Hearing Nimoy talk really makes me sad cause I'll never get to hear him speak again in anything new. Ah well, such is life, he lived well and entertained millions. Great man.
I was 14 when I started watching Star Trek in 1966. I wrote a letter (I still have a copy) to keep the show on the air, I have been attending Trek conventions since the mid 1970's, and I write fanzine poetry (have done so since the late 1970's). Star Trek was positive, hopeful, demonstrated what was best in people, and displayed a future where we were all able to get along regardless of race, religion, nationality, or even what planet you came from. As Kirk has said a place where "Mr. Spock and I are brothers..." Nothing then, or since, has painted so beautiful a future for humankind, as Star Trek.
I'm very proud to say the D.C. Fontana (Dorothy) was an alma mater of my high school. She was graduated from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls, N.J. sometime in the late fifties, many years before I was. Nobody talked about it when I was in school, probably because Star Trek was not yet in syndication. I think that's something to brag about. She wrote a few of the best episodes in the Original Series like "Charlie X" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and a few others. She went on to write in the Next Generation and possibly some of the early movies. Dorothy, I hope you're still with us and if you ever read this stuff, you were wonderful.
+Nick Clutterbuck See you in 20 years when you catch up! I almost envy you. I watched the first episode with my parents when I was five, and several more, but did not really get hooked until the early 1970s when my local station started re-running episodes at 5 o'clock every day. It was "must see TV" for us. hen we watched the Star Trek Cartoon when it came out, and it was nearly as cerebral as the show - something we never saw on Saturday mornings before. Then of course came Star Wars, and then the Star Trek movies and all the new series, and it was a wonderful ride. I sort of wish I could take that ride again, but I can't. I know every twist and turn and while I enjoy going back, it is like Scotty said in the TNG episode "Relics" - "Ah, it's like the first time you fall in love. You don't ever love a woman quite like that again." You have a great ride ahead of you.
I don't know who wrote this. I agree with all the actors who played these magnificent rolls in this series. When it began in the 60s I told my, then wife, that this would be one of the greatest programs to ever have been produced. I was & am correct about one thing in my life. Thank You, Gene, Bill, Leonard, DeForest, James, Nicole, & all of you whose names I have forgotten already. To coin Deforest's comments it been a Great Ride. Thank You all !!!!
I ended up with the flu decided to watch all the Star Trek movies in order. I was always a fan not a mega fan but definitely a fan and more of a fan of Star Trek then I was a Star Wars. Watching the Star Trek Movie series I realize how wonderful and enjoyable intelligent and BEAUTIFUL it truly is. There is something truly to be said about grown-ass adults doing grown-ass adult things having grown-ass adult emotions in the movies we don't make movies like this no more. The true bond between teammates, the true bond between friends intellect as something wonderful to have. The adventures in life is life it's self. 🌟 A team that had one concept in mind to seek knowledge, from the cradle to the grave. 🌟
I didn't watch the original run in the 1960's. But in the 1970's I'd arrive home from a hard day at college classes with 3 hours of study facing me in the evening. But my mother heated a TV dinner and gave it to me while I watched Star Trek reruns on WGN-TV Monday through Thursday. It was magical.
We didn't get a second TV in the house until 1969. Before that, for the most part, we watched what our parents watched. Fortunately my parents were science fiction fans. I got to watch Star Trek in primetime!
Hard to believe William Shatner is now 85 and still riding horses for show. Multi-talented Just watched him and Sterns in a youtube clip, like his tongue in cheek sense of humor
Star Trek is so engrained into me. I grew up with it as it was in syndication. I was only 2 yrs old when the Cage pilot was created. Spock is my hero and I learned so much. I am along in years now and it still touches me and takes me back to my childhood and probably always will. As you get older and the world changes around you, you will find yourself wishing things were again as you remembered them when you were much younger, it brings a certain comfort inside.
Thank you for the happy tears that stream down my face. I began in the 60's not realising what Vietnam was. Then in college my entire gang dared anyone to use the parlor for anything except Star Trek at 5 pm Monday - Friday. Mr. Roddenberry's ideas were coming through to us in the 70's. We were living what he wrote. Thank God for Star Wars which was conceived BECAUSE of Star Trek. Lucas was inspired by ST and when Star Wars did so well, Paramount brought Star Trek back to the big screen, a family reunion begat....and you all know the rest. This was grand!
Star Trek is a classic. I absolutely love all of the characters. Their chemistry, their honor, their morals and their courage will live on and on...oh that we had the same thing in our American culture once more!
WILLIAM , YOU TOO MADE IT HAPPEN ALONG WITH A GREAT CAST !!!. THIS SHOW WELL ALWAYS BE TIMELESS !!. THANK U SIR FOR ALL THE MEMORIES !!. AND I WELL ALWAYS REMEMBER : "SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION ARE BOTH THE SAME THING " I NOW , UNDERSTAND , THANK U !!!!. 😜🖖🏻👽🚀🇺🇸😎🇨🇦🇮🇱🇬🇧👍...
I love Star Trek....always will. I too think that a Star Trek universe could become a reality, but it takes everyone to accept others as equals....and kindness towards others.....excepting each other as friends to make it all possible. Star Trek.... it always makes me feel better even when I have a bad day or depressed and stressed out.... Star Trek helps lift my spirits....THANK YOU STAR TREK AND GENE RODDENBERRY FOR ALL YOUR INSIGHT INTO THE POSSIBLE FUTURE....A much better version than right now on what is going on in the world....HIGH 5 to all Trekkies and the Star Trek crews which have kept Gene's vision alive .....God bless all.
