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Let Michael Kmet, Maurice Molyneaux, & associates be your guides to the production of the original STAR TREK and its place in TV history. We. Cite. Sources!

The Reactor show car visits a strange new world with a strangely dressed woman.
Top of the first page of a memo from Gene Roddenberry to Fred Freiberger, ccing Bob Justman and Arthur Singer, on the subject of the script for "The Last Gunfight" (renamed "Spectre of the Gun") by Lee Cronin (pseudonym of Gene L. Coon), dated May 15, 1968.
Cover of the 1959 “Occasional Paper” titled “Taste and the Censor In Television” by Charles Winick.
Excerpt from de Forest Research report, July 18, 1968 on “IN ESSENCE--NOTHING” BY JUDY BURNS AND CHET RICHARDS. PAGE 57, SCENE 108, COMMENT: EXOBIOLOGY LAB - de Forest Research has fought for this word on several occasions but each time it has been changed to Astrobiology. Must now recommend change to Astrobiology for consistency. (damn)
Scanned page from Inside Star Trek/Star Trek Trektennial News, July–August 1977, page 8. The page is titled “IN MEMORIAM” and features a small black-and-white portrait of actor Stanley Adams above the caption “Stanley Adams 1915–1977.” The article notes Adams, remembered by Star Trek fans as Cyrano Jones in “The Trouble With Tribbles,” died April 27, 1977, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The text summarizes his career as a writer and character actor in film, television, and radio, lists several film credits, notes his membership in industry guilds, and mentions surviving family members. A quote from David Gerrold at STARCON ’77 closes the tribute. Red overlay text at the top adds a modern note about the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Altered title card from the Alexander the Great TV pilot showing the word “ALEXANDER” in large stylized letters over a battlefield scene; the original subtitle is crossed out in red and replaced with “THE PRETTY-GOOD.” A “Shared by Fact Trek” watermark appears in the upper right, with “Altered Screenshot” text at the bottom.
Black-and-white newspaper photo of William Shatner in costume as Alexander the Great standing behind Ziva Rodann, who wears an ornate hairstyle and period dress. A caption below reads that they appear in “Alexander the Great,” a film about his Persian wars. A “Fact Trek” logo is overlaid in the upper right.
AI-generated take photo depicting William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy bracketing Lucille Ball. Tells of fakery include Lucy's too small head, Nimoy's face, and incorrect costume details.
A Sid Hix cartoon showing a man carrying a briefcase labeled Internal Revenue Dept. speaking to a receptionist at a TV station office. The receptionist looks startled, while in the office the station manager watches nervously from behind his desk. The caption reads, “Just tell him it’s the man from uncle!” Text at bottom right identifies the source as BROADCASTING, February 27, 1967 p116.
Nichelle Nichols in a Star Trek publicity photo circa 1966
"Gooseneck" viewer in the first Star Trek pilot compared to the AT&T Picturephone 1. At over $100 per 10 minutes in inflation-adjusted US Dollars, let’s hope Picturephone rates dropped by the time Spock used it to call Captain Pike.
Adam West's credit in the title sequence for the 1963-filmed pilot, Alexander the Great.
Typed text excerpt discusses a seemingly small galaxy with fewer than 50 people, noting that Kirk and Spock recognize everyone. Reads: "Scene 31. It is a small galaxy, populated by not more than 50 people. I know this because wherever we go, Kirk and Spock always recognize everybody they meet. If, indeed, they are to recognize Theodore Bayne, we must know why. If we do it this way, we should establish at this point that Bayne, a skilled surgeon, is still quite a bit of a visionary, and something of a crackpot who is know for his wild theories or whatever you will have."
Excerpt from The Houston Chronicle, September 18, 1967, page 15. Reads: Carol Burnett [COLOR] (9 p.m., Ch. 11) Liza Minelli and busy Sid Caesar help Carol out tonight. Liza sparkles in a medley on time tune and solos; Caesar does a standup bit on growing up, joins Miss Carol in a Ziegfeld Follies take-off, and a spoof on Star Trek and the popular Mr. Spock; and a drowsy Carol tries to stay awake for a sudden interview after taking sleeping pills in the weekly husband-wife routine.
Clip from the 1968–1969 Nielsen Pocket Pieces showing "Turnabout Intruder" airing on Tuesday, Jan 3, 1969.
Altered screenshot from the original Star Trek episode "The Apple" bearing the title "The Apple II" in the series font. Features characters facing a huge Apple II computer with two floppy drives and a monitor standing in for the Vaal "god" computer.
Clipping of the first part of the article. Star Date: 12-7-79, 'Star Trek' arrives by Carolyn Beaver. 1979-12-08, Saturday, page A1 of the Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana.
