r/ClassicTrek

via @pikeshorse

“Those rumors. But Starfleet Investigative Services cleared him of any wrong doing.

I wonder if this will be readable in hi def?

And this sentence will take us off the end of the page in such a way that it ends in the middle of a very important thought. Unreadable biographical text goes here. It would be telling us vital information about the handsome fellow pictured to the right, but let’s face it, writing all that up for every single person would take more time than I care to spend. In the end, it will be so small, no one will be able to read it.

Instead, I will write sentences of sufficiently different lengths so that it looks like regular English usage.

See how nice and short that last sentence was? This will be a longer paragraph made up of several sentences, as if listing the many amazing accomplishments of the too soon departed Ensign Wallace. After all, Riker remembers him so fondly. He must have been a pretty terrific guy. I mean, sure there were”

Via TrekCore

Back in the 1970s, I not only had a growing obsession with Star Trek in general, but was desperate for news on the aborted Phase II television series. Flash forward to the 1980s and the aftermath of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and I had begun working as an entertainment journalist, through which I began really digging for information in Phase II. The result was the first book on the subject, Trek: The Lost Years, which chronicled the making of Phase II and featured interviews with many of the key players. That got expanded even more in the oral history book I co-wrote with Mark A. Altman, The Fifty-Year Mission. And now I've put together this guide—featuring the comments of various writers and producers, looking at 19 stories written for that show that was never to be. I hope you'll check it out and welcome your feelings about Star Trek: Phase II as a whole. https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/classic-tv/lost-star-trek-episodes-from-the-unproduced-phase-ii-series

pics via @portalrealm

There's only 5 of them, but they're fun little things that are actually usable, several of which I use daily.

1. Stelton salt & pepper shakers, TOS

2. Alessi II Conico kettle, TNG

3. Bodum Chambord sugar bowl, VOY

4. *Stelton EM77 pitcher, VOY

5. Bodum Bistro cup, TNG

6. The TOS "medical scanners", I searched thrift and antique stores for literally years for these as a fun little personal treasure hunt. But after probably 4 years of that, I caved and bought them online.

7. I've had this for a couple years now and never used it, it was more a beautiful object on my shelf... until recently I moved to a new place that had an induction stove top and I was scrambling to get not only new pots but also needed an electric kettle. It saved the day and I could still have tea!

8. Why was Janeway drinking out of this thing? We may never know.

9. This is my only brand new purchase, and not technically screen accurate. I needed an electric kettle, and none were used on Trek (that I'm aware of, let me know if there was!), but Stelton did have an electric version of the EM77.

10. The Picard tea cups. I have a bunch of these now, just found 4 of them for .50 cents a piece last week!

I'm looking to expand into furniture, maybe a chair (I did just buy an 80s Arflex chair soley because it looks like something straight out of TNG) but that gets expensive. I'm most interested in TOS and TNG, but VOY and DS9 are good, too.

Any suggestions of items I should look for next are welcome! Anyone have favorites to share?