Star Trek was the best of us as human beings on this planet and beyond. We wanted a better world, where there was equality, empathy, dare we say love for our fellow beings. No more war, no more aggression, no more territorial possession, a cooperation of knowledge, and peaceful co-existence. Is it too late to make this a reality now, even only with the people on this earth now?
I have been a Star Trek fan and always will......best shows ever to be shown on TV.......I really don't like the new Star Treks out there........just call me old school.....old school Star Trek.........Love you Star Trek and all the original cast......I also loved all the story that was written.......
Jackie Willingham AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH YOU. THE ONLY BEST STAR TREK OUT THERE IS THE ORIGINAL STAR TREK SERIES, NOTHING ELSE MADE AFTER IT WAS ANY GOOD. That next generation space boy space toy garbage should have been cancelled as soon as it came on television back in the middle 80's.
LOL, I just watched this and thought I would just peek at it again for a few minutes and can't believed I was hooked again. That is the thing about Star Trek, the more you see it the more you crave it
Traders Friend A few years ago I decided to watch an episode or two and see why as a kid I was so hooked on Spock. After just a few moments, a totally got it and got hooked even harder and heavier :) How can anyone be cooler than Spock? The whole ship etc...
I've been watching the original series on Netflix since the summer | it's fantastic | William Shatner De Kelley and Leonard Nimoy made so many great performance decisions it boggles the mind | I've noticed how many single take scenes were shot, long single shot scenes | it has the effect of watching a stage play | I also noticed how big and important a role Uhura plays in the stories | She, Zulu, Scotty and Chekhov are all great | Also I love the music and the sound design | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ + ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | fantastic
I remember watching ST as a kid in re-runs every day when I came home from school. For that one hour this un-happy kid could leave this world and be some were where people like me had a voice. I love ST in fact I have a com badge that will one day go with me on the great adventure that is when I die. It means that much to me I am sure that there will be a few who will make something of this. But one thing I have learned no one is all ways right and no one is all ways wrong. Peace and long life.
Lee, having read your comment about Shatner's Star Trek Memories, well, you won't get teasing from a kid who when the show was live made his own communicator from a fine piece of one by three pine and handwriting the controls on with pencil.... It is unfortunate we must now think of the original as Star Trek TOS, but only because others were denied our coming of age experiences, richer to us for being our own. Personally, I was always an Enterprise fan first, then Shatner, and last the others. Good luck to you, sir.
Just attended the last Star Trek Convention at Cherry Hill NJ. Nichelle Nichols was there and it tore my heart out to see how time has caught up with her. She was talking about her experiences with the series, and was answering questions, however she began to answer questions in a confused way. There was a lot of nervous laughter among the audience as we looked at each other and didn't know how to respond. We still love her, but felt bad that this has finally, happened to her. I still got her autograph, and was in awe of being in her presence!
I have this idea that if she'd cut back on the cocktails she'd be fine. She's not an alcoholic but she likes to have a couple and she might not be able to handle them memorywise as well as in younger days.
for me..star trek just gripped what lifes all about.. i love the original series..the ship.. the uniforms and that 60s vibe.. it will never be surpassed
I am and allways will be a star trek fan from now own i own all of the movie versions and watch the original series every time they are aired and would love to own all of the original epasodes from start to finish this show is and allways will be the best now and forever
i felt chills run through my body when nichelle nichols talked about dr mlk telling her not to leave the show ! i mean ? MY GOD ! the man was sent by an unforseen force to deliver that message to her ! i just cannot get this out of my head !
vectorconcepts1 MLK was a brave man indeed. But don't call him "Dr." -- he plagiarized his doctoral dissertation. Even though a committee from Boston University concluded unequivocally that MLK plagiarized major portions of his dissertation, they were too cowardly to strip him of his wrongly awarded doctorate. Still, he's no more a "doctor" than any other person who cheated his way through the academics of the institution.
+pvtawol (Spock) Indeed! (-:Actually I think William Shatner answered his own question. I think Star Trek is an example of modern day mythology. Mythology inspires creative thinking and dreamers,that end up contributing to reality. I think cultures have always been mythology driven. I remember reading about a woman who went into the space program because of Nichelle Nichols. We even make people mythical. If Mount Olympus actually existed, and people were allowed to gaze into it for awhile, bserving the Greek Gods so to speak. What would they do? Paint them? Draw them? Then later make statues of them? When people gaze at the stars on the red carpet, they don't paint or draw, but in this modern era, they do take pictures, and try to get their autographs. Mythology is literally a part of our reality. I think the mythology of Star Trek is what actually created such a 'storm the gates' following.
Thank you for posting this.....STAR TREK was my LIFE growing up.......and now, Im 48, and I enjoyed seeing this........it brought back wonderful feelings and memories
Original Star Trek, My Forever Fave. Prop Setting Aside... The Acting Of The Stars Totally Overrides .... And brings you fully into the Heart Of Each Story’s Script.❤️
THIS is the ultimate story of Star Trek. Share this with any friend or fan you know, because it covers the whole shebang. Except for including Gene R. of course. Don't know if he had already passed, but it was HIS vision of a future where we all got along that was the essential core of this series. George Takei summarized it best when he called the Enterprise a metaphor for STARSHIP EARTH. Ah Hikaruuuu , how we love you!
