Posted on 09/08/2013 10:19:28 AM PDT by EveningStar
Today we celebrate the 47th anniversary of Star Trek, as the series’ first episode, “The Man Trap” aired on September 8, 1966.
Gene Roddenberry’s “wagon train to the stars” made virtually unknown actors at the time, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig, into household names across the United States and around the world.
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I stopped watching when the plots were driven by political correctness. The future became so liberal they didn’t need money. They held business in contempt. All conservatism disappeared from the writing.
LOL! I saw that! :-D
My favorite is “A Taste of Armageddon”. Terrible staging, terrific story.
WHAT? ‘Splain that one to me, Lucy. I thought the mercenary Ferengi were well represented all through the series. Seems to me they’re talking about every LIBERAL I’ve ever known, especially the MEN, LOL!
“They’re greedy, misogynistic, untrustworthy little trolls, and I wouldn’t turn my back on one of them for a second.”
“Neither would I. But once you accept that, you’ll find they can be a lot of fun.”
~ Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax, on Ferengi
When "Star Trek: The Next Generation" came out in 1987, I was very excited...until I actually watched the durned thing. After only a few episodes it was obvious that things were going south.
It was a bad sign when in the pilot episode, Picard's immediate reaction to meeting his very first alien was a gentle, softly spoken, "We surrender".
Scary, ain’t it? At least I take some comfort in knowing that if Aliens DO finally visit us in the near future, they’ll be lookin’ to probe HER and not ME, LOL! :)
Star Trek was one of the best of its kind show in tv history. I loved the Origninal series but never got into the follow on series. Guess I was spoiled. At any rate, Happy Birthday to Star Trek and thanks to the Great Bird of the Gallaxy for brining it to the small scene.
And thanks to ST for a great FReeper handle.
Socialism: A love story – Star Trek
http://theemptiness.info/2011/03/socialism-a-love-story-star-trek/
Star Trek was on NBC, Friday nights, at 10pm...the death hour for then network TV..yet at 9:59 every Friday night, the juke box would get turned off, and over a hundred people would cram into the TV room to watch the show...and yell, and scream, and imitate Spock. The network stupidly didn't know what it had. Imagine if they had Twitter back then..
I’d probably give Shatner and Kelley a pass on the “virtually unknown” label but would acknowledge that Star Trek was the boost most actors pray will happen to them.
Sounds like me & my two girlfriends of 30+ years!
Wednesday evenings? 8pm Central? Bottle of wine cracked, manicure items on the coffee table and, ‘Magnum, P.I.’ on the tube! (’See B.S.,’ I think?)
THAT was the highlight of our young lives - before husbands and kids RUINED our PERFECT, swingin’ single lives, LOL!
In the dorm at Purdue, someone would go out before the end of the show to call and hold the elevator, so the people on the top floors wouldn't have to wait forever as everyone rushed for the cafeteria.
At some point in the 80's, Purdue did a survey of incoming freshman engineering students, and found that James Doohan (as Scotty) was an inspiration for many of them to study engineering and pursue it as a career.
Happy birthday, Star Trek! I love each of the series, including Voyager.
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