Fun with statistics and charts!

[HIj'Qa]

When Pocket Books announced that they were cutting back their production of Star Trek books to one a month, the TrekBBS Lit board people bemoaned the dying of Trek.
While Star Trek was over 40, with no new show on the air, comics were starting up again at IDW, and a new movie was in the works.
I was curious about how Star Trek production ebbed and flowed from that first woosh across the screen in '66.
Biggest surprises to me - Gold Key comics produced 61 issues, but averaged only 5 a year!
The final TOS ep Turnabout Intruder aired in June '69, three full months after the previous ep, All Our Yesterdays in March. Network scheduling to lose an audience is nothing new!
Oh, for the heady days of the mid 90s.

show info from Treknation!

book info from http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/index.html
Steve Roby's The Complete Starfleet Library

comics info from Mark Martinez's Comics Checklist http://devbox.mebeam.net/devzone/faqs/Star-Trek/comics-checklist/part2/index.html

game info from Trekcore Gaming
http://gaming.trekcore.com/chrono_list.html

 

[Mistral]

Dude, I thought I was nuts! I once calculated a rough # for how many hours I spent watching ST-broken down by series and movies, including number of times seen. You just blew that out of the water.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Nicely done! You can definitely see certain trends happening here.

 

[Forbin]

You should make the font smaller on the years so each tick has its year and they align. Say, 8 or even 6 point. Can't really tell what's what there.

 

[ToddPence]

The final TOS ep Turnabout Intruder aired in June '69, three full months after the previous ep, All Our Yesterdays in March. Network scheduling to lose an audience is nothing new!

"Turnabout Intruder" was originally scheduled to air on March 28, 1969. It even appears in newspaper TV listings for that date. However, former President Eisenhower passed away that day, and news coverage of his death pre-empted Star Trek's final adventure.