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Star Trek: DS9's celebrated episode "The Visitor," in which frequent Trek guest star Tony Todd appeared as a grown-up Jake Sisko, was inspired by the real-life story of a high school student who showed up on writer & recluse J.D. Salinger's doorstep in 1980 and interviewed him.

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The 60-Year Mission booth at NYCC is 2863! (It is not 2683, as it reads in the graphic below.) Go meet some of your Star Trek faves, learn about the documentary, then go see it in theaters! BOOTH 2863 for William Shatner, Nana Visitor, Brent Spiner, Robert Picardo, and Denise Crosby!

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: All Access Looks At Star Trek’s Future Under Skydance, Plus News And NY Comic Con Preview with the Shuttle Pod's Brian Drew. Listen at TrekMovie or wherever you get your podcasts. https://bit.ly/aapod271

Podcast: All Access Looks At Star Trek’s Future Under Skydance, Plus News And NY Comic Con Preview

Anthony and Laurie are joined by Brian Drew of the Shuttle Pod podcast to talk about Paramount/Warner Bros. merger.

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OTD, the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks, "No Small Parts," which made Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis the first Star Trek regular cast members to play the same roles in five different series.

Riker and Troi (animated) in a scene from Star Trek: Lower Decks; They are on the bridge and Riker is pointing upwards

OTD: The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ensign Ro" premiered, introducing two new characters: Ensign Ro Laren and the ship's barber, Mot. It was also the first appearance of the Bajorans, who would become pivotal on Deep Space Nine two years later.

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OTD: The Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within" premiered. It was written by sci-fi legend Richard Matheson, who was inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson classic about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Trek firsts: the Vulcan neck pinch and McCoy's "He's dead, Jim."

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OTD: "Mirror, Mirror" premiered, introducing the mirror universe (and the agony booth and Spock's beard) on The Original Series. That universe would later be revisited on DS9, Enterprise, Discovery, Prodigy, and in a training exercise, Lower Decks.

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On his birthday, remembering John Hoyt, who played Dr. Phil Boyce in Star Trek's first pilot, "The Cage"—making him our very first Star Trek doctor. His character turned up on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this year.

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Remembering Madlyn Rhue on her birthday, who played Lt. Marla McGivers in Star Trek's "Space Seed." She'd met Ricardo Montalban before she filmed this—they played a married couple on the TV series Bonanza in 1960. The audio drama Star Trek: Khan continues Marla's story.

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