The Star Trek Daily Scrapbook -11/20/12 Convention program - Trek Portraits and 'Star Pals'

A Star Trek fan from the 1970s talks about communicating before the Internet: “From the back of the program, a couple hundred names and addresses of “Star Pals”; Trekkies who entered their names, addresses and birth dates –in Stardate code* to be Pen Pals with other Trekkies across the nation! Are people still Pen Pals anymore, or is it all Twitter and Facebook? The fans range from early teens to the mid twenties, and I’ve blurred out all but their first names for their privacy, but my how times have changed! Also note the ads for that new publication Starlog Magazine and ads for April Publications and New Eye Studio, jumping on the Trek bandwagon with UFP flags and Saurian Brandy Bottles. Note on the last page, along with the convention layout of the Statler-Hilton Hotel there’s an ad for a Mr. Spock Computer Image. “