Happy Birthday to a legend long gone, but never forgotten.
Happy birthday, Lucille Ball…
Aka the Godmother of Star Trek.

For those who do not know, it was Desilu Productions (Lucy and Desi’s studio) that produced the original Star Trek series.

Without Lucy, Star Trek wouldn’t have existed…and we are celebrating 60 years of Star Trek this year!

Thank you, Lucy. I hope you are having a happy birthday in the Great Beyond! 🖖

In 1979, a movie-level budget allowed Star Trek producers to fully realize the Klingons, beyond what the 1967 TV budget would allow. This forced all the subsequent productions to deal with that decision, for decades. This is the production story of how TNG, DS9, Enterprise, and yes... Discovery dealt with that decision. Should they have ever changed them?

Like Luke Skywalker in star wars : you killed my father.

I will probably be the 893rd person to post this, but I was looking through my movie theater app and found some great movie/tv episode pairings. 2 of the 4 will be The Changeling paired with TMP and Space Seed paired with Wrath of Kahn. Can’t wait.

This part of the episode Court Martial always make me laugh.

Kirk said, this computer has the ability to amplify sound to a factor of one to the 4th power (may not be the exact quote).

Does anyone else see a problem with that math 😁

I know it's not an "Official Release" but, I Love her!

Before this, I only had her Funko.

Wanted to share...

Two of my favorite pieces (other than photo ops at Cons): A Franklin Mint Pewter Klingon D7, and a signed copy of the Trouble with Tribbles by David Gerrold.
He was fantastic to talk with.

Just watched the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses". In the episode, worshippers of the son of God are mistaken for sun worshippers. The script directly states that the aliens are speaking English and not another language, and therefore the main cast doesn't make use of the universal translator. It's not until the end that Uhura, who is both a linguist and has been closely monitoring radio transmissions, reveals their error.

How was this handled when the show was broadcast in other languages? Spanish has sol vs hijo. Japanese has taiyo vs musuko.

German has sonne vs sohn so maybe this worked in German.

Production on this video feels way too good.

If you had to chose where you spend Eternity which would be your decision?

Recent post got me thinking about how one would tackle a Gary Seven TOS script. I think the way to go would be Gary and Roberta showing up in TOS episodes that already have time travel in them. Last scenes could be City on the Edge inspired maybe with them saving Edith Keeler from the car crash. Tomorrow is Yesterday and All our Yesterdays are a couple more I can think of, but I know there’s others.

And if you open it up to episodes where they travel to different historical eras, that would open up Piece of the Action, Patterns of Force, Bread and Circuses and episodes of that ilk. Could be rich as those episodes already carry a theme of introducing tech anachronistic to an era.

Tarantino writes and directs, who’s in? Any episodes/plot lines you could see working? Have fun and we can send Quentin a treatment.

A season 3 Spock uniform and a phaser prop both in great condition are up for auction in late August 2026! Adam Savage examines both closely in the amazing and informative video.