I watched Star Trek from the beginning and still enjoy re-runs of the episodes today. I also watched the spin-offs, but was never really that impressed with them,. Once in awhile they hit it, but they missed the mark too many times. Star Trek came at just the right time. People were becoming more and more aware of the racial situation in the US, and many of us were thrilled with the diversity and daring of Star Trek. I went to many many of the conventions and wrote many letters trying to get the series revived, but they went for the movies instead. I would say it was my favorite tv show of all time.
I love the crew of Enterprise! Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock are favorites. This is a great learning experience . Done with love, integrity, and human beings being at their best and worst. Love always wins. Captain Kirk explains the human experience perfectly Although science fiction, it’s a family tradition forever❤️
Perhaps Star Trek is representative of the world in which we all want to live. Onboard the Starship of life with good friends that, even though very different, have each others back and succeed as a team and, in the end, never let each other down. Qualities such as, loyalty, duty, understanding, integrity, vulnerability, deep respect, adventure, risk, excitement and of course surviving successfully for the next episode. I.D.I.C -- Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination - with a constant effort to understand those differences. "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
TJulofVulcan ChildofGod Tell ya the truth, i hate the knockin the other actors and actresses do against Bill. He is a very good actor, and not only did he have a commanding role as Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise, he slso piloted the Original Star Trek Series into a deep popularity that still continues today, as well as many years and decades into the future. Thank You Bill Shatner for your excellent acting, you, sir, are the VERY BEST!
They didn't mention the most gorgeous Star Treker of them all, Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand, who received more fan mail than all the other cast members.
Wonderfully enjoyable! Thank you for posting! Bill Shatner's theory as to our need\desire for Mythology is the best analysis I have ever heard. I think he hits the nail right on the head.
After meeting her that day, do you think Gene made a phone call, "Martin, man you gotta help me out here. Nichelle want to quit. Can you talk to her for me?"
Also not a coincidence that members of the cast were at the inaugural presentation of the Enterprise and the marching band started to play the Star Trek theme as it was unveiled. Ironically enough... There is a tie between Star Trek and 2001 A Space Odyssey. That connection being Richard Nixon. He watched 2001 created a budget for NASA and told them that he wanted a functional shuttle craft like the one in the movie. So when the first one came to be, they named it 'Enterprise' as a direct homage to the series that was an indirect inspiration. Many who worked at NASA were huge fans of the series and saw inspiration within it as to what could be possible. To this day, This show, the original series, has been the inspiring muse that has pushed the evolution of technology. If you don't believe it... Look up various pioneers in the technology fields. Many of them were huge fans... The cell phone... Which everyone seems to be addicted to these days. The most popular models for a number of years was the flip phone... And I must confess, I programed mine to make the communicator sound when it opened up. Lol
And there was a huge amount of fan activity and pressure to get the first shuttle named “Enterprise”. I cried watching the rollout with the Star Trek cast!
Star Trek was like the better cowboy movies. Characters steadfastly trying to do the right thing, against difficult odds. Justice and morality was supremely important to the crew. I think that was the biggest part of the appeal.
I didn't get into Star Trek through the original show but through the movies. On the small screen, TNG and Voyager were my shows. I didn't get to really properly watch the original until a rerun in 1999 when I was 11, where it was paired with new episodes of Voyager (at the time the fifth season in my county). My first episode was "Devil in the Dark" and I was amazed how nuanced and just well written it was (though I wouldn't have put it that way back then as a lad). I was intimately familiar with the big screen adventures, but that was quite an introduction to my heroes' early years. It's the kind of show where you discover new things every time. After film school and my own time spend watching and researching old movies, knowing what films at the time looked like, again gave me a new perspective on the show in the late 2000s. Star Trek is just my favorite for its varied and of ten though provoking stories, great characters and the optimistic future I know we are capable of reaching a semblance of. Even the new shows still carry that in their hearts... more or less.
Sttar Trek was, is now, & will ever be the best TV show on TV! Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet (43 years)- Georgia Perimeter College & State University
There was a magic to TOS that is hard to explain unless you actually grew up watching it before the movies came out. Before it was popular, in other words. We watched the show in my home, and my parents told me I was fascinated by the show from the beginning, even as a toddler. When it was canceled, it went right into syndication: M-F. Needless to say I've seen every episode more times than I can count. The new movies don't capture that. But then, I think the main vision of ST as a whole has been degenerating since Roddenberry died.
Later this year it’ll be 30 years since this first aired on TV. Great documentary. William Shatner is one of my favorite celebrities. By the way the scene at 3:51 shouldn’t count as a red shirt death because that was Spock doing the Vulcan Neck Pinch on the Lieutenant which only knocks one unconscious for a little bit.
00bikeboy MLK was a very smart man, and would be horrified seeing how jackson and sharpton have bastardized his teachings. Democrats hijacked his legacy. He was after all a Republican as so many of the black community in those days.
