I wish I could remember the first time I saw Star Trek. I think it was "Arena" with the Gorn, but I'm not sure. What I do remember is the friend's house where I often watched Trek (although I can't remember the friend) in Bismark. This would've been the summer of 1972. I moved to Butte, MT later that year or early '73, second grade at any rate. Butte is where my love of Star Trek blossomed. It was where I found the novelizations of the series by James Blish at the local Ben Franklin store. There was a used bookstore that carried stills from the show that I bought and pinned up all over my room. There was Woolworths where I got my Mego figures and the bridge as well as models and that big, ugly phaser toy. I even got the communicator walkie talkies for my birthday. But what I really remember was J C Penney. Second floor. Boys department. 1975.
This shirt was my prized possession and has never left my memories. I had a couple of friends who would build cardboard sets and armed with our model ships and our model phasers and communicators we made up our own adventures.
I just ran across this shirt in a trunk and it brought the biggest smile to my face. My lovely wife had cleaned it and put it away for me a long time ago. I thought it was lost. I bring this up because I recently bought the Anovos Season One shirt and have the Wand Company phaser and communicator.
I haven't grown up. I probably won't grow up. Why? 'cause I don't wanna grow up. Beam me up and Live Long and Prosper.
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