Per the WGA (which has posted four months' worth of death notices after settling its lengthy staff strike) ... Johnny Dawkins, a writer for LOU GRANT and a story editor on S1 of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and THE BRONX ZOO, died on March 20 at 74. www.wga.org/news-events/...

AlexShatner the Great? A big-budget pilot starring William Shatner, Adam West, devised by the creator of Combat! How could that miss? Had it sold, we might never have gotten both actors in the roles that defined their careers. Read the full piece ➡️ www.facttrek.com/blog/alexander

Atlanta Journal, April 19, 1967. SPOCK SINGS: Leonard Nimoy, my old Army companion who now stars in "Star Trek," warned me that he had a record album coming out—and he wasn't kidding. It emerged this week on Dot (DLP 25794). The title is "Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space."

Eugene Register-Guard, March 22, 1967. "Gunsmoke," which looked healthy enough in the Nielsens, recently was pulling a 21.7 rating and placed 26th in the popularity poll. That was better than "The Monkees," "Star Trek," "Lost in Space"—all renewed and all counted among the successful programs.

The *last* lost episode. We did it, folks.

Star Trek's "Turnabout Intruder" was the only first-run episode to air on a Tuesday night. It was summer re-run season. Here's a peek at the Nielsens confirming this.

Sixty years ago today the score to "Star Trek's" second pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was recorded. It was composed and conducted by Alexander Courage.

Surprisingly detailed bit of mainstream TV history here, including quotes from a 93 year-old actor who had a brief TV career in the 1970s-80s. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

Aug 1967 / TV Radio Mirror / A great profile on Leonard Nimoy where he recounts meeting JFK in 1956 when he was a taxi driver—JFK encouaged Nimoy to pursue his dream to become an actor! Read the full interview here:

I knew Ralph for over 20 years. The day I spent with him in Carmel in 2004 was one of the highlights of my so-called career. Along with Norman Lloyd, he was one of only two sources I interviewed at length who seemed to have nearly total recall. A gold mine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...

#OTD 40 years ago, #MacGyver premiered on ABC-TV. The first episode—"Pilot"— featured a #StarTrek connection, as series star & a guest star made their way through a control room set that is actually a redress of the Star Trek 2/3 torpedo deck (TMP Klingon bridge). #MacGyverDay

Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1977. William Shatner is confirmed to star in the new Paramount television series STAR TREK II. (The series would not have been called STAR TREK: PHASE II. It just wouldn't have.)

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September 11, 1966. STAR TREK was a documentary! "The Enterprise actually 'exists'. It was built on stage number 9 at Desilu Studios in Hollywood, and while Jimmy Rugg, special effects man who supervised its construction, admits it won't fly, it does almost anything else."

59 years ago today Star Trek made its NBC-TV debut. Here are three newspaper clippings from that date. One brief review mentions the paucity of roles for Blacks on TV that season. #StarTrekDay #StarTrek

While in Las Vegas, when one your Fact Trekkers asked him to turn down that damn noise, this punk gave him the finger, which then got him a neck pinch. All was good after. Fact. #STLV

After over eight hours of Zoom interviews and many phone calls, one of us finally got to meet the amazing Joseph F. D‘Agosta in the flesh. Joe cast TOS and other shows at Desilu, amongst a jillion other accomplishments. He’s a guest at #STLV. #StarTrek

My friend of 50+years, Ted Cordes, has passed. He was head of Broadcast Standards at NBC and worked with Johnny Carson, Tom Snyder and #StarTrek. Fascinating stories about all 3: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

Big thanks to my friends at @trekcore.com who have edited together the bridge footage with Kirk in command, spread over 8 #StarTrekTOS season 1-3 episodes and put it all back together into one long sequence, the way it was originally filmed almost 60 years ago. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WM9...

Preservation matters. Check this out.

Possibly the 1st-ever #StarTrek TV parody was the sketch STAR TRIP: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA ROBOT? on the 2nd-ever episode of the CAROL BURNETT SHOW, Sept. 18, 1967. It begins at 18:09 in the linked video. Guest Sid Caesar played Mr. Spook. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEuf... @trekmovie.bsky.social

Leonard Nimoy, March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015. On an overcast and rainy day in April 1967, before Star Trek's second season started filming, Mr. Nimoy gave an outdoor performance in Agawam, MA. He sang, played his guitar, read poems, told stories, and answered questions from the audience.