Thanks to Star Trek I went into creative writing mode for a while very influenced by the episode A Private Little War. My main character was influenced by Nona from that episode and the Hill people became my make believe tribe of women warriors. Ran out of ideas though in 2013. Still have those stories. Thanks Star Trek for helping me learn to write my short stories thanks to that one episode. Watching Star Trek taught me how to do dialogue and scene changes and character development.
I believe that opening quote was from the Ultimate Computer as M-5 took Kirk’s place for a while and he thought he lost a job. He was having a drink with McCoy. I didn’t see Star Trek to 1972. I changed from a Chekhov fan to a Spock fan. Had a friend who was a big Dr. McCoy fan.
I always loved this show. The movies were great too but all of the other Star Trek that followed the original series and movies 1-6 just wasn't the same and I didn't care much for them. Star Trek just wasn't Star Trek without Kirk, Spock, Chekov, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, and Dr McCoy and I just couldn't gain interest in any of the others.
Yes, Mr. Shatner, "Star Trek" has been amazingly popular and successful...but it wasn't the only one. You ought to try a show called "Doctor Who." It is 3 years older than "Star Trek." It's fandom base is comparable to "Trekkors." It, too, was cancelled for several years only to reemerge again to(what's still continuing) over 10 seasons more popular than ever. So far, no Star Trek show ever made it past 7 seasons, so you might want to show a little bit of respect. Star Trek is amazing and I love it. However, I'm also a Whovian who recognize greatness in both shows.
don't know when this was made, but it's interesting to hear William Shatner describe George Takei quite positively and in detail, despite his current claims that he doesn't know the guy!
They persist in this myth that Uhura and Kirk was the first interracial kiss on television (they mean in a television series) . It definitely wasn't. There were at least 7 previous to it.
D.C. Fontana hit it on the head about people and television. "Too cerebral" still pretty much means death for good shows even today. Shove The Biggest Loser or American Idol or some other nonsense at people and they'll sit happy all day long dumbly staring at the box in their living room. Ask people to think and don't veil it well enough in entertainment and you can forget having an audience.
The only bad thing about Star Trek I could find is the propagation of a collective society = communism. I don't think that is what they were aiming for, but a culture without money and everyone in their place, is essentially communism. I still have seen every episode and every movie with the original cast, with enthusiasm.
I was only 10 years old when the original Star Trek came on television in 1966. Even at that young age I thought Nichelle Nichols was sexy with her little mini skirt. I was a fan then and still a fan 50 years later. Thanks for sharing this and bringing back great memories.
Hearing Nimoy talk really makes me sad cause I'll never get to hear him speak again in anything new. Ah well, such is life, he lived well and entertained millions. Great man.
Hold on. We now have the ability to clone voices. Indistinguishable from the real voice. So you can if you want now😁
I was 14 when I started watching Star Trek in 1966. I wrote a letter (I still have a copy) to keep the show on the air, I have been attending Trek conventions since the mid 1970's, and I write fanzine poetry (have done so since the late 1970's). Star Trek was positive, hopeful, demonstrated what was best in people, and displayed a future where we were all able to get along regardless of race, religion, nationality, or even what planet you came from. As Kirk has said a place where "Mr. Spock and I are brothers..." Nothing then, or since, has painted so beautiful a future for humankind, as Star Trek.
Simply the greatest science fiction series EVER. Timeless but always entertaining
I'm very proud to say the D.C. Fontana (Dorothy) was an alma mater of my high school. She was graduated from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls, N.J. sometime in the late fifties, many years before I was. Nobody talked about it when I was in school, probably because Star Trek was not yet in syndication. I think that's something to brag about. She wrote a few of the best episodes in the Original Series like "Charlie X" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and a few others. She went on to write in the Next Generation and possibly some of the early movies.
Dorothy, I hope you're still with us and if you ever read this stuff, you were wonderful.
I just discovered star trek.. and im hooked. Nearly finished the original seasons. Can't wait to watch the movies
+Nick Clutterbuck
See you in 20 years when you catch up! I almost envy you. I watched the first episode with my parents when I was five, and several more, but did not really get hooked until the early 1970s when my local station started re-running episodes at 5 o'clock every day. It was "must see TV" for us. hen we watched the Star Trek Cartoon when it came out, and it was nearly as cerebral as the show - something we never saw on Saturday mornings before. Then of course came Star Wars, and then the Star Trek movies and all the new series, and it was a wonderful ride. I sort of wish I could take that ride again, but I can't. I know every twist and turn and while I enjoy going back, it is like Scotty said in the TNG episode "Relics" - "Ah, it's like the first time you fall in love. You don't ever love a woman quite like that again." You have a great ride ahead of you.
How are you watching them? I can't find the original anywhere without paying an arm and a leg to view them. Thanks for any response.
@@shawnsholtes5536 the series is on Netflix. TOS, animated series, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise
Wait untill you get to The Wrath of Khan......Star Trek at its finest!
@@colquitt74 Also on Hulu and Prime, probably more.
I don't know who wrote this. I agree with all the actors who played these magnificent rolls in this series. When it began in the 60s I told my, then wife, that this would be one of the greatest programs to ever have been produced. I was & am correct about one thing in my life. Thank You, Gene, Bill, Leonard, DeForest, James, Nicole, & all of you whose names I have forgotten already. To coin Deforest's comments it been a Great Ride. Thank You all !!!!
I ended up with the flu decided to watch all the Star Trek movies in order.
