CollectingTrek
@collectingtrek.bsky.social
A Star Trek fan for life. A Star Trek collector for almost as long.
I tell the stories behind my best collectibles at CollectingTrek.ca and the history of Canada's first and best Star Trek convention at https://TorontoStarTrek76.ca/.
I tell the stories behind my best collectibles at CollectingTrek.ca and the history of Canada's first and best Star Trek convention at https://TorontoStarTrek76.ca/.
William Shatner married Gloria Rosenberg in August 1956, in Toronto. Rosenberg, an actor, is credited and listed in reference books as Gloria Rand.
Shatner proposed in Stratford, Ontario, only four months after they met. The couple divorced in 1969, just after #StarTrek finished production.
Shatner proposed in Stratford, Ontario, only four months after they met. The couple divorced in 1969, just after #StarTrek finished production.
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
William Shatner married Gloria Rosenberg in August 1956, in Toronto. Rosenberg, an actor, is credited and listed in reference books as Gloria Rand.
Shatner proposed in Stratford, Ontario, only four months after they met. The couple divorced in 1969, just after #StarTrek finished production.
Shatner proposed in Stratford, Ontario, only four months after they met. The couple divorced in 1969, just after #StarTrek finished production.
Name a book that you bought just for the title, whether or not you ended up enjoying it: Spock Must Die!
To be fair, I bought any book that said “Star Trek” on it back then, but that title is a grabber.
The book is, sadly, not good.
To be fair, I bought any book that said “Star Trek” on it back then, but that title is a grabber.
The book is, sadly, not good.
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Name a book that you bought just for the title, whether or not you ended up enjoying it: Spock Must Die!
To be fair, I bought any book that said “Star Trek” on it back then, but that title is a grabber.
The book is, sadly, not good.
To be fair, I bought any book that said “Star Trek” on it back then, but that title is a grabber.
The book is, sadly, not good.
Like Sherilyn, I love how wrong the Enterprise is here. It’s just so wrong.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Like Sherilyn, I love how wrong the Enterprise is here. It’s just so wrong.
I just pre-ordered The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine by @robertjsawyer.com.
On Oct. 23, it will join the six other Sawyer novels in my Audible library.
On Oct. 23, it will join the six other Sawyer novels in my Audible library.
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I just pre-ordered The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine by @robertjsawyer.com.
On Oct. 23, it will join the six other Sawyer novels in my Audible library.
On Oct. 23, it will join the six other Sawyer novels in my Audible library.
There are things to like and things to dislike about Harlan Ellison’s script for City on the Edge of Forever.
One great element: his Rand is a badass. #startrek
https://collectingtrek.ca/2019/08/01/idw-city-harlan-ellison/
One great element: his Rand is a badass. #startrek
https://collectingtrek.ca/2019/08/01/idw-city-harlan-ellison/
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There are things to like and things to dislike about Harlan Ellison’s script for City on the Edge of Forever.
One great element: his Rand is a badass. #startrek
https://collectingtrek.ca/2019/08/01/idw-city-harlan-ellison/
One great element: his Rand is a badass. #startrek
https://collectingtrek.ca/2019/08/01/idw-city-harlan-ellison/
#StarTrek trivia: In The Corbomite Maneuver, the transporter is used to test the air before beaming over.
KIRK: Transporter ready?
SCOTT: ...We're locked on what appears to be a main deck.
KIRK: Air sample?
SCOTT: Breathable. In fact, a slightly higher oxygen content than our own.
KIRK: Transporter ready?
SCOTT: ...We're locked on what appears to be a main deck.
KIRK: Air sample?
SCOTT: Breathable. In fact, a slightly higher oxygen content than our own.
September 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#StarTrek trivia: In The Corbomite Maneuver, the transporter is used to test the air before beaming over.
KIRK: Transporter ready?
SCOTT: ...We're locked on what appears to be a main deck.
KIRK: Air sample?
SCOTT: Breathable. In fact, a slightly higher oxygen content than our own.
KIRK: Transporter ready?
SCOTT: ...We're locked on what appears to be a main deck.
KIRK: Air sample?
SCOTT: Breathable. In fact, a slightly higher oxygen content than our own.
Here are the Simon & Schuster #StarTrek ebook deals this month.
If you haven't read Gene Roddenberry's The Motion Picture novelization, now is a good time -- and you're in for a ride.
www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
If you haven't read Gene Roddenberry's The Motion Picture novelization, now is a good time -- and you're in for a ride.
www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
September 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here are the Simon & Schuster #StarTrek ebook deals this month.
