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Neil S. Bulk @nsbulk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

60 years ago today, Fred Steiner recorded the partial scores to the Star Trek episodes "Balance of Terror, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?," and "The Corbomite Maneuver." The cello version of the main and end titles were also recorded as well as library cues by Joseph Mullendore. Busy day! #TOSMusic

Sound report from September 20, 1966. On this reel they recorded the revised end and main titles as well as music from "Balance of Terror" and "What Are Little Girls Made Of." You can see which cues were recorded to this tape and which takes were selected.

Shows Directed by Vincent McEveety, James Goldstone and Joseph Sargent
Shows Written by Paul Schneider, Robert Bloch and Jerry Sohl

Starring
William Shatner (Kirk)
Leonard Nimoy (Spock)
DeForest Kelley (McCoy)
George Takei (Sulu)
James Doohan (Scotty)
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura)
Grace Lee Whitney (Rand)
Majel Barrett (Chapel)
Mark Lenard (Romulan Commander)
Ted Cassidy (Ruk)
Clint Howard (Balok)

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 16/09/2026

Rather lame industrial film with faux #StarTrek framing, featuring William Shatner in the non-Trek interstitials. All it needs is a laugh track to be a bad NBC sitcom of the era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y59...

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Star Trek Parody with William Shatner for Kero Sun Heaters

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Courier-News, September 15, 1967. Star Trek Would you suspect that Mr. Spock could be the center of a sex story? Well, it's true, as the usually unemotional Vulcan displays more than average nerves. In fact his unusual biological makeup threatens to kill unless he returns to his native planet.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

San Antonio Light, September 15, 1967. Star Trek (Premiere) "Amok Time." Good show for regular fans, this intelligent science-fiction series should win even more fans in its new time slot. Mr. Spock has to return to his home planet to marry the doll selected for him once he gets the mating urge.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Charlotte Observer, September 15, 1967. Blows His Cool Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) squares off with Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) while the object of Spock's attention, T'Pring (Arlene Martel), looks on in this scene from "Amok Time." It all takes place on the premier segment of "Star Trek" tonight.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fresno Bee, August 24, 1967. 8:30 PM in Color Star Trek starring William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1967. George Takei, featured as Mr. Sulu in the Star Trek television series, has been signed for the role of Vietnamese Capt. Nim in "The Green Berets," starring John Wayne, Batjac production for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 09/08/2026

Ran into @mikeokuda.bsky.social today at #STLV and finally got to chat with Denise, albeit briefly. ALWAYS a pleasure.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 07/08/2026

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

Maurice Molyneaux of Fact Trek w/David Tilotta at the Rio in Vegas for the STLV convention.

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Bill Kobylak @yimyames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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#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.

Maurice Molyneaux of Fact Trek with David Tilotta, co-author of Star Trek Lost Scenes and Star Trek Lost History, at STLV 2026.

The OG Enterprise model by Richard Datin, at STLV 2026.

Meeting a very expendable redshirt at STLV 2026.

Maurice is an Old Fashioned guy, at STLV 2026.

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David Tilotta @davidtilotta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One of my favorite Star Trek Original Series episodes, "The Deadly Years," was in production 59 years ago today. There are two interesting things about this picture (from a film frame): 1). Bill McGovern, the 2nd Assistant Camera operating the slate, is standing on a plywood sheet used to create...

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 01/08/2026

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

Matt Jefferies' drawing of the "Klingon Fleet emblem," ca. 1968.

The "Klingon Fleet emblem" makes its first clear appearance in "Elaan of Troyius," in its original right-facing orientation.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 21/07/2026

The first attempts to revive Star Trek resulted in unproduced projects that became legendary … though some of their most familiar names were never their actual titles. This is the story of how Star Trek history got a little loose with its names. Read it here www.facttrek.com/blog/otherna...

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By Any Other Names — FACT TREK

The first attempts to bring Star Trek back after the original series resulted in unproduced projects that became legendary … even though some of their most familiar names were never their actual…

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 14/07/2026

"Will the real Gene Roddenberry please stand up." It's 1975, and the panel of Garry Moore's To Tell The Truth must figure out who's the real Great Bird of the Galaxy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vztZ...

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To Tell the Truth - Gene Roddenberry

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Orlando Evening Star, June 17, 1967. "Well, I'd say 'Star Trek' is one show that got off the ground! Ha-ha-ha...ha...ha!"

cartoon of a bald man laughing at his own joke while his wife glares with seething hatred

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 17/06/2026

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

The Reactor show car visits a strange new world with a strangely dressed woman.

The Reactor appeared in several television series. In 1967 it appeared as the Reactor Mach II in a Bewitched episode called "Supercar".

William Shatner in Captain Kirk garb seated on a front wheel of the Reactor, ca. 1967.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 17/06/2026

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.

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.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 31/05/2026

Tonight’s Fact Trek bedtime reading material from 1959.

