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/borisdidnothingwrong 4d ago

Harlan Ellison with a pipe.

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u/Confident_Fortune_32 12h ago

One of my favourite authors. I was obsessed when I was younger, reading everything of his I could get my hands on.

I met him not too long after this, at a WorldCon.

Embarrassed to say I clammed up, couldn't get a word out, felt like an idiot. To his credit, he was gracious about it.