More serious business at #STLV.

#STLV Fact Trekker Maurice w/@davidtilotta.bsky.social … again. 🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻

#STLV August 5. 1. Fact Trekker Maurice w/ @davidtilotta.bsky.social 2. The OG U.S.S. Enterprise built by Richard Datin. 3. Meeting a very "expendable" redshirt. 4. Maurice is an Old Fashioned kinda guy.

DID YOU KNOW the iconic Klingon emblem was envisaged by Matt Jefferies as the Klingon Fleet emblem, and pointed to the side rather than up? It appears that way in "Elaan of Troyius" and on the battlecruiser miniature. #StarTrek60

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle… Images: kustomrama.com/wiki/Reactor

Take a memo… Top of the first page of a memo from Gene Roddenberry to Fred Freiberger, ccing Bob Justman and Arthur Singer, on the subject of the script for "The Last Gunfight" (renamed "Spectre of the Gun") by Lee Cronin (pseudonym of Gene L. Coon), dated May 15, 1968.

Tonight’s Fact Trek bedtime reading material from 1959.

Be glad it never got beyond the "springboard" phase.

From the July 18, 1968 De Forest Research report on "In Essence—Nothing" aka "The Tholian Web". "Sigh" indeed! #StarTrekExcerpt

Page 3 The Nov-Dec 1977 issues of the Star Trektennial News (aka Inside Star Trek) newsletter where the in-development series is called "Star Trek II". Check out the set photos! #StarTrek

#OTD 49 years ago, actor/writer Stanley Adams died. Here's an In Memoriam about him from the Inside Star Trek/Star Trek Trektennial News, Vol. III, No. 22- July-August, 1977. If you or someone you know is struggling, in the US call or text the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. #StarTrek

@williamshatner.bsky.social #WilliamShatner #StarTrek #Batman

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

"It's a faaaake!" AI fuckery fakery is everywhere, like this image we found on an article. Such photo-real nonsense confuses the historical record — caveat emptor. #StarTrek

#OTD 59 years ago, Broadcasting magazine printed this Sid Hix cartoon playing on the name Uncle Sam & former hit, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was fading in the ratings & would vanish in less than a year. #StarTrek was a candidate to fill its 1967–68 timeslot, but NBC put Laugh-In there instead.

When Lt. Uhura appeared in the #StarTrek 1966 debut, she was boldly going where no Black woman had gone before—as a continuing network TV character in an aspirational future where skin color didn’t matter. Learn how this. happened & why it matters ➡️ www.facttrek.com/blog/uhura #BlackHistoryMonth

"Mister Spock here. We're intercepting a follow-up message, sir. There are crash survivors on Talos." The gooseneck viewers from the first pilot resemble the 1964 AT&T Picturephone 1, as encountered by the Fact Trek landing party at #SFO. More ➡️ www.facttrek.com/blog/fliptop

Speaking of #Batman…before it or #StarTrek, #AdamWest played co-star to #WilliamShatner in the very expen$ive TV pilot ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Pencilled into the fall 1964 schedule but dropped in favor of "The Greatest Show On Earth." You can watch the pilot here ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Crc...

Have we mentioned that Robert H. "Bob" Justman hated what we now call "small galaxy syndrome"? Well, Dorothy Fontana hated small galaxy syndrome too. From a 1967-06-30 Fontana-penned memo about Sturgeon's "He Walked Among Us"

Additional data point from The Houston Chronicle, September 18, 1967, page 15, mentioning the Spock spoofage.

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.

We honestly have no idea who made this, but as retro-guys, we decided it was too good not to share. Someone told us it was seen on Threads. If you know who made it or where it was originally posted, let us know! We'd love to give credit where it's due. #StarTrek #AppleII

🐋🐋 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was released on VHS home video in the USA just 10 months after its theatrical release, whereas today it can be as little as two from theaters to home. 🏠 📼 And that $29.95 price? It'd be about $85–$90 today! 💸 #StarTrek #VHS #HomeVideo

#OTD 1979. The Day After TMP's premiere… 1979-12-08, Saturday, Pages A1 & A5 of the Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana. #StarTrek #STTMP

I still see it on this end, at least on the recommended list, alongside a video.

Introduce yourself with four spaceships. Technically five…

2️⃣ 📅 On Oct 21, 2025, Supervisor Chan led the SF Board of Supervisors in declaring Oct 22 as Internet Archive Day — a citywide salute to saving the web & preserving knowledge for generations.

#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

Pamelyn Ferdin shared this photo of the guest cast of "And the Children Shall Lead" on her Facebook page a few weeks ago. Looks like even the Friendly Angel got ice cream that day. SOURCE: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... #StarTrekDay #StarTrek @steveshives.bsky.social

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