I was always a fan not a mega fan but definitely a fan and more of a fan of Star Trek then I was a Star Wars. Watching the Star Trek Movie series I realize how wonderful and enjoyable intelligent and BEAUTIFUL it truly is. There is something truly to be said about grown-ass adults doing grown-ass adult things having grown-ass adult emotions in the movies we don't make movies like this no more. The true bond between teammates, the true bond between friends intellect as something wonderful to have. The adventures in life is life it's self. 🌟
A team that had one concept in mind to seek knowledge, from the cradle to the grave.
🌟
I didn't watch the original run in the 1960's. But in the 1970's I'd arrive home from a hard day at college classes with 3 hours of study facing me in the evening. But my mother heated a TV dinner and gave it to me while I watched Star Trek reruns on WGN-TV Monday through Thursday. It was magical.
We didn't get a second TV in the house until 1969. Before that, for the most part, we watched what our parents watched. Fortunately my parents were science fiction fans. I got to watch Star Trek in primetime!
I grew up with Star Trek because my parents watched it even before my oldest sister was born.
Hard to believe William Shatner is now 85 and still riding horses for show. Multi-talented
Just watched him and Sterns in a youtube clip, like his tongue in cheek sense of humor
Are you sure that he is actually riding or just posing atop his mount for a few photos? I ask because he's awfully heavy for a real rider.
Star Trek is so engrained into me. I grew up with it as it was in syndication. I was only 2 yrs old when the Cage pilot was created. Spock is my hero and I learned so much. I am along in years now and it still touches me and takes me back to my childhood and probably always will. As you get older and the world changes around you, you will find yourself wishing things were again as you remembered them when you were much younger, it brings a certain comfort inside.
Nichelle's story about meeting Dr. King always brings a tear to my eyes. Wonderful.
Thank you for the happy tears that stream down my face. I began in the 60's not realising what Vietnam was. Then in college my entire gang dared anyone to use the parlor for anything except Star Trek at 5 pm Monday - Friday. Mr. Roddenberry's ideas were coming through to us in the 70's. We were living what he wrote. Thank God for Star Wars which was conceived BECAUSE of Star Trek. Lucas was inspired by ST and when Star Wars did so well, Paramount brought Star Trek back to the big screen, a family reunion begat....and you all know the rest. This was grand!
Star Trek is a classic. I absolutely love all of the characters. Their chemistry, their honor, their morals and their courage will live on and on...oh that we had the same thing in our American culture once more!
We have never had that in our American Culture. It's a fantasy
WILLIAM , YOU TOO MADE IT HAPPEN ALONG WITH A GREAT CAST !!!. THIS SHOW WELL ALWAYS BE TIMELESS !!. THANK U SIR FOR ALL THE MEMORIES !!. AND I WELL ALWAYS REMEMBER : "SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION ARE BOTH THE SAME THING " I NOW , UNDERSTAND , THANK U !!!!. 😜🖖🏻👽🚀🇺🇸😎🇨🇦🇮🇱🇬🇧👍...
I love Star Trek....always will. I too think that a Star Trek universe could become a reality, but it takes everyone to accept others as equals....and kindness towards others.....excepting each other as friends to make it all possible.
Star Trek.... it always makes me feel better even when I have a bad day or depressed and stressed out.... Star Trek helps lift my spirits....THANK YOU STAR TREK AND GENE RODDENBERRY FOR ALL YOUR INSIGHT INTO THE POSSIBLE FUTURE....A much better version than right now on what is going on in the world....HIGH 5 to all Trekkies and the Star Trek crews which have kept Gene's vision alive .....God bless all.
You get it...well said. There is hope for humanity.
Star Trek was the best of us as human beings on this planet and beyond. We wanted a better world, where there was equality, empathy, dare we say love for our fellow beings. No more war, no more aggression, no more territorial possession, a cooperation of knowledge, and peaceful co-existence. Is it too late to make this a reality now, even only with the people on this earth now?
It's never too late to make it real now! And do you know who is MOST likely to make it happen? Star Trek fans are! Don't you agree? :)
Still holds up after all these years.
This reminded me of how much I miss the wonderful DeForest Kelley.
it'll be on my tombstone...he's dead Jim. LOL
Well, his acting is very underrated! I miss him as well!!
I have been a Star Trek fan and always will......best shows ever to be shown on TV.......I really don't like the new Star Treks out there........just call me old school.....old school Star Trek.........Love you Star Trek and all the original cast......I also loved all the story that was written.......
Jackie Willingham AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH YOU. THE ONLY BEST STAR TREK OUT THERE IS THE ORIGINAL STAR TREK SERIES, NOTHING ELSE MADE AFTER IT WAS ANY GOOD. That next generation space boy space toy garbage should have been cancelled as soon as it came on television back in the middle 80's.
LOL, I just watched this and thought I would just peek at it again for a few minutes and can't believed I was hooked again. That is the thing about Star Trek, the more you see it the more you crave it
Traders Friend A few years ago I decided to watch an episode or two and see why as a kid I was so hooked on Spock. After just a few moments, a totally got it and got hooked even harder and heavier :) How can anyone be cooler than Spock? The whole ship etc...
I know a couple of my fellow seniors who are just NOW getting into Star Trek! Never saw most of this stuff before!
I agree with you I was dong the samething
Im a huge Star Trek fan, because it gives me hope for the future of all of us.
