Saturday, February 27, 2010

3-2-1 Contact article on ST:TMP

The collection cabinets yield up another article on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," this time from the January 1980 edition of the youth educational magazine "3-2-1 Contact," available for students to order much like the Scholastic publications. There are two parts to the material from this issue; first, a write-up on the movie, (which does manage to get a few facts wrong) and a more educational article featuring the film's science advisor, Jesco von Puttkamer of NASA.
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Bonus: Below is an ad from the second issue of "The Monster Times," published in 1972, for a color Spock poster. I'm sure this poster hung in a lot of young people's bedrooms. Did you have it?



Bonus #2: Below is another in the set of greeting cards put out in 1976 by Random House. Inside, the text says "With any luck at all your gift should arrive in 7 light years! Happy Birthday!" Of course, making the common error of confusing a measure of distance with time.

4 comments:

  1. Pineapples101February 28, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    Absolutely loving the ST-TMP articles, my favorite of all the ST films :)

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    I had that vintage Spock holding the Enterprise poster. But what I really wanted in 1980 was a poster of the V'ger "nerve center" set.

    By far, TMP is my favorite ST film as well (followed by Generations). The only ST film that possesses a real "sense of wonder" ... thanks be to The Great Bird.

    CMX

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  3. AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 11:34 AM

    I first saw the Spock poster in late '67 in a fitting room of the teens' area in a local department store. (Remember local department stores?) I expressed my appreciation and they ended up giving it to me. It was on my wall for years, paternal objections be damned. I believe my youngest cousin ended up with it.

    I hunted for a replacement for decades. I had two friends looking for it, and one of them found it in a local shop that sold "retro" posters and other items. I still have it.

    Like the Blish and "Making Of/ World Of" books, the film clips, "Music from Outer Space", and the Idic (yeah, I know what Nimoy said) that poster was, and still is, a connection to something it's hard to express in words. This blog brings it all back. Star Trek lives.

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  4. FrederickMarch 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    Anon,

    Thanks for the comment, good to know you are reading and enjoying!

    Although I was pretty much a loner in my younger teen years, due to the fact that I had to change schools about every three or fours months, (my stepdad couldn't settle down), whenever I found someone that was also a trekker it was an instant friendship. We shared a common love for Trek and it made a connection right away. It's nice now to hear others share similar memories of what ST meant to them in their youth, and it connects us all now.

    I have that Nimoy album also, I almost wore it out back then. The poster that I most have nostalga for is, believe it or not, one of the Trek crew from the middle of The Monster Times, which I secretly hung in the inside door of the closet in my Grandma's room where I stayed on the weekends. I couldn't hang them up at home, so I had to make do with that.

    Come back and comment often!

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