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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The helmsmen were Sulu (George Takei), the Asian sword-fighter responsible for firing phasers and photon torpedos and wiping people off the face of the galaxy and Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), the young Russian hipnik who drank "wodka inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad" and fell in...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

For years these intrepid Seekers of the Universe vanquished Klingons and Romulans before falling to the Ultimate Enemy, the Horribly Competitive Ratings War of 1968. At the end of the 1968-69 viewing season, NBC executives officially cut the Enterprise's "five-year mission" down to three years, and dropped...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

When it finally became apparent that the trek was back on, the Trekkies and Trekkers greeted the news with mixed emotions. (For the uninitiated, Trekkies wear Spock ears, hound the actors for autographs, and faint if they see Leonard Nimoy in person. Trekkers publish fanzines and write doctoral theses on...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

Now, for better or worse, the movie's out, and initial response from both Trekdom and the outside world ("the mundanes") is ominous. When a True Trek Believer says "Well, maybe the sequel will be better" before the Enterprise even leaves dock, you know there are problems. The special effects...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

Harvard found itself behind, 7-0, for the first time this season after the relay, but Bobby Hackett immediately remedied the situation with consecutive wins in the 1000 (9:18) and 200 (1:42.5) freestyles.

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Hackett and Crimson Swamp UMaine | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

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