1980s Trek Convention Footage

[dreadpiraterose]

I found a really great video online from a 1980s Star Trek convention, complete with a brief interview of Walter Koenig, and all the mullets you can stand.

http://conventionfans.today.com/2009/01/16/con-vids-vintage-star-trek-convention-footage/

The best part? The copious usage of the term "Trekker' and NOT "Trekkie."

I was born in 1983, so I never really experienced the 80s. I had completely forgotten about the age old Trekker/Trekkie battle that had taken place!

Does anyone else have any convention videos from the 80s or 90s lying around? I'd loved to see more.

 

[WillsBabe]

Change the clothes and cons haven't changed for 35 years! I'm off to a con in a few weeks. I'm getting excited now. Did the voice over really say 74 episodes?

 

[SonicRanger]

Like mother, like daughter...

 

[Cyke101]

Check out the pedo-stache at :54! It comes back at 2:35!

 

[CoveTom]

Okay. I, by all accounts, am firmly entrenched in geekdom. I am so much a geek that I just started a thread to post the dialogue from Wrath of Khan line-by-line. And yet I watched that and was in absolute awe of the level of geekdom.

 

[dreadpiraterose]

Okay. I, by all accounts, am firmly entrenched in geekdom. I am so much a geek that I just started a thread to post the dialogue from Wrath of Khan line-by-line. And yet I watched that and was in absolute awe of the level of geekdom.

LOL. Yeah... it took some dedication to be a Trek fan in the 80s. I really think its become sooo much more socially acceptable since then.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Ah, yes! The heady days of the 80's cons...I remember them fondly. Back during a time when fan-made blueprints were King and you didn't have to worry about Paramount lawyers jumping out from underneath the skirts of the garage-resin model kit tables to arrest you for supporting non-licensed paraphernalia. It was those early cons that breathed new life into the franchise and kick-started the interest in making a new series. It will never be like that again.

 

[Misfit Toy]

My first con was the 1980 August Trek (or August Party) in Washington DC. No Trek actors, but lots of authors. It meant a nine hour car trip crammed into the back of a sub-compact car, but it was the best time ever...

 

[dreadpiraterose]

Ah, yes! The heady days of the 80's cons...I remember them fondly. Back during a time when fan-made blueprints were King and you didn't have to worry about Paramount lawyers jumping out from underneath the skirts of the garage-resin model kit tables to arrest you for supporting non-licensed paraphernalia. It was those early cons that breathed new life into the franchise and kick-started the interest in making a new series. It will never be like that again.

There is something to be said for the non-corporate fan nature of the early cons.

 

[RandyS]

I can't say what it was like to attend a convention in the 1980's (My one and only experience was in 1994), but, having been 16 in 1986, and already a full-fledged Trek fan then, thanks largely to my mom who saw TOS first-run, I have to say that video brings back alot of memories.

And Ironically, I wasn't even there!

 

[thegreatunknown]

My first con was the 1980 August Trek (or August Party) in Washington DC. No Trek actors, but lots of authors. It meant a nine hour car trip crammed into the back of a sub-compact car, but it was the best time ever...

I was at the 1st (and other) AP. I just made a facebook group about the cons. Best time of my life!