Welcome to another Great item from SYOTTOYS and thanks for stopping by, after you have looked at this one, why not sit back, grab your favorite drink and spend some time checking out all the wonderful things I have to offer. HAVE A GREAT DAY! YOU ARE CONSIDERING THE ITEM SHOWN IN THE CONDITION SHOWN. YOU WILL LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT. SO AMAZING, AND SO SCARCE, I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT IT. I assume if you are reading this you know the story but if not (look below as i put some info from some great web sites about the save the Star Trek campaign). THIS is the original HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE LETTERS TO SAVE STAR TREK do’s and dont’s, it probably came with the Save Star Trek letter i have up now also, and is probably why Kennett did not date stamp this when it was received, it also has the old fold lines, but i think it has been flat for a long long time. This is double sided, and very very scarce. Kennett stamped the other letter FEB 4, 1968 and would have received this at that time also I GUARANTEE THAT THIS IS ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC. Without this letter (and others) being sent to fans, you probably would not even know about star trek today. For the record, when NBC seemed to be on the verge of axing Star Trek after a low-rated second season, the Trimbles devised a grassroots letter-writing campaign that saved the show and resulted in a third season. Though the network dropped Star Trek after its lackluster third year, enough episodes had been shot for the show to enter syndication and, in syndication, Star Trek emerged as such a phenomenon that it was resurrected as an animated series and, in 1979, a big-budget feature. And from there the franchise grew and grew, spanning from Star Trek: The Next Generation and all the subsequent shows to Star Trek (2009) and everything in between. So, truly, you might not be reading this now, and might not be on the boards debating the merits of this Trek book or that Trek game had the Trimbles not stepped up to the plate back in 1968. In a new interview, Bjo Trimble reveals who really was responsible for the Save. A grassroots letter-writing campaign saved. After the show was due to be cancelled due to low ratings, and to those who knew Trimble, it should have been no surprise that she would fight for something important to her. When Trimble first met her husband John, the pair discovered that they shared several things in common, including the desire to go after what they felt was important. “We knew right away that we both liked the same kind of science fiction, but discovered our willingness to fight for things as we went along, ” she said. At first it was little things: city block zoning that was unfair to less wealthy home-owners, schools that needed voter support, things like that. By the time we devised the Save. Letter-writing campaign, we were both in sync about what we wanted to do. Campaign was John’s fault, she said. We had visited the Trek set, about when word sifted down that the show would be canceled at the end of this, the second season. So we watched actors do their stuff beautifully in front of the camera, then slump off looking depressed. On our way home, John said,’There ought to be something we could do about this! Now, he’d been married to me long enough to know better. By the time we got back home, we’d mapped out a basic plan of action. So we called Gene Roddenberry to see if he was OK with this idea. Gene had just told his staff that it would be wonderful if there was just some way to reach to fans and get their support. So things began to happen. But all the news at that time was about Women’s Lib and’the little housewife speaking up,’ so the news media had little interest in a businessman. Reporters focused on me instead of John. To my sorrow, John has seldom gotten even the fan credit he so well deserves for his part in making the. We know now a reality for all of fandom. In 1984 a man approached Jerry Weist, owner of “The Million Year Picnic” comic shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a small sampling of comics from his collection. This initial meeting was the hobby’s introduction to what is now referred to as the White Mountain Collection. Few collections of Silver Age books approach the consistently high level of condition and page quality that White Mountain copies possess. Weist would eventually become the organizer for Sotheby’s comic book and comic art auctions. In that capacity, he introduced the collecting world to this fabulous discovery, offering choice samplings in Sotheby’s 1991, 1993 and 1996 auctions. Many collectors are still not aware that the collection’s large body of Silver Age publications also included a small sampling of choice, early Underground Comix. It should also be said that most collectors have yet to grasp the significance of that inclusion. For most Silver Age collectors, the UG’s are the forgotten books of the period, and this is a serious omission on their part. AND EVEN FEWER KNOW AB0UT HIS COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS, H. P LOVECRAFT ITEMS (he published a zine called Lovecraftian Ramblings in the 80’s), MAPS, TRAVEL BROCHURES, PORN, TV GUIDES, CAR MANUALS, MAGAZINES, ART, ETC. Also in amazing, mostly unread mint condition. The scale behind the item is in inches. I PACK BETWEEN CARDBOARD FOR PROTECTION. AS SHOWN, USE EBAYS ZOOM IN FEATURE TO GET A GREAT LOOK AT THE ITEM UP CLOSE. LOCATION– box (BLACK VELVET Top in bag C). This item is in the category “Collectibles\Science Fiction & Horror\Star Trek Collectibles\Other Star Trek Collectibles”. The seller is “syottoys” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.