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I used to watch Star Trek on a 13" B&W set in our house on Sunday afternoons in the early 80's. It was our only TV set that could pick up the signal from Dayton, OH. (I lived in Northern Kentucky.) They would show about 4 or 5 episodes. Nirvana before the series was released on home video.

Comic artist John Byrne did a continuation of Assignment : Earth in 2008.

I believe the changes made to remove several of the covert Starfleet Ops from the plot were made on his behalf. The Special Edition restored those for home video.

I thought Cybermen were the future?

Thanks for posting the pictures of the set. I noticed that the back indicates "Audio commentary on select episode". Which episode is it? The DVD set had one for TAGS pilot and the first series episode by Nabors and Ronnie Schell on Gomer and the Dragon Lady. I hope it is just an error and all...

The Rykodisc is from the late 90s and has a few bits of dialog spread out in between tracks. I think it was the first US release on CD in the US. https://www.discogs.com/release/1424076-John-Barry-Octopussy

Worf and Geordi were introduced in Season 1 as junior officers. Casting changes with the loss of Crosby and the revolving Chief Engineers of Season 1 prompted the writers to want to fill the void. But both becoming department heads overnight was a big stretch of in universe credibility to say...

Spock was a Lt. Commander/ Commander, (He was called both First Season) and the First Officer. He would be running the ship more than Kirk in most fleets. The very first words spoken during the first episode aired from The Man Trap are Kirk's first Captain's Log. " Our position, orbiting planet...

The writers of Star Trek have always had a problem with command structure "in universe". Going back to TOS and The Galileo Seven. Saying that was Spock's first command was preposterous. It's a cheap way to create tension.

I personally don't like the way syndicated shows are programed on the basic cable networks. Blocks of hours at a time with the same show will have me leaving a channel faster than if they would just do an episode at a time and have some variety during an afternoon.

My least favorite type of storytelling. Connecting the dots. Same thing happened to the Pocket Books TOS line in the 90's when the movies were winding down for the first crew. They stating telling stories in "The Lost Years" between the end of the series and TMP . Really mundane.

I took a vacation this past summer to the west coast. When I was in Vegas, I rented a car a drove to Burbank for an autograph show. Rather than be excited to see old actors I admired as a kid, I was kinda depressed by what many were forced to do to make an income late in their lives. The room...