Cover of the 1959 “Occasional Paper” titled “Taste and the Censor In Television” by Charles Winick.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 29/05/2026

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

Excerpt from de Forest Research report, July 18, 1968 on “IN ESSENCE--NOTHING” BY JUDY BURNS AND CHET RICHARDS.
PAGE 57, SCENE 108, COMMENT: EXOBIOLOGY LAB - de Forest Research has fought for this word on several occasions but each time it has been changed to Astrobiology. Must now recommend change to Astrobiology for consistency. (damn)

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Bill Kobylak @yimyames.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 18/05/2026

Thanks to Bill Kobylak for sharing these. Want more Shatner as Alexander? Check out our article "AlexShatner the Great?" here: www.facttrek.com/blog/alexander

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Sacramento Bee, May 18, 1967. STAR TREK: "The Menagerie." Part I; repeat. Capt. Kirk's trusted aide, Dr. Spock, shocks the captain and everyone concerned with the space research program, by rerouting the path of the Enterprise to the forbidden planet of Talos IV.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Arizona Republic, May 18, 1967. Star Trek: Outside of "Dragnet," perhaps the season's best series (unfortunately, that's not as much of a backpat as we'd like it to be): tonight Kirk has to take up arms against a of troubles — primarily, an extraearthly judge who has sentenced the crew to death.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 18/05/2026

@yimyames.bsky.social Hi Bill. Did you see our Alexander piece? And could I have permission to share your Alexander images in the article?

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 30/04/2026

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

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 27/04/2026

#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

Scanned page from Inside Star Trek/Star Trek Trektennial News, July–August 1977, page 8. The page is titled “IN MEMORIAM” and features a small black-and-white portrait of actor Stanley Adams above the caption “Stanley Adams 1915–1977.” The article notes Adams, remembered by Star Trek fans as Cyrano Jones in “The Trouble With Tribbles,” died April 27, 1977, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The text summarizes his career as a writer and character actor in film, television, and radio, lists several film credits, notes his membership in industry guilds, and mentions surviving family members. A quote from David Gerrold at STARCON ’77 closes the tribute. Red overlay text at the top adds a modern note about the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 26/04/2026

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

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Bill Kobylak @yimyames.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 02/04/2026

"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

AI-generated take photo depicting William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy bracketing Lucille Ball. Tells of fakery include Lucy's too small head, Nimoy's face, and incorrect costume details.

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Bill Kobylak @yimyames.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

DC Fontana’s 1961 Scriptwriting flyer

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 23/03/2026

The last episode of Star Trek had wrapped filming month before this interview; there was no letter-writing campaign of the magnitude of the previous year. The timeslot move mentioned was for the summer, which would be led off by "Turnabout Intruder". www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVO...

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Newly uncovered William Shatner TV 8 interview February 1969

YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 27/02/2026

#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.

A Sid Hix cartoon showing a man carrying a briefcase labeled Internal Revenue Dept. speaking to a receptionist at a TV station office. The receptionist looks startled, while in the office the station manager watches nervously from behind his desk. The caption reads, “Just tell him it’s the man from uncle!” Text at bottom right identifies the source as BROADCASTING, February 27, 1967 p116.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Boston Globe, February 26, 1967. "You have not written about Star Trek since its opening show. What do you think about it?"—Donna (I think that it was unfortunate in its choice of an opening episode, but that it has improved immeasurably since then. It is exceptionally well produced and written).

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1967. SCIENCE OFFICER Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a man incapable of emotion, falls in love for the first time with Jill Ireland on Star Trek, Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in color on Channels 4 and 3.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hartford Courant, February 12, 1967 AIDS ENEMY: Madlyn Rhue portrays spacecraft crew member Marla who is torn between duty & love when her lover attempts to seize control of the Enterprise in his quest for world power in "Space Seed" on the NBC colorcast of "Star Trek" Thursday from 8:30 - 9:30p.m.

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Bill Kobylak @yimyames.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 14/02/2026

One wonders from whence these "news" items originated.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Monster Times 1, no. 26 (September 1973), 15. At the recent ST-Equicon speculation ran the full spectrum from delighted anticipation to utter dread. A few Trekkies are so utterly horrified by the prospect of the animated series that they are already readying petitions to protest its very existence.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Exhibitors Herald-World, February 9, 1929. Texas Guinan was the real-life nightclub manager who was the inspiration for the name of Whoopi Goldberg's Star Trek character.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 02/02/2026

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

Nichelle Nichols in a Star Trek publicity photo circa 1966

Charles Washburn and Nichelle Nichols on the Star Trek set circa 1967

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Note to self: Richard and Linda Thompson's "For Shame of Doing Wrong" is capo 2 with a D-C-G-D progression, and This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren" is capo 3 with a G-D-C-Em progression. If I remember those details, I will definitely *not* botch either song at the open mic tomorrow night.

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