Our Star Trek Bibliography - Episode 129

70s Trek: Star Trek in the 1970s

Throughout the run of 70s Trek we’ve been telling you about what happened in the 1970s. But how did we get our information? We did a lot of digging and looked at multiple sources for each episode. This week we tell you about those sources.

Anyone who has written a research paper in high school or college will remember that there are two types of sources: Primary and Secondary.

Primary sources are those that are original to the event in question. They provide firsthand evidence or testimony to what happened or what people were thinking.

These include court documents, newspapers articles, autobiographies, corporate memos, letters and even photos or videos.

Secondary sources are those written after the fact either using primary sources, or using other secondary sources.

Here on 70s Trek, we used primary sources when we could. But most were secondary sources.