Letters to Star Trek - Gene Roddenberry draft introduction - 1975 (podcast)

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Summary[]

Star Trek generated huge amounts of fan mail during and after its original run. In 1975, Gene Roddenberry's assistant started compiling a book of that fan mail, "Letters to Star Trek," and asked Gene to write an introduction. In this draft, we learn about one of Trek's famous fans, and we can see Gene's hand-written notes.