54 Years Ago Today; Star Trek (TOS) airs for the first time on US TV 🖖

[PirateRo]

12. Life-long fan

And, yes, one of those that yelled at the tv when they got it wrong. My ex would remind me the people at the other end could not hear me, so out went letters. I wrote numerous times to CBS before they launched, too, knowing they’d botch it and they did. Plenty of reviews in now for their efforts. I understand Kurtzman is out.

Loved TOS and TNG. Absolutely hated DSN (source of all the yelling). Solid cast, though, great actors, good directing but the undercurrents on those scripts made me look elsewhere. It was 15 years before I watched finally watched it all the way through. Still hated it. Voyager was midway between TOS/TNG. Hated every Abrams offering. F you’re making Trek, then make Trek. Don’t repurpose old scripts and tropes and slap a Trek label on it.

It remains the only series capable of changing the world. iMHO. Squarely secular humanism. Missing Roddenberry every day.

Btw, check out Old Guard movie on Netflix. You will find similar themes throughout. It demonstrates you don’t need starships or phasers to do Trek.