Unseen & Epic: 49 Jaw-Dropping Pics of the Original Star Trek Cast That’ll Blow Your Mind From ’69 to ’79!
1974
22. Waxing legendary
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner flank a wax figure of Shatner’s Captain Kirk at the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California, circa 1974. With them is a fan and museum official during a publicity event that underscored just how iconic Star Trek had become—despite its cancellation five years earlier. As syndication and fan conventions fueled the show’s resurgence, Kirk and Spock were no longer just TV characters—they were cultural monuments, now quite literally cast in wax.
Post Comment