getting confused with series creator Gene Roddenberry. But Coon’s impact is immeasurable on the original series. He is credited as developing some of the cornerstones on which the Star Trek Universe is built. The Federation, the Prime Directive and the Klingons are just a few of his creations while he worked on the show. He also wrote or produced some of the most memorable episodes of the…
Just two years after the publication of the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, some friends in Manhattan got the idea to do their own reference book. The result was the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (MRM). Early Beginnings The book was created by a group of young people who were in their teens and twenties. They knew each other through the Federation Trading Post, one of the first Star-Trek-oriented stores in the country. The Trading Post was located in Manhattan in the mid 1970s. Ron Barlow ran the Trading Post with Doug Drexler, who would later go on to be…
The fact that Star Trek was made at Desilu Studios, owned by Lucille Ball, makes the story of the show’s production just a little more special.
After The God Thing was rejected by Paramount, the studio sought ideas from other sci-fi writers for a Star Trek film.