I agree....LOL
I've been watching the original series on Netflix since the summer | it's fantastic | William Shatner De Kelley and Leonard Nimoy made so many great performance decisions it boggles the mind | I've noticed how many single take scenes were shot, long single shot scenes | it has the effect of watching a stage play | I also noticed how big and important a role Uhura plays in the stories | She, Zulu, Scotty and Chekhov are all great | Also I love the music and the sound design | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ + ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | fantastic
I love listening to DFK talking about "the hippies". He's the best.
not just a cast, not just a time of change, not just a great show. BUT THE TELLING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
I remember watching ST as a kid in re-runs every day when I came home from school. For that one hour this un-happy kid could leave this world and be some were where people like me had a voice. I love ST in fact I have a com badge that will one day go with me on the great adventure that is when I die. It means that much to me I am sure that there will be a few who will make something of this. But one thing I have learned no one is all ways right and no one is all ways wrong.
Peace and long life.
Lee, having read your comment about Shatner's Star Trek Memories, well, you won't get teasing from a kid who when the show was live made his own communicator from a fine piece of one by three pine and handwriting the controls on with pencil.... It is unfortunate we must now think of the original as Star Trek TOS, but only because others were denied our coming of age experiences, richer to us for being our own. Personally, I was always an Enterprise fan first, then Shatner, and last the others. Good luck to you, sir.
You're the reason I learn English. So I can understand the re runs. What a joy to understand the show.
Just attended the last Star Trek Convention at Cherry Hill NJ. Nichelle Nichols was there and it tore my heart out to see how time has caught up with her. She was talking about her experiences with the series, and was answering questions, however she began to answer questions in a confused way. There was a lot of nervous laughter among the audience as we looked at each other and didn't know how to respond. We still love her, but felt bad that this has finally, happened to her. I still got her autograph, and was in awe of being in her presence!
I have this idea that if she'd cut back on the cocktails she'd be fine. She's not an alcoholic but she likes to have a couple and she might not be able to handle them memorywise as well as in younger days.
What a precious footage!!!❤️
As I watch this, I caught myself smiling several times. Little did they know what they were creating.
for me..star trek just gripped what lifes all about.. i love the original series..the ship.. the uniforms and that 60s vibe.. it will never be surpassed
Some of us still remember Mark Leonard as Arron Stemple.
What!!?! You’re saying other people out there still remember “Here Come the Brides”!!
@@brynpookc1127 -Touche!
Do you know he wasn't actually from vulcan?
I am and allways will be a star trek fan from now own i own all of the movie versions and watch the original series every time they are aired and would love to own all of the original epasodes from start to finish this show is and allways will be the best now and forever
i felt chills run through my body when nichelle nichols talked about dr mlk telling her not to leave the show ! i mean ? MY GOD ! the man was sent by an unforseen force to deliver that message to her ! i just cannot get this out of my head !
vectorconcepts1 MLK was a brave man indeed. But don't call him "Dr." -- he plagiarized his doctoral dissertation. Even though a committee from Boston University concluded unequivocally that MLK plagiarized major portions of his dissertation, they were too cowardly to strip him of his wrongly awarded doctorate. Still, he's no more a "doctor" than any other person who cheated his way through the academics of the institution.
vectorconcepts1 ohh shut up!!! good grief libtard
I love the "mythology" idea that Shatner has at the end. I've never thought of it that way, and I think he is absolutely right!
+pvtawol (Spock) Indeed! (-:Actually I think William Shatner answered his own question. I think Star Trek is an example of modern day mythology. Mythology inspires creative thinking and dreamers,that end up contributing to reality. I think cultures have always been mythology driven. I remember reading about a woman who went into the space program because of Nichelle Nichols. We even make people mythical. If Mount Olympus actually existed, and people were allowed to gaze into it for awhile, bserving the Greek Gods so to speak. What would they do? Paint them? Draw them? Then later make statues of them? When people gaze at the stars on the red carpet, they don't paint or draw, but in this modern era, they do take pictures, and try to get their autographs. Mythology is literally a part of our reality. I think the mythology of Star Trek is what actually created such a 'storm the gates' following.
LOVE You Captain Kirk and USS Enterprise Crew! Bill Shatner, You brought Kirks Character to Life, BRAVO! ❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for posting this.....STAR TREK was my LIFE growing up.......and now, Im 48, and I enjoyed seeing this........it brought back wonderful feelings and memories
What a great walk down memory lane, very insightful. As Spock would say: Fascinating.
Original Star Trek, My Forever Fave. Prop Setting Aside... The Acting Of The Stars Totally Overrides .... And brings you fully into the Heart Of Each Story’s Script.❤️
THIS is the ultimate story of Star Trek. Share this with any friend or fan you know, because it covers the whole shebang.
Except for including Gene R. of course. Don't know if he had already passed, but it was HIS vision of a future where we all got along that was the essential core of this series. George Takei summarized it best when he called the Enterprise a metaphor for STARSHIP EARTH.
Ah Hikaruuuu , how we love you!
Mythology is indeed what Star Trek and all great sci-fi & fantasy legacies endow our cultures with.
