Okay, a bit of backstory: During the production of the original Star Trek, there came a point where a storyline required a smaller craft to carry characters away from the Enterprise in order to place them in that week's helping of mortal danger. Thus, the "shuttlecraft" mentioned in Gene Roddenberry's original show notes finally was built. In ( Read more... )

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When Doug Drexler was asked to provide cover art for the next book in the ongoing Star Trek: Vanguard saga, Declassified, he responded in timely fashion. While his first submission was not accepted by Pocket (owing to similarities to previous entries in the series), it's still a very sweet piece of art ( Read more... )

Earlier today, fanboy turned SFX stud Doug Drexler posted the second installment of his Drex TV video blog to StarTrek.com. Almost 20 minutes of DrexFiles Goodness(tm) for us fanboys (and fangirls!) to slobber over ( Read more... )

In a totally manly sorta way, you understand.

As one of the many enhancements bestowed upon the recently-revamped official Star Trek website, SFX guru and longtime Trek fanboy Doug Drexler has launched a new feature: "Drex-TV". Essentially a video extension of his existing (and oh-so sweet) "Drexfiles" website, Mr. D has seen fit to deliver to us ( Read more... )

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Over on his blog, Doug Drexler as has made with more of the sweet, sweet nerdy goodness, this time posting a series of photographs from the construction of the sets for the U.S.S. Defiant as seen in the Star Trek: Enterprise 2-part episode "In A Mirror, Darkly."

Of course, in the original Star Trek episode "The Tholian Web," the Defiant interiors ( Read more... )

I am an addict, and Doug Drexler is my dealer.

This bastard, with all his pictures and graphics and stories about Star Trek as told from the point of view of someone WHO WAS THERE, working on shows every day; how dare he post such tantalizing morsels of fanboy goodness on his website and just leave them there for me to drool over? It's killing me ( Read more... )

Way back in 1976, Doug Drexler published the Star Trek Giant Poster Books, a series of magazines which unfolded to reveal a big-assed poster featuring an image from the original Star Trek series. During the Great Trek Drought of the 70s, stuff like these magazines were manna from heaven. The series ran for 17 issues before riding off into the ( Read more... )

Read this on Doug Drexler's blog, and I'm linking to it here without comment, because all that need's to be said has already been covered. Just read, and you'll see what I mean.

Drexfiles: Rest In Peace, Shifty.

NOTE: The piece is attributed to Chuck Yeager, but that's been debunked. The author of the letter has not yet been identified, but the ( Read more... )