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From my chat with a journalist: part 1

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Dee interview transcript, Jan. 24, 2018

[What is your very first memory of Star Trek? Was it love at first sight, or did it take you some time to get “into” it?]

I started out in science fiction, before Star Trek was ever on the air. And in 1966, I was living in Oregon and was part of a women’s writing group, a women’s science fiction group. We were all writing, wanting to write. Some of the members of our group had written professionally, and some were trying to get scripts into Hollywood and so on, but we were all focused on writing. Science fiction in the 1960s was not considered the purview of women.

When Star Trek came out, I imagine [my science fiction club] was how I first heard about it, because I didn’t watch a lot of TV. I had this little black-and-white, eight-inch screen with the bunny ears.

I don’t know why the first episode that aired [The Man Trap] is so disliked, because my memory of it was of just being fascinated. Science fiction … on TV was considered for children. And this was not for children. These were well-developed characters, real plots that you could get into, you could imagine their plight, Bones had a love interest. And there was this Vulcan, who was just a member of this rest of the crew. It was startling, and I was absolutely riveted from that very first day. I had my science fiction club where we would go and talk about it.

[Did your sci-fi group watch?]

We all watched it; we were all excited that something was coming out on TV. Everyone was married, had kids, it was hard to get away to meet, so we would get on the phone and one person would call another and they would call another and this phone chain would go around talking about the episode. I wouldn’t say it totally evolved into a Star Trek fanclub, but pretty close, and we were all fascinated by The Vulcan, by the fact that there was this character that was an alien but serving with a human crew. It almost turned into a Vulcan appreciation sci-fi group, and speculating about what would an alien species be like, working with humans, is what caught our attention.

And by the second year, one member got a color TV and — oh it was a very big deal. In the beginning, we didn’t know that the crew had different colored shirts, or that shirts were related to what job they had on the ship. I remember an early story I wrote where all their shirts were green.

So she had a color TV and we started all watching at her house. And there were a lot of machinations that had to happen because everyone had families, everyone had kids. So one week we’d start planning for the next week. Who’s going take care of the kids, we need a babysitter. We need to collect money to pay the babysitter, and what are we going to do with our husbands? And we didn’t have access to our own money. We couldn’t get money out of our bank accounts without our husbands’ permission, so I remember looking under cushions to get change so that we could send our husbands out to go bowling or something so we could watch and not be disturbed.

It was so exciting. And to see the episodes where Kirk says “She’s a crewman” and where Uhura is working in “Who Mourns for Adonis?” under her communications panel and the way Spock talks to her [“I can think no one better equipped to handle it, Miss Uhura.”]. I can’t tell you. We were just electrified, because that was not the world we were living in, and that was the world we wanted to live in.

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Anonymous asked:

i know everyone calls u nana or grandma but whats ur name...!!!! i feel like u have a very cute name :3

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One person called me Abue, which I love. If I’m on here long enough, I’m hoping I will get the Vulcan for ‘grandma’ too. ;)

As for my name: my friends call me Dee.  I’ve never thought of my name as being cute, but I will tell you a cute story about it.

Being a fellow Dee no doubt made it easier for De Kelley to remember my name, since it’s not like we saw each other frequently. But when we did see each other, we had our ‘Hi, Dee!’ ‘Hi, De!’ greetings, and I’ll confess I would wait for him to greet me first because I always loved when he called out to me like that.  It’s always nice to be remembered, isn’t it?

Back then I was working in a medical lab, and although I was pretty much a secretary, not doing any medical research or even any science myself – and De knew that – he would say to other people, “This is Dee, and she’s in medical research – making HER the Real McCoy.” Dumbest joke ever, but of course I treasured it. That man was himself such a treasure.

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TOS is so timeless I forget how old it is

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Sometimes it hits me that the original Star Trek was created and aired in the sixties. SIXTIES. You know, the same era that had this cheesy ass fashion:

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And then there was the music. Some examples:

I could go on and on because I’m a little old lady at heart and I love music from this era BUT YOU GET THE POINT.

The movies and the dance styles and way of living. Like. The ideal date was going to the movies and sharing a super tiny cone shaped box of popcorn, teens made friends by hanging out at gas stops. It was still not forbidden to smoke and people were still not convinced it was unhealthy, and so everyone was smoking everywhere. Like at work, in the trains, at the office, and restaurants were filled with smoke all the time.

And the values. Not so good. But it started looking brighter with martin luther king, feminist movement, and the funtime crazy hippie era. Some of these things bleed through in Star Trek, but in general this series feels a lot more modern, timeless and relevant than these other things. So much that it’s sometimes easy to forget because they have the diversity, language, filming style and values that differed from the era it was made in and is closer to what we have today. Some things have actually downgraded since then, one thing that comes to mind right now is with the lack of racial and gender diversity in casting today.

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Like this hits me sometimes and it’s just so wild. I can’t. I just love star trek TOS so much. That’s all.

TL;DR Star Trek is super old and I sometimes forget, enjoy some history

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Enterprise Gothic (TOS edition)

  • It takes 430 crew to run the Enterprise. A landing party is sent out. It takes 429 crew to run the Enterprise.
  • Everyone keeps saying that your ship’s first officer is the best first officer in the fleet. It’s true that he’s very good at his job, but you’ve been keeping track and he’s tried to hijack the ship on at least three separate occasions so far. What the hell is going on with all the other first officers in the fleet, you wonder.
  • You order a chicken sandwich and coffee. You receive a plate of tribbles. This is different from every other time you’ve ordered a chicken sandwich and coffee, when you’ve received a plate of Play-Doh cubes.
  • Another landing party is sent out. It takes 428 crew to run the Enterprise.
  • You don’t even remember what chicken sandwiches and coffee taste like, and yet you keep ordering them anyway. One day, you hope, the replicator will deliver. Something other than those cubes. Something other than tribbles. You hope.
  • You wonder if it’s a sin against god to eat a tribble.
  • You wonder if god could even find you in space.
  • You find god in space.
  • The landing party fights him.
  • It takes 427 crew to run the Enterprise.
  • The first officer and the ship’s doctor are insulting each other on the bridge. This is how you know you’ve made it to safety.
  • The first officer and the ship’s doctor are working together as a coordinated team. This is how you know there is an imminent threat of absolute destruction.
  • There have been so many imminent threats of absolute destruction.
  • You find a chicken sandwich and coffee. It is almost definitely a mind trick conjured by an incredibly intelligent race of aliens millennia beyond human development.
  • The aliens want you to stop fighting. They do not give you the chicken sandwich or the coffee. 
  • You’ve been en route to shore leave for six months. Strange things keep urgently diverting the ship along the way. You worry that you’ll be sent out in a landing party before you ever get your leave.
  • It takes 426 crew to run the Enterprise.
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These are Joanie Winston’s photos, I believe. That’s Joanie on the far left in the second row (first photo) and in the blue on the right, sitting on the couch with George (second photo). That last photo, of Leonard and Nichelle goofing around, is typical of the organizer’s room antics in the early seventies, when the cast were not “celebrities” we gazed at from afar. They hung out and could be just as silly as any of us.