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...the 1st episode of the iconic TV series Star Trek aired on NBC on September 8th 1966 ("The Man Trap"). An iconic culture was born. Resistance is futile.
Back in 1966 I was doing other things and didn't jump into the Star Trek watchers camp. But recently I started to get the Netflix dvd's and am enjoying watching them . Just watched The Man Trap last week. It was very dated but fun to watch.
Woohoo, huzzah! I'll never forget that night! The salt monster scared the willies out of me! I was 9 years old; had just started 4th grade in New Jersey after moving from California that summer - it was a whole new world for me. I had no faintest premonition of how drastically Star Trek was to shape my whole world-view, or all the ways in which it was to influence the entire rest of my life.
I can't even imagine who I'd have been if Star Trek had not been.
Resistance may be futile, but the Borg weren't introduced until the third (or forth, I forget which year exactly) of ST:TNG.
Been watching some of the first (ST:OS) TV-series for a while now - trying to rediscover what I missed (cause I was born way to late to see Captain Kirk and his five-year-mission when it first aired). Some of the episodes are better than the ST books ... some of the books are better than a few episodes.
THank you for telling us about this milestone! (I do miss the actors who played the characters, even though I never met any in person.)
Quite so re: Borg; the statement was from someone else ;) I just thought it amusing.
Agreed re: episodes and books.
You're most welcome! And yes, some very interesting people played the characters; I'd enjoyed Leonard Nimoy's "I am Spock" book and a bio I'd read of DeForest Kelley :)
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I can't even imagine who I'd have been if Star Trek had not been.
This Is Our Work: What Star Trek Asks of Us (http://uncannymagazine.com/article/work-star-trek-asks-us/)
Live long and prosper! ^^
And yes, that is a great article
Been watching some of the first (ST:OS) TV-series for a while now - trying to rediscover what I missed (cause I was born way to late to see Captain Kirk and his five-year-mission when it first aired). Some of the episodes are better than the ST books ... some of the books are better than a few episodes.
THank you for telling us about this milestone! (I do miss the actors who played the characters, even though I never met any in person.)
Agreed re: episodes and books.
You're most welcome! And yes, some very interesting people played the characters; I'd enjoyed Leonard Nimoy's "I am Spock" book and a bio I'd read of DeForest Kelley :)