Star Trek at 50: You made me who I am
 

Star Trek at 50: You made me who I am
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A half century of Star Trek means that, for many people, there has been ** life without the iconic franchise.

I'm certainly one of those people, narrowly missing the original run (I was born, but **t even school age when it went off the air in 1969). I caught the second wave with reruns in the early 1970s, watching it almost every day when I came home from school. I also watched I Love Lucy, which, **t coincidentally, starred Lucille Ball, who would go on to produce Star Trek (and save it from obscurity).

Essentially the episodic tale of a ship-at-sea in the middle of deep space (everything in it is modeled on the Navy), Star Trek was just strange e**ugh to excite my young brain. There were the bright colors (yellow, red, blue) the quick cuts to the canned footage of the Enterprise circling a planet, scantily clad green women, panels and panels of flashing lights, gadgetry like the phaser and hand-held communicators — **t to mention the tight-knit crew. Read more...

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