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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 20/09/2026

Afraid we don't know the date. Don't see the pickup listed in Variety; however, a Feb. 17, 1988 item mentions the show returning. That was the week that "When the Bough Breaks" aired.

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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

YouTube video by tvdays

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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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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 06/08/2026

#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

YouTube video by BillCullenNet

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

The scale was known. This is almost certainly planning for the "wing walk", where to put the cameras, how much set to build, and how to do the matte painting.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 06/07/2026

Hey friend. So, looking at the reactions here, what do you think are practical steps we can take to curb or regulate the worst parts of these companies and their technologies?

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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

Kinda… but a "sort of comedy" version where the Japanese are running America and hating every minute of it.

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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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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 27/05/2026

Nice story, Harlan. No "runes" in any of the scripts we've ever seen.

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

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 25/05/2026

Well, now we know what Spock would look like on Family Circus.

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

Russell's Facebook page simply ID's that drawing as "New San Francisco". www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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

Thanks, friend. I always prefer to ask. Are these images from your collection that should be watermarked as such?

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

Our guess is that the plans for ST2 were pulled out, copied and updated to show how the set pieces went together so the crew could reassemble or redress it.

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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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