Happy 50th! (1966-2016) 🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
I watched Star Trek from the beginning and still enjoy re-runs of the episodes today. I also watched the spin-offs, but was never really that impressed with them,. Once in awhile they hit it, but they missed the mark too many times. Star Trek came at just the right time. People were becoming more and more aware of the racial situation in the US, and many of us were thrilled with the diversity and daring of Star Trek. I went to many many of the conventions and wrote many letters trying to get the series revived, but they went for the movies instead. I would say it was my favorite tv show of all time.
I first saw this show when I was 4 years old (1969)
and it is still the BEST show I've seen on TV.
Goodbye Leonard Nimoy. James Doohan, Deforest Kelly, Grace Lee Whitney, Majel Barrett and Gene Roddenberry
I love the crew of Enterprise! Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock are favorites. This is a great learning experience . Done with love, integrity, and human beings being at their best and worst. Love always wins. Captain Kirk explains the human experience perfectly Although science fiction, it’s a family tradition forever❤️
Perhaps Star Trek is representative of the world in which we all want to live. Onboard the Starship of life with good friends that, even though very different, have each others back and succeed as a team and, in the end, never let each other down. Qualities such as, loyalty, duty, understanding, integrity, vulnerability, deep respect, adventure, risk, excitement and of course surviving successfully for the next episode. I.D.I.C -- Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination - with a constant effort to understand those differences.
"These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
Thanks for posting this wonderful video program. Live long and prosper!
OMG !!! I thoroughly enjoyed this ! Thank you !!
Hahaha! Good ol' Jimmy Doohan. He was a great talent. They all were.
Star Trek, it's good to see behind the show.
Shatner is so intelligent. A really honest guy.
TJulofVulcan ChildofGod Tell ya the truth, i hate the knockin the other actors and actresses do against Bill. He is a very good actor, and not only did he have a commanding role as Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise, he slso piloted the Original Star Trek Series into a deep popularity that still continues today, as well as many years and decades into the future. Thank You Bill Shatner for your excellent acting, you, sir, are the VERY BEST!
@@danbasta3677 Thank you so much for this. I adore William Shatner- I hate when people bad mouth him!
They didn't mention the most gorgeous Star Treker of them all, Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand, who received more fan mail than all the other cast members.
I love Star trek I would love to see more and more
DC Fontana was awesome!
Wonderfully enjoyable!
Thank you for posting!
Bill Shatner's theory as to our need\desire for Mythology is the best analysis I have ever heard. I think he hits the nail right on the head.
DeForest kelley's engraving on his tombstone - "He's Dead, Jim!"
But not as we know it.
The captain which features on the first pilot bares a striking resemblance to Ray Liotta.
That’s Jeffrey Hunter, the original Captain Christopher Pike.
After meeting her that day, do you think Gene made a phone call, "Martin, man you gotta help me out here. Nichelle want to quit. Can you talk to her for me?"
No coincidence, The Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' was named after, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Also not a coincidence that members of the cast were at the inaugural presentation of the Enterprise and the marching band started to play the Star Trek theme as it was unveiled.
Ironically enough... There is a tie between Star Trek and 2001 A Space Odyssey. That connection being Richard Nixon. He watched 2001 created a budget for NASA and told them that he wanted a functional shuttle craft like the one in the movie. So when the first one came to be, they named it 'Enterprise' as a direct homage to the series that was an indirect inspiration. Many who worked at NASA were huge fans of the series and saw inspiration within it as to what could be possible.
To this day, This show, the original series, has been the inspiring muse that has pushed the evolution of technology.
If you don't believe it... Look up various pioneers in the technology fields. Many of them were huge fans... The cell phone... Which everyone seems to be addicted to these days. The most popular models for a number of years was the flip phone... And I must confess, I programed mine to make the communicator sound when it opened up. Lol
Uhhh... yeah. Tell me more. Not.
And there was a huge amount of fan activity and pressure to get the first shuttle named “Enterprise”. I cried watching the rollout with the Star Trek cast!
Greatness!
Star Trek was like the better cowboy movies. Characters steadfastly trying to do the right thing, against difficult odds. Justice and morality was supremely important to the crew. I think that was the biggest part of the appeal.
I didn't get into Star Trek through the original show but through the movies. On the small screen, TNG and Voyager were my shows. I didn't get to really properly watch the original until a rerun in 1999 when I was 11, where it was paired with new episodes of Voyager (at the time the fifth season in my county). My first episode was "Devil in the Dark" and I was amazed how nuanced and just well written it was (though I wouldn't have put it that way back then as a lad). I was intimately familiar with the big screen adventures, but that was quite an introduction to my heroes' early years. It's the kind of show where you discover new things every time. After film school and my own time spend watching and researching old movies, knowing what films at the time looked like, again gave me a new perspective on the show in the late 2000s.
Star Trek is just my favorite for its varied and of ten though provoking stories, great characters and the optimistic future I know we are capable of reaching a semblance of. Even the new shows still carry that in their hearts... more or less.
A model for so many subjects......
Sttar Trek was, is now, & will ever be the best TV show on TV! Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet (43 years)- Georgia Perimeter College & State University
I grew up watching Star Trek
I saw the Enterprise land in Denver CO. I was so very excited.❤
I watched this as a kid. Hard to believe that at that time, Shatner and less years of Star Trek memories than the TNG cast has now.
Oh, James Doohan. 29:29 for the win!
I've heard the story before, but the telling of it at 39:10 really does bring chills.
