Star Trek: The Original Series
With all the noise about the rebooted movie series doing the rounds, it’s perhaps important to remind ourselves of where Trek first began, a small-screen sensation more addictive than anything the movies have currently offered us. Gene Roddenberry’s massively influential show made its debut in 1966 and although it didn’t live long and prosper for very long, its impact was immediately apparent. Prior to its premature cancellation in 1969, the adventures of Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Bones, Uhura and the rest of the USS Enterprise crew wasn’t so much a TV show as history in the making, forever defining an audience’s love of science-fiction as it took them into strange new worlds like nothing that had come before, influencing everything from technology to civil rights attitudes.
