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- Federation Trading Post was a Star Trek and science fiction specialty retail store with two locations, one in Berkeley, California (opened May 11, 1975) and a second in New York City (opened October 11, 1975). Both stores were founded and owned by self-described Trekkers Chuck Weiss and Sandy Sarris. Described as the "first of its kind", and very likely the first independent retail store solely devoted to a television series, the Federation Trading Post was seen as contributing to the rise of Star Trek fan culture in the Bay Area and in New York City in the years between the cancellation of the original series in 1969, and the release of Star Trek the Motion Picture in 1979. During this time, the show had entered syndication and gained new fans, many of whom took to letter-writing campaigns to bring the show back on the air. Official merchandise for the growing fan base had been sparse, so many unlicensed fan creations were shared and/or sold at early science fiction conventions. (en)
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- "The game had an Enterprise ship and a Klingon ship. They each had shields around them with 16 shield segments. The shields took individual hits and glowed when they got hit, which was a pretty good accomplishment in those days, and then dimmed down to a lower level of brightness. A couple of hits on a shield would make it die and then a direct hit through the shields to your ship would cause some damage. You could rotate your ship so that the incoming weapon would hit a shield instead of your ship. It was 2-player or one player against the computer. You had 99 photon torpedoes and some amount of phaser energy. In those days that was top-notch stuff. Plus we had a cloaked Romulan ship that would show up when he felt like it and shoot a fireball at you. You could damage the Romulan ship if you hit it while it was visible." (en)
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- Federation Trading Post was a Star Trek and science fiction specialty retail store with two locations, one in Berkeley, California (opened May 11, 1975) and a second in New York City (opened October 11, 1975). Both stores were founded and owned by self-described Trekkers Chuck Weiss and Sandy Sarris. (en)
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