50 years ago today

[med_cat]

...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.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

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.

supergee posted this link yesterday; it rocks:

This Is Our Work: What Star Trek Asks of Us (http://uncannymagazine.com/article/work-star-trek-asks-us/)

Live long and prosper! ^^

[med_cat]

Oh wow, how neat to have watched it when it first came out ;)

And yes, that is a great article supergee has posted; he really does find the most amazing essays, etc.

[duathir.livejournal.com]

It was a great influence on all of us.

[med_cat]

Indeed.