There was a magic to TOS that is hard to explain unless you actually grew up watching it before the movies came out. Before it was popular, in other words. We watched the show in my home, and my parents told me I was fascinated by the show from the beginning, even as a toddler. When it was canceled, it went right into syndication: M-F. Needless to say I've seen every episode more times than I can count. The new movies don't capture that. But then, I think the main vision of ST as a whole has been degenerating since Roddenberry died.
If Nimoy wasn't such a heavy smoker he would probably still be alive and more well today.
And to think this show gave us transparent aluminum. Yes, transparent aluminum is a real thing now.
just re watched movies and 2-4 are just amazing
this was so well made!
Roddenberry for Star Trek, Bob Holmes for Doctor Who. They were the best in each respective show!
BJEctoplasm Doctor who, also a Canadian creation
Later this year it’ll be 30 years since this first aired on TV. Great documentary. William Shatner is one of my favorite celebrities. By the way the scene at 3:51 shouldn’t count as a red shirt death because that was Spock doing the Vulcan Neck Pinch on the Lieutenant which only knocks one unconscious for a little bit.
This is one fantastic video! It’s funny, informative and entertaining. Bravo!
Anyone else get a little choked up listening to MLK story?
Great Story Nichelle Nichols told about Dr. King what an inspiration..
Fascinating.
00bikeboy MLK was a very smart man, and would be horrified seeing how jackson and sharpton have bastardized his teachings. Democrats hijacked his legacy. He was after all a Republican as so many of the black community in those days.
Yes, it was very moving and deep. Martin Luther King was only in his 30s at the time but he saw the big picture.
00bikeboy yes
Thanks to Star Trek I went into creative writing mode for a while very influenced by the episode A Private Little War. My main character was influenced by Nona from that episode and the Hill people became my make believe tribe of women warriors. Ran out of ideas though in 2013. Still have those stories. Thanks Star Trek for helping me learn to write my short stories thanks to that one episode. Watching Star Trek taught me how to do dialogue and scene changes and character development.
I believe that opening quote was from the Ultimate Computer as M-5 took Kirk’s place for a while and he thought he lost a job. He was having a drink with McCoy.
I didn’t see Star Trek to 1972. I changed from a Chekhov fan to a Spock fan. Had a friend who was a big Dr. McCoy fan.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many things in STAR TREK are on the horizon....the brilliance of Gene Roddenberry !!!!
I always loved this show. The movies were great too but all of the other Star Trek that followed the original series and movies 1-6 just wasn't the same and I didn't care much for them. Star Trek just wasn't Star Trek without Kirk, Spock, Chekov, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, and Dr McCoy and I just couldn't gain interest in any of the others.
Love Nichelle Story about Dr. King
I love George Takei’s voice. It’s so very broadcaster like.
Awesome Nichelle Nichols encounter with Dr Martin Luther King.
Yes, Mr. Shatner, "Star Trek" has been amazingly popular and successful...but it wasn't the only one. You ought to try a show called "Doctor Who." It is 3 years older than "Star Trek." It's fandom base is comparable to "Trekkors." It, too, was cancelled for several years only to reemerge again to(what's still continuing) over 10 seasons more popular than ever. So far, no Star Trek show ever made it past 7 seasons, so you might want to show a little bit of respect. Star Trek is amazing and I love it. However, I'm also a Whovian who recognize greatness in both shows.
don't know when this was made, but it's interesting to hear William Shatner describe George Takei quite positively and in detail, despite his current claims that he doesn't know the guy!
Sulu is completely nuts.
Towards the end the music becomes ridiculously louder.
We got the show back. That was my time. Now, could we please get subtitles for all the shows?
TOS is and always will be the best Star Trek series!
DeForest Kelley has been dead for some time. Quite literally, "He's Bones, Jim". RIP
Peter Green Yep. 1999; almost 20 years ago
Uhura has joined her crewmates Mccoy, Scotty, Rand, and of course, Spock! 2022! Death is only the beginning.
They persist in this myth that Uhura and Kirk was the first interracial kiss on television (they mean in a television series) . It definitely wasn't. There were at least 7 previous to it.
It wasn’t even a kiss!
D.C. Fontana hit it on the head about people and television. "Too cerebral" still pretty much means death for good shows even today. Shove The Biggest Loser or American Idol or some other nonsense at people and they'll sit happy all day long dumbly staring at the box in their living room. Ask people to think and don't veil it well enough in entertainment and you can forget having an audience.
The way to EDEN!! YYEEAAHHH!! BROTHER!!!!!!!!!
Looking at Kelly is like looking into the face of my uncle. Looked exactly like him.
The only bad thing about Star Trek I could find is the propagation of a collective society = communism. I don't think that is what they were aiming for, but a culture without money and everyone in their place, is essentially communism. I still have seen every episode and every movie with the original cast, with enthusiasm.
Kirk and Uhura was the first interacial kiss on tv! Name another!
I GROK SPOCK!!! STAR TREK LIVES!!!
I was only 10 years old when the original Star Trek came on television in 1966. Even at that young age I thought Nichelle Nichols was sexy with her little mini skirt. I was a fan then and still a fan 50 years later.
Thanks for sharing this and bringing back great memories.
Star Trek is William Shatner, and William Shatner is Captain James T. Kirk.
That's why I think Gene may have been too optimistic about us all.