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Related: About this forumOn September 8, 1966, "Star Trek" went on the air.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_8
1966 The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap."
Star Trek
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise originating from the 1960s television series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry. That series, now often known as "The Original Series", debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train.
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise originating from the 1960s television series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry. That series, now often known as "The Original Series", debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train.
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Thu Sep 8, 2022: On this day, September 8, 1966, "Star Trek" premiered.
Fri Sep 10, 2021: On September 8, 1966, "Star Trek" aired for the first time.
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On September 8, 1966, "Star Trek" went on the air. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 9
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BootinUp
(48,804 posts)1. If it wasn't for the syndicated reruns
I never would have seen it.
GreenWave
(8,881 posts)2. Make it so!
Engage!
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,868 posts)3. Happy #StarTrekDay all!
EYESORE 9001
(27,455 posts)4. I was 11 when it premiered
I was definitely a fan from the first episode.