#vintage trek

[thegeminisage]

SPOCKANALIA VOLUME 1 IS NOW ON AO3!

do you like vintage fanzines, but hate reading tiny font? do you love spock, but hate the headache you get from squinting at textured paper and imperfect scans? are you someone who wants to read SPOCKANALIA but has trouble getting your screenreader to cooperate with 60-year-old PDFS? have we ever got news for you. @maulthots and i have been very, very, VERY hard at work digitizing SPOCKANALIA, a SFW star trek fanzine about spock first published in 1967, and now you, YES YOU, can read it on AO3!

updated features of SPOCKANALIA on AO3 include:

text has been meticulously retyped and can now be read at whatever size you have your browser settings on, which means the line width also changes based on the width of your browser window or device screen

images are dynamic to fit on your screen whether you are on a pc or a mobile device so you don't have to scroll until your hand breaks and still only see mr. spock's eyelashes (you have to turn work skins on for this feature)

backgrounds/paper texture/echoes of ghost text removed (by hand!) from images for easier viewing, and in some cases the images have been rotated to correct tilted/sideways scanning

images come with ALT TEXT for those using screen readers!

here are a few before/after shots for your perusal:

so what are you waiting for?! get your inner 60s fangirl (gender neutral) on and read SPOCKANALIA today!!

and if you think this is COOL AS SHIT (i do), please consider giving this post a reblog or leaving us some love on AO3! we have only your good vibes to fuel us as we contemplate volume 2 💪

[holishkes]

I saw this CD for sale and thought hey, I have a CD drive and a tumblr where I sometimes upload old Trek stuff.

I haven't looked into whether this has been digitised anywhere already, but here it is in any case! I haven't even listened to it yet haha, so please let me know if there are any issues.

This is a CD that was distributed as part of the UK's official Star Trek fanclub in 2000.

When/if I have the time, I might listen and cut out clips I enjoy to post here. In the meantime, please have fun with these files, and please tag me if you do anything with them so I can see/hear!

Track list, back cover image, and download link below the cut.

Tracklist

Introduction (.48): Nicole de Boer welcomes you to Comlink - The official UK STAR TREK Fan Club CD.

Brannon Braga (11.06): Star Trek: Voyager's executive producer talks candidly about the series' sixth season.

Tim Russ (8.14): Tales of logic and what not to do with yoghurt - words of wisdom from Star Trek: Voyager's man of logic.

I,Q (5.06): An exclusive extract from Simon & Schuster's brand new audio novel I,Q, read by John de Lancie.

Nicole de Boer (13.14): The actress remembers her year on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with stories of beaming down, romance for Ezri and her comm badge moment…

Chase Masterson (9.59): Looking back on life as Leeta with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's very own Dabo girl.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Cast and Crew (7.24): The cast and crew of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine air their thoughts on the closing of the series.

[spinach-pine]

you really gotta stop laughing so much

you're going to bust a vein :*)

[spirk-trek]

Galactic Discourse Fanzine | Suzan Lovett, Nim, Pat Stall, Stefanie Hawks, Merle Decker, Laurie Huff, 1977-1987

[noyoucantdonteventry]

thought people might like to see this fun 1979 star trek stories for children record i have on my wall!

[doomed-jester]

"I don't like old sci-fi shows, the special effects look too cheesy" you are incapable of joy. Go to the dungeon.

[novice-crow]

I'm not the first, and with out a doubt not the last, but I edited Amanda and Sarek into a bunch of vintage paintings/illustrations your welcome. (I made way too many but whatever lol)

The Whitman's add is my favorite but I think all of them turned out pretty okay.

[moonflower-rose]

Friends, strangers, I want to share with you something I long thought I’d hallucinated, but which today I have discovered was absolutely real.

In the 90s my mum went to a number of Star Trek conventions and would often come home with a fan made tshirt. I need you to understand that my mother, barely 5’ tall, a catholic who to this day goes to church every Sunday, who was never heard to utter a swear word until I was in my twenties, who taught Grade One for decades at the local primary school. This woman, pure and innocent, went to a Star Trek convention and not only saw this tshirt but PURCHASED IT and now it’s been rediscovered in the garage and I’ve never been happier in my life.

I asked her what she was thinking and she said that she thought it was funny but when she brought it home my dad was (aside from side splittingly amused) absolutely adamant that she couldn’t wear it out in public because SHE WANTED TO DO THAT!! Grade One teacher, church on Sunday mum wanted to wear this around town! Who IS this woman I thought I knew??

Anyway now I have this awesome tshirt and I sort of want to frame it.

[amyspauldingart]

The Killing Game (ST:Voyager season 4, episode 18-19)

[gameraboy2]

1970 Star Trek Sugar Smacks

[startrekuniverse]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Star Trek USS Enterprise Action Playset and Action Figures - Mego (1974)

[lisamarie-vee]

[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)

[spirk-trek]

Julia Howarth, editor for The Communicator (a Star Trek fanzine/newsletter), 1975.

"There is a new baby in the family. His name is Randy. He is grey, with green teeth and a great carriage. He typed the entire COMMUNICATOR. He is my typewriter, which I up and bought with $20 that should have gone to the electric bill!" "[The Communicator] was assembled by literally cutting and pasting. Articles were cut out and glued on the pages. Artwork was also cut out and glued to the page. The titles and page numbers were hand written or calligraphed. Sources of artwork were fannish artists, prints of Star Trek film clips, TV Guides and newspapers, and photocopies of pictures from professional magazines. We then took the masters to one of the few copy shops available in the 1970s to print the pages. The magazine was hand folded and collated, then stapled with a tiny Swingline Cub stapler. This magazine was a very amateur labor of love."

[browsethestacks]

Leonard Nimoy The Activist

Leonard Nimoy Picketing At The 1981 WGA Strike

Leonard Nimoy At The 1989 National Organization Of Women Rally For Women's Rights For Abortion In Washington