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Sat Sep 13, 2014, 09:45 PM Sep 2014

Ever been to a fan convention? And did anything strange or wild happen? [View all]

I was at the 1976 Star Trek convention in Chicago, and it was the normal stuff that was rare at that one!

The Dorsai (convention security that dress up like old series Klingons,) were trying to keep order while there was jockeying for power, Bill Shatner got hit with a pie, and to close it out, the Chicago fire department closed down the con since there were too many people there.

One rumor that was half-believed, someone told me the guy who made "American Graffiti" was making a space movie.
We figured it would go nowhere like so many other space movies did.

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