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Star Trek

8.1/ 10
51 min
8.1 / 10
3seasons
79episodes

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Runtim:
51 min
1966 - 1969
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Star Trek was an influential science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that followed the adventures of the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise. The show began with the production of the 1964 pilot "The Cage". "The Cage" featured Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise captain Christopher Pike. The pilot was rejected by NBC executives as being too cerebral. In order to demonstrate the action-adventure potential of the series, another pilot entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was produced. Replacing Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise captain was William Shatner who starred as Captain James T. Kirk. The new pilot also starred Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock who was the only character to return from the original pilot after NBC's rejection of "The Cage". Response to the second, action-oriented, pilot was good and NBC gave the go ahead to the series.

The series premiered on NBC on Thursday, September 8, 1966 in the 8:30-9:30 PM timeslot with the episode "The Man Trap". Critical response to the series was mixed and rating were lower than expected. In its second season, reoccurring guest star DeForest Kelley was added to the series' starring cast and the show was moved to Friday at 8:30. A decline in the ratings, however, prompted NBC to attempt to cancel the series after its second season, but a letter writing campaign by die hard fans of the show saved it from cancellation. An additional season of episodes were produced, but ratings continued to decline most likely due to the quality of the third season episodes and a bad 10:00 PM Friday night time slot. Despite another letter writing campaign, the series was finally cancelled after its third season. The last new episode "Turnabout Intruder" was shown on June 3, 1969.

After its three year run Star Trek began running syndication where it was discovered by legion of new fans and became a phenomenon. The show inspired six features films, an animated series, and four additional spin-off television shows. Other spin-off's include novels, comic books, merchandise and an enormous amount of fan-fiction based on the series. Despite its short network run, Star Trek has become one of the most successful shows in television history.

Aside from its three main stars, Star Trek featured a large cast of reoccurring guest stars that includes James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, and Grace Lee Whitney. Other notable guest stars include Diana Muldaur, Gary Lockwood, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Kellerman, Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, John Colicos, Roger C. Carmel, William Campbell, Ted Cassidy, Michael Ansara and Elisha Cook, Jr. Notable writers for the series include Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon, George Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, Jerome Bixby, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, David Gerrold, and D.C. Fontana.

Seasons

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Season 2
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CC11
24 August 2016
6.7
As a viewer from the very beginning, I thought I would look back at the pilot since the original series was put on Netflix 50 years after its release. You know, nostalgia and all, a fact that has soured me before with other childhood heroes. An idea that I would have left better in retrospect because, to be honest, this was actually just cringe-inducing bad. Dead that move, the same by the way with the "massive" boulders from the set, the wooden acting of the entire cast (OK, it was their first time too, but still) and a finale with something that should represent a fight between Spock and the monster in the guise of Mrs. Carter, but that rather resembles a ridiculous dance in which the actors were clearly afraid to make contact with each other or accidentally hurt each other. When I look at it objectively 50 years later, it is a mystery to me how the hell this series could ever become popular. Of course it was groundbreaking work at the time, and of course no one had seen anything like it on TV before; The narrator says it himself: "To boldly go where no one has gone before", but that does not alter the fact that it was all actually performed horribly badly. Of course they did not have the resources they have now and probably the makers never thought during the filming of the pilot that there would be a sequel, let alone that 50 years later they would still be milking the same cow. But for those who know him; It all looks a bit like a film by Ed Wood, a director from the 50s who, due to a minimal budget, which generally fit in his pocket, shot all his films in one "take" and who did not mind trifles like cardboard trees that fell on the set while he was shooting his movies. Despite the fact that all his works grew into true cult films, the man is on record as the worst director of all time. For the real movie lover I can wholeheartedly recommend the movie "Ed Wood" from 1994 with, among others, Johnny Depp, Martin Landau and Sarah Jessica Parker, but this aside. If I watch it today and I have to give a "fair" score I give a 10 for nostalgia and a 4 for everything else in this very first episode.
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white
20 October 2013
10
This series, broadcast by German broadcaster in the late 1960s and early 1970s, formed my love for Science fiction.
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anonymous
30 November 2013
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This is exactly right in my case, so I didn't know who Bones was when I heard the series in English many years later.
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JazzySOB
13 April 2024
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As a little boy I often found this too scary to watch. I especially remembered the episode "The Doomsday Machine". I thought that episode was terrifying. Nowadays this series is of course nothing at all, especially in terms of special effects, but at the time it was groundbreaking. However, it should have stopped there, because I don't like the current Star Trek series that are based on this (TOS) era at all. For me, the TNG series are the best Star Trek series. I would make one exception for Enterprise, which was a very well done pre-TOS series. But Star Trek has aroused my interest in Science Fiction and everything related to space travel. Of course, the moon landing also contributed to this, although I did not really consciously experience it as a four-year-old boy. Later, of course, I also ate everything about Star Wars.
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