the Star Trek/Peanuts links

With a new Star Trek film about to come out, I’ve been thinking about the links between Peanuts and  Trek… and I don’t mean just the interesting moment at which Schulz referenced Star Trek in the strip.   There are people links as well – cartoonist Dale Hale, who crafted many of the Peanuts comic book story, also worked on the animated Star Trek series of the 1970s. Another name then came to mind as having credits in both the Star Trek and Peanuts world…. but rather than tell you, I reckoned I’d ask who among the fellow geeks in the AAUGH Blog readership can come up with a name, thinking that if I did so, perhaps you’d think of folks other than what I’m thinking of.

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

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Unquote alone

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Candidate Snoopy

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