Star Trek transcripts

Perhaps the craziest thing I have done as a Star Trek fan involved my attempt to transcribe each and every episode of the original Star Trek series. I began by taping the audio of an episode off of the television using the no-tech method of placing my cassette recorder's mic near the television speaker. I would then spend hours going back through the audio writing down dialogue and ancillary description as warranted. Finally I would type up the completed manuscript along with a count of the total number of words spoken by each cast member. Now that is dedication! I hate to think how many hours of my childhood were spent in this pursuit. I guess I enjoyed it at the time. It was good typing practice too!

Here's a sample rough draft -- this for the episode A Taste of Armageddon. I didn't get around to typing this one up.

Here's the final copy transcript for City on the Edge of Forever. Included here are a sample page taken from the final scene, as well as the dialogue stats. (Given that these were aired in syndication, it is likely that several seconds or even minutes were cut from the episode, so these stats likely aren't all that accurate.)


Another typed transcript, for The Doomsday Machine.


I tracked progress on this as I went along -- I got this far and a little further before giving up and moving on to other things.

IDIC Latch Hook Rug

On the spectrum of Star Trek fanaticism, at my most fervent I was probably no more than an 8 on a scale of 10. Yet, on occasion, I have taken actions which in hindsight can only be attributed to a crazy hardcore Trekkie. One such example is a piece of original art which I created during the Summer of 1983. This piece has been in the hands of a private collector (i.e. hidden in my basement) for 25 years but today it is, for the first time ever, available for all to see.

Behold! The IDIC latch hook rug!


I have a note in my diary indicating that I completed this masterpiece between 20 June and 23 June 1983.