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I guess the first one I went to was in 1976- I had attended and worked on numerous major comic book conventions from 1971-1974 while in junior high and high school here in Dallas, and Larry Herndon and Joe Bob Williams had produced them. They were catching wind of the draw of these these things around the country and threw one the spring of that year. I went, and back then, there wasn't a 10th of the merchandise available now- the previously mentioned blueprints, a few books, lots of cheap posters and stills- that was about it. STARLOG magazine was still about 6 months away. Oh, I remember if you had 80 beans to spare, you could buy a pretty good working replica of a phaser gun.
Nineteen hundred and seventy six- wow. 34 years ago.
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I attended a Star Trek Convention at the Hartford Civic Center in the mid-1970s. I don't remember much about it, except roaring at the blooper reel. Gene Roddenberry was the master of ceremonies, and I believe Walter Koenig appeared. It was one of the high points of my geeky teenage years.
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I'm watching "The Immunity Syndrome" and noticed that Lt. Kyle--your Agonizer, please--is in this one, in a gold shirt, working the helm. That led to me looking up the actor, John Winston--born in Leeds btw--and wondered if the actor ever did the Trek Convention circuit. His career was pretty much being Mr. Kyle though he had some small roles in the '70s. He's credited as having a cameo in Wrath of Khan, but I must have missed his appearance.
He's on the Reliant with Chekov and Terrell.
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Jul 10, 2015 - 7:40 PM
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Ado
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I always thought Shannon was very pretty, and it really hurt when the killed her off like that in TNG.
I wish I was around for those early years cons in the 70's, that seemed like a great time to be a fan, and attend those cons. I went to one Con, it ws Denver the year Final Frontier came out. I saw Harve Bennett and William Shatner speak in person. I thought that were both great, and they sold the picture very well. I found Harve a really down to earth speaker, a completely likable guy without any pretensions. It was at that con that I found the Silva Screen CD of Alien, I had been looking for that forever, when I saw it in the bin it was like lights came down from heaven. I still treasure it, it is a CD with a gold tint. That summer I went to see Final Frontier I think like 6 or 7 times, partly nostalgia for those guys. I always wanted to go to one of the big Cons like in Las Vegas, but I have never got there.
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Jul 10, 2015 - 9:36 PM
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I was a kid in the early days of Trek fandom (I was born between the second and third seasons, in June of '68 - I just turned 47 a couple weeks ago), and I also spent most of my youth overseas as an Air Force brat (where they do have conventions as well, of course, but I don't think they were as big a thing there then), so I didn't get to go to any of those. I didn't even learn of the existence of conventions until the early '80s, when I discovered Starlog magazine and the like, and started reading about organized fandom. From then on I wanted very much to go to a con, but didn't get to go to any until I was finally able to attend a couple of smaller cons in northwest Florida in the early '90s. I first attended DragonCon in 1998, a few months after turning 30.
In the past five years or so, I've started going to cons more - mostly boardgaming cons (BGGCon - BoardGameGeek Con - in 2010, and Dice Tower Con each year since it began in 2012; this year my wife and I extended our annual DTC trip to incorporate it into our delayed honeymoon), as well as finally returning to DragonCon in 2011, and again just last year - shortly after moving to the Atlanta area ourselves, so hopefully I won't ever miss another, and can make every year from now on. But one of those early '90s cons I mentioned earlier was the only one devoted mainly to Star Trek specifically (it was a small con with few guests, but they included Mark Lenard and Robin Curtis).
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I'm just geeky enough that I've had both Memory Alpha *and* Memory Beta long-since bookmarked.