Who was John D.F. Black, and why did his script for "The Naked Time" cause so many problems for the #StarTrek production? The naked truth in our article "The Naked Time Warp." www.facttrek.com/blog/naked2 @trekcore.com @trekmovie.bsky.social @inglorioustrek.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social

After 22 months, a ton of research & delays caused by real-life concerns, we've finally dotted all the i's & crossed the t's on this follow-up II to our "The Naked Cliffhanger" article. 64 citations! When we say "we cite sources," we ain't fooling around. #StarTrek #StarTrekHistory #Roddenberry

Love the photo. Thought I would reply with one of my own, from the early '70s. Left to right: me, John Trimble, Nichelle, and, in costume, Janos Prohaska, whose Star Trek roles included the Horta and the Mugato. Mayor Sam Yorty had proclaimed it Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Week in Los Angeles.

Fifty-seven years ago today, Star Trek: The Original Series got back to work after the holiday. Filming began on "Assignment: Earth."

After much research, interviews, and pesky real-life concerns, we're back hammering away on articles! Citation! Citation! Citation!

Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new? Your support makes it possible! 👉 Like & share to spread the word. 💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

I am greatly surprised and gratified by this honor, but I feel bound to say in the same breath that #StarTrekIITheWrathofKhan stands on the shoulders of many who contributed to the film as well as those who have gone before. Alas, they are not here to take their well-deserved bows. 1/3

Slating a deleted scene for "Who Mourns For Adonais".

Vintage news report from December 7, 1979 when #StarTrek – The Motion Picture opened.

"Gentlemen, if those are weapons, please lower them. At my age, I'm afraid I'm not very dangerous." 56 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln was filmed beaming aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek's "The Savage Curtain."

This is actually scene 105B, camera setup B. During the script revisions, it was decided that several new scenes needed to be added between scenes 105 and 106. In order to preserve the scene numbering in the existing script, they used letters following the number 105, i.e., 104A, 105B, etc.

The blue sky wave continues to roll in and we've tripled out number of followers. A lot of you are probably new to us, so we're going to share our backlog of articles over the next days in case some tickle your fancy. Let's begin at the beginning with our Mission Statement...

#FactTrek60 60 years and a few days ago, Variety posted casting notices for #StarTrek even as it was filming.

"We've got to make a run for it! We can't just stand here!" Sulu and O'Neil will soon be of the body. Star Trek's "The Return of the Archons" was filming at the 40 Acres backlot 58 years ago today.

And the band played on, despite being distracted. On this date, 60 years ago, Pike's Orion illusion sequence in Star Trek's "The Cage" was filmed.

STEVE CANYON expert John Ellis just figured out that one of the writers of that show's pilot was a pseudonymous ... Aaron Spelling.

Desert Sun, December 10, 1979. 45 years ago today, on December 2, 1979, Robert Wise completed his work on the first Star Trek movie. A beloved fan myth is that work continued up until the December 6 premiere, that the "print was still wet" and nobody had seen the effects yet, but it's not true.

#FactTrek60. #OTD 1964 Hollywood gossip legend Hedda Hopper dropped a tidbit about the #StarTrek pilot and Susan Oliver's green complexion, which would go before the cameras in the following weeks.

In November 1971 Leonard Nimoy discussed performing in "The Man in the Glass Booth" a play inspired by the trial of the German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, and what such trials mean. He also talked about #StarTrek. 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻

New on the blog .... A sort of combined obituary for STAR TREK's Jeri Taylor, who died last month at 86, with quotes from her about her husband David Moessinger, who died in 2018. classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/j...

When the original 33" model of the USS Enterprise resurfaced after ≈45 years, many asked who had it…and why? Star Trek Lost Scenes co-author @DavidTilotta has answers! @trekmovie.bsky.social @inglorioustrek.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS @startrek.bsky.social