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Happy Star Trek Day

Fifty-nine years ago today, the USS Enterprise went where no man had gone before. The Man Trap was the first episode aired (the one with the salt-sucking monster).

The second pilot, named ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’, was actually the third episode aired. Oddly enough, in that episode, Captain Kirk’s middle initial was R instead of T (for Tiberius).

Arguably one of the most influential Sci-Fi shows of all time with spin offs (Star Trek, the Next Generation most notably) and movies (yes, I cry when Spock dies in Star Trek II, every time and Star Trek IV is still a quotable favorite).

Reruns almost every night and I’ll watch ’em.

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14 responses to “Happy Star Trek Day”

  1. crazyeighter Avatar
    crazyeighter

    May the force be with you…

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  2. Unferth Avatar
    Unferth

    It was supposed to be James R. Kirk, but Shatner kept forgetting his lines and saying James T. Kirk. The writers gave up and made it Tiberius.

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  3. Bigus Macus Avatar
    Bigus Macus

    I started watching Star Trek as a young lad in the 1960’s . I’m still watching it today as a much older kid :).

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  4. Old NFO Avatar
    Old NFO

    I still think it’s funny the last CO of the USS Enterprise was Captain James Kirk… 🙂

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  5. Phil B Avatar
    Phil B

    Th make up department had to work really hard to hide Captain Kirk’s deformity. He had his left ear, his right ear and a third ear in the middle of his forehead. It was his final front ear …

    I can hear the groans already! >};oD

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  6. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    Wasn’t there a pilot episode that had a different actor for the captain and a female first officer instead of Spock? Then they used some of the scenes from the pilot in a later episode with Kirk and Spock, in which Spock was on trial for mutiny, for taking control of the Enterprise in order to get his former captain (who was now paralyzed) to a planet where he could live out the images in his mind, with help from aliens.

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  7. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    Watching it right now.
    There are reruns every day on broadcast, Sat it’s on METV.
    I often flip over to see if it’s one I want to watch.
    I don’t watch much other Srar Trek shows, I do occasionally watch Voyager, that one has its moments.
    I tried to watch TNG when it came out, but the EUnik style of Picard bothered me.

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  8. Silliest Avatar
    Silliest

    Mark – The pilot “The Cage” had Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike, Majel Barrett (Rodenberry’s wife, the voice of the computer in most of TOS and other series, Nurse Chapel in TOS, Troi’s mother in TNG and other roles) as his “Number One” and Leonard Nimoy as Spock the Science Officer.

    “The Menagerie” was a two part episode that, as you said, had Spock up on mutiny charges because he commandeered The Enterprise to return the now severely injured, but mentally fine, Pike to Talos IV (which has been off limits ever since the incidents in “The Cage”) where the inhabitants could give him the illusion of being fully functional.

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  9. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Have you seen the “Beam me up Bubba” video clip?

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  10. boneman1959 Avatar
    boneman1959

    I remeber when they changed the time from 8:00 to 9:00PM. An hour past my bed-time!!!! I had to sneak to the top of the stairs and listen to the episode “Spock’s Brain”…

    Yep… I was a Star Trek Kid. TOS. First Run. Broadcast over the air out of NYC.

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  11. Don Curton Avatar
    Don Curton

    Yup, and the show In Living Color where Jim Carrey played Kirk in the Wrath of Farrakhan still lives in my mind.

    “Spock, are you out of your Vulck-ing mind?”

    With the Vulcan sounding just like, well, F***ing. On live TV.

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  12. Matthew W Avatar
    Matthew W

    Sigh………………..
    I’m gonna be that guy.
    The original Trek show was crap, yes crap.
    badly written, greatly overacted (Looking at you Bill….), plots nonsense.
    Trek didn’t hit its mark until ” Wrath of Kahn”.

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  13. Nemo Avatar
    Nemo

    Shatner, the master of the pregnant pause and the not required by the script roll in the dirt, just because.

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  14. Midwest Chick Avatar
    Midwest Chick

    crazyeighter–Smart aleck….

    Unferth–And history was made.

    Bigus–I started watching in the early 70s (it was one of the shows my mom would let me stay up for) and I still watch it.

    NFO–A natural for the job.

    PhilB–Oh my gosh. Worse than any regular Dad joke…

    Mark–Silliest got to it before I could.

    Veeshir–Last night’s was good. I watch it on H&I. I do watch TNG sometimes as well. Picard was actually surprisingly manly in some episodes. And Q is a favorite.

    Silliest–Thank you for the synopsis. Laid it out perfectly!

    Frank–I have!

    boneman–It was one of two shows my mom would let me stay up to watch (the other was Dr. Who).

    Don–Carrey was actually funny on In Living Color. And that skit was priceless!

    Matthew–I respectfully disagree. Some of the plots were surprisingly deep. And without seeing ‘Space Seed’ it would be hard to understand the Wrath of Khan and his motivations.

    Nemo–Rumor has that some of the pauses were due to him trying to remember his lines. But the pauses when he was reading the Preamble were magical.

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