Digital revival of an entertainment icon: Circus route books and other materials

One of my favorite memories from my teenage years was eating Saturday dinner in the kitchen while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on the small TV that sat atop our deep freezer in the corner of the dining room. My mom hated the show, but my dad and I watched it each week without fail. I was born into the hype of Star Wars and the mythos surrounding the Skywalker family, but Star Trek gave me a newer, cleaner vision of the future. The Enterprise crew could ask the ship for any bit of information—not only about Earth and its history but about any and all details of the explored areas of the galaxy. How fascinating that a computer could hold so much information and make it readily available at a moment’s notice.