FACT TREK — Facts on the Final Frontier

Let @trekfactcheck, @8bit_maurice be your guides through the production of the original STAR TREK and its place in TV history. Context is king! We cite sources!

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#OTD 49 years ago, actor/writer Stanley Adams died. Here's an In Memoriam about him from the Inside Star Trek/Star Trek Trektennial News, Vol. III, No. 22, 1977.

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AlexShatner the Great?
A big-budget pilot starring William Shatner, Adam West, devised by the creator of Combat! How could that miss?
But it did. Nothing’s guaranteed in TV.
Get the full story ➡️ https://t.co/h4dYcKCZUw

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"It's a faaaake!" AI fuckery fakery is everywhere, like this image we found on an article. Such photo-real nonsense confuses the historical record — caveat emptor.

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The last episode of Star Trek had wrapped filming month before this interview; there was no letter-writing campaign of the magnitude of the previous year. The timeslot move mentioned was for the summer, which would be led off by "Turnabout Intruder".

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#OTD 60 years ago, a Friday, Daily Variety reported that #StarTrek had received a firm order to go to series for the fall season.

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March 6, 1968 - The sci-fi series “Lost in Space” aired its final episode on CBS-TV. #Lostinspace

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@SubcommanderT The image is the work of Andrew Probert.

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@SubcommanderT @ukrockdrummer Provenance of the photo?

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We’ve been Fact Trekking even longer! #MyXAnniversary

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Laugh-In was a mid-season replacement for axed The Man From UNCLE Mondays at 8. NBC eyed #StarTrek for that slot, but left it where it was for the duration of the season. Laugh-In was a hit NBC wouldn't risk moving, & Trek ended up in its originally planned Friday 10 pm slot.

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January 22, 1968 - “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” debuted on NBC-TV. #Sockittome

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Before #Batman or #StarTrek, #AdamWest played co-star to @WilliamShatner in the expen$ive pilot ALEXANDER THE GREAT. It was pencilled into the fall 1964 schedule but dropped in favor of "The Greatest Show On Earth." You can watch it here ⤵️ https://t.co/XOiKNEgWeO

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#OTD 1966, ABC premiered #BATMAN, with a 30.7 audience share & WHAM! POW!ed both CBS's Lost In Space & NBC's The Virginian. The show was a big hit at first, but quickly burned out. By the start of its 2nd season in September, it often placed last.
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@StarTrekMinute I realize this post is very old, but the Computerettes' heads appear to have been reworked for the IL Series Cylons—notably Lucifer—in the original Battlestar Galactica.

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And this kind of AI crap is only going to further muddy the historical record as to how movies & TV shows—and everything—were made.
@showtoolsai https://t.co/ixLDqB6CvE

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Star Trek IV premiered 39 years ago today. 🐋🐋 Wonder what the film's locations look like today? Check out this fan-made short, shot in the same places and using the same angles. It's Kirk (Punk on Bus) Thatcher approved!
https://t.co/idiagZb8dv

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#OTD 40 years ago, #MacGyver premiered on ABC-TV. The first episode—"Pilot"— featured a #StarTrek connection, as series star & a guest star made their way through a control room set that is actually a redress of the Star Trek 2/3 torpedo deck (TMP Klingon bridge).
#MacGyverDay

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59 years ago today, STAR TREK made its NBC-TV debut. Here are three newspaper clippings from that date. One brief review mentions the paucity of roles for Blacks on TV that season.

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Sometime after spring in 1967, Leonard Nimoy stopped into the #KGW studios in #Portland, Oregon to chat about playing Spock.
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@KGWNews #StarTrek #Spock

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@MadKat1964 @SubcommanderT Respectfully, how would they know? They weren't involved with visual effects unless a shot involved their characters.