The 40th Anniversary celebrations have led to a lot of ink being spilled, so let me just quickly point out some highlights:

• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer does the usual "Gosh! Has it been forty years already?" approach.
• BBC News reports stiff-upper-liply that there is a celebration, of some sort, going on in the wilds of America.
• The Trades has an editorial on the consequences of Trekking.
• All Headline News rounds up the various press releases and makes them flow together into something resembling news.
• The Cleveland Plain Dealer's TV critic thinks Trek was just swell.
• The New York Daily News, home of the lazy but grabbing lede, starts off with a tired joke about "it was supposed to be a five-year mission."
• The Deadbolt doesn't really add anything new.
• SyFyPortal points out that the real 40th anniversary celebrations are in Pocket Books's tie-in novel program.
• The UPI Wire has the bare-bones story that most of these folks probably started from.
• There's a similar, but longer, AP story that can be found roughly a bazillion places, including here at the Albany Times-Union, the hometown paper of my original hometown.
  
• The Sunday Times -- Scotland has found an Episcopalian lay pastor who uses Trek for religious teachings.
• The Chicago Tribune discovers how J. Random Ensign and Doomed Love Interest #3,749 fare at Trek conventions.
• The Norwich (Connecticut) Bulletin is desperately looking for Trekkies to interview.
• TV Squad does the ol' reliable "What Trek taught me" thing.

That's more than enough for now; you folks who can't get enough Trek can continue through the other 450 Google hits...