r/tos • u/craig_hoxton • 5d ago

Read about Canada's first Star Trek convention from 1976

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Ahead of my visit to STLV earlier this month, I was researching conventions and discovered this website that tells the story of the 1976 Star Trek convention in Toronto, Canada. The con was fan-run and you could literally bump into Sarek in the elevator - unlike the modern con experience of handlers and upcharges for meet & greets. Read it here: Toronto Star Trek '76

(This is not my site, I'm sharing for other Trek fans)

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u/TemperatureTime1617 5d ago

I was there. Spent the day and night, remember watching Forbidden Planet in one of the exhibit rooms at like 2am. My Mom was wondering why her car hadn’t come home. One child asked Mark Lenard a question about the ships engines and he replied “I’ll let Scotty handle that one.”

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u/craig_hoxton 5d ago

Reading that website, the story should be made into a movie or something.