I've written here before about my enduring love for The Best of Trek Signet Books. These are compilations from Trek Magazine, featuring the best articles and features from that periodical.
I also have in my collection one (and only one...) issue of the magazine, from 1974 or 1975, I believe.
It was purchased at a convention by a friend of mine, David in high school. We were in marching band together, and when he found out I was a Star Trek fan, he gave it to me.
So the magazine is forty plus years old, and I've had it in my collection for twenty-five years and counting. It's a little stained and wrinkled in places, for sure.
But I am posting some photos from the magazine today anyway, so you can get a sense of Trek fandom, pre-Internet, pre-Starlog Era, even.
One feature in the magazine is "Starship Chronicles," which is a kind of pictorial re-cap of a particular episode.
The episode covered in this issue is "Arena" (the one with the Gorn).
The same issue also features interviews with Walter Koenig and Leonard Nimoy.
I also find the ads -- from the Star Trek "Super Sales Center"-- in the magazine extremely "fascinating" (to appropriate some terminology from Mr. Spock).
...AMT Model kits, Star Trek Viewmasters, Mr. Spock "life-like" masks and more.
Imagine, for a moment (or should I say, remember...) a time when you could still order all those items and not pay crazy collectible prices for them...
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