If you haven't read Gene Roddenberry's The Motion Picture novelization, now is a good time -- and you're in for a ride.
www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
If you haven't read Gene Roddenberry's The Motion Picture novelization, now is a good time -- and you're in for a ride.
www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
Could someone who knows more astrophysics than I tell me: this does not make sense, right? That’s not how orbits work.
“…the Nevis system’s twin suns orbited one another in nearly circular paths.”
- Mudd in Your Eye
“…the Nevis system’s twin suns orbited one another in nearly circular paths.”
- Mudd in Your Eye
September 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Could someone who knows more astrophysics than I tell me: this does not make sense, right? That’s not how orbits work.
“…the Nevis system’s twin suns orbited one another in nearly circular paths.”
- Mudd in Your Eye
“…the Nevis system’s twin suns orbited one another in nearly circular paths.”
- Mudd in Your Eye
I waited in a long line today at the cashier checkout, rather than using the much shorter self-checkout lanes.
So yes, I am just like Captain Kirk in The Ultimate Computer.
So yes, I am just like Captain Kirk in The Ultimate Computer.
August 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I waited in a long line today at the cashier checkout, rather than using the much shorter self-checkout lanes.
So yes, I am just like Captain Kirk in The Ultimate Computer.
So yes, I am just like Captain Kirk in The Ultimate Computer.
"We are proud that this is the only television program today saying to a worried world that there is a tomorrow. More, we are saying that tomorrow need not be computerized and de-humanized."
Gene Roddenberry addressing entertainment journalists, June 22, 1968
Gene Roddenberry addressing entertainment journalists, June 22, 1968
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"We are proud that this is the only television program today saying to a worried world that there is a tomorrow. More, we are saying that tomorrow need not be computerized and de-humanized."
Gene Roddenberry addressing entertainment journalists, June 22, 1968
Gene Roddenberry addressing entertainment journalists, June 22, 1968
I always appreciate the boomerang shape in TOS. It adds a continuity and a visual richness, and that is why they did it. It is never important to the plot.
August 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I always appreciate the boomerang shape in TOS. It adds a continuity and a visual richness, and that is why they did it. It is never important to the plot.
An opportunity arose at work today for me to use Spock's line "I am firmly convinced that I do exist" from All Our Yesterdays" but no one picked up on it.
I like my coworkers, but it would be nice if one was a #StarTrek TOS fan.
I like my coworkers, but it would be nice if one was a #StarTrek TOS fan.
August 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
An opportunity arose at work today for me to use Spock's line "I am firmly convinced that I do exist" from All Our Yesterdays" but no one picked up on it.
I like my coworkers, but it would be nice if one was a #StarTrek TOS fan.
I like my coworkers, but it would be nice if one was a #StarTrek TOS fan.
My favourite are the placemat armour pieces.
August 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My favourite are the placemat armour pieces.
“tell me your most minor star trek opinion. something that would have like a 0.2% effect on canon if changed.”
All starships should have two warp engines. Not one, not three, not four — two.
It always made more sense to me for warp fields and it’s better aesthetically.
All starships should have two warp engines. Not one, not three, not four — two.
It always made more sense to me for warp fields and it’s better aesthetically.
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“tell me your most minor star trek opinion. something that would have like a 0.2% effect on canon if changed.”
All starships should have two warp engines. Not one, not three, not four — two.
It always made more sense to me for warp fields and it’s better aesthetically.
All starships should have two warp engines. Not one, not three, not four — two.
It always made more sense to me for warp fields and it’s better aesthetically.
Thank you to the #StarTrek fan in El Salvador who read every article in my Toronto Star Trek '76 convention history site, seemingly in one sitting.
I wish I could ask what you thought of it.
I wish I could ask what you thought of it.
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Thank you to the #StarTrek fan in El Salvador who read every article in my Toronto Star Trek '76 convention history site, seemingly in one sitting.
I wish I could ask what you thought of it.
I wish I could ask what you thought of it.
Packing the final frontier.
(My post about moving to a smaller #StarTrek space is here: collectingtrek.ca/2025/06/12/g...)
(My post about moving to a smaller #StarTrek space is here: collectingtrek.ca/2025/06/12/g...)
July 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Packing the final frontier.
(My post about moving to a smaller #StarTrek space is here: collectingtrek.ca/2025/06/12/g...)
(My post about moving to a smaller #StarTrek space is here: collectingtrek.ca/2025/06/12/g...)
I don't read Voyager comics but I decided to give this one a chance.
Torres: I can't be sure.
