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author: 2009 issue-How Star Trek Taught Us To Boldly Go. Newsweek May 4
description: Weekly newsmagazine. This week's issue focuses on Star Trek with the release of the new Trekkie movie and traces its origins back to the original 1966 T.V. Television series.
zlib_text: ## PREFACE
  
  
  There is a lot of mail to be caught up on this time, and some news. However, a
  book is not a newspaper, so some of the news may be contradicted by later
  events, and certainly stale, by the time you read this.
  
  
  First of all, there was a Star Trek convention in New York last January. The
  organizer expected perhaps five hundred people. He got nearly four
  thousand—which makes this gathering, incidentally, the largest science-fiction
  convention in history. It was covered in some depth by TV Guide and by several
  major newspapers.
  
  
  Gene Roddenberry was there, and told both the audience and the press that he
  hoped for a return of the series. Though quotations of what he actually said
  make it clear that this was no more than a wish we all share, my mail shows
  that it created more solid antici-pation than it should have.
  
  
  If you would like to add your voice to those urging NBC to choose in favor of
  Star Trek, write to: Bettye K. Hoffmann, Manager, NBC Corporate Information,
  Natio