On this episode of 70s Trek, co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto are celebrating the show’s 75th episode and looking back on what’s been discussed so far.
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The editors at Bantam saw the growing Trek phenomenon in the 1970s and decided to take a chance on original Star Trek fiction.
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 Horatio Hornblower books by author C.S. Forester were the blueprint for the development of the Star Trek character Captain Kirk.
In 1970 there was only 1 Star Trek show, the original series that aired from 1966 to 1969, and that’s all we knew.