Janeway: Are you sure?
Me: Okay, so much for this book.
Torres: I can't be sure.
Janeway: Are you sure?
Me: Okay, so much for this book.
May 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I don't read Voyager comics but I decided to give this one a chance.
Torres: I can't be sure.
Janeway: Are you sure?
Me: Okay, so much for this book.
Torres: I can't be sure.
Janeway: Are you sure?
Me: Okay, so much for this book.
The Doomsday Machine has some of the best writing in #StarTrek, so the repetition here always bugs me:
Kirk: "I want you to rig a 30-second delay detonation device and rig it so it can be blown from up here."
But it seems Shatner made an error. Norman Spinrad did not use "rig" twice in one sentence.
Kirk: "I want you to rig a 30-second delay detonation device and rig it so it can be blown from up here."
But it seems Shatner made an error. Norman Spinrad did not use "rig" twice in one sentence.
May 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Doomsday Machine has some of the best writing in #StarTrek, so the repetition here always bugs me:
Kirk: "I want you to rig a 30-second delay detonation device and rig it so it can be blown from up here."
But it seems Shatner made an error. Norman Spinrad did not use "rig" twice in one sentence.
Kirk: "I want you to rig a 30-second delay detonation device and rig it so it can be blown from up here."
But it seems Shatner made an error. Norman Spinrad did not use "rig" twice in one sentence.
My physics understanding is weak. In The Galileo Seven:
- Does it make sense they have only enough fuel to obtain a temporary, unstable orbit?
- Could they have launched away from the planet instead of into orbit? They might have cleared the communications interference.
It's all about fuel calc.
- Does it make sense they have only enough fuel to obtain a temporary, unstable orbit?
- Could they have launched away from the planet instead of into orbit? They might have cleared the communications interference.
It's all about fuel calc.
May 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My physics understanding is weak. In The Galileo Seven:
- Does it make sense they have only enough fuel to obtain a temporary, unstable orbit?
- Could they have launched away from the planet instead of into orbit? They might have cleared the communications interference.
It's all about fuel calc.
- Does it make sense they have only enough fuel to obtain a temporary, unstable orbit?
- Could they have launched away from the planet instead of into orbit? They might have cleared the communications interference.
It's all about fuel calc.
I laughed when I realized that the reading pile in my office says a lot about where I am right now.
April 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I laughed when I realized that the reading pile in my office says a lot about where I am right now.
I am a TOS guy but the ebook of The Next Generation Companion by @larrynemecek.bsky.social for $2? Purchased.
(And yes, I do already own this in paper.)
This ⬇️ is the Canadian Kobo site but there's a good chance it's on sale where you live.
(And yes, I do already own this in paper.)
This ⬇️ is the Canadian Kobo site but there's a good chance it's on sale where you live.
April 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am a TOS guy but the ebook of The Next Generation Companion by @larrynemecek.bsky.social for $2? Purchased.
(And yes, I do already own this in paper.)
This ⬇️ is the Canadian Kobo site but there's a good chance it's on sale where you live.
(And yes, I do already own this in paper.)
This ⬇️ is the Canadian Kobo site but there's a good chance it's on sale where you live.
He’s a captain, not a gunslinger, obv
April 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
He’s a captain, not a gunslinger, obv
I am cleaning out my parents' basement and I found this in a box.
This is my teenage VHS copy of Tomorrow is Yesterday, The Return of the Archons, The Menagerie parts one and two, A Taste of Armageddon, and Space Seed.
That's a darn good tape.
This is my teenage VHS copy of Tomorrow is Yesterday, The Return of the Archons, The Menagerie parts one and two, A Taste of Armageddon, and Space Seed.
That's a darn good tape.
April 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am cleaning out my parents' basement and I found this in a box.
This is my teenage VHS copy of Tomorrow is Yesterday, The Return of the Archons, The Menagerie parts one and two, A Taste of Armageddon, and Space Seed.
That's a darn good tape.
This is my teenage VHS copy of Tomorrow is Yesterday, The Return of the Archons, The Menagerie parts one and two, A Taste of Armageddon, and Space Seed.
That's a darn good tape.
I decided a while ago to avoid buying new #StarTrek figures, and to concentrate on vintage stuff, and then Nacelle announced Romulan Commander and Bem figures.
Darn you, Nacelle.
Darn you, Nacelle.
March 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I decided a while ago to avoid buying new #StarTrek figures, and to concentrate on vintage stuff, and then Nacelle announced Romulan Commander and Bem figures.
Darn you, Nacelle.
Darn you, Nacelle.