u/AnnieGoldleaf

Trek has always had a penchant for didactism throughout the franchise, some cloaked in heavy allegory, some more direct, some just enough with the details smudged, whether it's Let That Be Your Last Battlefield or The Outcast or Voyage Home. Some consider it preachy, others consider it the heart of the franchise.

My favorite remains Undiscovered Country, this wonderful story that challenges us as a Cold War audience to try to do the same as the crew in overcoming old biases, the collapsing Soviet Union for us, the collapsing Klingon Empire for them.

My understanding is that if the Fire scored last night, we'd get a free drink from McDonalds or if we had 4 corners, we'd get a free hot dog from Portillos? Did anyone get either?

I've been steadily growing more and more tinnitus over the last 20 years since I got out and someone mentioned to me the other day that I could probably get some VA benefits and treatment for that if I could somehow link that to my loud workplace environment on my ship, but I don't know where to start or how to even connect this buzzing to my service 20 years later.

What's one of those things that you swear you remember happening in the movies that isn't actually from the movies at all?

The last thing I saw with Luke, he had taken over as the crime boss of Harlem but now in Daredevil, he's a family man and CIA black ops guy? Did I miss a key chapter or conversation or is this ever discussed to begin with?

Cleaning the basement for the holiday weekend and I came across a trove of old zines and my program from TrekCon 2 in 1980 at the Melbourne Sheraton. Wish I could post pictures here!

I know Reddit isn't necessarily where the Old Farts hang out, but does anyone else have memories of those old TrekCons or that Golden Age of 70s Trek fandom?