Posted on 11/28/2005 7:16:33 PM PST by KevinDavis
It is arguably the most famous opening television monologue ever:
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
It turns out that the last line of that memorable speech delivered by Captain James T. Kirk (well, William Shatner) nearly four decades ago came from a White House document produced in 1958 to help calm post-Sputnik hysteria.
Here is an excerpt from the March 1958 document “Introduction to Outer Space:”
“…the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereview.com ...
It's out there.... trust no one
I wish it wasn't so simple and I wish we didn't think it was so difficult.
to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
And Trek got worse.
Love the original Star Trek, was happy with the Next Generation. Then they got greedy, greedy, greedy, and carried the politically correct theme way beyond decency and spoiled it for me forever.
Hey! That's my line!!! The girls love it! ;-)
Aguably the ST one is "more famous", bu my reaction to it was always more "whatever" than "wow"
Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of the Serenity. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, his genius sister from some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is. - Firefly
It was The dawn of the Third Age of Mankind: ten years after the Earth/Minbari war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form; it's goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.
It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped up in two million five hundred thousand tonnes of spinning metal, all alone in the night.
It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258, the name of the place is Babylon 5.
These mention people. The ST one could be about a robot probe going to dangerous places while NerfMan sits safely at home.
And:
He was brought across in 1228. Preyed on humans for their blood. Now, he wants to be mortal again, to repay society for his sins,to emerge from his world of darkness, from his endless Forever Knight.
I like Firefly's theme song:
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found serenity
But you can't take the sky from me
Love me some sexy Vulcans!
Anybody watch Starship Exeter? http://www.starshipexeter.com/
I surrender!
Pfft....
Sure, they look good in spandex, but do you remember how a Vulcan does it? Spock hooked up with the Romulan commander in the episode where Kirk and Spock steal the cloaking device. Rubbing finger-tips ain't exactly my idea of fun.
And then there's Pon far. Every seven years? To rub finger-tips? I mean, why bother?
A seminal moment in television history.
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