This week on 70s Trek co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto have some fun as they  recast Star Trek with TV stars from the 1970s. 

Did you ever sit around with your friends and talk Trek, coming up with alternative plot lines or twists?  Bob and Kelly did in college and it's f those conversations that inspired this episode.

There are no right or wrong answers and the only rule is that the actors had to be on TV during the decade.  Are there any good matches?  It really doesn't matter because it's all done for fun.

Leave us your cast lists at www.Facebook.com/70sTrek.

This week on 70s Trek co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto have some fun as they  recast Star Trek with TV stars from the 1970s. 

Did you ever sit around with your friends and talk Trek, coming up with alternative plot lines or twists?  Bob and Kelly did in college and it's f those conversations that inspired this episode.

There are no right or wrong answers and the only rule is that the actors had to be on TV during the decade.  Are there any good matches?  It really doesn't matter because it's all done for fun.

Leave us your cast lists at www.Facebook.com/70sTrek.

Spock's Brain.  It’s considered by many to be the worst Star Trek episode ever!  In fact, Entertainment Weekly published a special Star Trek issue in 1995 and Spock’s Brain was picked as the worst all-time episode.

But there is more to Spock’s Brain than just a search for...well...Spock’s brain.  Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto take a deeper look at this show on this week's episode of 70s Trek.

There was a lot happening leading up to the production of this episode that may have influenced its production.  Star Trek seemed to be on a high note at the end of Season Two when a fan-driven letter writing campaign saved the show.  

But as the crew got to work on the third season, there were problems.  There was dissension amongst the producers and the budget had been reduced to such a degree that the production of each episode was limited.  The results of all of this played out on the screen throughout the third season.  Spock's Brain was just the most obvious sign of what was happening behind the scenes during Season Three. 

Spock's Brain.  It’s considered by many to be the worst Star Trek episode ever!  In fact, Entertainment Weekly published a special Star Trek issue in 1995 and Spock’s Brain was picked as the worst all-time episode.

But there is more to Spock’s Brain than just a search for...well...Spock’s brain.  Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto take a deeper look at this show on this week's episode of 70s Trek.

There was a lot happening leading up to the production of this episode that may have influenced its production.  Star Trek seemed to be on a high note at the end of Season Two when a fan-driven letter writing campaign saved the show.  

But as the crew got to work on the third season, there were problems.  There was dissension amongst the producers and the budget had been reduced to such a degree that the production of each episode was limited.  The results of all of this played out on the screen throughout the third season.  Spock's Brain was just the most obvious sign of what was happening behind the scenes during Season Three. 

This week co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss the Star Trek Log series of books by Alan Dean Foster.  They were adaptations of the animated series episodes.

Foster wrote these adaptation from 1974 to 1978.  There were three episodes per book in the first six books.  That means Foster filled in a lot of detail that never appeared in The Animated Series.  It's this aspect of the Log books that makes these books so fun to read.   

In the last four books of the Log series, Foster was assigned the job of taking one 22-minute episode and making it into a novel-length story.  He did this by really writing two stories that connected at the end.

After The Animated Series left the air in 1974, there was no new Trek until 1979.  Foster's Log series, along with the James Blish novelizations, gave Star Trek fans something to look forward to as they hoped for something new to get produced.

This week co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss the Star Trek Log series of books by Alan Dean Foster.  They were adaptations of the animated series episodes.

Foster wrote these adaptation from 1974 to 1978.  There were three episodes per book in the first six books.  That means Foster filled in a lot of detail that never appeared in The Animated Series.  It's this aspect of the Log books that makes these books so fun to read.   

In the last four books of the Log series, Foster was assigned the job of taking one 22-minute episode and making it into a novel-length story.  He did this by really writing two stories that connected at the end.

After The Animated Series left the air in 1974, there was no new Trek until 1979.  Foster's Log series, along with the James Blish novelizations, gave Star Trek fans something to look forward to as they hoped for something new to get produced.

This week on 70s Trek co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto talk about the first reference book about Star Trek, The Starfleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph.

It was published in 1975, and is a great look into what Star Trek was in 1975, and what it might have been, as well.

Joseph was a designer who came upon this project because his daughter was a Trek fan. The book is full of diagrams and proposed information about Starfleet, the academy and much, much more.

Joseph closely examined frames of film from episodes to see what props, sets and consoles looked like. He then redrew them for the Manual.

But this book is also unique for how it treats the material: Joseph wrote the book as if it was an intercepted computer file from the future.  He treats it as real, and enthusiastic fans in 1975 loved it!

This week on 70s Trek co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto talk about the first reference book about Star Trek, The Starfleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph.

It was published in 1975, and is a great look into what Star Trek was in 1975, and what it might have been, as well.

Joseph was a designer who came upon this project because his daughter was a Trek fan. The book is full of diagrams and proposed information about Starfleet, the academy and much, much more.

Joseph closely examined frames of film from episodes to see what props, sets and consoles looked like. He then redrew them for the Manual.

But this book is also unique for how it treats the material: Joseph wrote the book as if it was an intercepted computer file from the future.  He treats it as real, and enthusiastic fans in 1975 loved it!

In 1975, Gene Roddenberry and Paramount Pictures struck a deal to develop a new Star Trek feature film.  The production was set to begin in July 1976 and the film would have a $50 million budget!  It was the culmination of six years of growing anticipation over bringing the show back.

Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss what led to this deal and what eventually happened.  The treatment, entitled The God Thing, never made it to the big screen.  But while Paramount rejected Roddenberry's treatment, they didn't reject Star Trek and actively sought out ideas for a new script.

This first development deal, even though it failed, was the crucial first step in bringing a live-action Star Trek back.  But it was just the first step, and there would be many more over the next four years.

In 1975, Gene Roddenberry and Paramount Pictures struck a deal to develop a new Star Trek feature film.  The production was set to begin in July 1976 and the film would have a $50 million budget!  It was the culmination of six years of growing anticipation over bringing the show back.

Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss what led to this deal and what eventually happened.  The treatment, entitled The God Thing, never made it to the big screen.  But while Paramount rejected Roddenberry's treatment, they didn't reject Star Trek and actively sought out ideas for a new script.

This first development deal, even though it failed, was the crucial first step in bringing a live-action Star Trek back.  But it was just the first step, and there would be many more over the next four years.