USS Enterprise & Fesarius
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Star Trek TMP Klingon bridge/ST2 & 3 torpedo deck sections repurposed for MacGyver. This photo looking up and aft.
Brief Star Trek review: "'STAR TREK' deserves a 'B' for its effort to raise space fantasy above the third grade level. Its trump card is its star, William Shatner, a blazing good actor. The first yarn was a weirdie. On some far away planet, Shatner's 400-man super spacecraft crew encountered an intelligent creature that could instantly assume the shape and apparent identity of any human, man or woman, white or colored. Br-r-r-r. "This creature, often Jeanne Bal assuming the : shape of a raving beauty, drove Shatner batty and killed off people like flies before she finally was ex- terminated and exposed as the most horrible old hag in the universe. "Acting employment for Negroes is very low this season but "Star Trek" features one, Nichelle Ni- chols, whom I know, and "Hawk" features one, Wayne Grice, whom I don't know, Nichelle plays a permanent 'Star Trek' crew woman. I thought she' was warmly convincing last night. Wayne plays a young D. A. staff man. He leans slightly to the comedy side." 1966-09-08 Star Trek, Dwight Newton, The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California, p17
Photo of the set of the San Francisco air tram station in Star Trek—The Motion Picture.
David Tilotta and MAURICE MOLYNEAUX in Borg cubicles, pointing to an empty one ready for a missing colleague.
Maurice Molyneaux and Joseph F. D’Agosta meet in person.
Maurice Molyneaux clowning around with Kirk Thatcher.
Fact Trek Maurice
Promotional poster by Evans & Sutherland displaying a CGI starfield and the vector graphic images of the starship USS Enterprise within a sphere. Text reads "Evans & Sutherland. Starfield Effects and Tactical Displays by the DIGISTAR 1. Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan."
Faux album cover mimicking Tom Lehrer's 1965 "That Was the Year That Was", but reading "Tom Lehrer, That Was the Life That Was"
The planet Rylos
Characters are looking at a weathered Pacific Bell Yellow Pages ad in an homage to Star Trek IV.
Top of page for the UCLA Library about a screening of Space Age TV Rarity: William Shatner Starring In "Night of the Auk"
Back and white concept drawing for the space freighter in Silent Running by Don Moore.
Poster for the film Friday Foster, starring Pam Grier & Yaphet Kotto.
Clip of single mention of "Phase II" in the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story.
Page 152 of the 1986 revised version of the Star Trek Compendium.
Star Trek II TV series corridors under construction.
Animated GIF of the refit USS Enterprise from Star Trek—The Motion Picture zooming through space.
Animated GIF of the 1960 Star Trek logo.
Poster designed to advertise Evans and Sutherland's Digitar 1 graphics projector, featuring a vector graphic image of the starship USS Enterprise in a sphere as seen in the very first shot of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
Paperback edition of Ben Piazza's "The Exact and Very Strange Truth" published in Sept, 1964.
Variety review of the 1978 Space Force pilot.
View from turbolift of the starship USS Enterprise bridge
Album cover for Phil Tucker's All Tuckered Out
Decal of what we call the United Earth emblem, which features a laurel wreath surrounding a drawing of the planet Earth, below which is the text U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. It’s a west-centric emblem depicting the Americas. So far as we know, it only appears in the two pilot episodes.
Variety item on Harper Valley PTA.
Carol Burnett as the robot lady who threatens the Intrepid as Harvey Korman as Captain Quirk and Sid Caesar as Mr. Spook look on.
Screenshot from article. Text reads: Desilu’s Herbert F. “Herb” Solow, citing Justman, indicated Black wasn’t exactly a speedy writer. HERB: Bob often waited impatiently for script pages from John D. F. Black, who, with his secretary, the estimable and highly likable Mary Stilwell, worked behind closed doors. DO NOT DISTURB! When they emerged hours later, Justman complained about the paltry number of script pages that were forthcoming. Like Oliver Twist, he wanted more. And what were they doing in there all that time? “Writing, Bob” was Black’s standard reply. When the pages were excellent, Justman, a glint in his eye, would confront Black. “Hey, John, this is terrific. Did Mary do all the writing again?”
Sample screenshot of the FACT TREK article "Keep On Trekin'"
Writing credits for SHAFT (1971). Reads "Screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black, based upon the novel by Ernest Tidyman"
Paperback of the 1964 book The Exact and Very Strange Truth by Piazza.
Screenshot from "The Tholian Web"
Screenshot of document footer featuring a citation/footnote numbered 115
Screenshot of a document's footnotes illustrating that a single article has over 50 citations.
Image showing part of a document with Fact Trek author comments to one side.