Star Trek premiered 50 years ago today

New Yorker | 9/8/2016 | Manu Saadia

[Borges]

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-enduring-lessons-of-star-trek

[Borges]

This is a pretty good take on it. I'm not sure if we can post merely a link to publications not allowed here?

[Puppage]

It’s lived long & prospered.

[DannyTN]

That’s a pretty stark typo.

[tet68]

Jeez, I remember returning from Nam on leave between
tours and seeing ST on a little TV in the Admin office
while trying to get some pay. As a science fiction buff
it was really cool to see a sf tv program.

50 years? God, I’m ancient.

[Borges]

Yikes!

[onedoug]

IMHO, the best episode is “A Taste of Armageddon”. Even with its chintzy costumes and props, it gut very cleanly to the realties of war.

“You called me a barbarian.”

“I hoped to have spoken figuratively.”

“No. You were quite right. I plan to prove it to you.”

[LouieFisk]

“That’s a pretty stark typo.”
==
Would drive even Spock stark raving mad.

[PROCON]

[EveningStar]

I'm not sure if we can post merely a link to publications not allowed here?

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you can post anything, including just links, from such sources. :(

[Bratch]

Star Trek turns 50: A look back at the desperately sad first episode

A half-century later, 'The Man Trap' has only gotten weirder... and better.

BY DARREN FRANICH • @DARRENFRANICH

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(Paramount Television)

Star Trek (TV Show - 1966)

Posted September 8 2016 — 8:15 AM EDT

The original Star Trek TV show is half a century old, and I’ve never loved it more. It is talky, stagebound, narcotically slow. The alien planets look like sets, or they look like hiking trails in greater Los Angeles. The characters never change, no matter how many times they watch a world die, no matter how often they watch a fellow officer get murdered by aliens carved from rubber and nightmares. There is no running story — though there are semi-abstract will-they-won’t-theys, Nurse Chapel and Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk and Yeoman Rand, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Science-fiction storytelling is now synonymous with serialized storytelling. We expect that events that happen in one episode will matter in the next episode. Watching the original Star Trek now, the characters’ complete lack of interest in their own history reads dispassionate, almost inhuman.

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[Stevenc131]

A half century ago. Given I watched it on TV back then, I feel ancient.

[LouieFisk]

“It’s lived long & prospered.”
==
By the time “Voyager” was rolled out it had pretty much lost it’s raison d’être.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Lucille Ball greenlighted it at Desilu.
Said “this one looks like it could last in reruns for awhile.”

Keen eye for business, that woman.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Raison d'etre for Voyager was THIS...

[Bratch]

BTW, The Man Trap was obviously made before the "red shirt" memo.

[wideminded]

Star Trek premiered 50 years ago today

It's a sign of low creativity in our culture that Star Trek and Star Wars are still so prominent and people are still trying to make a buck off them and make more sequels instead of replacing them with something new.

[Bratch]

And now she’s responsible for the mess we’re in.

[Repeal 16-17]

Greatest Sci-Fi franchise ever, although it did get better after its Communist creator (Gene Roddenberry) was no longer running it.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

They now advertise a stupid Star Trek 50th anniversary coin which has “...the iconic phrase “Where No One Has Gone Before.”” No it isn’t. It’s “Where No Man Has Gone Before” when referring to the original series and had been until 1987’s Star Trek The Next Generation. It didn’t even change to “No One...” in the movies until Star Trek 6 in 1991.

[LouieFisk]

I’m reminded of a scene from the Simpons: Homer tells Comic Book Guy he’d like to buy a mint-condition Spider-Man issue #1, who retorts “and I’d like an hour on the holodeck with Seven of Nine!”