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Happy Star Trek Day - 8 September 2025

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I was 9 years old on 8 September 1966 when Star Trek premiered.

The working schedule at Desilu Productions was a total mess. Scripts were incomplete, actors were available then were unavailable, delays caused episodes to be completed out of air date order.
NBC staged an early rollout of its Fall Lineup of shows with a surprise "Sneak Preview" premiere, one week earlier than customary. CBS and ABC were caught off guard but so was Desilu Productions!

Only three episodes were broadcast ready and none of them were the pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was still filming. NBC's program schedulers picked the episode with the monster in it hoping to give viewers the expected "sci-fi" experience, not the "high-brow" experience Gene Roddenberry was promoting. So the first Star Trek episode on TV turned out to be episode four, "The Man Trap".



I opened my OTOY online account last year, curious to see what's in store for Star Trek, guided by the Roddenberry Archive.


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We have watched each series since it first aired.

But since it is owned by the now right wing Paramount corp., I am thinking it will likely be cancelled as being too 'woke'.
 
The Original Series remains, but I have grown up and grown old.

I've gotten into trouble when I meet "Trekkies" because I now see the flaws in almost every episode. Shortcuts, lapses in logic, dialog that makes no sense, astounding concepts that appear in a single episode never to be used again, and plots written by grade school drop-outs. I like science fiction but Star Trek feels like a space soap opera. After all these years I feel like I've turned into my father when it comes to the Star Trek franchise.

The only TOS episode I thoroughly enjoy is "The Doomsday Machine".

 
^ We actually sit there and giggle at a lot of this stuff. I mean...really. But I do when I watch the earlier episodes of the series as well.

The most recent episode we watched didn't even try to pretend a lot of the science...

I guess we just suspend disbelief and overlook the flaws just to see where they will go with it next.
 
I shared in the excitement of an all-new sci-fi series for the 1966 Fall television season. Each week of Star Trek felt like a real adventure.
Later, when the show went into syndication in the 1970's, I related more to the people on the show, because so many were familiar to me from years before.

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Take Sherry Jackson, "Andrea", from: "What Are Little Girls Made Of". She caused a sensation on Star Trek but to anyone old enough to remember, Sherry Jackson was one of the children on the old Danny Thomas Show from 1955, "Make Room For Daddy". She had grown into a very beautiful woman but the real star of the episode was Majel Barrett - her performance was outstanding!



TV Guide - March 4, 1967

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Yup. Star Trek was one of Lucy's greatest gifts to television viewers and Sci-fi nerds.
 
rareboy said:
Yup. Star Trek was one of Lucy's greatest gifts to television viewers and Sci-fi nerds.
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I've always wondered if Lucille Ball convinced NBC to consider a second pilot episode after "The Cage" was rejected.
 
I was about 11 years old when the original series (TOS) started. We were even allowed to watch it on the TV while eating at the dinner table. So apparently, my Dad liked TOS also. A couple of the series (DS9 and Voyager) were not carried on our local cable. So i would have been a few years behind getting to watch those. I do own, on DVD, the TNG and Enterprise series.
 
PrinceCory said:
I was about 11 years old when the original series (TOS) started. We were even allowed to watch it on the TV while eating at the dinner table. So apparently, my Dad liked TOS also. A couple of the series (DS9 and Voyager) were not carried on our local cable. So i would have been a few years behind getting to watch those. I do own, on DVD, the TNG and Enterprise series.
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Time Marches On. Soon will come the day that all eyewitnesses of the Original Series from 1966 will be gone.

That's why I setup my online profile with OTOY two years ago. Star Trek can live long after my generation is gone.

 
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