Star Trek Lives! (convention)/1973

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Star Trek Lives! 1973 was held February 16-19 at the Commodore Hotel in New York City.
==Guests of Honor==
Isaac Asimov, Betty Ballantine (BALLANTINE BOOKS), Hal Clement, James Doohan, Dorothy C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Mark Lenard, Leonard Nimoy, and George Takei and Oscar Katz.
==Con Staff==
This con was chaired by Al Schuster.
Other staff was Dana Anderson, Tom Anderson, Renee Bodner, Stu Hellinger, Deborah Langsam, Devra Langsam, Elyse Rosenstein, Steve Rosenstein, Joan Winston, Eileen Becker, Maureen Wilson, and Joyce Yasner.
==Tidbits and Anecdotes==
This was Leonard Nimoy's first convention appearance.
From the program book: "Star Trek Lives -- Again. And I can hear you all mumbling to yourselves - why? Why go through all the stomach-churning, headache-making, planning, calling, writing, meeting, listing, form-revising, envelope-stuffing chaos again? Because we had a ball, that's why! So did the over 3,000 people who attended last year's convention, who became infected with the same lovable lunacy right along with us. Love what it's all about and where it's at -- that loving is not something to be ashamed of -- it's something to shout about."
The fan play, One Cube or Two?, was performed at this con.
Isaac Asimov, a con guest, wrote a piece for the program book about his experiences at this con and at the Schuster Star Trek Conventions in New York City. In 1979, the article was revised and published in the first issue of Starlog Magazine in an article called The Conventions as Asimov Sees Them, an article published in the first issue of Starlog Magazine.
==The Program Book==
A fan in 1976 said: 
Image:startreklives1973-1.jpg|from the program book: "A Star Trek Convention in Philadelphia.? [sic] Who Knows?" -- an early sign of some committee fracture, perhaps...
Image:startreklives1973-2.jpg|from the program book
Image:startreklives1973-3.jpg|from the program book
Image:startreklives1973-4.jpg|from the program book
==Badges, Flyers, and Other Ephemera==
Image:trekcons.jpg|the middle one is Convention progress report ( 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 16 pages. Mostly information about the then upcoming New York convention held Feb. 16-19, 1973. Has a photo of guest Gene Roddenberry and prints a full page black and white drawing by Gray Morrow of Walter Koenig as Chekov
File:1973startrekprogrambook.jpg|another program book from 1973, possibly a commemorative booklet
== Programming==
File:1973 convention 0020small.jpg|programming for the 1973 convention (page 1) click to read
File:1973 convention 0022small.jpg|programming for the 1973 convention (page 2) click to read
==Links to Photos and Videos==
*Video footage from the 1973 convention (on YouTube)
*Article discussing the video footageWebCite for video footage; video may not be accessible.
==Articles and Further Reading==
File:StarTrekLives1973.jpg|newspaper article reprinted in the The San Bernardino County Sun on Feb 20, 1973 estimated 7,000 fans attended and memberships were sold for $5 per attendee. Click to read.
File:StarTrek Lives Feb 28 1973.jpg|This letter to the editor of The Bridgeport Post in Feb 1973 talked about the 1973 convention in more global terms: "Daily we hear the cry that the youth of America is mentally unhealthy. The crime rate is up. Sexual promiscuity is the vogue. Morals are at an all-time low. A recent speculative science fiction convention at New York's Commodore Hotel proved that over 7,000 people, predominantly high school and college age have bright hope for the world in the future." Click to read the full text.
Image:Star Trek NY 1973 Asbury_Park_Press_Sat__Feb_17__1973_.jpg|from the "Asbury Park Press," February 17, 1973, click to read
==Con Reports==
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==References==
Category:Star Trek Conventions
Category:1973 Conventions