{"id":871,"date":"2009-04-21T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2009-04-20T00:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T04:27:43","slug":"im-in-a-star-trek-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/21\/im-in-a-star-trek-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m in a Star Trek mood&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maybe it&#8217;s the upcoming movie or maybe it&#8217;s just the cyclical nature of my fanhood, but I&#8217;ve had Star Trek on the brain for a while now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For whatever reason, the classic movie era is my favorite Star Trek time period.  I&#8217;m a sucker for the adventures of Kirk and crew anytime between <em>Star Trek: The Motion Pictur<\/em>e through <em>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/em>.  A few weeks ago I posted an <a title=\"Star Trek DC Comics ad\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/03\/11\/star-trek-comic-book-advertisement-nov-1984\/\">ad from 1984 for Star Trek comics by DC<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve wanted to read those comics since I was a kid.  Those George Perez covers on the first three issues are fantastic!  Well&#8230; I broke down and ordered the first 21 issues of that 1984 series plus the first annual from Mile High Comics.  They were having an insane sale and I got all of them for under $30 (that includes shipping).  I&#8217;ve read the first couple issues already and I&#8217;m loving it!  I can&#8217;t wait to get to the Mirror Universe saga!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Star Trek comic books from DC\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/star_trek_dc_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Star Trek The Lost Years novel\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/star_trek_lost_years.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"475\" \/>I also broke out my copy of the 1989 novel <em>Star Trek: The Lost Years<\/em>.  This was a great book that took place after the end of the Enterprise&#8217;s original five-year mission, but before <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em>.  In the story, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship.  This book was created to bridge the gap between TOS and the movies.  It was popular enough that they did three more books under &#8220;The Lost Years&#8221; banner.  I&#8217;ve only read the first one, but I&#8217;m going to work my way through all four pretty soon here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m pretty excited for the new movie, but if it sucks I&#8217;ve still got old Kirk comics and novels I&#8217;ve never read to fall back on.  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Trek comic book advertisement (November 1984) from DC comics.\u00a0 This particular ad ran shortly after Star Trek III: The Search for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/star_trek_dc.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":196,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/13\/star-trek-stuff-i-enjoy\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":1},"title":"Star Trek: Stuff I Enjoy","date":"November 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I hear from a lot of my friends that Star Trek is dead to them.\u00a0 They don't believe there is any Star Trek out there worth taking notice of.\u00a0 I believe there are tons of Star Trek stories out there to enjoy if you simply look. Much of what I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4494,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/10\/geek-themed-keychains\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":2},"title":"Geek Themed Keychains","date":"November 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've accumulated quite a few geek related keychains over the years.\u00a0 I seem to have a weakness for buying them even though I've only used a few of these keychains on a regular basis.\u00a0 Today we're going to look at the ones I've managed to hang onto. Below are several\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DC Comics Keychains","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/keychains_comics.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":179,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/20\/star-trek-new-movie-lots-of-pics\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":3},"title":"Star Trek New Movie &#8211; Lots of Pics","date":"October 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The new Star Trek movie is coming, whether you like it or not! And this time they are aiming to make Star Trek cool.\u00a0 Hard to believe, I know.\u00a0 Directing and producing this new Star Trek film is J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, Fringe, Cloverfield), so there is a good chance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Entertainment Weekly Cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.firstshowing.net\/img2\/startrek-EWcover-FL-Oct-01-HQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2357,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/27\/star-trek-starfleet-academy-sweatpants\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":4},"title":"Star Trek Starfleet Academy Sweatpants","date":"November 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some sweatpants I picked up back in 1995.\u00a0 I really like the novelty of having \"Property of Starfleet Academy Athletic Department\" printed on them.\u00a0 Most people don't even notice what is printed on the sweatpants because so many schools print \"Property of ... Athletic Department\" on their clothes.\u00a0\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;apparel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/startrek_sweatpants.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":195,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/12\/star-trek-my-first-experience\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":5},"title":"Star Trek: My First Experience","date":"November 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"With all the hype surrounding the new Star Trek movie, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on how I was first exposed to Star Trek.\u00a0 I don't consider myself to be a Trekkie or Trekker, just a fairly knowledgeable fan of some of the incarnations of Star\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}