I like to think I’m a jaded collector and stoic (Spock-like)
when I meet celebs. You also know my
stoicism fails and I do fanboy at times. I’ve always been very honest about
geeking out or speaking gibberish when I meet celebs. Here comes some honesty.
When Star Trek first aired, it was popular but not a ‘hit'. It was only going to get 2 seasons and then
fade to a memory that a few would remember. Our heroes, Bjo and John Trimble, were
the people that organized the letter writing campaign that moved Star Trek from
a fading memory to a third season.
You are thinking, no big deal. Star Trek got a third season.
So what? Syndication and reruns are all
about numbers. A show with 2 seasons collects dust on the shelf. A show with 3 or more seasons gets seen in
reruns on UHF for the next 50 years.
Because of the efforts from Bjo and John, Star Trek did not fade.
The impact of the third season is massive. Let me spell it
out for the Star Wars fans out there:
Without the
24 episodes in season 3, there would never been an animated series
No Star Trek: The Motion Picture
No Star Trek:
The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, or Enterprise
No Star Trek
Experience in Vegas
No movie for JJ Abrams to direct Chris
Pine and Zachery Quinto
No novels
and comic books that numbers in the hundreds
My point,
all Star Trek fans owe a tip of the hat to these two. Without them you would
not have Trek in your lives. I truly
mean that.
