#60s sci-fi

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Attack from Space (1965)

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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey

Cover art by Lena Fong Lueg

Walker & Co 1969

How can one girls save an entire world?

To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright.

But everything changes when she meets a Queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread and the blood-red star, but there are very few of them left these days. Only the gigantic, golden Queen can breed new dragons. And the Queen is fading... dying...

Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world...

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY WITH DAX & SISKO ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE -- HAPPY "SCI-FI FRI."

PIC(S) INFO: Mega Spotlight on assorted Television stills of Lieutenant Jadzia Dax and Captain Benjamin Sisko aboard the USS Enterprise, from "Trials and Tribble-ations," the 104th episode of the American science fiction television series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

The sixth episode of the fifth season, it first aired on November 4, 1996 and was written as a tribute to the original series of "STAR TREK," in the 30th anniversary year of the show.

EPISODE SYNOPSIS: "When Temporal Investigations arrives on Deep Space 9, Sisko recounts how he and the crew of the Defiant traveled back in time to the 23rd century to prevent the assassination of Captain James T. Kirk during the original Enterprise's mission to Space Station K-7."

Sources: https://dashorst.github.io/notsorandomtrek/ds9-s05.html, Wikipedia, IMDb, Memory Alpha Fandom, Pinterest, various, etc...

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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

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The Proteus submarine from Fantastic Voyage (1966)

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Carroll O'Connor in The Time Tunnel

The Last Patrol - Season 1, Episode 5 - 7 Oct. 1966

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William Marshall as Dr. Richard Daystrom in Star Trek episode “The Ultimate Computer”

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5″ x 11″, 2023

By Josh Ryals

[thefrostychemist]

Old 60s practical effects are the best, bring back more of that. I want obvious, minimally-articulated dinosaur costumes. I want sets made of paper mache. I want dead monsters to look like climbable sculptures at a park. I want space ships to be models held up by springs. Not a huge fan of the every-race-is-just-a-slightly-different-human aesthetic tho, you can keep that.

[jamdoughnutmagician]

Of course we know that Eddie is the big fantasy nerd, with his love of D&D, he was probably an avid reader of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and almost definitely made Wayne sit through numerous re-watches of The Wizard of Oz as a kid.

But when he gets together with Steve he realises that Steve 'the hair' Harrington isn't quite the meat-head jock that he remembers him to be in high school.

Eddie was flicking through the channels looking for something for them to watch when Steve comes in holding a bowl of popcorn in his hands as he scoots up close to Eddie.

"Hey, go back a minute, I think I saw something good." Steve says, tapping Eddie on the arm.

Eddie flicks back the channel and it lands on a re-run episode of the original series of Star Trek.

"Man, I used to be obsessed with this show as a kid." Steve says, throwing back a handful of popcorn. "Never missed an episode."

"Wait, you wanna watch Star Trek?" Eddie asked, raising his eyebrows at Steve's admission. His boyfriend was a secret geek.

"Yeah it's a good show. I think I even dressed up as Captain Kirk for Halloween one year. " scratch that Steve Harrington was a full on nerd.

"Sure, we can watch this." Eddie smirks, settling back against Steve.

"Hey, Eddie, did you ever watch that show about the alien in the time-travelling police box?"

It appears that the nerd-levels ran deep with Steve.

Eddie shakes his head at his boyfriend.

"Always watched that one too, actually, I still do." Steve smiles. "My grandma knitted me the long multicoloured scarf for Christmas when I was younger."

"Stevie, why didn't you tell me you were such a science fiction nerd?"

"You never asked."

Eddie might have been the fantasy lover between the two of them, but when it came down to it, Steve was most definitely the sci-fi geek.

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Steinar Lund, Morris Scott Dollens, Ray Feibush, and Robert McCall.

[thegroovyarchives]

1960's-1980's Star Trek TV Guide advertisements

1. December 2nd-8th, 1967, New England 2. September 26th-October 2nd, 1970, Central VA/North Carolina 3. September 20th-26th, 1969, Northern California 4. August 21st-27th, 1982, Vermont 5. April 1st-7th, 1972, Ohio (via: archive.org/Pinterest)

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Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock - Star Trek (1967)

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"…THEIR MOCK-HUMAN EXISTENCE, BEGUN IN AGONY, WAS ONE LONG INTERNAL STRUGGLE…"

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an original painting by William Douglas Rosa (1932-1977), used as cover art to H.G. Well's "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) paperback, published by Magnum Books in 1968.

"Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau."

-- EDWARD PRENDICK, from "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), written by H.G. Wells

Sources: www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2013/12/18/doctor-moreau-book-covers & Pinterest.

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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

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Fantastic Voyage (1966)