On September 8, 1966, "Star Trek" aired for the first time.

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Star Trek

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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise originating from the 1960s television series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry. That series, now often known as "The Original Series", debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train.

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1. And 8-year old Luvs2sing's life was forever changed.

🖖🏻🖖🏻🖖🏻🖖🏻🖖🏻

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Who would have thought back then

what Star Trek would grow into.

Also, it might not have happened without the support of Lucille Ball.

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3. She was a pioneer in so many ways.

She was also the target of GOP smears that she was a communist or communist sympathizer.

[Auggie]

6. Lucille Ball ran a quality production facility

There's a noticeable drop-off in production value when Desilu was sold to Paramount. You can see it in Start Trek between season two to season three, just after the sale was completed. Story lines were predictable and banal and sets looked really cheap. You can see the same change in Mannix and Mission Impossible episodes as well, both of which were Desilu originals. Paramount went cheap and it showed.

IMO Ball does not get recognition for her abilities or standards as a study chief. She was one of the greats.

[dickthegrouch]

4. I was astonished to find most of the series being rerun today

On the Heros and Icons cable channel.
So many childhood memories.

[Auggie]

5. Find them on Hulu, Netflix and Paramount+, unedited and commercial-free