Celebrating 50 Years Of Boldly Going Where No Man—Or Woman—Has Gone Before, With A Little Help From Trekkie Pinup Girl And Big Bang Theory Star Mayim Bialik.
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 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. Viewers heard these words for the first time on Thursday, Sept. 8, 1966, and Planet Earth would never be the same. Star Trek would go on to become one of the world’s most popular shows, with more spinoffs than any other series in television history, and ultimately, turn into a pop culture phenomenon.
Initially described as a combination of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, the original Star Trek is celebrated, among many other reasons, for its Progressive Era civil rights stances (including the first interracial kiss on American television, between William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura). It made statements, then unprecedented, about topics like sex, religion, the Vietnam War and politics. And it has been cited as an inspiration for several technological inventions, including the cell phone. (Thanks, Capt. Kirk’s communicator!)
The original show, created by Gene Roddenberry and starring Shatner, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichols, James Doohan and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, ran for just three seasons—79 episodes total— on NBC, which at the time was home to top-rated Bonanza (with competition from ABC sitcoms The Tammy Grimes Show and Bewitched, and CBS’s My Three Sons).
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