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TIL there was an official writer's guide for the original Star Trek series. The pages included story advice, character attributes ("Captain Kirk is a space-age Horatio Hornblower"), costuming ("no pockets or space suits"), Stardate calculation, and told writers to contact NASA for technical advice.

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