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.
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Star Trek
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.
There’s something lyrical about the name of a Star Trek show. They often refer to concepts from classic works.