Alan Oppenheimer, Trek & Six Million

Here's a blast from the past! Alan Oppenheimer has been in He-Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Smurfs, he's the voice of Mighty Mouse and more recently Star Trek: The Next Generation. This was a great success for me, as I watched him A LOT as a kid!

From Hologram to Cartoon, Wendy Schaal does it all

So, last week I got these cards back in. Wendy Schaal played the Doctor's holographic wife in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Real Life." And now, years later, she's playing the cartoon wife on Fox's "American Dad." Love that show!
Anyway, she signed both cards AND the cardboard insert for the envelope. Great lady!

Sharon Lawrence, no longer Blue

So, back in the day, I wrote to Sharon Lawrence when she was on NYPD Blue. She had just guest starred on Star Trek: Voyager as Amelia Earhart in the episode "The 37's." I was very surprised when I received my cards back, signed. Very cool addition to the collection.

Hagan Beggs is a pretty cool guy

Actor Hagan Beggs has played many different parts in his life. His acting career began with the appearances as Lt. Hansen in Star Trek: The Original Series. Later he appeared in small parts in several other television series, including Poltergeist: The Legacy, Millennium and Seven Days. He also appeared in many movies, including the 1996 TV version of Titanic. (Thanks to memory-alpha.org )


I wrote to him, asking him to sign a few Star Trek: The Original Series Collectible Card Game cards, and was so surprised when I received this letter back. 

And he signed my cards! 

What a SUPER nice guy! Thanks, Hagan.

The Enigma sends a piece of the puzzle

Anyone who has ever seen the X-Files episode "Humbug" remembers the Conundrum. He ate a freakin' fish straight out of the river. Seems that the actual person, named The Enigma, was not wearing make-up. He has a jigsaw puzzle tattooed on his body, and colors it in as the days gone by.

The Enigma was awesome! I wrote to him at his website http://www.theenigmalive.com/ and he sent a temporary address, Sent it off on Dec 28, and got it back January 8. Such a fast turn around. Thanks, Enigma!

Ocett can you see... this new autograph I got.

Tara King herself, Ms Linda Thorson, played Gul Ocett in the Star Trek: The Next Generaion episode "The Chase." She signed all three copies I sent, and got them back within 10 days.Another awesome signature!

The report of my autograph is no exaggeration...

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A Letter from Tom Paris' Daddy

So, all this talk about autographs has really fired up my interest in collecting again. I dug out my old supplies, put some stuff together, and started mailing out again. And MAN, I'm on fire. I've mailed out over 30 items since Dec 29, 2010. Warren Munson and Jerry Hardin tied for the quickest return, just 7 days.


Warren Munson is probably remembered as Admiral Robertson in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan , but I sent him some cards from his performance as Admiral Paris in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Persistence of Vision . Yes, I know Richard Herd replaced him in later episodes, but he was the first. And he was super nice. He signed all three cards I sent him, and wrote me a little note. Doesn't get better than that!

Vorik, ahh Taurik. Sorry, I get confused.

So, this one took me quite a while. Alexander Enberg was quite elusive. I finally got what I thought was a good address. So I put my packet together and mailed it of May of 1997, then waited for the return. And waited, and waited. March 22, 1999, my patience was finally rewarded! Beautiful card, with a great address. Sometimes it pays to be patient...though it may be a little tough.

Interesting side note, according to Memory Alpha's web-site "Vorik was played by Alexander Enberg, who had previously played the similarly-named Vulcan Ensign Taurik in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks". Producer Jeri Taylor (who happens to be Enberg's mother) once suggested that Taurik and Vorik were twin brothers."

Kate Twa, Gender Changer to FBI Agent

So, man (this man) can not live by Trek alone. I was/am also big into the X-Files. I wrote to Ms. Twa in February of 1999 and sent her 2 X-Files cards, one from where she was the female half of Brother Martin, the Rogue Kindered from "Genderbender". The other was from when she jumped to the other side of the shield as Det. Kelly Ryan in "Soft Light". She was very nice, and even autographed a few extra cards that I gave to some friends.

The El-Baz cards

I forgot to add the cards that Prof. El-Baz signed. Here they are...

Professor Farouk El-Baz, Shuttlecraft

On January 11, 1995, I wrote a letter to Professor Farouk El-Baz at Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing. I had earlier read an article about the good doctor in OMNI magazine and was excited to hear about his research. More than that, I was sure he was the namesake for the shuttlecraft in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Time Squared." You can imagine how excited I was to receive a letter back from him, handwritten, as well as copies of articles about his life, singed cards and the cool picture from OMNI. In the letter he wrote that he had kept a couple of cards for himself, as he had never seen them. This tickled me to no end, so I gathered up as many as I could get my hands on and sent them to him. This has been one of my prize possessions since.